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No, I'll pass. But you're welcome to not believe me.

by Exuma 3y ago

gavinhoward 3y ago
Then I have no choice but to believe that you are lying.
- Exuma 3y ago
  Once again, this is a very unoriginal take. i realize it's the internet, people lie, blah blah. But not everything out of the ordinary is a lie. Consider for a moment it's true. The amount of people that just immediately reject something with the answer "prove it or you're lying", this in itself is such a basic idea, its surface level, 1 dimensional layer of thought. Try to read between the lines, because you are basically closing your mind off to thousands of potential factors, this complex web of cause and effect, and immediately rejecting some idea out of the gate simply because .... I don't name something? At even the most simplest of levels, your method of thinking doesn't even work. I could just lie, I could say I owned X site, and X tool. I could literally google in 2-3 mins, find a random viral site from the time period I'm talking about, and then some tool similar to buzzsumo, and I could say "yes I built that" IMO - Life is far better with an open mind by default, than a closed one Just because I said your headline is unoriginal as shit doesn't mean you have to rubber band reflex the other direction that "I MUST BE A LIAR!!!" as the only explanation.
  - gavinhoward 3y ago
    > Just because I said your headline is unoriginal...doesn't mean you have to rubber band reflex the other direction that "I MUST BE A LIAR!!!" as the only explanation. I only got to that point when you gave a claim you would not back up, not because of your "headline is unoriginal" opinion. To answer your opinion, look at my archive [1]. I have some original titles: * "Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chain" * "The Scourge of 00UB" * "Head in the Hurricane: Securing a Web Server" The one thing those headlines have in common is that they did not go viral. Sure, a headline may be unoriginal, but if it gets more people to read it than an original headline does, why wouldn't I do that? I think my writing deserves reading more thwn it deserves original headlines. [1]: https://gavinhoward.com/archive/ https://gavinhoward.com/archive/

No, I'll pass. But you're welcome to not believe me.

by Exuma 3y ago

No, I'll pass. But you're welcome to not believe me.

gavinhoward 3y ago

Then I have no choice but to believe that you are lying.

Exuma 3y ago
Once again, this is a very unoriginal take. i realize it's the internet, people lie, blah blah. But not everything out of the ordinary is a lie. Consider for a moment it's true. The amount of people that just immediately reject something with the answer "prove it or you're lying", this in itself is such a basic idea, its surface level, 1 dimensional layer of thought. Try to read between the lines, because you are basically closing your mind off to thousands of potential factors, this complex web of cause and effect, and immediately rejecting some idea out of the gate simply because .... I don't name something? At even the most simplest of levels, your method of thinking doesn't even work. I could just lie, I could say I owned X site, and X tool. I could literally google in 2-3 mins, find a random viral site from the time period I'm talking about, and then some tool similar to buzzsumo, and I could say "yes I built that" IMO - Life is far better with an open mind by default, than a closed one Just because I said your headline is unoriginal as shit doesn't mean you have to rubber band reflex the other direction that "I MUST BE A LIAR!!!" as the only explanation.
- gavinhoward 3y ago
  > Just because I said your headline is unoriginal...doesn't mean you have to rubber band reflex the other direction that "I MUST BE A LIAR!!!" as the only explanation. I only got to that point when you gave a claim you would not back up, not because of your "headline is unoriginal" opinion. To answer your opinion, look at my archive [1]. I have some original titles: * "Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chain" * "The Scourge of 00UB" * "Head in the Hurricane: Securing a Web Server" The one thing those headlines have in common is that they did not go viral. Sure, a headline may be unoriginal, but if it gets more people to read it than an original headline does, why wouldn't I do that? I think my writing deserves reading more thwn it deserves original headlines. [1]: https://gavinhoward.com/archive/ https://gavinhoward.com/archive/