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This guy just uses these puff pieces to get himself more limelight/business. As a self-professed former pop-music manager, he certainly knows how to market hims

This guy just uses these puff pieces to get himself more limelight/business. As a self-professed former pop-music manager, he certainly knows how to market himself. I've seen articles with him as the subject before topping HN in years past, foreboding all sorts of doom and gloom which, of course, never happened.

throwanem 7y ago
Neither has a moment like the present one, at any time in living memory. Jokes about accurately predicting 200 of the last 2 recessions aside, it seems like it might legitimately be that dude's time to shine.
randycupertino 7y ago
> This guy just uses these puff pieces to get himself more limelight/business. As a self-professed former pop-music manager, he certainly knows how to market himself. I used to work with this nurse who wasn't very good at his job and most people didn't like working with him. He hired a PR agency and suddenly was being highlighted in all these news articles as a medical expert/color commentary and getting listed on "Top Emergency Nurse" lists. He flew to various environmental disasters to help out but they were mainly just ego trips to get in the news. For example when there was an avalanche on Everest and many people died, he took a month off work and flew there to basically screw around "volunteering." He would come back and post the articles about himself on our bulletin board in the breakroom. He got let go after having a third affair with a coworker and during a messy breakup she complained that he played porn on his computer during a work meeting.
- ApolloRising 7y ago
  How does a nurse afford a PR agency?
  - randycupertino 7y ago
    Our nurses start at $180k, it varies by hospital and unit.
    - jdhn 7y ago
      Start at $180k? Are these nurses who specialize in some esoteric medical procedure, or just "run of the mill" nurses who don't specialize in anything?
      - Hydraulix989 7y ago
        Well, they're nurses in one of the highest COL, highest taxed locations in the US (based on the "Cupertino" in his username) where median one-bedroom rent is over $3,000 and the "poverty line" is drawn at $100k per year income.
- _curious_ 7y ago
  How is this relevant?

throwanem 7y ago

Neither has a moment like the present one, at any time in living memory. Jokes about accurately predicting 200 of the last 2 recessions aside, it seems like it might legitimately be that dude's time to shine.

randycupertino 7y ago

> This guy just uses these puff pieces to get himself more limelight/business. As a self-professed former pop-music manager, he certainly knows how to market himself. I used to work with this nurse who wasn't very good at his job and most people didn't like working with him. He hired a PR agency and suddenly was being highlighted in all these news articles as a medical expert/color commentary and getting listed on "Top Emergency Nurse" lists. He flew to various environmental disasters to help out but they were mainly just ego trips to get in the news. For example when there was an avalanche on Everest and many people died, he took a month off work and flew there to basically screw around "volunteering." He would come back and post the articles about himself on our bulletin board in the breakroom. He got let go after having a third affair with a coworker and during a messy breakup she complained that he played porn on his computer during a work meeting.

ApolloRising 7y ago
How does a nurse afford a PR agency?
- randycupertino 7y ago
  Our nurses start at $180k, it varies by hospital and unit.
  - jdhn 7y ago
    Start at $180k? Are these nurses who specialize in some esoteric medical procedure, or just "run of the mill" nurses who don't specialize in anything?
    - Hydraulix989 7y ago
      Well, they're nurses in one of the highest COL, highest taxed locations in the US (based on the "Cupertino" in his username) where median one-bedroom rent is over $3,000 and the "poverty line" is drawn at $100k per year income.
_curious_ 7y ago
How is this relevant?