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Nice excerpt from his book "Hard things about hard things" - can absolutely recommend it.
by philippz 10y ago
Nice excerpt from his book "Hard things about hard things" - can absolutely recommend it.
- mi100hael 10y agoI really struggled to get through it. There's something about the rich guy from England now living in SF who went to Columbia using phrases like "oh snap" and quoting Public Enemy that just feels fake and obnoxious.
- philippz 10y agoI agree. But i think it was not meant to be read like a roman rather than a reference book. :) Which makes it hard to read it like roman - storyline missing.
- mkmk 10y agoYou might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend). You probably mean to use the word 'novel.'
- the_watcher 10y agoThanks for pointing this out. The parent comment suddenly makes sense.
- mason55 10y ago> You might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend What is the source language?
- gukov 10y agoCould be Russian.
- kennywinker 10y agofrench, maybe others
- greenyoda 10y agoAnd English borrowed the term roman à clef from French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef
- sebiol 10y agoGerman has that word.
- derefr 10y agoI know it's in Japanese, and according to my EN-JP dictionary they got it from British English at some point. Maybe it's just archaic English rather than false English?
- philippz 10y agoI'm German.
- philippz 10y agoAh dammn it.. you got me! :D Thanks!
- stumblers 10y agoDitto, I also struggled with it. I really, really didn't like the book (but really wanted to). Since then he's a standing example for my own ad hominem thinking, as in I have to keep reminding myself to separate the person from the point they're trying to make. Embarrassed to say I've never met him but can't stand him.