What Steve Coast thinks about ideas vs execution

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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1. 9 Aug 2024

   Our readingFear and vanity, not a lack of ideas, are what keep most people from building new things.

   Their wordsThere seems to be a million reasons and two opposing forces keeping us in inaction: fear and vanity.

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