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Seeing a lot of healthy, regular accounts promoting it as well. I wonder if they gave it away for a comment on HN or something. Sad that I'm spending any time

Seeing a lot of healthy, regular accounts promoting it as well. I wonder if they gave it away for a comment on HN or something. Sad that I'm spending any time checking the legitimacy of this post and those posting in it. Thanks advert industry for making me so cynical.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
> Sad that I'm spending any time checking the legitimacy of this post and those posting in it. Thanks advert industry for making me so cynical. Yet another reason why I consider adverising to be a cancer on society. You have to be suspicious of everything.
- stingraycharles 8y ago
  If advertising gets to the point of generating actual useful content, I like to think that's a net positive. I learned a lot from this discussion, and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information.
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    > I learned a lot from this discussion That spamming a board with book recommendations can generate an interesting discussion isn't an excuse for spamming a board. > and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information. Depending what you mean by "good content marketing". If you mean companies paying people to share their professional knowledge, no strings attached, and writing this off as a "marketing expense", sure it can be good, but that's because it's a form of UBI for the people sharing their knowledge. As for most of the things explicitly created as "content marketing", it's mostly garbage that's wasting your time. It's only meant to give you some tidbits to hook you and position you to further monetization efforts - and the content rarely does anything beyond that. Consider that every time you read a content marketing piece, you could have read a honest article instead, were it not pushed down in SERP by content marketing. Also, I've worked with people doing content marketing professionally. I wouldn't trust a word from their work. It's not just waste of time, you're probably actively hurting your knowledge.
mrighele 8y ago
It really is a great book. I think it is recommended by many people simply because it is not a technical book and can be easily understood by everybody. I'm not a designer but it really changed the way I think when I have to write any user interface. It will not teach you how to make the perfect UX, but after reading it you will know how to avoid the most common and obvious mistakes. I would consider the minimum recommended for anybody that has to design any kind of UI. Also, you will recognize all the issues in every thing you interact with, be it the door of your apartment or the coffee machine of your office (the name is really apt). I think you should read it even if you will never have to do any kind of UX work, because you will have to put up with somebody's else interface.
- keithnz 8y ago
  "The design of everyday things" would be the book to read about that kind of stuff. It's a classic and very good, I would consider that a possible "minimum"

TeMPOraL 8y ago

> Sad that I'm spending any time checking the legitimacy of this post and those posting in it. Thanks advert industry for making me so cynical. Yet another reason why I consider adverising to be a cancer on society. You have to be suspicious of everything.

stingraycharles 8y ago
If advertising gets to the point of generating actual useful content, I like to think that's a net positive. I learned a lot from this discussion, and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  > I learned a lot from this discussion That spamming a board with book recommendations can generate an interesting discussion isn't an excuse for spamming a board. > and good content marketing actually provides a lot of information. Depending what you mean by "good content marketing". If you mean companies paying people to share their professional knowledge, no strings attached, and writing this off as a "marketing expense", sure it can be good, but that's because it's a form of UBI for the people sharing their knowledge. As for most of the things explicitly created as "content marketing", it's mostly garbage that's wasting your time. It's only meant to give you some tidbits to hook you and position you to further monetization efforts - and the content rarely does anything beyond that. Consider that every time you read a content marketing piece, you could have read a honest article instead, were it not pushed down in SERP by content marketing. Also, I've worked with people doing content marketing professionally. I wouldn't trust a word from their work. It's not just waste of time, you're probably actively hurting your knowledge.

mrighele 8y ago

It really is a great book. I think it is recommended by many people simply because it is not a technical book and can be easily understood by everybody. I'm not a designer but it really changed the way I think when I have to write any user interface. It will not teach you how to make the perfect UX, but after reading it you will know how to avoid the most common and obvious mistakes. I would consider the minimum recommended for anybody that has to design any kind of UI. Also, you will recognize all the issues in every thing you interact with, be it the door of your apartment or the coffee machine of your office (the name is really apt). I think you should read it even if you will never have to do any kind of UX work, because you will have to put up with somebody's else interface.

keithnz 8y ago
"The design of everyday things" would be the book to read about that kind of stuff. It's a classic and very good, I would consider that a possible "minimum"