HACKER Q&A
📣 andreygrehov

Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?


Sometimes you hear someone saying "He is/was really ahead of his time".

Among living people, who is in your opinion are ahead of their time?

  👤 rahulchhabra07 Accepted Answer ✓
I always believed paulg was way ahead of his time.

- LISP over C++/Java

- The first ever web app in Viaweb

- The first ever startup accelerator

- Check this talk from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI; a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, Netflix happen to emerge mysteriously from the talk as is.

👤 therealmarv
I only know they don't know now because it would imply you would know what is important in the future.