Dry-Swimming-Hole Divers
Do you know any such people? My daughter calls them “early adapters;” others, less charitably, “snake-oil buyers.” It has been said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” The snake-oil peddlers are looking for that “some-of-the-people” segment of the population, the “early-adapters,” the dry-swimming-hole diving people who will bite on their pitch. I can recognize these gullible marks immediately because it takes…