What a nice personal website! I like the quotes section, the essays section. It's cozy and personal.
The Fancy Rug Dilemma
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#32Hey HN - long-time lurker and decided to start writing essays (inspired by PG and many of y'all as well). This one came from months of joking with my friends about different "fancy rug" problems which led me to think about my own "fancy rugs". Enjoy!
I have to ask... why the extra lettuce? At In-N-Out I sometimes ask for less lettuce because I feel like it's unnecessary filler compared to the other ingredients, lol. Maybe they've just been giving my unused lettuce to you...
Not OP but I also order extra lettuce on burgers. Lettuce is free "crunch", basically. Crunch is good in general - and especially necessary on burgers, which otherwise tend to sliminess.
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#33Hey HN - long-time lurker and decided to start writing essays (inspired by PG and many of y'all as well). This one came from months of joking with my friends about different "fancy rug" problems which led me to think about my own "fancy rugs". Enjoy!
Thanks for writing. This was an enjoyable read.
So in the spirit of this blog post what kind of rug did you make and where would you guess the audience/audience distribution falls on the graph?
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#34Very much appreciated the essay. The abstract / meaning / story component of many current-day products (value propositions) these days is unbelievable. I’d like to understand it better.
Basically, if you want to create a successful product, you have to offer some kind of relatable and attractive story for people to buy. And it is not the same thing as producing a good product per se. I’m struggling with that. And see great many people around struggling too.
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#35I can’t speak for the rugs you viewed, but some products take literally hundreds of man hours to make. My partner recently picked up some fine crochet bedspreads. These intricate bedspreads each must have consumed multiple weeks of labour. I understand this is also true of hand crafted Chinese and Afghan rugs - around a month per square metre for an Afghan. In contrast, those basketball shoes you collect are mass pro…
Mentioning the man hours would make sense, if the ones producing the product taking the majority cut from the purchase price.
Otherwise, it's more of a strategy to set a higher price tag, and the reseller and all the middleman taking all the extra revenues.
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#36I can’t speak for the rugs you viewed, but some products take literally hundreds of man hours to make. My partner recently picked up some fine crochet bedspreads. These intricate bedspreads each must have consumed multiple weeks of labour. I understand this is also true of hand crafted Chinese and Afghan rugs - around a month per square metre for an Afghan. In contrast, those basketball shoes you collect are mass pro…
I wonder how many hours it would take to make a rug out of hundreds of disassembled basketball shoes.
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#37Bro almost discovering Marx, Veblen and the others
Agreed. But don't be harsh, see xkcd's "Today's lucky 10,000": https://xkcd.com/1053/
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to ask... why the extra lettuce? At In-N-Out I sometimes ask for less lettuce because I feel like it's unnecessary filler compared to the other ingredients, lol. Maybe they've just been giving my unused lettuce to you...
Not OP but I also order extra lettuce on burgers. Lettuce is free "crunch", basically. Crunch is good in general - and especially necessary on burgers, which otherwise tend to sliminess.
Have you ever made your own burgers?
Lettuce is one of the least appealing things I can imagine adding to a half decent burger. I’ve also never once cooked a burger I’d describe as “slimy”.
Obviously it’s all subjective at the end of the day.
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#39This really made me think - and not just because I went to Artsy Rugs last week and talked with the someone there about a rug that I bought at an estate sale and which I would like more information about ( http://provenancevault.com/treasures/12x16-persian-rug-ajrk8... ) but also because I've been moving to a new house the last few months and going through a lot of the possessions I've accumulated, deciding what to keep (definitely things with strong sentimental value or family history) and what to get rid of (a lot) but also what it means to have things. They can be both a joy and a connection with the past as well as a burden.
And because of that, I started building this website https://provenancevault.com/treasures/discover (it's probably not ready to introduce widely yet, but relevant to this conversation)