Comments on: Do We No Longer Care About Beauty? http://blog.simeonov.com/2007/05/17/do-we-no-longer-care-for-beauty/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JoeDuck http://blog.simeonov.com/2007/05/17/do-we-no-longer-care-for-beauty/#comment-11030 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:47:32 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/do-we-no-longer-care-for-beauty/#comment-11030 Fascinating, though my conclusion would be that people can recognize the beautiful music but prefer aptly named pop music, and they reward preferences not beauty… I’d guess his tips would have been bigger – perhaps hugely – if he’d played “turkey in the straw” and put on a farmer hat.

]]> By: jeremyliew http://blog.simeonov.com/2007/05/17/do-we-no-longer-care-for-beauty/#comment-7335 Sun, 20 May 2007 17:30:23 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/do-we-no-longer-care-for-beauty/#comment-7335 I have a different takeaway -people can recognize beauty, but they need context for their decision making mechanisms to work best (e.g. “beautiful music occurs in concert halls – this is not a concert hall, therefore I don’t need to be on the lookout for beautiful music”.

More on my thoughts on this article and the importance of context at the Lightspeed blog:

http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/more-on-the-importance-of-context/

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