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In the end, I don't care if the dude is capable of starting his own cable company or not... But the value of the post to me, and to the site in general, is to c
by raganwald 14y ago
In the end, I don't care if the dude is capable of starting his own cable company or not... But the value of the post to me, and to the site in general, is to consider the question. How would you go about starting a cable company?
That's at least half of the value of most posts on this site. Not the content of the posts itself, but rather in the quality of the discussion that follows. And while some posts do a better job than others of sparking that quality discussion, the interesting things is that we have 100% complete control over the quality.
I'm reminded of politicians when you ask them a question you don't want to answer.
"Mr. Obama, under your presidency, what chance do I have of joining the 1% by starting a cable company?"
"Good question. Let's talk about the initiatives I've sponsored to help people create and build businesses in this great land..."
We can do the same thing. "Good question! Let's talk about how one could get into this business and especially how one might make this business irrelevant by disrupting it..."