[winter-day]

Most things in america are paid ads in disguise: these posts, blogs by mckinsey/bcg/big 4 accounting firms, news is often a paid ad/agenda in disguise. You're honestly better off spending time with your family and developing a small hobby. ~ musings from a late 30s guy

[maigret]

You should read The Information Diet. Mostly agreeing with what you say but coming to a different conclusion of where to find better information.

[vmurthy]

I'd argue that if you are really interested, you can follow a few academics and read up on their papers etc. Of course, that's a big undertaking but it's the only alternative I can think of given the incentives for pushing shit at us

[akvadrako]

That's just subjecting yourself to more marketing. They're trying to sell you their theory and get you to cite it or even better fund the work.

It's quite common to gloss over arguments or ignore data that don't support their cause.

[gengwyn]

I feel like this is equivocating a bit. Scientific papers exist to put forth an argument and change minds, yes. That’s the entire point of science as an endeavor. It’s not perfect, but if we’re going to define “marketing” as “anytime someone tries to convince me of anything”, I think we’re getting a tad reductionist.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

Or using all of this and becoming massively wealthy.

[Barrin92]

if you want to get massively wealthy get a good CS education or just get business experience in the real world, these a16z blogs and podcasts are for what's appropriately been labeled Veblenian entrepreneurship, that is consuming entrepreneurship as a sort of cosplay lifestyle.

[codersfocus]

I think you’re forgetting the ??? step

[ilrwbwrkhv]

Just ask Adam Neumann.

[apsurd]

there's enough counter advice at this point to suggest against "playing entrepreneur" in favor of you know, getting stuff done.

[ClassyJacket]

Shit why didn't I think of that??