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Weak article. It never really tries to reconstruct what Andreessen meant, just takes a narrow quote, reads it in the least charitable way, and then spends most
by gordian-mind 7mo ago
Weak article. It never really tries to reconstruct what Andreessen meant, just takes a narrow quote, reads it in the least charitable way, and then spends most of its energy tearing down that version with loaded rhetoric.
The comments only reinforce that impression: most are some variation of “rich guy, therefore idiot.” This is more pile-on than discussion.
- deburo 7mo agoWhich makes me curious about what Marc actually meant. The quote itself raises eyebrows. EDIT: From checking in with Claude about his talk. > So the thing he was arguing against was specifically what he sees as a modern therapeutic culture — the expectation that people should examine their motives, feel guilty about their actions, and look backward. He wasn't framing it as a philosophical position so much as a practical one about founder effectiveness. https://claude.ai/share/9c5611f7-fd0e-4f76-bd39-e1129c035a4f https://claude.ai/share/9c5611f7-fd0e-4f76-bd39-e1129c035a4f
- gordian-mind 7mo agoYes, the article is deliberately misconstruing that. The author says outright in her comments that the aim is not to engage with what Marc actually meant, but to chastise him for bad thoughts expressed on Twitter: “I get where you’re coming from - and I’m not sure I’d disagree with Marc, if that were the point he made. But his hours // days long crash out on Twitter I think made it clear that a lack of introspection was certainly at work…”