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news.ycombinator.com, the incubator, has this site where people, nerds, talk about stuff
Your tone over the word 'nerds' (and the entire 30 seconds around it) is exactly why you get flamed. Maybe if you chill with the irrelevant bullshit, maintain your objectivity and do your job (in this case, focus on the interview), ppl would respect you.
P.S. Great guest this week.
The way you present your ideas is as important as the ideas themselves if you want to reach an audience.
And as far as respect goes, I think the fact that Jason speaks his mind so freely and offends people (like you!) all the time makes him more worthy of respect.
From people like you perhaps. In which case, knock yourself out.
I do agree that TWIST maintains a high quality of guests tho.
Jason is a true salesman. He knows how to get people's attention. Controversy is great in helping him just do that. But see through that (obvious) persona; he has incredible insight to share based on his years of experience as entrepreneur. He loves what he does, although he is not directly a hacker, he still is an entrepreneur. One that is willing to share everything he knows and is actively helping the community. He can call me a nerd all day for that.
(A rather uncool admission, I've been doing some research and polling on this lately for non-disclosable reasons. An interesting and rather ambivalent discussion of nerd vs geek is given in the preface of Rands' "Being Geek" - for those who are interested. Given your significant audience, though, it'd be interesting if you could poll them on it too ;-))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJAkjF9qnY#t=1h14m43s
Jason main point is that its a bad idea because facebook has a history stealing good ideas.
I disagree, not that they haven't done that or that there aren't other concerns, like facebook or twitter changing there platform policies. But worrying about any competitor stealing your idea is often a premature concern when you have other things to think about like whether you have a good idea, can you execute well on that idea, how will you get distribution and will people use it.
As Steve blank would say, "You should be so lucky to get to a size that you have a competitor thinking about you".
You should watch this clip Jason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USgPkfsVJM#t=25m55s
and thanks for TWiST, I enjoy it alot.