The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex - Adobe 99U
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Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.
As editor of 99U, my inbox is (thankfully) filled with pitches of all kinds. Mainly, writers who’d like to contribute to this site and speakers who’d like to throw their hat in the ring for our yearly 99U Conference. And most times, when we dig deeper into a specific person’s pitch, his or her purported authority is more of a facade to make them appear authoritative — and any ideas are actually a mosaic of people also trying to appear authoritative in a disconcerting house of cards. They are what philosopher Harry Frankfurt would call “bullshitters.” Those that are giving advice for the…
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