Ranting to a (little) larger audience
Okay, so what I picked up from that Agile stuff from Steve is this:
Marketing (and Sales) = Propagation (transmision) of superstition
I’ll keep that in mind next time I think I want a new iPod. Oh, and I added the sales stuff. Salespeople are the puppets of marketing, right?
I’m not sure if this was so funny because of the context or because it’s just funny but here is a quote that made me laugh more than anything I’ve seen on TV the new season (and that included The Daily Show). This Steve guy is great. I know he’s probably been around forever but his writing reminds me of Joel from Joel on Software. His posts are so long though. Doesn’t he know I have to get back to work?
Below is the quote from here:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/10/egomania-itself.html
When I was a teenager, my dad and my brother Mike decided to make homemade chili. I’d never seen it made before, and I watched with keen interest as they added beef, beans, some veggies and spices, and other ingredients. Dad would taste it, add some more ingredients, wait a bit, taste it again. My dad has some pretty good recipes. So you can imagine my puzzlement when he opened the cupboard, pulled out 2 cans of Hormel chili, opened them and dumped them in.
I waited a respectful moment or two before asking him why he was adding canned chili to his chili. They both said it tasted terrible, but, as my dad now-famously observed: “You can start with dog shit, and if you add enough chili, you get chili.”