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If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

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Re: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

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Post by sammcd »

nirvana wrote: post #24

I can identify with what sebastian is experiencing here. Its easy to work with friends, or be friendly with your employees. Its easy for things to get casual. Its easy for people to start running everything by you. Its VERY easy for the sense of urgency to just go away. Its very hard to get people highly motivated about time. It's easy to kill an entire day with BS, and let things just stretch out. Especially when yo…

I was a huge fan of the thesis, but as I kept reading the situation seemed very familiar. Very familiar to the multiple times I have worked for a non technical guy that really just doesn't have a clue.

I was really not a fan of the part where he told his guys not to make excuses, but then made a very large excuse for himself.

If I would have read only the first few paragraphs I would have been a huge fan of this article.

Re: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

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Post by suivix »

nirvana wrote: post #24

I can identify with what sebastian is experiencing here. Its easy to work with friends, or be friendly with your employees. Its easy for things to get casual. Its easy for people to start running everything by you. Its VERY easy for the sense of urgency to just go away. Its very hard to get people highly motivated about time. It's easy to kill an entire day with BS, and let things just stretch out. Especially when yo…

Why does there have to be a sense of urgency? I don't think we are meant to have stressful lives.

Re: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

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Post by brerrabbit »

You know, Sebastian is a really smart, driven, creative individual and his blog has managed to occupy a spot in my RSS reader for some time because I've always felt his perspective lied outside the echo chamber of the tech media I tend to consume.

However, between this post and the one he posted today: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and... I kind of wonder if he isn't experiencing some kind of extreme bi-polar swing or side effects from the nootropics he uses and advocates.

The article posted today is so rambling, incoherent and rabid and so far removed from the realm of "professionalism" that I believe he has not only burned his bridge with his publisher, he has done so with all publishers everywhere.

This doesn't seem to be characteristic of him and if it is, he's certainly a less admirable individual than I had surmised.

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