The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

The bullshit industrial complex is a pyramid of groups that goes something like this:

Group 1 : People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings.

Group 2 : People writing about group 1 in clear, concise, accessible language.

[And here rests the line of bullshit demarcation...]

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Howard Aiken—the inventor of the earliest general purpose computer—was never worried about people stealing his ideas. “If your ideas are any good” he’s quoted as saying, “you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” And yet, we think that the moment that we hit the dance floor, all eyes will be on us. The moment we hit publish, the world will ta... See more