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Well, my comments above were meant as a joke. Mostly. Good article. Of course not all work that I do is the productive, or the so-called 'deliberate practice
by bg182 15y ago
Well, my comments above were meant as a joke. Mostly.
Good article. Of course not all work that I do is the productive, or the so-called 'deliberate practice' kind. As referenced by the fact that I'm following up to my own comments on Hacker News. However an important difference between running a startup and playing a musical instrument is that I'd argue its a lot harder to know what the really effective work is, which means you'll generally have to try a few more things.
No, I'm not quite as bad as the charicature I've described above. I've found that doing a bit of daily exercise is one of the most important things not to give up when working on a startup. You feel and sleep a lot better which affects everything.
- Swizec 15y agoThat's good - I guess with startup people these days it's getting hard to distinguish charicature from reality ... not sure that's a good thing.
- bg182 15y agoNo kidding. From the responses I'm definitely going to have to tone down my british sarcasm in the future.
- robocat 15y agoI think sarcasm can be easily mistaken as trolling, condescension, or stupidity. Personally I avoid it online until I have seen it regularly used and encouraged on a website/forum (also the tells/syntactic-indicators of sarcasm and how obvious you need to make it vary greatly depending upon site community).
- reinhardt 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law