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Serious question: what's wrong with the word "journey"?

by j_baker 12y ago

Hates_ 12y ago
http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
redthrowaway 12y ago
It's just cliche. There's nothing wrong with the word itself, and it's both descriptive and apt, but it's been driven into the ground by people using it in a glib fashion. See: synergy.
yid 12y ago
It's a tired trope in acquisition announcements.
rfreytag 12y ago
Please see: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
ryanSrich 12y ago
It's an overused buzzword that has no meaning anymore. Every company that gets acquired has an "amazing journey".
- azinman2 12y ago
  But it's also true. A startup is a journey!
- hyperbovine 12y ago
  Putting in 100 hours a week for 3-10 years and getting a huge payoff at the end does sort of sound like an amazing journey though.
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rfreytag 12y ago
There is a tumblr called ourincrediblejourney DOT tumblr DOT com which tells a long tale of users left in the cold. Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why?
steveklabnik 12y ago
http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ Basically, it's a cargo culted phrase in acquisition announcements.
rfreytag 12y ago
There is a tumblr called 'ourincrediblejourneyDOTtumblrDOTcom' which tells a long tale of users left in the cold. Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why?
- anon1385 12y ago
  >Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why? Because it's a site calling out the user-screwing acquisitions that Y-Combinator exists to make money from.
  - edmack 12y ago
    YC's focus is long term. Great products over long term require real compassion for your users. User-screwing acquisitions are usually acquihires and low return.
- temuze 12y ago
  HN automatically blocks Tumblr
- dang 12y ago
  Because it was funny the first few dozen times, but around the 500th occasion that someone stuck in his thumb and pulled out that particular plum, I had a fit of pique and wrote a line of code to kill it. What was I thinking? I'll drop everything and restore it. I'm also going to detach this subthread and mark it off-topic. (p.s. I don't mean 500 literally. It's a stand-in for "the number at which I snapped".)
  - rfreytag 12y ago
    dang, thanks for the explanation. I think you should keep the piqued code in so that we can go 'meta' and have 500 submissions about why an overused meme is dead. :-) I probably should read the HN FAQ again - its been quite a long while.
  - instakill 12y ago
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tlrobinson 12y ago
ourincrediblejourney dot tumblr dot com

Serious question: what's wrong with the word "journey"?

by j_baker 12y ago

Serious question: what's wrong with the word "journey"?

Hates_ 12y ago

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

redthrowaway 12y ago

It's just cliche. There's nothing wrong with the word itself, and it's both descriptive and apt, but it's been driven into the ground by people using it in a glib fashion. See: synergy.

yid 12y ago

It's a tired trope in acquisition announcements.

rfreytag 12y ago

Please see: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

ryanSrich 12y ago

It's an overused buzzword that has no meaning anymore. Every company that gets acquired has an "amazing journey".

azinman2 12y ago
But it's also true. A startup is a journey!
hyperbovine 12y ago
Putting in 100 hours a week for 3-10 years and getting a huge payoff at the end does sort of sound like an amazing journey though.
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rfreytag 12y ago

There is a tumblr called ourincrediblejourney DOT tumblr DOT com which tells a long tale of users left in the cold. Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why?

steveklabnik 12y ago

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ Basically, it's a cargo culted phrase in acquisition announcements.

rfreytag 12y ago

There is a tumblr called 'ourincrediblejourneyDOTtumblrDOTcom' which tells a long tale of users left in the cold. Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why?

anon1385 12y ago
>Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why? Because it's a site calling out the user-screwing acquisitions that Y-Combinator exists to make money from.
- edmack 12y ago
  YC's focus is long term. Great products over long term require real compassion for your users. User-screwing acquisitions are usually acquihires and low return.
temuze 12y ago
HN automatically blocks Tumblr
dang 12y ago
Because it was funny the first few dozen times, but around the 500th occasion that someone stuck in his thumb and pulled out that particular plum, I had a fit of pique and wrote a line of code to kill it. What was I thinking? I'll drop everything and restore it. I'm also going to detach this subthread and mark it off-topic. (p.s. I don't mean 500 literally. It's a stand-in for "the number at which I snapped".)
- rfreytag 12y ago
  dang, thanks for the explanation. I think you should keep the piqued code in so that we can go 'meta' and have 500 submissions about why an overused meme is dead. :-) I probably should read the HN FAQ again - its been quite a long while.
- instakill 12y ago

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tlrobinson 12y ago

ourincrediblejourney dot tumblr dot com