[HN Gopher] You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
Author : delaugust
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-04-24 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| snappr021 wrote:
| If people did not give credit where credit is due.
| DudeOpotomus wrote:
| This is well written. It also seems to describe society at large,
| especially our current society. So many things work so well, they
| become invisible. After time, people dont even realize how much
| is working behind the scenes to make everything work well and
| they assume we dont need those things.
| abtinf wrote:
| In fact, becoming known takes an enormous amount of energy
| dedicated toward that purpose.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I think that greatness of mind needs to be coupled with ambition,
| a certain level of arrogance and self-absorbtion, and a
| personality that doesn't make you a pariah.
|
| I suspect that combinations like that, are, indeed, as rare as
| hen's teeth.
|
| Many great talents probably couldn't be arsed to play the rat
| race game, and keep their domain humble, or they piss off other
| people so much, that they never get a break.
| mylons wrote:
| you can be a great <insert w/e here> and be completely unknown.
| there are a lot of niche opportunities out there. you could be
| helping michelin star restaurant owners with a new booking
| website that just charges customers on their reservation and
| literally be set for life after that interaction.
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| the last anecdote is a true story. one of the original owners of
| Alinea (Chicago) did just that and the guy who developed the site
| is quite literally set for life if he doesn't do anything else
| but also has this incredible in within the fine dining world now.
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