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Businessing: The Kama Sutra of Success (parody)
- petervandijck 16y agoThis is my new religion.
- donohoe 16y agoI'm gonna skip the book and wait for them to make into a movie. This has Mel Gibdon written all over it.
- joshkaufman 16y agoI thought the website was funny - then I started reading the sample. When I got to "Have lunch with every fking person," I lost it. I'm forwarding this to my editor - it's too good to not exist.
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- chaosmachine 16y agoThis might be the funniest thing I've read on HN.
- jseifer 16y agoIf it were a full book I would pay for it. If there were a donate button on the site, I would donate. The site was great but the sample was amazing, especially the chapter on agile.
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- Lorin 16y agoThis is more like a series of truths disguised as flying unicorns made of happiness and sugar. Very nice :)
- Lorin 16y agoIf anyone is looking for something similar but for general 'big' business, try to hunt down a copy of 'the art of demotivation' from despair.com
- vladimiroane 16y agoDamn. That was funny. I would buy the whole book.
- eogas 16y agoHell I'd buy it just for the "quote" on the cover.
- shrikant 16y agoFirst, I feel sorry for the world that makes me think my second point. Second, let's see how long till one of the quoted 'brands' attempts to sue. Addendum: Simply epic line: We just changed what we said because we're Agile. This book is written in Rails.
- riffraff 16y agoI would buy it, seriously
- jarin 16y agoHaha I liked "This sentence prevents a widow." I don't really consider myself a "real" designer, but if I laugh at typesetting jokes then I must be on the right track at least.
- jarin 16y agoAs a Rails developer, I loved this: "When we say Agile, we mean that all companies should be Agile. If you’re not flexible to everything and responding with Agile tactics, you’re not the best Businesser you can be. The only way to be Agile on the internet is to build a Rails application. If you’re not familiar with programming or don’t know what an application is, don’t worry. All you need to know is that you need to use Rails, and then you are very Agile. Agile means hiring developers who know Rails. Rails developers are Rockstars. Rockstars are Agile. Keith Moon, for example, was very Agile. His drum set ran on Rails 1.2 on Heroku."
- kennymeyers 16y agoThank you all, for all your horribly misguided kind words and free internet traffic.