[Havoc]

Something about the authors writing style just rubs me the wrong way. Kinda like an advert that was carefully crafted by a team with the sole purpose of triggering a specific emotion.

That being said, I did actually learn something from that wall of text: The fact that Glass needs to be specifically fitted to the wearer is definitely problematic. I'm curious how G will work around that from a logistical PoV.

[kordless]

It's Scoble. I guarantee he's not carefully crafting anything other than his own thoughts. I appreciate the fact he calls out his emotions in his posts - why blame him for your own emotional response to reading it?

[Havoc]

>I guarantee he's not carefully crafting anything other than his own thoughts.

With ~5 mil readers I suspect he is indeed taking the reader's potential reaction into account and adjusting his writing accordingly.

>why blame him for your own emotional response to reading it

I was commenting on the impression that it create rather than blaming anyone for anything.

[SimHacker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_charm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_branding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_capital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingratiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation

[kordless]

I sort of agree with you here. If anything, he's a nexus of reader's potential reactions. Such is his nature!

[easong]

I'm in a Chinese airport minus VPN, so I can't read the article to see what he means by fitting it - but in my experience it takes <20 seconds to adjust the nosepiece for a new person. Very small problem compared to the general issue of looking like a cyborg, IMO.

[jfoster]

That was the one bit of the post that I didn't understand. Google is now shipping Glass to Explorers without them meeting Google employees. Given that, it seems the custom fitting can't be so essential.