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One of my favorite genres of HN posts is the "hey I'm 25 and got into a FAANG, lemme tell ya about life" posts. It's second only to my all time favorite of "I

One of my favorite genres of HN posts is the "hey I'm 25 and got into a FAANG, lemme tell ya about life" posts. It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post. Only in this industry can people lack the self-awareness and realization that nobody cares.

bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
There are plenty of other industries where lack of the realization that nobody cares is front and center.
- coldtea 5y ago
  I came to write something similar, about the influencers, fashion, and celebrity gossip industries... but then it occured to me that there, people, sadly, do care...
  - WJW 5y ago
    Do they though? In most of those scenes 99% of the audience is other, less-famous starlets who want to improve their status by being seen in connection <big shot name in the respective industry>. They don't care at all about what the big shot is actually doing or saying.
    - coldtea 5y ago
      Huh? You must have some other case in mind. The audience for "celebrity gossip" is billions of people. The audience for fashion (and related magazines) too. And the audience for influencers is tons of people who are not influencers and rarely any "less-famous starlets".
BoysenberryPi 5y ago
> It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post. As a counterpoint, one of my genuinely favorite post is Michael Lynchs "Why I left Google" post and his yearly solo developer updates. A lot of people simply blog as a way to organize their thoughts, not because they believe people care and need to hear what they have to say.
- abernard1 5y ago
  Well, he's definitely one of the people then. "Why I left Google" quoted returns 7790 results. It conveys nothing of status and says more about the environment of the person who thinks it does. I might as well read "Why I left Wal-Mart," except that I expect those articles, were they ever to be written, would show a wide latitude of interesting personal experiences, and not the self-promoting pablum that particular genre of LinkedIn fluff provides.
causi 5y ago
Personally I love the bouquet of a nice "One of my twitter posts was popular for two days, now let me spend ten pages telling you about the revelation that internet fame isn't that great".
- coldtea 5y ago
  All 3 of those posts? Your comments is written as those were somehow a trope...
  - causi 5y ago
    I feel like I see one on the HN front page at least once a month, but your mileage may vary.
    - coldtea 5y ago
      Dunno, I fell like I've ever read 2 or 3 of those in years of HN. And those I remember were mostly about the issues with hosting something popular and getting hit on HN or virality (e.g. the guy who made the "is it stuck yet" about the ship in the Souez canal).
coldtea 5y ago
>Only in this industry can people lack the self-awareness and realization that nobody cares. Don't look into the Influencer industry then... (Though, there, the audience DOES care!)

bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago

There are plenty of other industries where lack of the realization that nobody cares is front and center.

coldtea 5y ago
I came to write something similar, about the influencers, fashion, and celebrity gossip industries... but then it occured to me that there, people, sadly, do care...
- WJW 5y ago
  Do they though? In most of those scenes 99% of the audience is other, less-famous starlets who want to improve their status by being seen in connection <big shot name in the respective industry>. They don't care at all about what the big shot is actually doing or saying.
  - coldtea 5y ago
    Huh? You must have some other case in mind. The audience for "celebrity gossip" is billions of people. The audience for fashion (and related magazines) too. And the audience for influencers is tons of people who are not influencers and rarely any "less-famous starlets".

BoysenberryPi 5y ago

> It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post. As a counterpoint, one of my genuinely favorite post is Michael Lynchs "Why I left Google" post and his yearly solo developer updates. A lot of people simply blog as a way to organize their thoughts, not because they believe people care and need to hear what they have to say.

abernard1 5y ago
Well, he's definitely one of the people then. "Why I left Google" quoted returns 7790 results. It conveys nothing of status and says more about the environment of the person who thinks it does. I might as well read "Why I left Wal-Mart," except that I expect those articles, were they ever to be written, would show a wide latitude of interesting personal experiences, and not the self-promoting pablum that particular genre of LinkedIn fluff provides.

causi 5y ago

Personally I love the bouquet of a nice "One of my twitter posts was popular for two days, now let me spend ten pages telling you about the revelation that internet fame isn't that great".

coldtea 5y ago
All 3 of those posts? Your comments is written as those were somehow a trope...
- causi 5y ago
  I feel like I see one on the HN front page at least once a month, but your mileage may vary.
  - coldtea 5y ago
    Dunno, I fell like I've ever read 2 or 3 of those in years of HN. And those I remember were mostly about the issues with hosting something popular and getting hit on HN or virality (e.g. the guy who made the "is it stuck yet" about the ship in the Souez canal).

coldtea 5y ago

>Only in this industry can people lack the self-awareness and realization that nobody cares. Don't look into the Influencer industry then... (Though, there, the audience DOES care!)