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Knowing how to stop a bad idea is a skill. Knowing when it's a bad idea is a skill. Knowing when you don't know is a skill. There's more than one skill in li
by ceejayoz 7mo ago
Knowing how to stop a bad idea is a skill.
Knowing when it's a bad idea is a skill.
Knowing when you don't know is a skill.
There's more than one skill in life. More than one may be applicable to a situation.
Everyone on this forum has probably run into one of the "idea guys" who just need a tech cofounder to do the coding for 2% equity.
- gnabgib 7mo agoI expect the comment was about your (pre-edit) "there doing" vs the current "they're doing", shame you didn't acknowledge your mistake in the change.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoAt no point did my comment say "there doing".
- gnabgib 7mo agoGreat, so what did your comment say the first time?
- ceejayoz 7mo ago"Yes, it is." (I'm also not clear on what would make a typo ironic in this case.)
- xrd 7mo ago"Shooting down ideas is not a skill" "This doesn't mean they know what they're doing. Their thoughts can be bad."
- ceejayoz 7mo agoCan you clarify? The alleged typo is… not there? Or their? Or they’re? What’s ironic here?
- xrd 7mo agoOk, I just thought it was ironic that the article was about how being critical of something isn't skillful. And, it appeared to me (but all my downvotes prove I'm in the minority), that you just added a critical comment without doing anything else the author wrote about. For the record, I was curious about what else you have written, so I read some of your posts and comments. And, you seem to be a very thoughtful and intelligent person. I'm sorry if my comment was offensive, I meant it to be funny.
- hn_go_brrrrr 7mo agoIt felt very low effort and did not contribute anything to the comment thread.
- kulahan 7mo agoHe's pointing out that it's ironic to come into a thread about not shooting ideas and do nothing more than shoot down the idea. It's literally the exact behavior described in like the first paragraph of the article. It IS ironic.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoIt’s only ironic if the headline is correct. Or are you ironically shooting down my idea that it is a skill?
- kulahan 7mo agoNo, irony does not depend on correctness. When the discussion is X, if your only input is -X, then it's ironic in the face of a discussion on shooting down ideas.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoYes, irony depends on correctness. It would be ironic for me to make a typo while bashing your spelling prowess. It would not be ironic if I didn’t. It is similarly ironic that the Alanis Morrisette song about irony mostly mentions non-ironic things; “rain on your wedding day” isn’t ironic! And that’s ironic!