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'So if someone asked “What’s your space?” and you had a deeply unfashionable job like, say, writer, it behooved you to say “I deliver eyeballs like a fucking ni
by xivzgrev 9y ago
'So if someone asked “What’s your space?” and you had a deeply unfashionable job like, say, writer, it behooved you to say “I deliver eyeballs like a fucking ninja”.'
LOL. I personally would rather hear someone come out and say they're a writer, but I can see how the alternative can sound more interesting.
- numismatex 9y agoWhen you're running a room with sharks swimming through it, I doubt it helps to be so bland. It's absurd, but I've seen it here in Las Vegas as well.
- majewsky 9y agoOnly to people in the bubble. When someone introduce themselves to me as a "ninja", they immediately get awarded -1000 points in my mind. Either they're full of shit, or they're an actual ninja, but then they suck at their job because ninjas don't go around proclaiming their ninjadom. So it's deserved either way.
- siberianbear 9y agoI'm no expert on Japanese culture or ninjas, but my idea of of a ninja is someone who is dressed in black, infiltrates your building, kills you with a thrown weapon, and then escapes without being seen. So, if you "deliver eyeballs like a fucking ninja," then you're not a very good ninja.
- mempko 9y agoOr, the alternative, they dress in black, infiltrate your building, and then gouge your eyes out and deliver them to their client. If you think of them that way, then yes, they can be a good ninja.
- siberianbear 9y agoOkay, I can accept that perspective. But that's not exactly in the way they mean it in Silicon Valley. In Silicon Valley, when they say "deliver eyeballs like a fucking ninja," they mean, "I'm can get a quarter-million people to look at your website." Obviously, that means quite something different than carving peoples' eyes out, after which they won't be able to see any websites.