I have that feeling for anyone responding to me, I doesn't matter if they are famous(done "something"). Famous people are just people, like you and me. They are

I have that feeling for anyone responding to me, I doesn't matter if they are famous(done "something"). Famous people are just people, like you and me. They aren't gods. Jeez you're more of a fame worshiper than your first post implied.[later reading made me doubt this observation] When I was something like 13 I made a Flash video that turned into a sort of cult success. To date I've seen a few hundred reviews of the thing online, and I've had IM from a ton of people who want to talk to me about it. And the conclusion that I drew? Most people really aren't worth talking to. That's not to say they're bad people, or inferior people: it's that this world is choked with people and if you want to get something meaningful out of life you've got to figure out who's worth talking to and who isn't. I think that the people who've done the sorts of things I want to do are people who have interesting things to tell me. Hmmmmm, writing that out I can see that you might consider creating first big social bookmarking site is having "done something" (and therefor is not contradictory) I consider "having created a social bookmarking site" as something not much though. Being the first and being the biggest is just "having been lucky" and worth little regard. There's also the fact that Delicious is a very good web site. I haven't seen a social bookmarking site that's as good at figuring out its intent. I agree with you: if the site's bad then I'm less interested in the person that made it. Most people in the world who have good ideas and execute them aren't famous/don't get famous. I'm impressed by people who try. success is meh (cause if you haven't noticed I consider success largely attributable to luck) That's another good thing about HN, though: the people that haven't made cool things are very often working on it right now. That there is a strawman, mister. The point I was trying to make was that HN has a more condensed group of interesting users than Digg does. I'm sure a lot of people here use Digg, but they'd be a lot harder to find. And honestly you really don't see the rah, rah, rah hero/fame worship that goes on round here? Some days it's like a Apple forum just with different objects of adoration. Sometimes I'll join in on the rahing. (I happen to adore Steve Jobs.) Sometimes I'll be more critical of the person (say, Mike Arrington or Seth Godin) and sometimes I'll to out of my way to state my dislike of the guy (Cory Doctorow springs to mind). I guess I treat it on a case-for-case basis.