Finding Time to Invest in Yourself
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#2“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“
These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got rich but don’t actually understand how they got there.
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#3Founders want employees to have the founder mentality without giving them founder equity. AngelList (which this author is shilling) salaries and equity grants are pathetically low. So they write fluff pieces about how you’ll learn so much doing a founders laundry. I learned a lot more, faster, as an employee at big tech than at early stage startups. Startup VCs and company need to get out of the business of writing fluff pieces about how great it is to be a startup employee and get into the business of fixing early employee equity grants. The “standard” is pathetic.
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#4“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“ These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got rich but don’t actually understand how they got there.
Ok, but please don't post shallow dismissals to Hacker News.
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#5“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“ These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got rich but don’t actually understand how they got there.
I think this is generally true of Naval.
He tweets these vague pseudo-philosophical koans, things that look fine as 280 character retweets. It's fine for self-branding and he's certainly played the genre well.
But that middle ground between advice directly relevant to a practical question and a nuanced, deeply investigated ethical framework isn't as self-helpful as marketed.
It's those things people read and _feel_ like they've done some life-work today (and perhaps that's what people really want.)
As you point out, much content by well-known, materially successful people is a post-hoc constructed narrative to explain why they are where they are.
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#6Although I love Naval's ideas, I don't think there is a singular model to accountability and skin in the game.
It is to compete with yourself every day given the constraints you have as an individual.
As an example, I would rather find the best happy me than copying a so-called successful person.
To me, owning a business is the ultimate experience for people skills which you can never learn in a classroom. But I would rather do it on my own individual terms than copying a mental model.
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#7Too much preamble. I stopped reading when the author started shilling his "How to Get Rich" article before he even started his point.
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#8“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“ These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got rich but don’t actually understand how they got there.
Ok, but please don't post shallow dismissals to Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This isn’t a shallow dismissal. I’m literally quoting a part of the piece that is absurdly bad.
Would it be edifying for you and others if I explained why I think suggesting that a smart startup employee should not be doing the CEO’s laundry?
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#9The first example is basically find a successful person and take a menial job sucking up to them and doing their laundry.
Welcome to America 2020
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#10Founders want employees to have the founder mentality without giving them founder equity. AngelList (which this author is shilling) salaries and equity grants are pathetically low. So they write fluff pieces about how you’ll learn so much doing a founders laundry. I learned a lot more, faster, as an employee at big tech than at early stage startups. Startup VCs and company need to get out of the business of writing f…
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