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Would you sit in such a "haunted" chair if you're just launching your own startup though?
by sebastiennight 2y ago
Would you sit in such a "haunted" chair if you're just launching your own startup though?
- yard2010 2y agoI'm not superstitious. Well, maybe I'm a bit stitious.
- sebastiennight 2y agoI'm not either, if only because being superstitious brings bad luck. But still. There's this inexplicable feeling that "failure is contagious"
- sampullman 2y agoYou can look at it another way - the chair's bad luck is all used up!
- sebastiennight 2y agoI don't want to be the one getting the dregs of someone's chair's bad luck. I want it completely clean of bad luck, or I want my own fresh bad luck!
- boticello 2y agoI bought Aeron chairs for an agency I joined after the 2008 financial crash. They were from Bank of America. Six months later I found a hole in our agency's finances and we went bust. A bit stitious too.
- throw0101c 2y agoOn the etymology of "superstitious": * https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-6150 https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/97801...
- tonyhart7 2y agoimagine that same chair is recycled over and over again that chair has fineprint of killstreak of how many bussiness failling like how pilot cross their cockpit to signify how many plane he shootdown
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoSounds like something Netflix would make into a two season show with a cliffhanger that the chair makes it into the Oval Office but Netflix cancels the show without resolution.
- tough 2y agoHouse of Chairs
- rsynnott 2y agoWas the hole in the agency's finances due to high spending on very expensive chairs, tho?
- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoYeah because I got it effectively on discount. Sitting in it would be a reminder of how to prioritize business and spending.
- floatrock 2y agoBoth a trophy and a reminder of our financial mortality.
- Waterluvian 2y agoYou learn more from your failures than your successes. Those chairs have experience.
- bagels 2y agoYes. It's not contagious through sitting on surfaces.
- TuringNYC 2y agoSome cultures believe in objects absorbing negative energy. Tons of Asian films are about homes harboring souls who faced injustice. Very famously, US cabinet member Donald Rumsfeld purchased Mount Misery to live in. Even in the west this shook a lot of heads https://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/22/rumsfelds_mount_misery https://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/22/rumsfelds_mount_mise...
- bagels 2y agoI'm aware. I have not been given convincing evidence that there is any real effect.
- Cheng2023 2y ago[dead]
- hermannj314 2y agoI would need more data on how many businesses failed based on ownership of the chair. If you told me that chair had been used by n successive failed businesses, there is a value of n where I would reject the null hypothesis that the chair has no association with the business failing. I don't think n=1 is sufficiently large.
- bluGill 2y agoYou will never get to n sufficiently large - chairs don't last that long. Even if a chair really is that haunted, it will have to be in a startup for 6 months before the money runs out (it will take that long to run out of money after the chair forces it on the bad track - if the startup runs out sooner it wasn't the chair at fault).
- rzzzt 2y agoBut when it breaks, they take the roller wheel and put it on another chair.
- saagarjha 2y agoGive "Facebook signboard with SUN on the back of it" vibes.