4 ms·
The book is about making products that didn't exist before, so I think the authors are referring to hipsters as 'people who knew about something before it becam
by temuze 12y ago
The book is about making products that didn't exist before, so I think the authors are referring to hipsters as 'people who knew about something before it became cool'.
You can be a maker and make things that are already mainstream. Carpenters, for example, are makers but not all carpenters are hipsters.
- tjradcliffe 12y agoHipsters and makers are unrelated to each other. One is about social signalling, the other is about making. For example, in the cycling world the canonical "hipster on a fixie" has nothing to do with newness or functional capability. The cool is in the retro, the inconvenience, the social signalling that "I have such incredibly high conventional social status that I can afford to waste unbelievable amounts of time riding this ridiculously out-of-date and inefficient bike". Makers, on the other hand, may be interested in making new things or old things, but they are primarily in it for the making, not the social signalling. Makers make. They only talk about it now and then when they feel like it. Get a few beverages-of-their-choice into a maker and they'll be apt to talk about stuff they've made that they never mentioned to anyone before because it just got lost in the ruck. There are no hipsters on a desert island. There can be makers, though.
- toasted 12y agosounds like somebody's girlfriend got pulled by a hipster
- o_____________o 12y agoThe word for someone that 'makes products that didn't exist before' is inventor.