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It's good we have a culture of accepting failure. The fumblebrag comes from a different aspect of the culture: The culture of being a complete douchebag, preten
by normloman 12y ago
It's good we have a culture of accepting failure. The fumblebrag comes from a different aspect of the culture: The culture of being a complete douchebag, pretending you're always "crushing it," creating the appearance of success, and taking yourself way too seriously. This tension is present in everything I read on HN.
- themagician 12y agoThere are only two people I know who ever actually "crushed" anything and who's success was a result of their own actions. The hundreds of others I've met it was either dumb luck, they started already having been successful, or they just fake the entire thing. The number of success stories in the Bay Area that are not a result of nepotism are few and far between. I don't say that with a sense of disdain, just reality. Because the majority of my own success can be attributed to nepotism.