Jimmy Wales

Unlike, say, Grokopedia, where they're trying to write the encyclopedia from scratch using, yeah, that's not going to be great.

One of the ones that I've always found interesting and amusing is there's an article in Wikipedia called Inherently Funny Words.

Yeah, the great story about it is there was a moment in time when it almost got deleted because it had become kind of a dumping ground in the early days.

Like people just...

like go by and just add some word they thought it sounded funny no sources and all that and so somebody's like oh this is nonsense like people are just writing random words and that's not that's not and and so it they nominated for deletion then we have a whole process and somebody's like wait wait wait hold on a second this is actually a legitimate concept right in the theory of humor and a lot of famous comedians and humorists have talked about it and like they went through and like rigorously sourced it all and uh it became quite a good article yeah

The only real casualty to this, there used to be a picture.

It was a cow with horns like strapped to its head with a rope.

And it was just like a funny picture.

And then the caption was very dry humor.

It just said, according to some, cow is an inherently funny word.

I don't know why I think that's so funny, but I loved it, and it had to go because there was no source.

Yeah.

That is kind of it.

I mean, it didn't really work.

You smiled a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, no, I think inherently funny, so part of the theory is, like,

Words with a G, like yogurt, are funnier than other words without a G. The theory for comedians is like, you've written this great joke, and if the punchline is an inherently funny word, it just hits harder somehow.

Yeah, I mean, I think I have a few bits of advice and most of them are quite standard.

So I'm just repeating cliches, but I actually believe them.

So one is just get started, you know, so read up on the lean startup methodology.