SMAAART's comments

On: Why Intelligent People Make Others Uncomfortable [video]

[SMAAART]

How Intelligent People Deal with Stupid People — Schopenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TspV1odsXo

On: Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

[SMAAART]

https://archive.is/bK8xU

On: Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?

[SMAAART]

Google these:

1) "inbound marketing"

2) The lean startup / MVP

On: I took some random bets in life about what should I do and now I am stuck

[SMAAART]

Your word choice, e.g. "bets", implies that your mental model for life is gambling.

While very popular today, it's a losing game that you are playing.

Read/study about better, more empowering mental models, for instance, check the writings of Shane Parrish.

[hopeful_coder → SMAAART]

Can you elaborate more on this topic, what is your mental model and why do you think its the best ? I will check out Shave Parrish

[hopeful_coder → hopeful_coder]

*Shane Perish

On: We're losing our voice to LLMs

[SMAAART]

Some people, but not everyone, are abdicating their agency. Period.

And that too is an expression of their own agency. #Laissez-faire

On: Tell HN: Stall AI progress for the benefit of humanity

[SMAAART]

The Genie is now out of the bottle.

On: 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads

[SMAAART]

Chop Wood Carry Water.

On: Ask HN: How did your startup get its first real users?

[SMAAART]

> A lot of startup advice is vague.

Sure, but in an ocean of quantity you need to know where to look for quality:

1. https://www.startupschool.org/

2. Book: The Lean Startup.

Those 2 resources address everything you need to know and then some, with concrete advice.

> What channels worked?

You have it all wrong.

On: Cloudflare is working again for my servers (US East)

[SMAAART]

Same here (US East)

On: Ask HN: What Are You Reading?

[SMAAART]

1) Blue Ocean Strategy (again)

2) Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

[PaulHoule → SMAAART]

I've lived "Scrum: How to get work done secretly despite the process that everyone is wasting their time on and running themselves ragged"