Cook something or get out of the kitchen
As soon as I finished reading this I hit the back button and my eyes scrambled across the HN frontpage list looking for the article I just read so I could upvote it. I've never been so stupidly excited to upvote something.<p>This analogy and article are perhaps the best I've heard on the subject because its a metaphor that the ideas people in my life can actually <i>understand.</i><p>The metaphor doesn't fret about engineering time, or how simple programming might look but how hard it really is. Ideas people can't relate to those rebuttals anyway.<p>Instead it brings a very concrete example that almost all humans can understand right away. You want to understand the difference execution makes in an idea? There's a difference between a 9 dollar steak and a 200 dollar steak and its not just the meat, and lots of people understand <i>that.</i> And so I'm going to forward this to a certain ten people in my life.