Crazy Ideas Enable Moonshots: Innovation Needs 'Delusional' People
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-17
alexolegimas tweets that many things now possible and trivial were once viewed as impossible and crazy. The people who made them possible seemed crazy, naive, and delusional at the time. He argues such people are needed for moonshots, otherwise no one would try.
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