Jason Scott on the opinionated hordes.
I had forgotten, I guess, how easy it is for people to take a few quick glances at some data and shove their two-line thesis out the door. Or to then proceed to make even more conclusions based on this thesis. And then, how easily it is for this quarter-baked half-thesis to become an addendum to the original data, as if, you know, they deserved it.
I like nothing more than to browse people who have no idea who or what the hell I am, what I've done, what I'm doing, or any other data points, and then just make all these great conclusions about me. It's refreshing. They're neither friend nor foe. They're just observers, as so much of this medium turns us into