Mitchell Hashimoto: ideas matter far less than the agency of people executing them
MikeBirdTech · x · 2026-09-11
Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Terraform, says the difference between mediocre and excellent outcomes comes down to agency rather than ideas.
- Successful people don't wait for things to happen, for someone to teach them, or for someone to hand them a path — they go find a way.
- Their biggest superpower is the belief that the world is completely mutable: almost everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
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