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What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by Anonymous09 »

jacques_chester wrote: post #28

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are. In about 10 years everyone else will be doing the same. Just kidding. Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff. And it's usually hilarious to the outsiders who can see the narrowness of a profession's vision. Out of the professions I've seen, who have been…

Thank you, this article is pointless, why is this news? Technology is the result of people trying to make money, solve a problem, or tinkering in their free time. Yes, people with a hobby fall into the group that like to tinker, and they have more free time outside of work, on weekends. Gasp. HN has some of the most mundane articles on the homepage at times. I mean, you can write an article about how a two hour lunch break equals success, or why the most productive hours of the day are from 11PM to 3AM, or why standing on one leg while working promotes creativity, or how 3 people is ideal number of partners for a startup, and people just eat it up.

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by janson0 »

You know, the truest thing about this is that it takes time and effort to really make things happen. It is the engineers and the hobbyists that are taking the time and nights to solve problems. There is a lot of good, unexpected stuff coming that is being cooked up in people's studies and garages. Looking forward to it.

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Post by zobzu »

jacques_chester wrote: post #28

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are. In about 10 years everyone else will be doing the same. Just kidding. Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff. And it's usually hilarious to the outsiders who can see the narrowness of a profession's vision. Out of the professions I've seen, who have been…

Thank you.

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by doktrin »

jgh wrote: post #27
iamwil wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome. But hardly the main point for the OP.

Fair enough. I'm just tired of seeing these articles pop up constantly and I have no downvote ability.

Submissions can't be downvoted (only comments) :)

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by arjn »

jacques_chester wrote: post #28

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are. In about 10 years everyone else will be doing the same. Just kidding. Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff. And it's usually hilarious to the outsiders who can see the narrowness of a profession's vision. Out of the professions I've seen, who have been…

Opened up to write a response, saw you'd already covered it. Thanks.

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by mijustin »

pdeuchler wrote: post #15

I see where Chris is getting at, but he's not generalizing it well. I think a better rule of thumb would be: Look at what new and upcoming technologies people with large domain expertise are excited about. Those technologies will probably be included in business practices within that domain in the near future. Edit: It's also a rather self-fulfilling prophecy. Obviously industry leaders will pave the way for their pe…

Exactly. It's a bit tricky to do the attribution. Looking at a current technology and giving it a single origin isn't realistic.

In the comments Chris cites HAM being a precursor for BBSes. Maybe; but so were actual physical bulletin boards.

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by joshmlewis »

I was in a mentor talk over the summer and this veteran business-man who has turned a few failing companies into successful ones, and walked into his current company with hardly no pay and turned it around gave an interesting tid bit of advice.

He drew three overlapping circles and they were:

What am I passionate about? What can I be best in the world at? What drives the economic engine of it?

He said it takes all three to have something successful and sustaining. If it's just passion and being the best but there's no money making engine, it's just a hobby. If you have an economic engine and passion but you're not the best, it will never grow past a certain point. If you're good at it and you can make money, you'll hate it after awhile.

Now I personally like to believe that if you're the best in the world at something you're going to make money, but that's career wise, I'm talking about business wise. I feel a lot of companies are lucky that don't have a solid business plan but have become uber successful. The risk is certainly there, and it will probably tighten the gap of repeatability in the near future as well. All this to say, find your passion, be good at it, and figure out how to make money from it.

Re: What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years

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Post by charlieflowers »

jacques_chester wrote: post #28

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are. In about 10 years everyone else will be doing the same. Just kidding. Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff. And it's usually hilarious to the outsiders who can see the narrowness of a profession's vision. Out of the professions I've seen, who have been…

I see your point, but the original article is a interesting take on "how to see the future", which is a powerful thing to do if you're trying to found a startup that succeeds big.

So it's worth the read to me. Just a little mind-stretcher, but one of the things I come to Hacker News for.

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