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The author asks to ignore all the negative advice and pick out the positive crumbs. Not everyone can take negative comments effectively. I for one agree with sw
by rdudekul 14y ago
The author asks to ignore all the negative advice and pick out the positive crumbs. Not everyone can take negative comments effectively. I for one agree with sw007 that it is demotivating to receive a bunch of negative feedback. Also genuine entrepreneurs posts seem to struggle to come up on page 1 of HN, when mostly controversial or sensational topics seem to take the prime space.
Kudos to pg for observing and listening to us. It would be awesome to have guidelines and incentive structures to keep HN as entrepreneur friendly as possible.
- raganwald 14y agoI don't actually advocate 100% ignoring it. I know from personal experience that negative feedback is very hard to handle. I don't believe in just "positive thinking" or "ignoring negative experiences," I believe in using specific mental habits to manage my own thoughts and emotional responses. What has worked best for me is a methodology called "Learned Optimism:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism I wrote about my experience with it here: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-01/optimism.md#readme https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-... It's not the only methodology, there are other very good ones in the popular (but excellent) books "Feeling Good" and "Mind Over Mood."
- jarek 14y agoEntrepreneurship for the entitlement generation. Everyone gets a star. The lack of actual entrepreneurship news on the front page is a separate issue.