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I cringe every time he writes "could of" instead of "could have".

by moe 16y ago

m0nastic 16y ago
I cringed about twice every sentence; his writing style is terrible. Which isn't to say the message isn't useful to people (although I nearly spit out my soda upon seeing him go on about The Secret). It sounds like he has a good sense for churning out websites which are useful to people though, so kudos to him (and hopefully he can pull another one out and actually hold onto the money this time).
- greendestiny 16y ago
  Yeah the writing was terrible, no doubt about that. I definitely feel there was a great lesson there in his simplicity of execution - he saw people using myspace sites so he built one. The massively introspective and precious process of coming up with "ideas" that I can't help be a little obsessed with seems ridiculous compared with just seeing and doing.
  - m0nastic 16y ago
    While that's true, he seems to reiterate over and over that his aim from the beginning was just to "make money"; which while I have nothing against (I'm certainly not a socialist), I think is detrimental to actually creating something worthwhile. Reading the post reminds me of a lot of kids I grew up with who were basically hustlers; they just wanted to be rich and would try anything they could think of (usually some combination of managing musicians, selling drugs, or stealing cars) to attain it. In retrospect, I don't think any of them ended up being rich. This kid did though, so what do I know.
    - greendestiny 16y ago
      Well myspace profile tools whilst not exactly a long lasting boons to society were pretty useful to people. It's not content scraping or otherwise just gaming the system. I won't post what the article makes this guy sound like to me, seems unfair after I've said I found it informative :)
      - m0nastic 16y ago
        I feel like I got a good impression from the picture he posted (which had the added bonus of letting me know that I charge more for a portrait shoot than Michael Vincent...which is odd because he's a much better photographer than I am) ;)
        greendestiny 16y ago
        Can imagine how much you'd want to charge to do a portrait of that guy? You'd have to use an exponential representation just to write it efficiently.
afterburner 16y ago
He's going to need a ghost writer if he plans to write that book...
jodrellblank 16y ago
and?
Tim_M 16y ago
Indeed it is not perfect use of the English language but why complain about it or brag that you noticed the mistake? Most people who understand English can read 'txt' as 'text' and 'wrk' as 'work' and if the theory that intelligence is defined by how well you can predict, then you are only bragging the way about the ways you lack intelligence. I have never considered myself as smarter than average but my brain parsed that whole text without error.
- hugh3 16y ago
  Some people can't read through a spelling or grammar mistake without cringing. I am one of them. I don't know why -- maybe the brain's error-detection techniques work by making me really uncomfortable every time I see one. Anyway, it has nothing to do with "bragging" when you complain about errors.

I cringe every time he writes "could of" instead of "could have".

by moe 16y ago

I cringe every time he writes "could of" instead of "could have".

I cringed about twice every sentence; his writing style is terrible. Which isn't to say the message isn't useful to people (although I nearly spit out my soda upon seeing him go on about The Secret). It sounds like he has a good sense for churning out websites which are useful to people though, so kudos to him (and hopefully he can pull another one out and actually hold onto the money this time).

greendestiny 16y ago
Yeah the writing was terrible, no doubt about that. I definitely feel there was a great lesson there in his simplicity of execution - he saw people using myspace sites so he built one. The massively introspective and precious process of coming up with "ideas" that I can't help be a little obsessed with seems ridiculous compared with just seeing and doing.
- m0nastic 16y ago
  While that's true, he seems to reiterate over and over that his aim from the beginning was just to "make money"; which while I have nothing against (I'm certainly not a socialist), I think is detrimental to actually creating something worthwhile. Reading the post reminds me of a lot of kids I grew up with who were basically hustlers; they just wanted to be rich and would try anything they could think of (usually some combination of managing musicians, selling drugs, or stealing cars) to attain it. In retrospect, I don't think any of them ended up being rich. This kid did though, so what do I know.
  - greendestiny 16y ago
    Well myspace profile tools whilst not exactly a long lasting boons to society were pretty useful to people. It's not content scraping or otherwise just gaming the system. I won't post what the article makes this guy sound like to me, seems unfair after I've said I found it informative :)
    - m0nastic 16y ago
      I feel like I got a good impression from the picture he posted (which had the added bonus of letting me know that I charge more for a portrait shoot than Michael Vincent...which is odd because he's a much better photographer than I am) ;)
      - greendestiny 16y ago
        Can imagine how much you'd want to charge to do a portrait of that guy? You'd have to use an exponential representation just to write it efficiently.

afterburner 16y ago

He's going to need a ghost writer if he plans to write that book...

jodrellblank 16y ago

and?

Tim_M 16y ago

Indeed it is not perfect use of the English language but why complain about it or brag that you noticed the mistake? Most people who understand English can read 'txt' as 'text' and 'wrk' as 'work' and if the theory that intelligence is defined by how well you can predict, then you are only bragging the way about the ways you lack intelligence. I have never considered myself as smarter than average but my brain parsed that whole text without error.

hugh3 16y ago
Some people can't read through a spelling or grammar mistake without cringing. I am one of them. I don't know why -- maybe the brain's error-detection techniques work by making me really uncomfortable every time I see one. Anyway, it has nothing to do with "bragging" when you complain about errors.