[afpx]

I’m almost done with Book 1, and so far at least 85% applies to anyone:

don't be idle, don't lie, don't make hasty decisions, build up your willpower, be courageous, be present, do what you say you will do, challenge customs (because people tend to choose custom over reason), learn through experience, be present, life is a delicate balance, and about 50 more

[benreesman]

It’s a lot of very bright folks on HN, and very well read.

But this stuff at this stage of the game is somewhere between propaganda and Stockholm’s Syndrome.

Hackers have never been paid less, or had worse job security, or been more subject to being fucked with than in decades.

Getting funding or traction or press or customers has never been more insular and nepotistic and corrupt and numb in decades.

There is a season for de Montaigne and there is a season for Thomas Paine.