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"Thanks," he said in the small, awkward voice of someone who'd never quite figured out how to take a compliment like that gracefully.
by Eliezer 16y ago
"Thanks," he said in the small, awkward voice of someone who'd never quite figured out how to take a compliment like that gracefully.
- Alex3917 16y agoIt strikes me as slightly ironic that this book is so popular here. After all, it's in praise of rationality, whereas HN is a community of entrepreneurs; A profession where the odds against you are so great that you almost couldn't get out of bed in the morning without delusions of grandeur, or at least a healthy dose of narcissism.
- Eliezer 16y agoRight, and the main character of this story never faces heavy odds, nor tries to do anything ambitious, and nobody in his universe ever accused him of having delusions of grandeur... I gotta ask here, have you read up to Chapter 5?
- Alex3917 16y agoNope, didn't read it. I didn't realize the book touched on this, though it wasn't meant as a criticism of the book (or HN) anyway.