"Just try hacking something together."

That's how Paul Graham summarizes his own thoughts in a new essay entitled "The Power of the Marginal". He talks about how great ideas come from the "outsiders" and how the "insiders" often "don't learn from other fields". Hacking something together is his advice to the "outsiders"... people who find themselves on the edges of the business world (like Jobs and Wozniak who started Apple Computers) experimenting with more risky plans and working on the cheap to create something.

It's a good read for anyone teetering on the verge of starting something. His final words of wisdom in the article?

"You're on the right track when people complain that you're unqualified, or that you've done something inappropriate... When you hear people saying that, you're golden. And they, incidentally, are busted."

Thanks for great essay Paul. I'm glad you're working from the margins!