Can Looking Foolish Be the Key to Success?

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Can looking foolish be the key to success in your opinion? Share your thoughts and examples.

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Top comments (8)

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Dec 7 '23

Yes, owning "foolishness" reduces stress and fear leading to an ability to experiment without most of the consequences, this leads to increased knowledge, alternative viewpoints and a greater chance of success.

Having to "look good" and "always be right" is a chain we should want to be free from.

Calin Baenen • Dec 5 '23 • Edited

Yes.

People say the data attributes I'm using to make my CSS library look ridiculous, but I feel like they are very helpful.
Here is an example:

<header data-flow="flex-row evenly-spaced-children">
    <a>Link one</a>
    <a>Link two</a>
    <a>Link three</a>
</header>

<main>
    <p data-textstyle="b u">This text is bold and underlined.</p>
    <p data-textstyle="i o s">Italic, with an overline and a strikethrough.</p>

    <!-- "HAM" stands for "Horizontal Auto-Margins". -->
    <div data-ham>
        <!-- ... -->
    </div>
</main>

John Kerbaugh • Dec 10 '23

What's the advantage vs tailwind classes?

Calin Baenen • Dec 11 '23

You don't need to compile anything to get to CSS, you can just embed these into your HTML from the get-go.
I, personally, hate having to write in something and compile it to a form that could have already been written.

If you want to make your own CSS, and you dislike CSS as it is, then you can use Tailwind; however, the point ov this library is so you can avoid touching CSS as much as possible.
(The idea is that the library minimalizes the amount ov boilerplate you have to write by making classes for such things — for example, data-ham, horizontal auto margins, now you no longer have to write the CSS, or Tailwind, for auto-margins.)

overFlow • Dec 7 '23

people will always undermine you. So they will never see you coming. its the underpromise and over perfom thing lol.

i do not know if that is success but i do know that you will always be fighting fires because people always wanna challenge people they think they are better than...

I would rather