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How can you render judgment if you didn't read past page one?
by brandnewlow 18y ago
How can you render judgment if you didn't read past page one?
- randallsquared 18y agoNot reading past page one is a judgment. It's one I make all the time about various articles and stories.
- brandnewlow 18y agoCertainly. But then you don't pass judgment on the work as a whole based on the little bit you read.
- geebee 18y agoPerhaps not. But suppose I wrote 5,000 pages of pure stream of consciousness drivel. Would you feel obligated to read every page before deciding the whole thing was crap?
- palish 18y agoI'll let you know once I finish the other 4,783 pages that DaVinci wrote. It's kept me hooked so far, though. http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm
- tptacek 18y agoSo just write "tl;dr" and let us get on with it.
- shawnyar217 18y agoMaybe a different kind of summary would be helpful for certain people. The article is roughly divided into two parts: Part #1: How this regular guy, a college dropout, an apparently average Joe, can walk into a room full of parents and children and own them, making the children laugh uncontrollably, the mothers secretly want to sleep with him, the fathers impressed by him. Then they gladly PAY him and he earns six figures working only on weekends. At a business he started by pretending to talk to customers on his cell phone. Part #2: How every business is made up of real people, with real personality and real-life problems. And how some people (all people?) who have fantastic qualities can also be deeply flawed in other ways. Part #3: Yes I know I said there were only two parts. The third part is afterwards when you realize this essay that started off as a not-too-serious business article about marketing was in fact an amazing work of art and that it won a PULITZER PRIZE for a reason. Now go read the whole article.