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http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html For as many times as I have read and re-read that essay, I find that I still need to
by jrussino 3y ago
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
For as many times as I have read and re-read that essay, I find that I still need to be reminded just how pervasive this sort of thing is.
- TZubiri 3y agoIt is possible to be overly cynical, this is not a huge industry pushing the same product again and again, it's a dude who wrote a book about Linnaeus
- jhbadger 3y agoExactly. The New Yorker's audience is people who like to read. It isn't that publishers are paying them to run these articles -- they are there because knowing about interesting new books is on topic for the magazine.
- TZubiri 3y agoIt's possible that there is an exchange of money I guess, and a promotional nature to the article. Not surprised that a free media distributed over the internet is funded by sponsors. It's also super transparent, high quality, and harmless, definitely not the most egregious example the article was referring to.