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> and sell it to schlubby dads too indebted to buy a midlife crisis car and too unattractive to have an affair. Whilst that was amusing in a bitchy kind of way
by andybak 10y ago
> and sell it to schlubby dads too indebted to buy a midlife crisis car and too unattractive to have an affair.
Whilst that was amusing in a bitchy kind of way, it rather meant I stopped listening to anything said after that point.
We're not dealing with a someone capable of great insight - or at least we're not dealing with someone who values insight over snark.
EDIT - I read it to the end and I'm slightly more forgiving. I came to understand the intent a bit more. I initially came to it expecting something less literary/stand up comedy and took it in the wrong context.
- Apocryphon 10y agoSome alternative writings (for all HN readers) with the same sentiment but in different tones than snark: Melancholic wistfulness https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370776 Kafka by way of Mike Judge https://www.metafilter.com/122529/Welcome-to-San-Francisco-Now-what-the-hell-are-you-doing-here#4716703 https://www.metafilter.com/122529/Welcome-to-San-Francisco-N...
- ragazzina 10y ago>Kafka by way of Mike Judge https://www.metafilter.com/122529/Welcome-to-San-Francisco-N.. https://www.metafilter.com/122529/Welcome-to-San-Francisco-N.... This was written by someone who doesn't know how human interaction works. I have been in this situation twice. 2 years ago, I have lived in the same building as 20 other colleagues for 4 months. Now I am living in another city, but where most of the people I know and interact with in my free time are from work. Both of the time, me and my coworkers played football/basketball together, barbecued in the woods, went to the lake/beach, met for pizza-and-movie, partied almost every week and even planned trips out of the country together. We almost never talk about work, and surely not more than I talk about work with other friends.
- chaostheory 10y agoYeah, his writing style reminds me of Ted Dziuba's past posts. More people should read Arrington's post which has a classic Teddy Roosevelt snippet: https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/12/the-man-in-the-arena/ https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/12/the-man-in-the-arena/ My memory may be hazy, but I vaguely remember him during saying something similar onstage during a past YC Startup School.
- Domenic_S 10y agoMan, I miss Ted's old posts!
- outworlder 10y agoWow, I stopped reading to check this thread at exactly that point.