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  1. AJ says:

    an awesome and a lot of “content” write… this can be nothing other than the truth. I have observed life in a manner I know and I couldn't agree more with these thoughts.

    Thanks,
    AJ

  2. Hang says:

    Thanks for the reference Charlie, very interesting & relevant stuff.

  3. naveen says:

    just came across this blog..havent read much..but liked the theory of societies adopting innovation using the paperclip model. ..would like to read such analysis and theories.
    good work..
    -Naveen

  4. anand says:

    What we call adulthood is converting a person passionate about everything to a person passionate about nothing.

  5. Arun says:

    What an awesome article! Fantastic analysis.

  6. Bheema V. says:

    9 comments? What is the conversion rate?

    And two new comments within the day, after all this time. Who would have thought? Did someone link in recently?

  7. Aniruddha says:

    Wow, simply amazing analysis. It actually gave me a new look towards Life. Couldn't resist referring this one on my blog – http://aniruddhasblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/...
    I am indeed the 3rd Category and very much proud about it. And yes, now I can tell people that I am very much focused in Life, but towards many things. ;)

  8. Alan says:

    The ego dilemma article – perhaps a case of projection?

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  10. abdusalaam says:

    Just landed here via a link on http://indiauncut.com/ to read the entire post on three types of passion, which by the way is an awesome post. Looking around to see if I should bookmark this blog for regular read. Haven't decided yet.

    Oh and I”m okay with ACLU.

    Abdu
    http://abdusalaam.blogspot.com

  11. abdusalaam says:

    That's a very smart thing to say, which makes me afraid to say anything more.

  12. Thanx for this :)
    Its all about matching enthusiasm (passion)
    I am Cat-3, now I need find out how to concentrate :)

  13. Sowmya Bharadwaj says:

    I read about the three kinds of passion from a link that was sent to my mail by a CSR link that i follow. Its a great blog!!

  14. sharath_sridhar says:

    Hi,

    I completely agree with you when you say the User experience is absolutely not the greatest with iPhone (iTunes combined) .. I recently wrote about a dilemma in the interface itself in the primary feature of iPhone (or any phone for that matter) – receiving a call.
    link is here http://sharath-sridhar.blogspot.com/2009/03/app...

  15. Carter says:

    This is such a great point, Hang. Not only does it change the tone of the conversation, but it re-orients the culture of your whole team away from one of 'techie condescension' towards a culture of genuine care for the user. It's so weird how many people spend their lives building software for people who they think are idiots…

  16. Gauri says:

    When I look at the comments here, I realize that there's a bit of prejudice we all subscribe to. No one admits to being the first type:)

  17. Raam Dev says:

    This same thought occurred to me when I noticed the high number of people who said they were of Type 3.

    But then I realized that it makes total sense. Here's why:

    Type 1: “Those who have a passion for nothing” are unlikely to read a post on “Three types of passion”.

    Type 2: “Those who have a passion for one thing” are not as likely to be interested in an article on “three types of passion” and are less likely to find such an article.

    Type 3: “Those who have a passion for everything” are most likely to be searching for some type of order — some type of understanding about why they're passionate about so many things. They would probably find an article titled “three types of passion” quite intriguing. These types are also most likely to be on Twitter and other social networking sites searching for information and reading things that may only be of passing interest, thereby increasing their chances of finding this article.

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  19. thisisananth says:

    superb post.. ofcourse i am third type

  20. thisisananth says:

    A big question.. !!!

  21. bootload says:

    “… This is, perhaps, why the internet is so full of assholes who think they’re the smartest person in the room. If you have a look at the comment section of almost any piece of content, at least half the comments tend to be some snide implication that the commenter is smarter than the author. …”

    I won't say I'm particularly smart, but I tend to agree with your point on commentators and comments: cf ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151777

    How do you limit the “sig to noise” and still allow comments?

  22. Onetimer says:

    very interesting….but my opinion on this…..i think most people would put themselves in the third category…..even looking at the comments below most seem firmly rooted in category 3….

  23. Carter says:

    Hang, this is weird. It seems like our blog posts overlapped again. This is an awesome post. But what's interesting is that about a month ago I wrote my first blog post which argues that the path to true happiness lies in simulated annealing. I also include an explanation of simulated annealing and how it can be applied to achieving happiness. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

    http://www.astatespacetraveler.com/a-mathematic...

  24. Hang says:

    Hi Onetimer,

    Raam earlier in the comments has he right answer I think. This is a blog post that Type 3 people are more likely to find and so there is the illusion that there are more type 3 people out there. As a guess, I would say in real life, it's probably 60% type 1, 30% type 2 & 10% type 3.

  25. Mayuri says:

    You've managed to express a very elaborate idea in a catch phrase :)
    Loved the post.

    PS: Why is recording one's errors “a common awful idea.” ?
    It saves time and resources for anyone else trying the same thing a few years later!
    In fact, this is one of the most common practices in science!

  26. Hang says:

    Can you point me to a repository of failed ideas? An encyclopedia of error? That it doesn't exist is proof that is one of those unoriginal & wrong things that people try & fail to create again & again.

  27. Mayuri says:

    There is no repository because mistakes are not going to be glorified..but they are recorded and difficult to find. Recording mistakes is not an awful idea.

    A famous example would be the two proposed models for structure of the Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
    We all now know that the DNA is a double helix as what was suggested by Watson and Crick in their publication (http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollec...)

    However, there is available information about the triple helix model proposed by Pauling and Corey. http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollec...

    It gives a perspective about how data was interpreted at the time and saves anyone new from coming to the same wrong conclusion.

  28. Basu says:

    In science (elsewhere too?) “right” and “wrong” are not absolute qualities. They change with time. What was right once, e.g. Newton's laws, can be replaced by something more right, e.g. Relativistic Dynamics a la Einstein. As a result, the entire body of scientific literature is a mish-mash of right and wrong. Ideas are correct in some limited way. And yes, all those papers can be thought to be an ever increasing encyclopedia of errors.

  29. Hang says:

    I was probably a bit unclear in my post. The phenomena I was talking about was the one where people first realize that there's a bias against wrong ideas and think “well, I'm going to *fix* this once and for all and it will be a great boon to society and bootstrap progress to the next level because never again will people fail to aware of wrong ideas again”.

    This is a supreme irony because they are falling into the exact same trap that they were just made aware of. They're walking over the corpses of a thousand other people who tried the exact same thing after the exact same realization and there's something both deeply funny and deeply sad about this that I couldn't resist mentioning.

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  31. stevelewis says:

    Hang,
    We've only met a few times (via Jim Henderson), but I wanted to drop a brief note here. I'm sorry the startup didn't play out the way you had hoped – I've been through the same kind of experience myself. Knowing when to pull the plug and move on is really tough. But now that you've done that, and have set a new direction, I truly hope that you're able to quickly find a great fit with a company, and bring value, creativity, and forward thinking to their vision.

    All the best to you.

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