{"id":501,"date":"2009-11-14T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-11-14T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T19:07:09","slug":"you-cant-please-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/you-cant-please-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Please Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I did a project years ago called the &#8220;Dollar Dudes&#8221;, where <strong>we got on the subway with a bucket of dollar bills and announced that we were in the lucky &#8220;Dollar Train&#8221; and that everyone gets a dollar<\/strong>. Most everyone was delighted (at both the dollar and the ridiculousness of it all) <strong>but one guy refused to take the money and snapped at me<\/strong>. I was bummed out to get that reaction, but at the end of the day I didn&#8217;t feel that one guy getting irritated made the whole project a failure. The other 40 people had fun. I imagine the type of person who gets mad when offered a dollar by a stranger probably gets mad quite a bit throughout his day. I&#8217;m not trying or pretending to please every single person we encounter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/paulftompkins.com\/blog_detail.php?id=46\">Charlie Todd<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/improveverywhere.com\/\">Improv Everywhere<\/a> fame)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, handing out a bucket of money really does upset someone. You have no chance of pleasing everyone. Make tradeoffs accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a project years ago called the &#8220;Dollar Dudes&#8221;, where we got on the subway with a bucket of dollar bills and announced that we were in the lucky &#8220;Dollar Train&#8221; and that everyone gets a dollar. Most everyone was delighted (at both the dollar and the ridiculousness of it all) but one guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,24,10,8],"tags":[84,537,538,58],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-programming","category-quotes","category-tips","category-usability","tag-business","tag-charlie-todd","tag-compromises","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}