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It always bugged me that Myrhvold could be such a negative force in tech while doing so many cool things with e.g. food and dinoasaurs. This article really hel
by evrydayhustling 9y ago
It always bugged me that Myrhvold could be such a negative force in tech while doing so many cool things with e.g. food and dinoasaurs. This article really helped connect the dots: he's the original idea guy, with so many good ideas that quite a few can succeed despite a lack of interest in "connecting ideas with reality".
The frustrating part is when a government-granted monopoly makes that kind of ideating (including about who else's ideas to purchase) so much more profitable than executing. Maybe both are honest work, but the state of patent law puts gives so much more power to the person imagining things than the person making them work, it's crazy.
- masklinn 9y ago> It always bugged me that Myrhvold could be such a negative force in tech while doing so many cool things with e.g. food and dinoasaurs. Why? You can be an asshole and be interested in things. It's one of the big issues of modern western and especially US media to paint people uniformly, it makes detecting evil so much harder because mass media does not prepare citizens for the fact that yes, somebody can be an unrepentant criminal and like Buffy, or a corporate/SI stooge and listen to ska, or a neo nazi who DMs Honey Heist or Big Gay Orcs.
- evrydayhustling 9y agoVery much agree with this and well said! And the article plays into that, by acknowledging controversy but trying to sweep it into a single playful persona. My confusion about NM was a bit more specific: intellectual Ventures seems at first glance to specifically disrespect the process of invention, by horse trading with exclusion rights completely divorced from the creation process they are intended to support. Yet Nathan is himself a creator! To your point, maybe he's just the jealous/narcissistic sort, or maybe he just doesn't empathize with folks whose creativity includes execution.
- randcraw 9y agoLike Edison? Only less original...
- maxxxxx 9y agoTotally agree. This tendency also makes it hard for people to acknowledge that someone who they know for doing things they don't like also may be doing things they like. Either everything somebody is completely bad or completely good. It can't be bad sometime and good sometime.
- masklinn 9y ago> This tendency also makes it hard for people to acknowledge that someone who they know for doing things they don't like also may be doing things they like. And the other way around.
- maxxxxx 9y agoOr a thing they usually think is good gets rejected because it comes from the wrong person.