> There are many kinds of people in the world and this is hardly the most interesting razor to use to divide them up.
I think people who start something and really go all in, they are really worth celebrating.
Infact more than that - they need encouragement and in this piece Dixon lets them know that they should try even though they may be surrounded by smug detractors.
> I think people who start something and really go all in, they are really worth celebrating.
I think that too. But I also think that it isn't dichotomous and treating it so is cheap writing. This isn't a celebration so much as it's a creation of an "other".
Also worth celebrating? Teachers. Epidemiologists. Successful parents. Fred Rogers.
Celebrate people, by all means, but don't let's pretend that there only two kinds of people and only one is worth celebrating. Humanity is so much more interesting than that. Celebrate entrepreneurs on their own merits without false divisions and the resulting essay will be so much more interesting - guaranteed.
Not sure what your point is. I'm not threatened by the fact that I don't know anything about, say, fighting a fire.
Either you've risked your life jumping into a burning building to save lives or you haven't. It's true ... and I haven't. I'm not defensive about it and I don't feel like someone who says that is denigrating what I do for a living.
Sure, the "either you've X or you haven't" construction is a little trite, but so what? Why are you so bothered by it? Seems like threadcrapping all over an inspirational article.
> Why are you so bothered by it? Seems like threadcrapping all over an inspirational article.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well. So there's that. And myopia bothers me — this article smacks a bit of the Valley/tech circlejerking that ignores the larger world, which is exhausting after awhile. And I'm gratified to not be alone in that; this thing was flagged so hard it dropped like a stone. So there's hope.
> Either you've risked your life jumping into a burning building to save lives or you haven't.
And an essay with that angle would be similarly lame, I assure you. It's just an awful thrust because it's not interesting. It's an obvious statement that leads to hagiography through false contrast. Ultimately, that's a disservice to the exalted subject because you could make the point much more effectively by simply sharing authentic enthusiasm.
I think people who start something and really go all in, they are really worth celebrating.
Infact more than that - they need encouragement and in this piece Dixon lets them know that they should try even though they may be surrounded by smug detractors.