Look at me, i took a 1957 strat and turned into a guitar hero controller. Call me luddite but that's just sad. And if you really care about technology, the organ is the real wonder.
Work on an example page or design that conveys the essence of what you are trying to create. This core design prototype will help you focus on what distnguishes your project and can be used to get some early feedback. I strongly support youdigging into this project and forgetting about your age. You'll learn more from this than you can imagine regardless of its success.
While I see value in the overall message, I think the author sets up a false dichotomy that somehow suggests there's a gulf between creative invention and pragramtic diligence. This is often something I run into - this notion that creativity equals flights of fancy, non-realist, ungrounded. On the contrary, creating, is in my mind, the wisdom to use the opportunities and resources close by, whether internal or external, to be productive in ways that exceed beyond what would be easy. Creativity and results can not be separated.
I tend to feel this was more about stopping the potential for a move by large numbers of developers to platforms that allow targeting multiple devices with one codebase diminishing the advantage apple enjoys in having exclusive Apps.