<story><title>Good data scientist, bad data scientist</title><url>https://ianwhitestone.work/good-ds-bad-ds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I agree with most of what he&amp;#x27;s saying but reading the first sentence almost stopped me in my tracks when I got to &amp;quot;obsessed&amp;quot;.  I wonder when exactly it was that &amp;quot;obsessed about this&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;obsessed about that&amp;quot; became a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing.  ...it&amp;#x27;s thrown around way too much these days, and I for one think that being obsessed with anything, regardless of how positive a thing it is, always speaks to a psychology that is defective in some way or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salemh</author><text>Similar to how some companies are intent on speaking about themselves and employees as &amp;quot;family,&amp;quot; you may be having the same reaction from the word usage of &amp;quot;obsessed.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Of course, most companies say you must now be &amp;quot;obsessed&amp;quot; with customers, or quality, or some such things.&lt;p&gt;Language control in this respect seems a bit easier to understand with the phrase that became very popular for companies to try and model Apples consumers during the iPod revolution (at least how I remember it while studying a bit of Industrial psychology and Marketing &amp;#x2F; Cognitive Neuromarketing (that fad died out thankfully))&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure its been around for a while, but its been more &amp;quot;we need brand evangelist fanatic zealots&amp;quot; for the last 10-20 years.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Obsessed, evangelist, brand fanatic, turn your customers into zealots,&amp;quot; etc is also used heavily in internal company &amp;quot;values.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;*Guy Kawasaki at least helped promote the idea for other companies after he left Apple:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;the-art-of-evangelism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;the-art-of-evangelism&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Good data scientist, bad data scientist</title><url>https://ianwhitestone.work/good-ds-bad-ds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I agree with most of what he&amp;#x27;s saying but reading the first sentence almost stopped me in my tracks when I got to &amp;quot;obsessed&amp;quot;.  I wonder when exactly it was that &amp;quot;obsessed about this&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;obsessed about that&amp;quot; became a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing.  ...it&amp;#x27;s thrown around way too much these days, and I for one think that being obsessed with anything, regardless of how positive a thing it is, always speaks to a psychology that is defective in some way or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ian-whitestone</author><text>Obsessed may have been overkill :)</text></comment>