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A bit of unsolicited advice: there's a reason we use the pyramid structure in essay writing: begin with your point and expand upon it. If someone (like me) is coming to this with no idea of who you are, who Spooner is in this context, or what the actual point of the piece is, it's a big ask to get them to read a lot of extremely dense prose to figure out what the hell you're actually discussing here. I mean, yeah, bonus points for using "negentropic" in a sentence without actually being a Charlie Stross character taking the piss, but tell us where you're going so we can follow you, you dig?

That might be why people assume this is AI writing and frankly the same thing occurred to me about eight paragraphs in.

And your stated experience of working at FAANG and starting a multi-billion dollar company is so widespread you might actually be able to fill an entire boutique hotel with people who share it. As stego-tech says, you might wanna investigate the labor experience of people who, I dunno, have country or folk songs written about their jobs.

I mean, you're obviously a bright cat, but unfortunately merely being bright isn't the key to good communications. It's wanting other people to care about what you're saying and learning how to make them care.






Thanks for the constructive feedback. I'll work on it.



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