Fun fact: in his detailed descriptions of how was the day he mentions his job ("software engineer at Meta", according to About section) only twice. It seems like a tiny fraction compared to writing blog and working on own company. Is it normal practice in SF tech companies?
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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#242I think this has already won the annual prize for weirdest post ever. There's even a "Date Me" form on the site. Claims effective altruism while spending close to $10k to be productive at blogging/yoga.
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#243What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me:
>In the evening session with Hannah I picked up where I left off for my job and then went breakdancing. When I came back to my apartment, the internet was out so I read two chapters of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them until the internet came back on, after which I completed a lesson in the UI/UX course I’d enrolled in.
What a weird, weird detail to include.
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#244Anddddd that’s enough Hacker News for today.
Bravo to the author, got me to stop procrastinating on this site lol
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#245This guy reinvented the concept of hiring a personal butler.
EDIT: I think coming from a humble background helps to proud oneself to be able to do everything yourself. I guess the line of having (modern) slaves vs employing someone is complicated and intermingled with the amount of payment. I imagine, especially the first assistant, after knowing that OP earns a magnitude more than 20/h, and then goes on a date and expects me to stay since I'm on payroll, is rather unsettling.
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#246This is one of the best blogs I have seen on HN ever
Coming soon:
"I hired 50 people to do damage control and write flattering comments about me on HN"
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#247What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me: >In the evening session with Hannah I picked up where I left off for my job and then went breakdancing. When I came back to my apartment, the internet was out so I read two chapters of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them until the internet came back on, after which I completed a lesson in the UI/UX course I’d…
Confirmed the Early Life section? What do you mean? The blog post doesn't discuss the author's life before his current situation.
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#248Can someone directly explain the understanding he is lacking of what is wrong with this / what makes it off-putting, such as not understanding "the human element", "power dynamics" or "people or human dignity" Obviously many people in these comments sections don't seem to understand whats wrong with this, and there is such a thing as aspergers and the like. Maybe discussion can help people come to an understanding. I…
Sure. There are people like the author, who respect the autonomy of other people and believe that if there are two people who come to a mutually agreeable arrangement on the exchange of goods and services that’s ok. Then there are some other people who have an aesthetic revulsion for people who violate social scripts. So if you hire a maid, secretary, therapist or other kind of service staff that’s ok, but if you do something that doesn’t follow a standard script these people feel a sense of revulsion.
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#249I’m not sure why some of the HN commenters seem to be slightly in hysterics over this
I love the out of the ordinary experiment
I don’t care if the OP could be a narcissist he did a good write up and leveraged a social aspect to increase his productivity in unique way.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope that it is a parody of what the modern western manboy ™ has become, otherwise it is a bitter window to the state of affairs of the west.
The whole time I was reading, all I could think of was this video. https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U
I love this video.