In my years knead in engineering , I have take a few things . These deterrent example have become oft - repeated refrains when speaking to the great unwashed , so I thought I ’d collect them so I have a link to post folks when involve .
1 ) gift enough fourth dimension , any object which can give musical billet will be used to play the Super Mario Brothers theme on YouTube .
2 ) Judging by their response , the meanest thing you may do to masses on the Internet is to give them really good package for detached .
3 ) Three things never work out : interpreter schmoose , printer and projectors .
4 ) Once a web community has decided to dislike a person , topic , or musical theme , the conversation will tilt from criticizing the idea to become a competition about who can be most vituperative in their curse . ( SeeThe Law of Fail . )
5 ) Any new physical body of electronic communication will first be dismissed as trivial and despicable until it produce a wakeless event , after which it will be describe as obvious and ho-hum .
6 ) If your website ’s full of assholes , it ’s your fault . ( See thepost on this topic . )
7 ) Most websites treat “ I like it ” and “ This is respectable ” as the same thing , head to most masses on the cyberspace refusing to distinguish between “ I do n’t like it ” and “ It ’s not sound ” .
- When a company or industriousness is facing changes to its business due to engineering , it will reason against the need for variety base on the moral importance of its work , rather than trying to understand the societal underpinnings .
9 ) People will move mountains to earn a gold adept by their name on the Internet .
10 ) The only room to get utile feedback from hoi polloi on the Internet is to necessitate question that are really answerable , instead of open - over .
Bonus regulation which apply as on the cyberspace and off :
Never argue against logical system with emotion , or against emotion using system of logic .
We detest most in others that which we fail to see in ourselves . ( That ’s pretty much where this blog started,14 years ago . )
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Anil Dash has been blogging at Dashes.com , where this postoriginally come out , since 1999 . He ’s the conscientious objector - founding father of ThinkUp and Activate . you’re able to follow him on Twitterhere .
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