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I used to like Marco Arment. But he's one of those people that was better left to keep himself quieter. The more out spoken he's gotten the more obnoxious he's
by gks 15y ago
I used to like Marco Arment. But he's one of those people that was better left to keep himself quieter. The more out spoken he's gotten the more obnoxious he's gotten.
Sometimes it's best to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Or something like that anyway. The more Marco opens his mouth the more of a fool I think he is.
I enjoyed Build and Analyze (his podcast at 5by5) in the beginning, but he got to the point where he was just being more and more obnoxious.
He's not Gruber, yet he seems to be trying to be Gruber.
Ah well, this is just another of his predictions that has gone wrong.
- danilocampos 15y agoThank you for sharing this. I had been feeling similarly for awhile but couldn't really boil down why. His blog went from must-read to unreadable. I wish I could remember which post threw it over the top for me but I had a visceral reaction at one point best summed up as Really? On the Gruber thing, he has written saying that Gruber is his ideal reader, so yo aren't far off the mark. I think that as his traffic, profile and software sales have grown, he has lost his humility, which is a bad thing for writing.
- gks 15y agoThat's a pretty good summary I think. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he comes across as an arrogant prick on his podcast and it seems to be boiling over into his blog as well. I just can't enjoy reading or listening to him anymore.