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How to Change Someone's Mind

16 points by mcxx 18y ago

Diogenes 18y ago
Marketing? How to win friends and influence people? What's next on HN, dating advice? No, scratch that. It'll be how to 'hack' the perceptions of people so you can take advantage of them. I expect to see spam for Mystery Method here in short order. Swiftly followed by NLP and hypnosis courses. Guy Kawasaki is undoubtedly a very bright individual, and I have even personally benefited from some of the advice given in his writings. But...not this. Not here.
- eugenejen 18y ago
  I actually went to the site the read it. It is interesting. I saw the item about friendship. and it is in fact relies on citations from psychology to explain why people form friendships. Then it suggest if the observation from psychology is correct, then how can readers to use it as a double edge sword. Sometime I feel even I know how to write code and build stuffs, but if I need to build something people wants, I need to gain insight into human psychology.
  - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    That may be, but this isn't the place.
    - akd 18y ago
      Who made you the arbiter of taste and decorum on this board? This is a user-driven website; what is popular is what we want to be popular. Of course PG can do things like block Valleywag but if he gets too cavalier about it the users will go elsewhere.
      - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
        earning the right to vote made me an arbiter of taste. this post is a link to blog post that is just a collection of links to actual content. if one of those links contain an interesting proposition and research to support it, well then that might pique my intellectual curiosity.
brianlash 18y ago
On a related note, what's happened to Guy's site? There was a time I treated it as a reference for its useful advice on pitching VC's, public speaking, avoiding stupid mistakes... today it's all short-form, link-heavy posts, at least half of which are explicit self promotion. I like Guy, but it's sad to see the way things have changed. Where's the meat?
- aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  steak/sizzle
yangyang42 18y ago
Theories about persuasion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249087

16 points by mcxx 18y ago

Marketing? How to win friends and influence people? What's next on HN, dating advice? No, scratch that. It'll be how to 'hack' the perceptions of people so you can take advantage of them. I expect to see spam for Mystery Method here in short order. Swiftly followed by NLP and hypnosis courses. Guy Kawasaki is undoubtedly a very bright individual, and I have even personally benefited from some of the advice given in his writings. But...not this. Not here.

eugenejen 18y ago
I actually went to the site the read it. It is interesting. I saw the item about friendship. and it is in fact relies on citations from psychology to explain why people form friendships. Then it suggest if the observation from psychology is correct, then how can readers to use it as a double edge sword. Sometime I feel even I know how to write code and build stuffs, but if I need to build something people wants, I need to gain insight into human psychology.
- aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  That may be, but this isn't the place.
  - akd 18y ago
    Who made you the arbiter of taste and decorum on this board? This is a user-driven website; what is popular is what we want to be popular. Of course PG can do things like block Valleywag but if he gets too cavalier about it the users will go elsewhere.
    - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
      earning the right to vote made me an arbiter of taste. this post is a link to blog post that is just a collection of links to actual content. if one of those links contain an interesting proposition and research to support it, well then that might pique my intellectual curiosity.

brianlash 18y ago

On a related note, what's happened to Guy's site? There was a time I treated it as a reference for its useful advice on pitching VC's, public speaking, avoiding stupid mistakes... today it's all short-form, link-heavy posts, at least half of which are explicit self promotion. I like Guy, but it's sad to see the way things have changed. Where's the meat?

aaronblohowiak 18y ago
steak/sizzle

yangyang42 18y ago

Theories about persuasion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249087