Might I suggest an antonym: Machiavellian. At least in the traditional sense. The Prince is a good start. Those who are looking for "resources" may want to read this -- front cover to back cover. Indiana University sometimes offers a good course called Machiavelli, Marketing, and Management whose seminar leader is a Machiavellian scholar.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful
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#92What I love about the term "relentlessly resourceful" is that it celebrates that it's OK to not have all the answers yourself. It also really plays into the fact that everyone is moving their lives online and we are all become resources to one another. In that one is "relentlessly resourceful" is that they have a network that they can tap into when they do not have the answers, but know where they can go to get the answers.
Whether you are starting up or breaking through in a large corporation, resourcefulness is always going to be your best bet. Thanks for putting it so eloquently!
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#93The antonym of hapless is shrewd.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of PC, aren't we? Lower bound is -8. Knock yourself out.
Your being down voted has little to do with political correctness. You insulted the OP and the comment wasn't even funny.
He included a ";-)" which of course makes everything perfectly acceptable.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, it would have- and that's why HN is awesome. Dumb jokes get downmodded into oblivion, which keeps the quality of conversation high. If shit like that flew, the site would devolve into Reddit levels of lolcats. It doesn't contribute to the conversation and it leads into detours like this thread. It's also beyond ridiculous to mock someone who's busting his ass to build a company when he has to transcend things li…
AFAIK, the OP did NOT request your intervention (I am sure the OP's skin is thicker than yours, so to say). You are making a storm in a teacup. BTW, I was not mocking the OP, in case you haven't figured it out yet. Borrowing a British expression, I was taking the piss . Born and raised in Western Europe, I have lived some time in a 3rd world country. I have seen the most annoying condescending gaze on the faces of so…
and thats what has been downvoted, while it may be racially insensitive, "taking the piss" isnt really what the comments here are for, regardless of what you were taking the piss out of
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#96I think Being Resourceful probably means:
Do not give up easily;
Courage to try;
Be positive;
Be adaptive via iteration;
Be good.
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#97If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful.
What if I'm not, but want to be?
You say it can be taught "surprisingly often", but then in the same paragraph say people either are (latently) or are not. This seems exactly the opposite of being able to teach it...
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#98Is meeting people one of those things that fall outside of the being relentlessly resourceful category?
Not if you consider the people you meet as being possible resources. A good friend once told me that a big barrier to my success would be that I tended to be a loner. He was right and it's a reason I force myself to be more social and outgoing. People are interesting in their own right, and at some time in the future, someone you met briefly a long time ago might be just the person you need to break through a barrier…
I thought maybe being relentelessly resourceful was kind of a nerd trait, at least in the sense PG uses it.
He talks about building alliances as something apart from being resourceful in the essay.
Does someone who can't do a thing, but knows people that are relentlessly resourceful become an relentelessly resourceful person too?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me: Why don't you just do x? Founders: Could we really do x? Me: Sure, why not? Can't hurt to try. How hard can it be to do at least version 1 of x? Founders: Ok [dubiously] we'll try it. A few days later: Founders: Pg, check out this demo of x. It was a lot harder than we expected, but we just got it working. While we were working on it, we thought "what if we did y..."
Do people call you "PG" in real life?
Yep. Rtm and Tlb get called by their usernames too.
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#100Isn't the antonym of hapless opportunistic (without its negative connotation)?
Hap is a middle English word meaning luck or fate. Things happen, mishaps occur. Perhaps. Hapless means being in a situation with no logical way out, such as being stuck in quicksand, or being good at Ruby on Rails.
Can you please elaborate on why being good at RoR is being in a situation with no logical way out?