A day in the life of a CEO • Hacker News Board

Re: A day in the life of a CEO

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Post by samstave » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 9:16 PM UTC

tatsuke95 wrote: post #76

samstave wrote: post #36

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Look Tatsuke95, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

I'm not upset at all. In fact, I'm quite amused that people find this post enlightening and insightful, when I find it to be...obnoxious might be too strong a word, but definitely self-promoting and lacking any substance. Apparently some people agree with me. Life is funny like that.

Heh. i was actually just quoting 2001... ut after I posted that quote - I read the article.

I actually agree with your assessment - this post is terrible. It denotes a work day austensibly running a business where the CEO spends 28 hours per week "tackling todos" with very little time for anything that comes up.

I would love to go to work at 11 (from home, after feeding wife, hitting gym, getting kids rady for school, lawyering up, etc)...

I envy this guys schedule, but not much else.

Re: A day in the life of a CEO

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Post by kahawe » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 12:46 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #55

kevinskii wrote: post #50

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What try to put him down for what he's accomplished? He isn't being put down for what he has accomplished. He's being put down for writing a shallow self-serving blog post that is completely devoid of intellectual content, and then submitting it to HN. I hope enough others here flag this as well.

When somebody writes about him as a "CEO", with an implication that he's somehow less than a "real" CEO, then yes, that is putting him (and his company) down. It's ridiculous, IMO. This guy is out there, in the trenches, building a real company, and tries to share his experience, and he's getting slammed for it. This isn't what I've come to expect from HN. :-(

> and tries to share his experience

I think the point is: he might be trying but he is doing a horrible job at sharing that experience because the only thing he gives us is "he is a big picture thinker", he "cranks through to dos" and that Paul is important. There is hardly any "meat" or really interesting, helpful stuff in there - that's what the slamming is about. Is this really so difficult to see or differentiate?

Re: A day in the life of a CEO

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

kahawe wrote: post #92

mindcrime wrote: post #55

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When somebody writes about him as a "CEO", with an implication that he's somehow less than a "real" CEO, then yes, that is putting him (and his company) down. It's ridiculous, IMO. This guy is out there, in the trenches, building a real company, and tries to share his experience, and he's getting slammed for it. This isn't what I've come to expect from HN. :-(

> and tries to share his experience I think the point is: he might be trying but he is doing a horrible job at sharing that experience because the only thing he gives us is "he is a big picture thinker", he "cranks through to dos" and that Paul is important. There is hardly any "meat" or really interesting, helpful stuff in there - that's what the slamming is about. Is this really so difficult to see or differentiate…

Is this really so difficult to see or differentiate?

Not at all. I never said it was wrong to provide feedback or constructive criticism. But the tone of the earlier post - that kicked off this thread - just seemed (to me) a bit overly antagonistic and demeaning, as opposed to constructive.

As far as I know, the social norm here at HN is not to "slam" somebody when constructive criticism would suffice instead. I mean, this is something of a community of (largely) like-minded peers in many ways. And I, for one, would like to think that that we're sort of "on the same team" here.