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Seriously? Some guy brags about how he wasted a whole day arguing with some rude dude, who randomly emailed him, because he didn't want to read his essays as he
by krick 11y ago
Seriously? Some guy brags about how he wasted a whole day arguing with some rude dude, who randomly emailed him, because he didn't want to read his essays as he was too busy? I guess I'm much more disgusted by Jeff, than by that Alan. I mean, even if I would do something like that, there's no way I would be so proud of myself to make a blogpost about it.
I'm honestly surprised 40 people in 2 hours found it worthy of HN frontpage.
- elmin 11y agoHe's a writer. He used this situation to write an essay examining the literary industry. Like all good writing, there are many valuable things which could be taken from his (well executed) writing. Personally, I found some interesting parallels in how the venture capital industry works, and it helped me to conceptialize how those concepts extent into other fields. It was written as a blog post because we were the true audience, not Alan.
- fisherjeff 11y agoPersonally, I upvoted it because I think it very succinctly highlights the importance of community in a lot of disciplines. Alan wants to bypass all the long-term give-and-take investment in the writing community and somehow still become well-respected and famous within that same community. I think we've all come across those types.
- dclowd9901 11y agoSo this is a general treatise on how to deal with people we don't understand? Through a mocking, pandering tone, while reminding those who were not fortunate enough to to simply fall into friendship with me that other people have interesting lies? Alan has problems, but Jeff is a dick.
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