Normal people think in shiny things, not specs
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most normal people don't think in terms of protocols and white papers and specs, most people think in terms of shiny things.
Episode 74: Confetti Canon (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:21:04 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Praising John Spurlock for building podcastsocial.org, a working comment service with a good-looking site and an API, Dave says that kind of demo breaks the chicken-and-egg problem. Most people don't think in protocols and white papers. They need something visual to see before others build their own.
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Episode 55: lightning strikes almost no one's gonna do something like that. Hello (approx., from transcript intro) 00:25:26 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
as a way to show everybody and have something to visualize and comment on
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