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I'm 2:40 in and he invents the word "prescriptionize" instead of using the perfectly useful "prescribe". My gut is telling me this is likely to be a bullshit se
by tovej 6y ago
I'm 2:40 in and he invents the word "prescriptionize" instead of using the perfectly useful "prescribe". My gut is telling me this is likely to be a bullshit self-help lecture.
- trynton 6y ago@tovej: I concur, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
- vishnumohandas 6y agoYou should start a religion. :)
- bestowingvirtue 6y agoI believe it refers to the process of generating prescriptions and on a deeper level untethering away from the corrosive nature of words that already socially abstract a certain behavior. For words and reality interact much like the stomach and stomach acid.
- tovej 6y agoNo, he really does speak like an undergraduate that doesn't have much to say about a subject but has to write a 10 page essay on it. As someone who writes academic texts, this is painful to listen to. I understand every word, but quite often the words are simply badly chosen. They are more difficult words than necessary, and they often mean the wrong thing. He doesn't even seem to understand the words and phrases he's using. He talks like someone who wants to __seem__ smart. The whole talk's been stretched out, muddied, and fed through several thesauri.
- aryamaan 6y agoCare to talk about these things with some examples? My gullible brain thinks that he has something valuable to say and that requires more efforts from my side to extract that. I feel same from reading his books too like.
- inakarmacoma 6y agoHonest question, do you have any direct or indirect relationship with the speaker/author, closer than the average HN reader?
- aryamaan 6y agoWell, I find this question... Interesting. Why do you ask? No, I don't have any different relationship with Kapil Gupta but I did feel that some of his points (in this talk and from books) hit the chords. Specifically for the problem part but for solutions, I feel he uses mystic language and don't leave me any wiser.
- tovej 6y agoThe main point of this discussion seems to be the old "don't concern yourself with material things"-spiel. And I agree with the general idea. I also agree that to succeed, you can't just follow rules of thumb blindly, you need to understand your field of work. I don't really take issue with the content, but there's not much of it and he's not very efficient at communicating it. Examples: When trying to say "don't let the means become an end" he uses the 5-dollar word "intermediary", which typically means a person, instead of the simple "means". He says "my speech is fraught with peril" instead of "If you don't listen carefully you might misunderstand". He says "the solution isn't the solution, the problem is the solution" instead of "There is no arbitrary solution that's applicable to all problems". He's really just paraphrasing common aphorisms with bigger words or wrapping them in koan-like phrasing. I think that's why he sounds appealing. He's telling us what we already know, but in grandiose terms.
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- beaconstudios 6y agoI think he means "formalise a rule of thumb", and in my mind "prescriptionise" just sounds better for that is case than "prescribe". The "ise/ize" suffix is usually used for a transformation of the subject, which is appropriate in this case, even if its a made up word.
- tovej 6y ago"Formalize a rule of thumb" is one of the definitions of "prescribe"
- beaconstudios 6y agoI know but its most common use is to tell someone to do something. When a word doesn't feel right in context, sometimes people make up a word using the syntactic rules that feel more correct. Same story with "solutionise", a word I hear semi often in industry that's just when people don't want to use the word "solve" for the process of solving because it's most associated with the completion of said process.
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