{"id":95,"date":"2005-10-22T21:49:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/95"},"modified":"2005-10-22T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T03:49:20","slug":"in-slight-praise-of-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/95","title":{"rendered":"In slight praise of mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2005\/10\/on_mediocrity.html\">Seth&#8217;s Blog: On Mediocrity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I agree with the spirit of this post, and specifically with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPart of the curse of Wall Street is that enough is never enough. So short-term thinking sets in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also have to put in a word for mediocrity (maybe just to be contrary :-). It comes down to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has to do with our willingness to settle for work product that just isn&#8217;t that good&#8211;at the same time we vote with our dollars to buy things and experiences that are exceptional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, have a finite number of dollars to vote with, and I&#8217;d rather have more to use for exceptional video cards, say, than exceptional check holders, so I&#8217;ll choose the mediocre holder.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think capitalism could work without having a mix of exceptional and mediocre products, so that different people can express their different values through that dollar-voting process.<\/p>\n<p>And, yada yada, you could say, &#8220;well, there&#8217;s no reason why everyone can&#8217;t just put it 110% and make everything they create of the highest caliber, and labor doesn&#8217;t cost anything, and throwing out a bruised tomato to save the appearance of the salad isn&#8217;t going to hurt anyone, and&#8230;&#8221; well, now that I think of it, I&#8217;m sure you wouldn&#8217;t say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth&#8217;s Blog: On Mediocrity While I agree with the spirit of this post, and specifically with: Part of the curse of Wall Street is that enough is never enough. So short-term thinking sets in. I also have to put in a word for mediocrity (maybe just to be contrary :-). It comes down to this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}