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Nice, but still waaay too technical for my mom and dad... Dear Dad, My customers are small business people (retailers, wholesales, doctors, lawyers, etc.) who
by edw519 16y ago
Nice, but still waaay too technical for my mom and dad...
Dear Dad,
My customers are small business people (retailers, wholesales, doctors, lawyers, etc.) who own computers that have replaced their file cabinets and some of their clerical employees. Those computers came with lots of stuff in them but need more as their business changes or they discover stuff they forgot. I upgrade their computers with the stuff they need. We call that stuff "software". They pay me. Well enough for me to buy you dinner Sunday night and take you to the Steeler's game. What do you say?
Love,
Eddie
Dear Mom,
I sit in an office writing all day long. I have a fridge and a microwave and occasionally go out to lunch with people down the hall. When it gets cold I wear the sweater you bought me last month. I love what I do. I write stuff, kinda like Stephen King or Danielle Steele, but business stuff, not fiction. My customers love what I write for them and they pay me well, so you never have to worry about me again. I showed Uncle Lenny what I was working on and he thought it was great. I'll pick you up for lunch and a trip to the mall at noon on Saturday. See you then.
Love,
Eddie
- ErrantX 16y agoThis could end up starting a new meme :)
- biot 16y agoI sort of hope not. It started out good, but morphed from a letter to one's parents into a press release at the "in response to a few problems" phrase. Clever marketing, but if your product/service is aimed at the mass market, the kind of simple and down-to-earth language that this "letter" should have contained ought to be on the home page.
- pierrefar 16y agoThis is usually attributed to Einstein (but I can't find a definitive reference): "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother". Clearly he has a way to go still.
- roadnottaken 16y agoI think the quote is from Richard Feynman: "If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood it." Although WikiQuotes says it's unsourced: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman
- jleader 16y agoWhether he said it or not, he definitely practiced it. For many years, Feynman taught an informal seminar for freshmen at Caltech, called "Physics X", at which he offered to answer any physics questions the freshmen could come up with.
- lesterbuck 16y agoNot quite any physics questions. Feynman imposed a rule that he would "not take any question the answer to which did not match the impedance of your knowledge." So a freshman asking "What is quantum chromodynamics?" was gently nudged into a simpler answer that they might learn something from.
- lovskogen 16y agoDidn't Einstein say: "If you can't explain it easily, you don't know it good enough."?
- patio11 16y agoFar too much "I", not enough "you" in the Mom letter.
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