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The thing that is most fascinating, is that she basically said, "I like your idea, but your execution sucks". That is the pinnacle of the most painful thing to
by jcampbell1 13y ago
The thing that is most fascinating, is that she basically said, "I like your idea, but your execution sucks". That is the pinnacle of the most painful thing to hear, but the CEO took it in stride and made his product better.
That is the lesson I am going to take away. Ideas matter, but if execution is the thing you can change, then embrace the people that tell you your execution sucks and have ideas.
- klochner 13y agoI'm embarrassed that I even know this, but she used a standard pickup tactic[1,2], popularized by the book "the game". [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neg http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neg [2] http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/voices/2012/05/negging-latest-dating-trend http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/voices/2012/05/negging-lat...
- mindcrime 13y agoI can see the analogy, although I'm not convinced it holds up. But the flip-side is, and I think this is important to understand, a lot of the "techniques" used by PUAs aren't things they invented, but rather things they borrowed from material on salesmanship and persuasion. Robert Cialdini, for example, is heavily cited as an influence within the PUA community. So calling a "neg" a "pickup technique" might not even be accurate. I imagine the idea of "lower the value of a high-value target to penetrate their shield" probably predates the term PUA by quite some time.