[stego-tech]

Y'know, you (the general 'you', not you specifically, coldbrewed) feel bad about your writing or blog because of the odd spelling error, or grammar issue, or repeated language, or maybe your points aren't clear enough, or maybe you're talking in the wrong tone...

...and then you read something like this, and realize, "Yeah, no, I have room for improvement, sure, but thank f*** I'm not like this."

The entire post reads like someone high on their own supply. Just when I think they're getting to a point, they pull out every fifty-dollar word and concept they possibly can (explaining none of it, nor linking to any Wikipedia articles to help readers understand) to ostensibly sound smarter-than-you and therefore entitled to authority.

I'm sure there's a law/rule/principle for this concept somewhere, but if you can't explain your point simply, you don't understand the topic you're trying to communicate. This one-off, vibe-coded (RETCH), slop-slinger is a prime example of such.

Pay no attention to the charlatan cosplaying as tenured academia.

[ethn]

Again this piece is not written with GPT, feel free to ask any GPT. Ironically, maybe I should have to increase the appeal of my ideas. I chose my words carefully to communicate my ideas precisely.

[stego-tech]

GPTs' historically aren't great at identifying their own work; if they could, AI-based cheating wouldn't be the problem it is at present.

Assuming you're the OP, and this is your blog, let me give you some feedback:

* Choosing your words carefully and communicating your ideas clearly are separate skills. You may have chosen the most precise language, but your ability to communicate ideas to as wide an audience as HN is lacking (judging by the comments)

* If you're going to invoke half a dozen rules, principles, laws, and/or proofs in the span of two pages, then you'd better link the associated Wikipedia articles for folks to follow along, at least until you've established a readership baseline. People read blogs for learning or entertainment, and if you're trying to teach a perspective, then you need to include copious links to this material; otherwise, your readership is going to turn into an echo chamber of similar academics (or people cosplaying as such, which is dangerous)

* Your narrative structure leaves a lot to be desired. Are you sharing an opinion piece about a potential AI-energized future? Or are you mocking AI detractors? Or are you digging up old memes? Maybe you're getting into the philosophy angle of capitalism and entrepreneurship? Or perhaps making a judgement about the perceived lack of "startup spirit" of modern workers? I honestly can't tell, because at times it feels like this single piece is touching upon all of them, but not going into anything more than surface-depth about any of them

* As far as reads go, it's a strugglebus. Your blog gives no insight into the author as a person, but the piece reads as if we should already know you and respect your authority on the topic because of credentials. Its sentences meander far too long before stopping, as if you're trying to consolidate complex thoughts that demand a paragraph of context into a single, lengthy, concise sentence - and leaving readers to figure it out on their own time, like a University Professor with tenure.

* Personal nitpick here, but your application of the Pareto Principle to human labor within corporations betrays your inexperience (at best) or your absence of empathy (at worst). More than likely, it displays a profound level of distance from work "in the trenches", and the associated lack of understanding of why corporations are formed, grow, function, struggle, wither, collapse, and die. Talk to more workers, and not just ones at your present company/title/rank/experience level/demographic brackets. Humans are messy creatures, not machines, and assuming they will behave as machines inside other machine-like structures is ignoring the inherent chaos of existence.

[ethn]

Great feedback, it's my first blog.

I wanted to avoid my experience but I worked at FAANG and helped create a multi-billion dollar corporation (from a handful of people to 1,500 people).

[stego-tech]

Just like the first critique of mine above, the how of communication is just as important as the vocabulary used. Consider your description above with this reworked (organic, AI-free) example:

"Core contributor to mid-size successful startup"

Based on the limited information you gave me in your line, I rewrote it to give off a different tone and vibe. Now, instead of standing atop trophies ("FAANG") and leaderboards ("multi-billion dollar", "1,500 people"), the same description sounds more grounded in reality - a contributor as part of a larger whole, someone who seeks to do the same through their blog as opposed to someone commanding attention based on past glories alone.

This is what I mean when I say you may have chosen your words with specificity, but the way you string them together can have a more outsized impact than the words themselves. It's the same myth that a meal is just the sum of its ingredients, rather than the steps taken, the chaos managed, and the personal touches from experience or wisdom added into it that the recipe didn't cover.

[owebmaster]

Looks like you felt attacked by OP success/experience.

> This is what I mean when I say you may have chosen your words with specificity, but the way you string them together can have a more outsized impact than the words themselves

This sounds exactly like what you are doing. Your long replies even sound like chatgpt.

[stego-tech]

> Your long replies even sound like chatgpt.

Lolz. Not the first time I’ve been accused of botting, but certainly the first time it’s happened in the context of a comment thread. I don’t know if I should savor the compliment that I annoyed you enough to scream into the void of a nested comment thread several layers down without meaningfully contributing to the discourse itself, or be annoyed myself that you’re comparing my bleary-eyed discourse in lieu of sleep to the token-predictive slop of a chatbot.

Por que no los dos, I guess?

[ethn]

I disagree here, being the founding engineer of a unicorn is quite a different experience than being a core contributor to a mid-size startup.

[stego-tech]

I had one sentence to work with; you have an entire career to draw from. My straw man rewording was literally just an example of impact through choice of words.

If you’re talking to someone in the startup sphere, the talk of being a founding engineer in a unicorn is excellent! If that’s not the audience you intend to reach, then it’s akin to an automotive designer discussing about how much downforce they generated through a modest angular adjustment to a spoiler design’s leading edge, while in the midst of casual conversation - lost in translation to anyone outside their field.