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There is nothing to be lost in calling something stupid if you believe something to be stupid. The article gives a good illustration of why the author believes
by jagjit 17y ago
There is nothing to be lost in calling something stupid if you believe something to be stupid. The article gives a good illustration of why the author believes it is stupid.
Calling something stupid does not mean the author is saying there is no money to be made in such things.
- bumblebird 17y agoIn fact stupid things are often the most lucrative.
- vijayr 17y agolike fart apps?
- mattmaroon 17y agoThere is a lot to be lost. It means you cannot emphasize with the people who enjoy it. It means you cannot replicate or iterate upon it, or apply those concepts to other things in the future. It's dismissive, and you should never be dismissive of something that makes $250m per year. It clearly has a lot of value that the author doesn't understand, and since he has dismissed it he will never tap into that. That hurts him. I don't like Twitter (which makes $0m per year) very much, but I try to understand it, play with it, and find out what people do like about it because it will inform product design decisions that I make in the future. I know that a LOT of people do like Twitter and therefore it cannot be stupid. In fact in some ways it must even be brilliant.