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>If your ideas are any good, you'll have to shove them down people's throats Is this true? It makes me think of Helicobacter pylori and the guy who gave himse
by zackattack 16y ago
>If your ideas are any good, you'll have to shove them down people's throats
Is this true? It makes me think of Helicobacter pylori and the guy who gave himself an ulcer to prove that he discovered a cure. But maybe that "chestnut" only applies to schema violators?
- msencenb 16y agoI think it is fairly true... the world seems to (generally) be resistant to change even if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary.
- zackattack 16y agoI agree, so perhaps we could phrase it as "the world seems to be resistant to revolutionary ideas, but generally accepting of good ideas as long as they function within the status quo and are 'good' by available standards." ;)
- Mz 16y agothe world seems to (generally) be resistant to change even if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary. I would change that to "especially if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary".
- brlewis 16y agoGoogle demonstrated superior search in 1996, but only became the largest search engine after 4 years, $25MM funding, and a partnership with Yahoo: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html Good ideas are different, so people need social proof. That's not how geeks are accustomed to proving things, so we're slow.
- zackattack 16y agoyeah, i'm finding that social proof is in many ways the barometer of a good idea.
- brlewis 16y agoBy social proof I mean when someone you respect/imitate embraces the idea. On a large scale this just means popularity. So I would call social proof the barometer of a successful idea, which only loosely correlates with being a good idea.
- zackattack 16y agocool. yeah, most people tell me my ideas suck, and then they tell me "it's a good idea" once they get adoption.
- christonog 16y agoI'd imagine this happens a lot with new ideas. Back in the day, people couldn't fathom having a mobile phone. Now, many people can't fathom not having the internet (myself included) where ever they go.
- laverick 16y agoIn the cases it's not, it's a useful fiction, especially for most hacker types who are disinclined to marketing/sales in the first place.