“The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.” CareFunnyPayProductsJokesFolksObviousAuthenticityCompromiseIdiotThoughtfulCurrencyBlogsBlogging Author:Jason Calacanis
“Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.” MadeIndividualVisionModernProductsMembersCompromiseCommitteesAccumulationAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:John Kricfalusi
“It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."” MindDifferentDifficultProductsElementsMusicianExcitingCome UpFinishedCompromiseTrust Me Author:John Dyer Baizley
“My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.” IfsFeelsMy OwnHonestProductsStandardsCompromise Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.” WorldYearsFirstsMadeRealHelpingUseHomeHandsBigsWishProductsAverageAccessIncomeCompromiseConsumersParksReal WorldPrivilegedCeoTrailersTrailer ParkPrivileged Life Author:Michael J. Silverstein