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While reading it, I was just waiting for the "buy my book for 3 easy installments of $19.95" pitch. Hmm, there's a startup idea: Ego-stroking self-help books f

• learninglisp 18y ago
  The first post on the topic was mostly negative-- with good reason. If us slacker/failure/mad-genius types want to hold on to the fiction that there's a place for us somewhere, then please back off and let us fool ourselves about it for a while. Hey... it may inspire us to a turn over a new leaf and adapt to other people's needs a little more. (Until we get distracted by something else and then start blowing everybody off again....)
  • SwellJoe 18y ago
    The first post on the topic was mostly negative-- with good reason. You consider that post negative? That might be another strange trait worth thinking about... (Like many at HN, I'm afflicted with nearly all of the traits under discussion. But I'm not of the opinion that it is due to a new magical type of brain.)
    • learninglisp 18y ago
      Trying to assimilate all of the data... trying not to jump to premature conclusions.... Trying to be clear without being overly romantic or pessimistic.... I want a Jean Piaget to work out the experiments and pin down this further....
    • swombat 18y ago
      For the record, I don't think it's a "new" type of brain. The reason I chose the "hyperbrain" moniker is purely arbitrary. I needed something to call this particular type of mind, and I don't believe there is a term that covers it at the moment. And hyperbrain sounds kinda cool ;-)