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What is it about the 'entrepreneur' (can we really still call it that?) that makes him so susceptible to this kind of endless, self-perpetuating chaff? What cul
by crux 14y ago
What is it about the 'entrepreneur' (can we really still call it that?) that makes him so susceptible to this kind of endless, self-perpetuating chaff? What cultural force or common characteristic has led so many website founders to believe that they should bloggers, to believe that by becoming bloggers that they are writers—and perhaps most dazzlingly, to constantly consume and recirculate self-obsessed, content-free articles like this one, which say nothing of any substance and only recycle the same increasingly thin air first breathed by Guy Kawasaki 20 years ago? What is it about this class of businessperson that its members could hang out in a place called Hacker News, spend a non-trivial amount of their time solving subtle, difficult puzzles of design and development, and somehow also dive face-first into these lowest-common-denominator, sub-Tony Robbins schlockfests with such gusto and frequency?
- finkin1 14y agodamn son
- Swizec 14y agoQuite simple - everyone relearns this stuff. It's not something you can read and know, you have to arrive at it yourself. As such it's something you feel is interesting to read about. Also as such, it's easier reading somebody else's viewpoints on arriving at these realizations than coming at them yourself. It also happens to be remotely interesting to read the ever so subtle differences in the lessons people learn. Then one day you learn this stuff. And the cycle repeats.