Hey just gonna "tell it like it is"
There is already an army of unpaid critics working around the clock on HN and Reddit.
Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
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#222You should put an option when people ask a question to allow you to post it on your public website. It would be interesting and might attract more traffic to your site.
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#223This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…
I think in this case we are dealing with a discrepancy between what people think they want, and what they actually want. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of people try this once, but he might have trouble getting repeat clients and I have concerns about how helpful, outside the most narrow niche cases, this will be. I'm a counselor, and going into the field I naively thought that straightforward evaluative st…
After 3 days of answering questions, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that your premise here is exactly right.
I've definitely been able to help a few people out based on limited feedback I've received. However, I get the sense that most of the people whom I haven't heard back from (around 75%) probably aren't too thrilled with the brutal honesty. I've been very compassionate, but still. This comment definitely hits home.
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think in this case we are dealing with a discrepancy between what people think they want, and what they actually want. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of people try this once, but he might have trouble getting repeat clients and I have concerns about how helpful, outside the most narrow niche cases, this will be. I'm a counselor, and going into the field I naively thought that straightforward evaluative st…
Are there any books that teach this leading/questioning approach that you particularly like/recommend? Non-pop books are fine.
You may want to take a look at Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata. It is basically a coaching technique based on questions, used on learning environments. Lean Education and Toyota Kata are also related, so you may find good info when searching for those keywords as well.
It is not exactly the same situation, but if you treat that person as someone who needs to learn something about herself that she didn't realise (or refused to accept), it might be very similar.
Here is a video explaining it with a bit more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3G0V7Wthbc
Hope this helps.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't think $10 for someone's opinion is a tad pricey?
Well the trick is that it's cheap enough that almost everyone can afford it while being pretty sure that, for that amount of money, he will probably take his time to write a decent answer. Perhaps 5 bucks would be better, but considering an hourly wage and how much time I take to write stuff myself, ten bucks is not unreasonable. Also consider that, assuming this is a business (or could be), he's taking risk because…
$5 is Fiverr, and $5 on Fiverr gets you rubbish.
Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
#226This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…
I think in this case we are dealing with a discrepancy between what people think they want, and what they actually want. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of people try this once, but he might have trouble getting repeat clients and I have concerns about how helpful, outside the most narrow niche cases, this will be. I'm a counselor, and going into the field I naively thought that straightforward evaluative st…
This makes a lot of sense - esp the part about - 'people need love, not honesty'. It takes a lot of effort and work to give good feedback without being brutal, but it is really the only way that has worked for me.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I imagine myself paying $10 and asking "hey, what do you think of my outfit tonight?" And he would kindly inform me that my chances of scoring (or whatever they call it these days) wearing these sandals, hiking pants (pull these zippers and they become shorts!) and grey kinda stretched-out long-sleeve t-shirt are next to zero. But my Friday night activity was going out with my wife, toddler & 5-year-old to have din…
Sure; my point in that example was that his pitch (esp. including his chosen list of interests and potential questions) felt extremely narrow to me; I'm also a white American male and only 10 years older; but the world he seems to be inhabiting (men's fashion! weightlifting!) is not even adjacent to mine. If we met in a social situation, we could probably find something to talk about; but we'd not be paying either ot…
> but the world he seems to be inhabiting (men's fashion! weightlifting!) is not even adjacent to mine.
I doubt the service would be valuable if he were offering advice on subjects you're already comfortable judging for yourself.