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		nostromo on May 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DHH: Being at the right time at the right place is... Let's take Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. Smart? Yes. Hard working? Yes. But are they 1,000 or 10,000 times harder working and smarter than the average techie? No way. They were indeed working their asses off in the right place at the right time.

mapleoin on May 28, 2010 [–]

but maybe finding that right place and time is also one of their learned skills

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