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This is so meta.
by McDoku 12y ago
This is so meta.
- eru 12y agoWhy? It's a perfectly straight-forward article about beekeeping, isn't it?
- McDoku 12y agoHow is bee keeping not analogous to start up development? The anxiety and experience of the bee keeper is parallel to building a user base for an application. I was reading the article while writing a user acquisition strategy. I almost died laughing.
- eru 12y agoMight be a case of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsJesusIn...
- McDoku 12y agoI'd argue that the illusion of grander depth within a narrative is the very thing that makes a work great. I did mean 'meta' some what humorously. I had not expected it to be received so literally. Of course it is a subjective parallel. Also, I think their are quantifiable parallels that many people on HN would relate too. It may explain the rise of a random bee keeping article. It would stand to reason that if the attributes and narrative were familiar it could possibly take on certain unconscious meaning to that group.
- eru 12y agoLots of people (including me) have actually toyed with keeping bees. I think it's just one of the things that appeals here, like eg practicing martial arts. (Even though we don't get many articles about that.)
- kcbanner 12y agoIt really isn't.