That was one of the things I learned!
Also that you can go to prison for OTHER PEOPLE'S mistakes
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the protestations of designers being dismissable as the whinging over the personal aesthetic preferences of an effete class of trust fund children is not helped by the fact that the design field is in fact populated by an effete class of trust fund children
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just so we're clear:
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i should clarify: not *exclusively* populated as such; perhaps not even a majority, but enough to run into them often enough to *look* like a majority if not a totality
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TOO LATE NO TIME FOR NUANCE MUST MAKE BOLD RISKY REAL PM DECISIONS NOW
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i remember seeing some article about social networks that a minority can look like a majority if they are in the right places (eg central or spanning) in the network; i probably have it in zotero but don't feel like scouring for it
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They do tend to dominate social media *about* design
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yeah because they're charismatic and know a lot of obscure names and facts
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Lots of trust fund folks throughout the startup world, of course, which is under-discussed.
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Harder for trusties to fake it in the hustler/entrepreneur game and nearly impossible in the hacker game. The order of connectedness to unpleasant reality tests is:
hacker (code passes tests) > hustler (raise money, make payroll, sell product) > designer > tech critic
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literally... one reason SV has it out for new breed of tech reporters is that their basic technique is to lurk and spy gathering up damaging out-of-context soundbites



