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Looking at your linked thread, I don't think it's the concept itself that saw you downvoted so much as the way you stated it. It comes off as an oversimplified
by incision 12y ago
Looking at your linked thread, I don't think it's the concept itself that saw you downvoted so much as the way you stated it.
It comes off as an oversimplified 'Everything is better with startups!'
Cut out grating phrases like 'ingenious solutions' and 'young, energetic outsiders', articulate the idea more fully, speak with a little humility and I'd wager those posts would have fared much better - like this one [1].
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739184
- Jun8 12y agoI wasn't complaining about lost karma (although thanks for the thoughtful suggestions) but rather a certain way of thinking which I colloquially refer to as 'Googlism', although it's widely known by a different name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal). I'm all for putting up such a goal for motivation. But one must win small, persistent victories along the way. As an example, Google initially won by superior technology (PageRank, GFS, etc.), they just didn't hope to "organize the world's information" by idealism. Similarly, what is the big game changers we are bringing to the "war on poverty". If we cannot name any such thing its idle talk. I don't believe such new approaches will come from government organizations for various obvious reasons. Note that the author of this piece was a "young, energetic outsider".
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