Comments on: Safari/discovery session: “What do you think about the internet?” http://www.alexlinsker.com/2008/04/04/safaridiscovery-session-whats-your-first-memory-of-the-internet/ Where I throw spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jenniferintan http://www.alexlinsker.com/2008/04/04/safaridiscovery-session-whats-your-first-memory-of-the-internet/#comment-6343 jenniferintan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:26:29 +0000 http://www.alexlinsker.com/2008/04/04/safaridiscovery-session-whats-your-first-memory-of-the-internet/#comment-6343 Hey, so this is good. It makes me wonder about what you do with the rather "big" and general aspect of people often not knowing what they want. For example, I used to have a lot of students come up to me and tell me they wanted this or that in a class - and maybe they DID want what they were asking for, but what they often asked for was something that would give them short term, but not long term contentment (they wanted immediate gratification and pleasure most of the time). Thus, if I were to follow their lead, I would soon have no students, as eventually they'd be bored. I wouldnt provide learning, but just fulfill "desire". I don't know how this applies, or if it applies in marketing, where selling is a different component. How to be ethical....within any realm, providing quality. Thinking out loud. :) Hey, so this is good. It makes me wonder about what you do with the rather “big” and general aspect of people often not knowing what they want. For example, I used to have a lot of students come up to me and tell me they wanted this or that in a class - and maybe they DID want what they were asking for, but what they often asked for was something that would give them short term, but not long term contentment (they wanted immediate gratification and pleasure most of the time). Thus, if I were to follow their lead, I would soon have no students, as eventually they’d be bored. I wouldnt provide learning, but just fulfill “desire”.

I don’t know how this applies, or if it applies in marketing, where selling is a different component. How to be ethical….within any realm, providing quality. Thinking out loud. :)

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