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> You could invest hours, days, or years in a writing project, only to find out that you’ve picked a bad idea that doesn’t interest people. To paraphrase Elon
by sporkologist 10y ago
> You could invest hours, days, or years in a writing project, only to find out that you’ve picked a bad idea that doesn’t interest people.
To paraphrase Elon Musk: Keep asking for criticism, especially negative, about your idea. If your idea has merit, people will like it, and that will result in a better chance of success. If you can't handle negative criticism, then you need to work on your own skills and handling rejection.
Tricking people via this Priceonomics "pre-article-writing" trick just seems like a trick.
- marcus_holmes 10y agopeople may say they like your idea, but will they buy it? What people say they will do and what they actually do are two different things. Testing to see whether people will actually click on an article is way more informative than asking them if they'll click on it. It's not a trick, it's testing customer behaviour rather than customer opinion.
- kardos 10y ago> It's not a trick But it is a trick, it's a variant of bait-and-switch where the bait didn't even exist to begin with and they don't bother switching something in. (Presumably-- the article doesn't say what the user sees after clicking the fake link). If I clicked it, I would feel misled. In a sense it's harmless, there's no shortage of misleading crap on the internet and this is just another drop in the ocean. But it's definitely in bad faith. Payback for using ad blockers?
- marcus_holmes 10y agoyeah I guess in that sense it's a trick. But serves the buggers right for lying in the first place! If people would just say what they mean and mean what they say, we would have nicer things ;)