I’d never heard of stone lifting and I couldn’t see why it would be real.
Without the context of history, it seemed absurd that people would run around lifting random rocks and ascribing history to them when it served no useful purpose.
Going even further to design rules and convey them with great sincerity without context felt like the Ministry of Silly Walks from Monty Python. (A type of humor I greatly enjoy.)
Over the years I’ve been on Hacker News, I’ve seen a few founders who had convinced
themselves a large market existed (or could be created), contrary to all evidence. (E.g. A social network around raising and caring for electric eels.) So I was primed to see someone poking fun at that.
Now, I think it is really cool. And of course I’m going to tell my friends about it so we can discuss how cool it is. :)
kayodelycaon|2 years ago
I’d never heard of stone lifting and I couldn’t see why it would be real.
Without the context of history, it seemed absurd that people would run around lifting random rocks and ascribing history to them when it served no useful purpose.
Going even further to design rules and convey them with great sincerity without context felt like the Ministry of Silly Walks from Monty Python. (A type of humor I greatly enjoy.)
Over the years I’ve been on Hacker News, I’ve seen a few founders who had convinced themselves a large market existed (or could be created), contrary to all evidence. (E.g. A social network around raising and caring for electric eels.) So I was primed to see someone poking fun at that.
Now, I think it is really cool. And of course I’m going to tell my friends about it so we can discuss how cool it is. :)