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Re:Minimum Viable Personality (2011) by DanielBMarkham on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:28AM (#19281454)
Yep. I tell people that Seth Godin won. Now everybody is doing whatever they can to create a tribe.

Unfortunately, while this might have been a great marketing strategy five years ago, it doesn't scale -- and it makes a horrible mess out of dialectical conversation.

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Re:Minimum Viable Personality (2011) by NeedMoreTea on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:50AM (#19281714)
Which only works when there were just a few doing it. You could stand out when it was a little different.

When everyone does it like Apple, no one does, not even Apple. It ceases to have meaning or effect.

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