Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 6stringmerc 3803 days ago
>Articles that provided practical utility—actionable advice and tips—were shared far more than those that were merely interesting or even surprising.

Reading this gave me a bit of a chuckle, because this is exactly how bad advice spreads too. Like bonsai kitten. At the end of the article, all I could think about was how the post was basically talking about "diversification" without ever using the term outright, even though it's a more suitable concept to employ than "side projects" IMO.