Of course, truly effective tea plus a well-conveyed story about its great properties will generate more sales than effective tea or a good story alone.
Sometimes not, I think. It’s almost like a measure of the efficiency / effectiveness of the given market. If the market is really good at recognizing reality, then you don’t need to tell a story. (Basic software libraries are like that: do they give the compute the right thing? If yes, then it’s good.) If the market is not at recognizing reality, then creating stories is often way cheaper than then doing the real thing. (And also transfers better across domains.)
Sometimes not, I think. It’s almost like a measure of the efficiency / effectiveness of the given market. If the market is really good at recognizing reality, then you don’t need to tell a story. (Basic software libraries are like that: do they give the compute the right thing? If yes, then it’s good.) If the market is not at recognizing reality, then creating stories is often way cheaper than then doing the real thing. (And also transfers better across domains.)
I don’t like to work with software developers who believe that just because a software package computes the right thing it’s good.
I care about many attributes of a package from it’s documentation, it’s API and it’s likely future maintanence.