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Can’t say I’ve ever thought of Twitter as a way to avoid mimetic traps.
by laretluval 7y ago
Can’t say I’ve ever thought of Twitter as a way to avoid mimetic traps.
- totemandtoken 7y agoYeah, I liked the read but the two tips I somewhat disagree with is the twitter tip (because honestly, even if you use twitter right, there is a low signal to noise ratio) and the price signals for failure/success. Sometimes its better to to accept a title change to create the illusion of a meteoric rise even if the compensation doesn't immediately follow. Also, that specific point makes me think of sales which just makes me shudder
- TeMPOraL 7y agoSame here. > Also, that specific point makes me think of sales which just makes me shudder Yeah. I maintain that currently, the marginal RoI on sales&marketing is greater than on actually doing something useful - it's too easy to bullshit people into giving you money, so making money is only weakly correlated with doing something useful. (I know this hinges on the definition of "useful" and I haven't put enough time to clarify it even for myself, but roughly: for me, something useful means making people happier or suffer less, or increasing the pool of knowledge about the world humanity has. Making people suffer, or part with their money for very suboptimal reasons, has negative utility.)
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI'd go one further, I think Twitter is a mimetic trap. edit - and HN definitely is ;)