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"Great products are simply the result of decisions made aong the way." So are shitty products. So are mediocre products. So what? That pull-quote tells me not
by jamesbritt 14y ago
"Great products are simply the result of decisions made aong the way."
So are shitty products. So are mediocre products. So what? That pull-quote tells me nothing useful. Products are the result of decisions.
Is this kind of trite observation indicative of the book's content?
- seanlinehan 14y agoIn context it may be more impactful. In the book "Made to Stick", the authors make the point that most people think that the their final "one-liner" is the most impactful portion of their writing or their speech, but it turns out that the story leading up to that sound-bite is usually much more important and memorable. This may one of those situation. (Which, in all fairness, would probably have been noticed and not used as a pull-quote had the book been written in more than 3 days)
- jamesbritt 14y agoOK, I get that, like the punch line of a joke, the part that gets the reaction may only make sense given all that lead up to it. But I'm skeptical. I've seen a few too many "Rorschach aphorisms" where some readers, really wanting to believe that the text has some important meaning for them, end up inventing it for what is essentially trite or content-free.