Re:The Mind of Marc Andreessen
by AndrewKemendo on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:29PM
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Everyone thinks they make the world a better place.
The problem is this is such a useless metric and so vague that they are probably right - for some subset of users.
If whatever you are building makes 1 or 2 people's lives easier or a process more efficient, or someone a little happier by using it, then you can say that you legitimately made their world a better place.
Problem is the "making the world a better place" mantra brings to mind things like vaccines and the dishwasher etc... not a mobile library for Haskell which makes 20,000 software developer's lives slightly easier. So I am against the phrase in general because it signals a global reach, while realizing it might be true locally.
The problem is this is such a useless metric and so vague that they are probably right - for some subset of users.
If whatever you are building makes 1 or 2 people's lives easier or a process more efficient, or someone a little happier by using it, then you can say that you legitimately made their world a better place.
Problem is the "making the world a better place" mantra brings to mind things like vaccines and the dishwasher etc... not a mobile library for Haskell which makes 20,000 software developer's lives slightly easier. So I am against the phrase in general because it signals a global reach, while realizing it might be true locally.