I… feel like this post is important. But I’m not actually sure how to use it and build around it.
I have vague memories of seeing this link-dropped by folk in the Benquo/Jessicata/Zack/Zvi crowd in various comments, but usually in a way that feels more like an injoke than a substantive point.
I just checked the three top-level-post pingbacks, and I do think they make meaningful reference to this post. Which I think is sufficient for “yes this concept got followed up on in the past 2 years”. But I’m left with a vague frustration with the concept feeling slippery-er than it needs to be.
Maybe one problem is that this post is called “Everybody knows”, and not “No, Everybody Doesn’t No.” So it’s harder to namedrop it in a way that solidifies the concept rather than obfuscates it. (Similar to recent troubles with “Alike Minds Think Great”, which ended up getting renamed to “Great Minds Might Not Think Alike”)
I usually refer back to it by saying that someone is claiming everybody knows, and linking the words ‘everybody knows.’ I think it’s the right title. And I find the ability to use the term everybody knows this way highly useful.
Once I got what this post was talking about, I really liked it. People linking to it made that abundantly clear (for me). But I didn’t get what the post was talking about first time I read it. I think the Cohen quote and the Dothraki saying didn’t help point me to the phenomenon the post is talking about. I might spend some time looking for an example that helps pinpoint it for me more quickly, if the post is highly voted, I think that would fix it for me.
I… feel like this post is important. But I’m not actually sure how to use it and build around it.
I have vague memories of seeing this link-dropped by folk in the Benquo/Jessicata/Zack/Zvi crowd in various comments, but usually in a way that feels more like an injoke than a substantive point.
I just checked the three top-level-post pingbacks, and I do think they make meaningful reference to this post. Which I think is sufficient for “yes this concept got followed up on in the past 2 years”. But I’m left with a vague frustration with the concept feeling slippery-er than it needs to be.
Maybe one problem is that this post is called “Everybody knows”, and not “No, Everybody Doesn’t No.” So it’s harder to namedrop it in a way that solidifies the concept rather than obfuscates it. (Similar to recent troubles with “Alike Minds Think Great”, which ended up getting renamed to “Great Minds Might Not Think Alike”)
I usually refer back to it by saying that someone is claiming everybody knows, and linking the words ‘everybody knows.’ I think it’s the right title. And I find the ability to use the term everybody knows this way highly useful.
Once I got what this post was talking about, I really liked it. People linking to it made that abundantly clear (for me). But I didn’t get what the post was talking about first time I read it. I think the Cohen quote and the Dothraki saying didn’t help point me to the phenomenon the post is talking about. I might spend some time looking for an example that helps pinpoint it for me more quickly, if the post is highly voted, I think that would fix it for me.