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First of all, I was immediately turned off by this article when it cited a study from 1933. Sure he used other evidence later, but I've come into the habit of
by ABrandt 17y ago
First of all, I was immediately turned off by this article when it cited a study from 1933. Sure he used other evidence later, but I've come into the habit of being seriously skeptical of any scientific work done more than twenty years ago.
I may be reading this article wrong, but this seems to fly in the face of Steve Blank's customer development model and other wisdoms that are being thrown around these days. To me, part of putting your plans out there is the resultant pressure from peers to see them through. When an idea is just in my head, nobody knows when I abandon it for no apparent good reason. But when I tell my friends, family, and everyone I meet what I am planning to do, then I better follow through or risk hurting my credibility. I like to call this "going balls deep."
- gruseom 17y agoI've come into the habit of being seriously skeptical of any scientific work done more than twenty years ago. That has amusing implications for us, twenty years from now.
- shard 17y agoConsidering that everything I learned in school I learned about 20 years ago, that has "amusing" implications for all the knowledge that most people who went through higher education has received.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoI think he was talking about behavioral studies.
- shard 17y agoI would imagine that human nature changes much more slowly than that.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoYou have to take into account the rapid changes in technology. Surely, the Internet has somehow affected human behavior?
- cracki 17y agoso you like external pressure. I don't. actually, I hate external pressure. that's why I never tell anyone I know in person about my projects. I usually spill my guts to folks on IRC. they're liable to either find it an utterly fascinating idea which lacks execution or it turns into a trollfest. either way, I'm still left with zero external pressure, some nonspecific encouraging words or lots of close-minded opposition that needs to be shown the finger by Getting It Done.
- Ardit20 17y agoI was immediately turned off by this article when it cited a study from 1933 That seems to suggest that as we progress we know better. However, not many would suggest that the wisdom of Aristotle is no longer relevant. And that Milgram experiment am sure was done more than twenty years ago, yet it shed some great light into our psyche. There is no reason to suggest that we know better than the people of the last century. Humans remain humans afterall and unlike physics where truth may be more rigid, in matters of human behaviour it may be safer to trust an older source for if it has survived the tides of time, then it must have some goodness in it.