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The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
- gloriousduke 10y agoA related issue is the coworker who knows you are working with technology X and provides links to tools to make your technology X toolchain better, particularly in a public forum like stand-ups. Such recommendations are fine when the intent is genuine, but often I feel it's just a case of trying to earn brownie points with management. /rant
- sly010 10y agoMuch of this is also true for productivity/business (aka entrepreneur porn). There are whole networks of business/startup podcasts where hosts interview knowledgable entrepreneurs to share tips & tricks. More often than not the entrepreneurs themselves are hosts of other podcasts and their company/product is their podcast. It's the same reason celebrities follow each other on social media.
- random_rr 10y agoI really like this post. Thank you for writing it.
- CM30 10y agoThis is really, really common the world of internet marketing. If you need a great example, well, there's a reason 'expert roundups' are one of the in things at the moment. Why bother actually trying to gain any expertise when you can approach people more popular/famous than you and aggregate the results in a mostly empty fluff article? And by the time it reaches the internet forums (the Digitalpoint/Warrior Forum kind), it usually ends up coming down to something akin to 'Step 1, find fame. Step 2, write eBook. Step 3, sell to suckers on internet forums'.
- pjlegato 10y agoUse of the word "learnings" is itself a strong indicator of the bullshit complex at work.