Dedication and Vision

"If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere." --Werner Herzog

Short article today.

Ran across something that really made me think about software development projects. Three developers in San Francisco built an alternative to Healthcare.gov in two weeks.

Two weeks.

Now, you can't purchase- just search and compare rates and plans. But again. Two weeks.

No complicated procurement process. No contractors. Certainly less than hundreds of millions of dollars. Just three dedicated guys with a clear vision.

A G+ friend of mine +Chaka Hamilton took this a step further:

I bet if the gov offered a darpa style challenge, they'd have a working website in half the time, and cost. They obviously have learned nothing from open source / crowd source community.

 Indeed. What if they had.