– when you get it wrong, people treat you with the contempt they reserve for a thief.

What do you do if your version becomes immensely more popular and successful then the thing you copied? When people start calling you a genius.

The Tim Ferris school of thought. Can’t say I agree with it.

Person learns the idea that being unethical pays of sometimes. And therefore, ethics don't matter.

In UI they call that "Affordance"

Good artists copy, great artists steal, plagiarists copy and paste CSS wholesale

Good artists copy, great artists steal. but this article doesn't seem to be about that.

Mintlify "stole" their latest design off Stripe. It's very obvious.

Most great products are nothing, but well-timed and well-executed stolen ideas.