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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 July 2009 11:48:13PM 3 points [-]

Huh?!? Seriously, marketing seems sleezy to you but PUA doesn't? To each his own I guess.
I really agree with pjeby below though.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 22 July 2009 10:03:27AM *  0 points [-]

[Cousin It writes] Your mention of marketing gave me an instant "ick, sleazy" reaction. Does Alicorn feel the same way every time she sees mentions of PUA? If so, I can finally understand where she's coming from!

Huh?!? Seriously, marketing seems sleezy to you but PUA doesn't? To each his own I guess.

Cousin It lives in Moscow, where people tend to have a different take on free-market institutions such as speculators, middlemen and (as now appears likely) marketing.

Comment author: cousin_it 22 July 2009 10:32:08AM *  1 point [-]

Nah, I like free markets. My negative impression is more of an intellectual aversion to the output of Western marketing gurus like Seth Godin.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 22 July 2009 11:02:47AM 0 points [-]

Cousin It has "an intellectual aversion to the output of Western marketing gurus like Seth Godin".

Godin seems pretty icky to me too. [Paul Hawken's book Growing a Business][1] had some nice insights into marketing.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 22 July 2009 08:31:03PM 0 points [-]

I recently unsubsribed from Godin's feed after a sequence of particularly atrocious posts.

clientk writes about marketing, but in a pleasant and often insightful manner.

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