This piece is so incredibly lazy. It's essentially an inventory of grievances the author has heard, each one poorly articulated and poorly supported. It aims to get points for completeness so it's lengthy, though every argument (even the valid ones!) are an inch deep. It ironically would have benefitted from a simple critique by the Claude of two years ago.
Look. Zitron always gets shit on in HN because he's wrong a lot about scope and scale and stuff and gets fixated on stuff that basically doesn't matter like ARR being ARR. I don't think fans care. It's that he fights these peeps who are basically in mediocre or bad faith with regards to folks, and that gets counted as a mitzvah.
This is a sincere and vulnerable question but can somebody help me understand what kind of mindset it takes to write something like this and not feel like a total scummy scammer person:
> If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $17 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances, and the AI bubble writ large.
It’s so overwhelmingly clear to me that people who do this, get paid. So its clearly effective.
I’d love somebody else who’s figured this out to explain it to me.
It is when they live from what they sold rather then being paid salary unrelated to selling. And if you cringe on that, you cant be in sales (which is totally fine).
As for term, I dont have dirty mind and did not meant THAT.
This piece is so incredibly lazy. It's essentially an inventory of grievances the author has heard, each one poorly articulated and poorly supported. It aims to get points for completeness so it's lengthy, though every argument (even the valid ones!) are an inch deep. It ironically would have benefitted from a simple critique by the Claude of two years ago.
Look. Zitron always gets shit on in HN because he's wrong a lot about scope and scale and stuff and gets fixated on stuff that basically doesn't matter like ARR being ARR. I don't think fans care. It's that he fights these peeps who are basically in mediocre or bad faith with regards to folks, and that gets counted as a mitzvah.
Tired.
This is a sincere and vulnerable question but can somebody help me understand what kind of mindset it takes to write something like this and not feel like a total scummy scammer person:
> If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $17 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances, and the AI bubble writ large.
It’s so overwhelmingly clear to me that people who do this, get paid. So its clearly effective.
I’d love somebody else who’s figured this out to explain it to me.
What your beef is? His articles are so long, you keep scrooling and scrolling. I completely believe they are that long.
He is selling his newsletter. I dont know what is vulnerable about your question, but he is being sales there and that is all there is to it.
I got no beef
Yeah basically how does someone get to the point where they don’t die of cringe in the process of selling themselves
I mean “sell yourself” as a term is pretty gross
He runs as PR company in addition to this blog. It goes with the territory.
It is when they live from what they sold rather then being paid salary unrelated to selling. And if you cringe on that, you cant be in sales (which is totally fine).
As for term, I dont have dirty mind and did not meant THAT.