Yes, a more correct statement would be a man alone can spark a lot of
things, but renaissance is a collective endeavor. In all of he examples
you mention, small teams work in tandem with more broader cultural
phenomena, like acceptance of a movie or programming language.
My point was this organic connection between individual advertising and
more collective, grassroots efforts (even if communities are small).
Cheers,
Offray
On 08/01/17 05:20, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
That is not quite true. As a matter of fact the vast majority of
examples of huge success were started by one person or a very small
team of people. Rarely big successes come from large companies with
huge amount of people and investing ridiculous amount on marketing.
Take films for example , the biggest surprise of this decade is
"Deadpool" a film that film industry never wanted to make, because its
extremely politically incorrect for Holywood . They were forced when
the starring actor and his small team "leaked a teaser" that took the
youtube by storm. Even then the studio did not want to invest on it so
it gave it under 60 mil dollars (the hero actually jokes about it in
the movie) when super hero movies have at least 3 times that amount.
It made them almost 800 million dollars.
The marketing of the flim also was very weak because of the very low
budget , but still went viral because of the very smart way they
promoted it. In the end it came down to a very small team of people to
generate this insane amount of profit.
Apple is also a similary story one engineer and another dude that wore
every other hat took the computer industry by storm. Microsoft the
same. Programming languages like Python , Ruby, C, C++ , Perl, Basic
etc also the same.
Everywhere you look small teams or a single person taking big risk and
not playing it safe like big companies, having massive amounts of
success.
So there are no excuses.
All you need is great leadership and money and people will follow.
You do not need something big.
You do not need something great.
You need something fun.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 1:31 AM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
<offray.l...@mutabit.com <mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com>> wrote:
I agree: A man along can not, even if he's wearing several hats:
president of the campaign, campaigner, advocate, funding
department, founder. But actions like this can turn some eyes
towards deeper experience way beyond advertising. It was not my
case and I don't know how many start with a technology because
they saw it on a advertising campaign. I remember thinking about
what was the best context/technology to learn Python, beyond the
classical and dumb "hello world" introductions and I found Leo
Editor in Linux today or some news, so definitively having news
spread helps, as a first step towards bridging newbies and
communities, but I think that is once some signal is send the best
is to have paths towards deeper engagement (instead of fighting
popularity metrics or "someone wrong on the Internet").
About "making Smalltalk great again", I have been wondering: what
"greatness" mean and what was lost that needs to be recovered. May
be it was some sense of opportunity, the idea that Smalltalk can
be useful in the wide world for children and adults in several
contexts.
I think that a measure of a healthy community is in its diversity
and the empowerment it provides to its members. In that sense,
popularity is not the proper measure for greatness and the sense
of opportunity is still there.
Cheers,
Offray
On 07/01/17 17:03, p...@highoctane.be <mailto:p...@highoctane.be>
wrote:
Ah ah, yeah.
Man alone can't but keep on trucking, any advertising is fine as
people forget if it was good or bad, just that they were exposed
to the product.
And engineering is making progress :-)
Phil
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:11 PM, horrido
<horrido.hobb...@gmail.com <mailto:horrido.hobb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I was totally surprised to see this today. It completely
blows my mind! I
feel like I've won an Oscar.
http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/
<http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/>
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