Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
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Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
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Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#2I got a review copy of the book. It's a really interesting read and lives up to the Priceonomics name!
Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#3Awfully defensive.
Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#4I dislike the fact that they conflate being a hipster and being a maker. In my experience, the segment of makers that are also hipsters isn't really all that different from the general population. Hipster is a pejorative. Connotating it with maker puts makers in a negative light.
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#5I dislike the fact that they conflate being a hipster and being a maker. In my experience, the segment of makers that are also hipsters isn't really all that different from the general population. Hipster is a pejorative. Connotating it with maker puts makers in a negative light.
Maybe just go with "Maker Business Models"? But perhaps that isn't catchy enough?
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#6I dislike the fact that they conflate being a hipster and being a maker. In my experience, the segment of makers that are also hipsters isn't really all that different from the general population. Hipster is a pejorative. Connotating it with maker puts makers in a negative light.
The labels annoy me, unless they exist solely for the purpose of self description, with citation if necessary. Otherwise, it's so easy to project a label onto a portion of culture you've only seen a superficial glimpse of. You can imagine as you walk through New York, you are surrounded by hipsters, and they are everywhere - but that's not the same as knowing every individual person person. It's a distortion of terms and quantity. There is no reason to believe in these terms as accurate descriptors of reality - aside from maybe making less mathy sounds with your mouth to go along with predictive indicators of marketing trends.
Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#7I dislike the fact that they conflate being a hipster and being a maker. In my experience, the segment of makers that are also hipsters isn't really all that different from the general population. Hipster is a pejorative. Connotating it with maker puts makers in a negative light.
The book is about making products that didn't exist before, so I think the authors are referring to hipsters as 'people who knew about something before it became cool'.
You can be a maker and make things that are already mainstream. Carpenters, for example, are makers but not all carpenters are hipsters.
Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#8I dislike the fact that they conflate being a hipster and being a maker. In my experience, the segment of makers that are also hipsters isn't really all that different from the general population. Hipster is a pejorative. Connotating it with maker puts makers in a negative light.
What is a maker?
Re: Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics
#9Why is "hipster" the new word for Generation Y?
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#10Awfully defensive.
given that the top two comments in this comment section are attacking what they were defending, i'd say that stance is appropriate.