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I admit I'm not the most poetic of people, and often have trouble reading between the lines or finding deeper implications, but this: > I would put the precise
by square_usual 6y ago
I admit I'm not the most poetic of people, and often have trouble reading between the lines or finding deeper implications, but this:
> I would put the precise date as November 7, 2012, the day Dustin Curtis published his infamous blog post “The Best”. [...] When I first read it I thought it was brilliant satire. Then when I realized he was serious, I decided to leave myself. Dustin and his ilk had completely perverted the message of Steve Jobs.
completely baffled me. I don't get this, at all! I read that mentioned post, and it looked to me like an appreciation of working for quality that went beyond simply producing goods to be sold. I feel weirdly stupid because I cannot figure out what TFA is trying to imply there.
- ahelwer 6y agoI recall that post being pretty polarizing on HN. I think PG himself showed up and ranted about how the people calling it consumerist schlock had it all wrong, and this was a sign of HN's decline or something. Anyway personally I found the post fairly repulsive. It reminded me of my thought patterns during some of my grossest excursions into materialist obsession - spending hours researching what "the best" thing to buy is, when I would have been much, much happier just getting something at random than agonizing about it - or just not buying anything at all.
- aquajet 6y agoThe Best discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
- baby 6y agohttps://dcurt.is/the-best https://dcurt.is/the-best