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I really dislike these posts, which are all the same "Person who skips college retires at 24" or "College really needed? This man makes 400,000 a year!" Of course college doesn't guarantee that you'll come out making $100k a year or more, but also NOT going to college is the same. As happy as I am for this person, I hope no one gets the wrong idea from these posts and just drops out. Having an idea is one thing, putt…
The title was misleading in the sense that the article in itself is much more than about creativity. I thought it had more to do with emotions, psychology and effects. After reading the whole article, I am in awe of how he knows kids so well! I feel sorry that creative professor mother + phd math father did only so much for their son, putting their own pursuits first instead. But I guess that is how today's world is…
Is what I think you could think of it, is all.
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Thanks for the summary. This useless fluff piece lost me after the first page.
'This useless fluff piece' I think your getting the wrong idea. A picture of a cat with a caption on it is a usesless fluff piece, a blog post of a video with someone talking about code is a fluff piece. This isn't an article about start ups or code; but this article I'd argue will give you more as a human, as a entrepreneur, as a family member, as a citizen then any article you'd get from d2h or 37signals. This arti…
And even if the article is useful after all, if it's written badly, in a non-interesting way, people won't read it. That's why Joel is so popular. Because his articles are a joy to read.
Anyway, if I really wanted to know more about how people think, I would study Psychology (or Sociology) and spend more time with them in real life. Some people just aren't meant for this kind of stuff. The last universal man was Leonardo da Vinci.
P.S.: I loved your last sentence.
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'This useless fluff piece' I think your getting the wrong idea. A picture of a cat with a caption on it is a usesless fluff piece, a blog post of a video with someone talking about code is a fluff piece. This isn't an article about start ups or code; but this article I'd argue will give you more as a human, as a entrepreneur, as a family member, as a citizen then any article you'd get from d2h or 37signals. This arti…
The article is just toooooooo long. If want to develop my brain in some other way, I can always read some real literature, instead of newspaper articles. Or I could even visit some art galleries with paintings, sculptures and so on. And even if the article is useful after all, if it's written badly, in a non-interesting way, people won't read it. That's why Joel is so popular. Because his articles are a joy to read.…
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'This useless fluff piece' I think your getting the wrong idea. A picture of a cat with a caption on it is a usesless fluff piece, a blog post of a video with someone talking about code is a fluff piece. This isn't an article about start ups or code; but this article I'd argue will give you more as a human, as a entrepreneur, as a family member, as a citizen then any article you'd get from d2h or 37signals. This arti…
The article is just toooooooo long. If want to develop my brain in some other way, I can always read some real literature, instead of newspaper articles. Or I could even visit some art galleries with paintings, sculptures and so on. And even if the article is useful after all, if it's written badly, in a non-interesting way, people won't read it. That's why Joel is so popular. Because his articles are a joy to read.…
Yes it is long but probably worth it. The last page itself is good enough to justify the article.
Studying psychology only gives you an understanding of the workings but not a feel for humans. Psychology mostly searches for patterns in humans, and often times misses the big picture.
Its tricky to understand but after reading that article and getting to the end to hear about what happened to create the person you read about in the beginning you feel like, or at least I did, you know him. You see that it takes a lifetime of experience to create any one person and lucky is the person whom gets to truly know someone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
There's definitely a rhythm and a way of developing characters in common with all the stuff I've read from him so far.
Or how about this:
THE BEST-INFORMED PERSON I EVER KNEW was a friend of my grandfather's back in the Bronx, where I grew up. Every morning of every day of his life, this elderly man -- his name, as I recall, was Boris -- would dress impeccably in a suit and waistcoat and shuffle to the public library, where more than a dozen of the day's local and out-of-town newspapers were threaded through bamboo poles and hung from racks. One by one, Boris would read them all, front to back; at dusk, he would walk home alone. This daily pilgrimage was conducted with ecclesiastic solemnity, a quiet, dignified homage to the majesty of knowledge. Even as a little boy, in that intuitive if primitive way that children comprehend important things, I understood the fundamental truth that Boris was, in some clear but compelling way, a douche bag.
This guy is a genius.
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Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning . Best thing I've read on HN this year.
The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.
"Luck and perseverance also enter into it. There was one day when I considered not joining Eric at two parties; I was tired, I'd already been to a LOT of parties, I had good material, I wanted to sit down start writing. But I forced myself to go. The first turned out to be the party in the Coxes' house at the top of the story; the second was the party...at the end."
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The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.
I always click 'print this article', then click my Readability bookmarklet ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ). Works 9/10 times and gives a nice speed boost to reading articles. The page partitioning sounds well-done though. I guess writers put a lot of thought into that. (Edit: ... and then I read brandnewlow's comment above mine which refutes that theory. 'Print this article' links rock.)