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I think you are hung up on some careless phrasing on my part. I'm lambasting the "growth strategy" that leads companies to release worse products via over-opti
by zero_shift 3y ago
I think you are hung up on some careless phrasing on my part.
I'm lambasting the "growth strategy" that leads companies to release worse products via over-optimisation. I am pointing out how this sort of 'growth strategy' would lead to absurd behaviours if a human applied the same logic.
- kibwen 3y agoFWIW, I call this "the virus mentality". Growth at all costs, even if it means the death of the host.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoWell they do call it viral growth unironically. I think the ambivalent moral motivation behind it would be a little better surfaced by calling it the cancer cell mindset.
- theodric 3y agoThe risk of posting on HN is having your rhetorical flourish taken literally, deconstructed, and criticized in excruciating detail: QED.
- throwaway_08932 3y agoThis risk multiplies when you have the audacity to make a joke on HN.
- gretch 3y agoUnfortunately this guy broke the first and most important rule of telling a joke -> it has to be funny.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoI think the problem here is that "growth mindset" has a more specific meaning to many readers that is not at all synonymous with "growth strategy", and there's some crossing of streams going on.
- willsmith72 3y ago"Growth mindset" has far more and different meaning to "growth strategies of companies"