Comments on: frauds? http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/04/20/frauds.html Economic Sociology from the Ground Up Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay Livingston http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/04/20/frauds.html#comment-282 Jay Livingston Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:32:30 +0000 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/?p=597#comment-282 I feel like a fraud most of the time, so blogging is nothing special. In fact, as Brayden says, it helps dispel the fraud idea, especially if you fool yourself into thinking that posting to your blog is like publishing. After all, it is publishing (making public) in some sense. So you think: this is published, it must be O.K., and I wrote it, so maybe I'm not such a fraud. Then, after you "publish" it, nobody says, "This is the most uninformed piece of garbage anybody has ever written." So you can continue to think, maybe it is O.K. That's why I see blogging as this wonderful vehicle for self-deception. But what do I know? I'm a fraud. I feel like a fraud most of the time, so blogging is nothing special. In fact, as Brayden says, it helps dispel the fraud idea, especially if you fool yourself into thinking that posting to your blog is like publishing. After all, it is publishing (making public) in some sense. So you think: this is published, it must be O.K., and I wrote it, so maybe I’m not such a fraud. Then, after you “publish” it, nobody says, “This is the most uninformed piece of garbage anybody has ever written.” So you can continue to think, maybe it is O.K.

That’s why I see blogging as this wonderful vehicle for self-deception. But what do I know? I’m a fraud.

]]> By: brayden http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/04/20/frauds.html#comment-281 brayden Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:07:49 +0000 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/?p=597#comment-281 I think all of us have that feeling at some points during our career. For me it usually seeps in when I'm about to do something new, and the feeling usually goes away after I've had some experience with the new thing. I think blogging has helped in that respect. By forcing myself out on the stage, I'm actually compelled to talk about what I know (or think I know) and communicate those ideas in a straightforward way. The mere act of hearing or reading my expressed thoughts helps me to realize that I do have something worthwhile to contribute. I guess that's one reason that blogging is a productive format for me. Ask me tomorrow though and I may have a different answer. I think all of us have that feeling at some points during our career. For me it usually seeps in when I’m about to do something new, and the feeling usually goes away after I’ve had some experience with the new thing. I think blogging has helped in that respect. By forcing myself out on the stage, I’m actually compelled to talk about what I know (or think I know) and communicate those ideas in a straightforward way. The mere act of hearing or reading my expressed thoughts helps me to realize that I do have something worthwhile to contribute. I guess that’s one reason that blogging is a productive format for me.

Ask me tomorrow though and I may have a different answer.

]]> By: Peter http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/04/20/frauds.html#comment-280 Peter Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:35:44 +0000 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/?p=597#comment-280 No, for good and bad I haven't read Conley. It's more about getting into blogging, that one of the bars is the feeling that you have nothing to say, or worse, that what you might say would reveal you as a fraud. My point was that this is a common feeling, but maybe not. No, for good and bad I haven’t read Conley. It’s more about getting into blogging, that one of the bars is the feeling that you have nothing to say, or worse, that what you might say would reveal you as a fraud. My point was that this is a common feeling, but maybe not.

]]> By: SocProf http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/04/20/frauds.html#comment-279 SocProf Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:24:14 +0000 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/?p=597#comment-279 Uh oh... did someone just read Dalton Conley's Elsewhere, USA... because he makes a big deal out of that (without much evidence, I might add). Uh oh… did someone just read Dalton Conley’s Elsewhere, USA… because he makes a big deal out of that (without much evidence, I might add).

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