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I've been working with my first client who, I've come to recognize, is _very_ susceptible to believing exaggerated claims. This is someone who would enthusiasti
by Lalabadie 3y ago
I've been working with my first client who, I've come to recognize, is _very_ susceptible to believing exaggerated claims. This is someone who would enthusiastically dive into a cult if the right person told him it's nicer there, but instead he's tech entrepreneurship, so AI is always three weeks away from allowing him to replace all his employees.
In the meantime, everyone in the design team keeps sending back content that he's requested from ChatGPT instead of an actual copywriter. Because everyone here, like everyone on HN, can easily tell the difference, but he can't/won't.
What seems to be very difficult with someone like this is, they participate in hype cycles because not doing so leaves them feeling like _everyone knows something_ and they don't. They don't want to be the idiot left behind when something good happens, so they dive into every enthusiastic movement or belief that comes in range. They don't have the ability or will to suss out that each wave is made up of people exactly like them.
TLDR: High energy, low critical thinking.
- elicksaur 3y ago>like everyone on HN The amount of people on this site who say AI has Yx’d their productivity is far too high for this to be an accurate generalization.
- cushpush 3y ago>AI is always three weeks away from allowing him to replace all his employees. Well isn't that a temporal oddity
- ozymandias1337 3y agoThey are constantly shifting the goal posts.
- sobasically 3y ago[dead]
- passion__desire 3y agothe best way to spot a bullshitter is to ask them A series of 5-7 why drill down questions expanding on a particular word you don't understand or do understand. And if they aren't quick to respond or don't answer don't know or aren't out of their depth , you know they are bullshitting. technique borrowed from Feynman's "why magnets work video"
- gwervc 3y agoThat works with almost every topic. Two-three questions you're in the bachelor degree level depth, 4-5 master one, 5-6 phd, 7 only God knows.
- antisthenes 3y agoYou can definitely get to the God level if you start with the question of why are elementary forces and constants the values that they are ;)
- euroderf 3y ago"Tell me what are your three favorite dimensionless constants, and why."
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- nuancebydefault 3y agoI _think_ I can very easily spot BS. That has its downsides... I very easily get very annoyed with BS. I know a few people who as good as constantly BS. It's a puzzle to me what drives them, and why it seems like they even don't know they are BSing. Is there some psychological explanation, I'm curious. I was thinking about giving examples to state my point, but in fact every somewhat sane person must have had those 'WTF are they saying' moments.
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- asdff 3y agoThere are enough people like this where for better or worse, keeping up with these hype trains has become a solid investment strategy. Imagine getting in early enough on BTC, or DOGE, or AMC, or GME, or NVDA, or whatever comes next instead of cynically scoffing it off (for valid reasons) on its fundamental merits. You'd be singing a different tune I'm sure after it explodes and you've cashed out leaving the zealots on whatever subreddit holding the bag.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI've wondered from time to time why I never could find it within myself to become a street preacher.
- 082349872349872 3y agoSurely you could find it within yourself to become the Life of Brian boring prophet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqaQ_Bhgmrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqaQ_Bhgmrc
- 10000truths 3y agoRelying on the greater fool theory to make your money only works until it doesn't.
- asdff 3y agoYou can replace greater fool theory with any sort of investment strategy and your sentence is still very valid. The key is to just not over leverage yourself where you will get burned with one strategy. Never invest with money you can't afford to lose.
- pixl97 3y agoThe boom/bust cycle. As they say, the hardest part of the market is timing.
- VelesDude 3y ago
- wolverine876 3y agoIt could be that their agenda is different from yours. Their agenda, as leader, is to keep all the balls in the air, keep everyone energized, everyone feeling trusted, the whole enterprise moving fast. A way to do that is to just keep charging forward with enthusiasm, at any target that's available. The movement and energy and trust is the thing. The what and how is not for your client; it's not for the CEO (or not for a certain kind of CEO). That's for you and the employees. The CEO's job is to lead, inspire, motivate, provide resources.
- smugglerFlynn 3y agoI am yet to find a highly skilled person who gets excited by “moving fast” aka charging towards bullshit targets backed by unrealistic time/quality expectations. And getting highly skilled people bored or demotivated is the best way to drop all the balls that “leader” tries to juggle. Seriously, I think this whole Marvel movie style leadership will be seen as a huge red flag and anti-pattern in 10-15 years, just like we now look down on those Henry Ford style managers of the 20th century.
- hilux 3y ago> TLDR: High energy, low critical thinking. During Silicon Valley boom cycles, these fast movers ted to do a lot better than people who stop to weigh the pros and cons, moral and ethical considerations, environmental impact, etc. etc.
- huytersd 3y agoJoining a cult is a lot of fun as long as you can keep your wits about you and leave whenever you choose to. I’ve been in two, always used a fake name and only spent a couple of years in each. You will never be able to match the level of community or feeling of purpose outside of a cult.