Comments on: Consistency Is Good http://zanshin.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fzanshin.net%2F2008%2F04%2F04%2Fconsistency-is-good%2F&seed_title=Consistency+Is+Good because not enough websites start with the letter "Z" Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Brian York http://zanshin.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fzanshin.net%2F2008%2F04%2F04%2Fconsistency-is-good%2F&seed_title=Consistency+Is+Good#comment-699 Brian York Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:12:12 +0000 http://zanshin.net/?p=1451#comment-699 I expect it's probably a combination of both effects, starting with a fairly open set of possibilities, and then being nudged by a combination of what customers liked (or expected) to eat, and what the owners found easy/cheap/whatever to prepare. Of course consistency probably plays a big role now, as you said, and finding the point at which consistency became a big factor would probably be interesting. Incidentally (moving to a completely different topic), I've been a subscriber here for a month or two (I was sent your way from Shawn Blanc's blog, and what I read here looked interesting enough to subscribe to), and I wanted to mention that this has become one of my most frequently read sites. You write about a wide variety of things here, but the content is always both well-written and interesting, and I'd just like to thank you for your writing. I expect it’s probably a combination of both effects, starting with a fairly open set of possibilities, and then being nudged by a combination of what customers liked (or expected) to eat, and what the owners found easy/cheap/whatever to prepare. Of course consistency probably plays a big role now, as you said, and finding the point at which consistency became a big factor would probably be interesting.

Incidentally (moving to a completely different topic), I’ve been a subscriber here for a month or two (I was sent your way from Shawn Blanc’s blog, and what I read here looked interesting enough to subscribe to), and I wanted to mention that this has become one of my most frequently read sites. You write about a wide variety of things here, but the content is always both well-written and interesting, and I’d just like to thank you for your writing.

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