"One sure sign of a bubble is the meta-ness of the excitement."
I'm getting excited about getting excited by the end of season crunch game for Melbourne today against Adelaide which decides whether they get a Top 4 AFL position, and the Double Chance, or end up 7th and possibly straight out of finals.
I'm also getting excited about getting excited about Rye's 2nd final today, I think against Langwarrin at the Eastbourne Road Rosebud ground which has the great hamburgers that always sellout, so I'm excited about that.
But I'm most excited about Dave Winer being excited (he's not really excited but I was trying to add repitition to the word "excited") about the meta-ness of excitement about excitement that is implicit in a frothy latte like bubble. Once people (me) get excited about people getting excited (Dave) about pundits who get excited about the Web 2.0 applications of pet food, you have one remedy : Lots of (your own) dog food to eat. As Dave says along the lines of "users need to think/act like developers, and developers need to think/act like developers".
Everyone needs to remember to eat their own dog food. And that dog feed isn't the business model. And excitement is wasted energy unless transferred into a sustainable real world asset. I'm constantly amazed at people that build products that they don't use. And then they wonder why it doesnt succeed. Another variation is developing for the "newbie" market (your mother etc) and immediately turn off getting power users, which then creates no motivation for the middle market to enter the new category and offering.
Scripting.com : "One sure sign of a bubble is the meta-ness of the excitement. How far removed from actual user experience is the euphoria? Is there any technology involved? To me, the peak of the dot-com bubble (as I've said many times) was the showdown between the pet food companies. And when people start getting excited about people getting excited, that's when it's time to think about putting the checkbook back in the pocket. "
I'm also getting excited about getting excited about Rye's 2nd final today, I think against Langwarrin at the Eastbourne Road Rosebud ground which has the great hamburgers that always sellout, so I'm excited about that.
But I'm most excited about Dave Winer being excited (he's not really excited but I was trying to add repitition to the word "excited") about the meta-ness of excitement about excitement that is implicit in a frothy latte like bubble. Once people (me) get excited about people getting excited (Dave) about pundits who get excited about the Web 2.0 applications of pet food, you have one remedy : Lots of (your own) dog food to eat. As Dave says along the lines of "users need to think/act like developers, and developers need to think/act like developers".
Everyone needs to remember to eat their own dog food. And that dog feed isn't the business model. And excitement is wasted energy unless transferred into a sustainable real world asset. I'm constantly amazed at people that build products that they don't use. And then they wonder why it doesnt succeed. Another variation is developing for the "newbie" market (your mother etc) and immediately turn off getting power users, which then creates no motivation for the middle market to enter the new category and offering.
Scripting.com : "One sure sign of a bubble is the meta-ness of the excitement. How far removed from actual user experience is the euphoria? Is there any technology involved? To me, the peak of the dot-com bubble (as I've said many times) was the showdown between the pet food companies. And when people start getting excited about people getting excited, that's when it's time to think about putting the checkbook back in the pocket. "
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