| Yes! I had previously noted how Holmes was, in many ways, taking the HN/SV memes seriously, in believing: - that an entire industry has been doing it wrong - that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup - that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down - that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it" - that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice - that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes - that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068536#12071172 |