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Moral of the story, the more rich and important you are the more free shit people give you.
by jiggy2011 14y ago
Moral of the story, the more rich and important you are the more free shit people give you.
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- alexirobbins 14y agoMaybe it was the 3 pizzas? Seriously, what 18 year-old has that kind of money to blow on pizzas...
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- spullara 14y agoWell if it had been me in college, probably credit card debt.
- sivers 14y agoBack then they were only $8. :-)
- jonknee 14y agoI'd bet that 18 year-olds blow more of their income on pizza than older people do. And weed. Regardlss, connecting with someone important to your industry is hardly blowing money.
- corin_ 14y agoOops, deleted my comment while you were replying to it - once I saw patio's mine seemed pointless. I'd assumed he was talking about the author being the one who got connections by being rich/important, didn't occur to me he was complaining that the speaker got a free pizza.
- anigbrowl 14y agoSivers bought the pizza because of who the guy was. Nothing wrong with that, but it was straight-up opportunism since the guy was a big wheel in the industry that Sivers wished to participate in, as opposed to some nondescript stranger. The lesson here is to take advantage of opportunities when they come your way, not to hand out free pizza willy-nilly.
- patio11 14y agoThis is a disempowering way of looking at it. Why focus on the wall when you could focus on the door? It is radically more useful to phrase the takeaway as "All business is conducted by humans, and all humans rich and poor need to eat. Culturally, business is often conducted over food. Knowing these facts, you can use food to create a social connection for cheap where creating a business connection would be otherwise impossible." That's actually pretty good advice, and it's at the heart of a lot of good advice you're going to get for career development, like arranging for coffee dates and business lunches with people who are in the line of Yes-es that you need to get hired.
- jiggy2011 14y agoOh, I'm not suggesting it's a bad idea pragmatically. It's just a little sad that you are more like to be lauded for buying pizza for somebody who could probably afford an entire houseful of pizza, vs doing something to really help somebody.
- aero142 14y agoHe didn't just buy him a pizza, he showed independence and initiative.
- thirdtruck 14y agoAnd we all love receiving the attention of someone who actively listens, which requires a learnable skill that most people neglect to learn. Having a respectful audience carries significant emotional and psychological value to the speaker, so Sivers likely also had that much to offer to Wozniak.
- po 14y agovs doing something to really help somebody. He is doing something to help somebody who needs it: himself. Your fixating on the monetary transaction is getting in the way. It could have been a random act of kindness. The money is just a small signal of giving-a-damn (there are others) that most people wouldn't jump over. He's being lauded for helping himself, not the executive.
- mbesto 14y agoI happen to be in a position where the more important I've become the more free shit I've gotten. This "stuff" is technically never free, but rather it's part of the cost of doing business. It's directly related to the same cost you (not you specifically) spending the time to write content for a wide audience "for free". It's all about building trust.