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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 myspac
by 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 agoWhile 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 agoWell 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 agoI 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 agoCan 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.