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When I was staying in Amsterdam, I picked up this book and read it from cover-to-cover. And when I got back to the states, I read it again. I read an enormous
by bprater 18y ago
When I was staying in Amsterdam, I picked up this book and read it from cover-to-cover. And when I got back to the states, I read it again.
I read an enormous number of how-to, self-help, technical and spiritual books every year. I can easily tell the fluff from the meat. This is a book I'll keep in my library for a long time.
He talks very frankly about his successes and failures. That's hard to find in business books today, which are full on theory, but this guy backs up his missives with a $100m bank account.
Anyway, I strongly recommend this book. It's a fast read and even if you don't agree with everything he says, you'll certainly get a few good nuggets from it.
- josefresco 18y agoGuys like you are why guys that this have $100m bank accounts.
- hhm 18y agoHe already had $100m before writing the book.
- josefresco 18y agoIt's a joke, thanks for the karma hit.
- hhm 18y agoI didn't downmod you, I only replied to your comment. Anyway, talking about karma is probably just noise here.
- josefresco 18y agoIt is ;)
- gizmo 18y agoCuriously, given the points on your comment, comments about comments about karma ARE ok. I motion that ALL comments that distract by talking about karma are voted down. I guess that includes this comment about comments about karma.
- hhm 18y agoI completely agree. I didn't want to reply to karma stuff, but I did just as a personal message to the op. I thought my message was going to be scored negatively but anyway, who cares?
- derefr 18y agoI have a stronger suggestion: that any branch in the conversation tree (a post and all its replies, recursively) should be able to be marked meta or orthogonal. Comments are supposed to be rewarded with global "comment karma", I suspect, for the contribution they make to the original topic (the same one that the posted article discusses.) Comments that have nothing to do with the article subject (note that the article itself may be a horrible presentation of the subject; it is not the subject as stated by the article, but rather the subject the community extracts from the article that is the focus.) Anyway, comments (and all replies to those comments) marked orthogonal enough times by the community would have their comment karma removed, and be collapsed and perhaps restyled. To restore them, you could click on a "seperate discussion" action link on the collapsed thread, which would submit the thread as a separate story, to be voted up and down on its own, orthogonal merits (clicking it again once the story had been so submitted would vote said story up.) If that post, then, achieved a certain (low minimum) score, its posts' comment karma would be reinstated.