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> The sooner you kill this beast within yourself, the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate Highly ant

> The sooner you kill this beast within yourself, the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate Highly anti-mimetic then, so long as you're committed to entrepreneuring and being validated by the market. Wait, what?

asplake 3y ago
To be fair there was an “–or not” at the end of that quote, and I assume that the dash was for emphasis. Not clear what was meant by it though
- jrflowers 3y ago
  It is meant to hedge against anyone mistakenly interpreting the sentence as having any meaning.
  - 2-718-281-828 3y ago
    well put! "hedge against" ... will incorporate that in my vocabulary
- rablackburn 3y ago
  I read it as you need to stop consuming and start creating _something_ if you’re ever going to get noticed (we all need to be noticed, humans die when they are alone). But creating something doesn’t guarantee you’ll succeed. A “You’ve got to be in it to have a chance at winning it” kind of message.
- mitt_romney_12 3y ago
  I interpreted the "-or not" to mean the market might not validate your hypothesis, which still has the same problem of emphasizing market success
ssivark 3y ago
> "the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate — or not." I think the "or not" (that you've skipped) is crucial. In my reading, it emphasizes the irony that market validation might be just another flavor of social validation.
- majormajor 3y ago
  I read the paragraph as saying "the market is what you should want to validate you - or not (it might reject you) instead of the 'theater' of seeking publicity." It seems dreadfully sincere about "market validation" still being good while "publicity validation" is "bad." Despite "do something the market values" is basically foundational western capitalistic culture. Look at the rest of the list too: It's all about being "socially" "counter-cultural" to pursue extremely traditional cultural things (market validated company! classic films! be grounded in the real! go analog! etc).
apsurd 3y ago
well, the context is within entrepreneurship: it's under "don't participate in Shark-Tankification of worth." basically dont be a wantrepreneur seeking vanity metrics. i do agree the essay is very capitalist centric, but maybe that's the best point: society is tracking 1:1 with commercialism these days?

asplake 3y ago

To be fair there was an “–or not” at the end of that quote, and I assume that the dash was for emphasis. Not clear what was meant by it though

jrflowers 3y ago
It is meant to hedge against anyone mistakenly interpreting the sentence as having any meaning.
- 2-718-281-828 3y ago
  well put! "hedge against" ... will incorporate that in my vocabulary
rablackburn 3y ago
I read it as you need to stop consuming and start creating _something_ if you’re ever going to get noticed (we all need to be noticed, humans die when they are alone). But creating something doesn’t guarantee you’ll succeed. A “You’ve got to be in it to have a chance at winning it” kind of message.
mitt_romney_12 3y ago
I interpreted the "-or not" to mean the market might not validate your hypothesis, which still has the same problem of emphasizing market success

ssivark 3y ago

> "the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate — or not." I think the "or not" (that you've skipped) is crucial. In my reading, it emphasizes the irony that market validation might be just another flavor of social validation.

majormajor 3y ago
I read the paragraph as saying "the market is what you should want to validate you - or not (it might reject you) instead of the 'theater' of seeking publicity." It seems dreadfully sincere about "market validation" still being good while "publicity validation" is "bad." Despite "do something the market values" is basically foundational western capitalistic culture. Look at the rest of the list too: It's all about being "socially" "counter-cultural" to pursue extremely traditional cultural things (market validated company! classic films! be grounded in the real! go analog! etc).

apsurd 3y ago

well, the context is within entrepreneurship: it's under "don't participate in Shark-Tankification of worth." basically dont be a wantrepreneur seeking vanity metrics. i do agree the essay is very capitalist centric, but maybe that's the best point: society is tracking 1:1 with commercialism these days?