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Making stuff suck to make it better is a pretty brilliant way of looking at things.

Sure, most of us then don't consider the result to suck, but it actually does. And we do this a lot.

Some more examples from the top of my head:

- making landing suck for fun --> skydiving

- making sitting suck --> for better posture

- making reading in light suck [iPad/etc] --> for better contrast

- making privacy suck --> to get 500M users

- making security suck --> to gain a monopoly

Yep, pretty brilliant. Let's all start making things that suck! It's obviously working.



Making music suck --> alternative rock

I think this is related to the "ugly for authenticity" point in the article.




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