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user-inactivated  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My customers are my friends. Ummm.... NO, THEY'RE NOT!

Hey, look, a bullshitter writing about bullshit. Touchdown!





veen  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good job completely dismissing arguments because you don't like the author.

I mean, it's not a brilliant article, but he does make some good points. Such as:

    The Myers-Briggs assumes that who we are is consistent from one situation to another [...] according to some studies, more than half of those who take the test a second time end up with a different score than when they took it the first time. Since personality is continuous, not dichotomous, clearly some people who are borderline Introverts or Feelers one week slide over to Extroversion or Thinking the next week. And since personality is contingent, not stable, how we answer is affected by which circumstances are foremost in our minds when we take the test.

    “Every individual is an exception to the rule,” he wrote; to “stick labels on people at first sight,” in his view, was “nothing but a childish parlor game.”
user-inactivated  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Completely dismissed the article because I don't like the author (or the subject). Never read the actual arguments. Well, except the ones you just quoted, which are ironic because

    “Every individual is an exception to the rule,” he wrote; to “stick labels on people at first sight,” in his view, was “nothing but a childish parlor game.”

this is what he spends all of his books doing, so that people with money to burn will burn it on him.

veen  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's effectively the same though.

I mean, I also don't like Malcolm Awfulbad, but I have to really hate an author to completely dismiss all their past and future work.

user-inactivated  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really hate him.

kleinbl00  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I circledotted every comment in this thread.

thenewgreen  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was offended until I realized you were referring to Gladwell..... -you were, right?

user-inactivated  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HA yeah.

EDIT: I have hated the MB since it became a forum craze about 13 years ago.

thenewgreen  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Honestly, I hate it now too. I us no idea that a post I made on the decline of relationship selling would turn in to all this. The addition of the MB stuff at the end was sort of a last minute add-on.

I'll be more thoughtful with such things moving forward.

user-inactivated  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hope it didn't turn into anything in particular, I haven't really been paying attention.

Unfortunately my non-quick submission hubski time has dramatically decreased with this new job/moving/life. Sucks.

Plus side, I read a quote or heard someone say that they listened to the White Album every day for a year so I'm listening to the White Album.

thenewgreen  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Plus side, I read a quote or heard someone say that they listened to the White Album every day for a year so I'm listening to the White Album.
That's awesome. It was the first Beatles album I owned when I was a child of twelve. I used to fall asleep to Julia on repeat.

I've gotten my daughter in a horrible habit of wanting to see a short video on my phone after I tell her a bed-time story. For a while there it was old Star Wars clips. Now, it's been the old Beatles Cartoons. I've never really seen them before, but I searched "Beatles Cartoons" one night to try and find some Yellow Submarine footage and stumbled upon them. They're EXTREMELY cheesy but she loves them and has been asking, "Daddy, can we watch the Beatles?" -Warms my heart.

We watched this one.

Good luck with the job/moving/life -it's a busy time for a lot of people I know right now. We'll get through it!

user-inactivated  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They follow Why Don't We Do It in the Road with I Will of all songs -- "Will I wait a lonely lifetime, if you want me to..."

EDIT: shit, I still watch those cartoons occasionally.

thenewgreen  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

"I Will" is the first song both my children heard after being born. I sang it to them both. Best song ever.