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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by AlchemistCamp on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:43PM (#23287674)
> 4. People buy aspirin always. They buy vitamins only occasionally and at unpredictable times. Sell aspirin.

This one is strange to me. I've bought vitamins regularly for 20 of the past 25 years and haven't bought Aspirin (or Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, etc) even once during that same time period.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by goatherders on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:22PM (#23287921)
Its metaphor for "people buy solutions to problems they have much more than they buy preventative care."
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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by wenc on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:50AM (#23291884)
Illustration purposes aside, I've interestingly never bought or taken aspirin in my life, and I'm middle aged.

Aspirin seems to be a generational marker -- people under a certain age have likely never encountered aspirin. It's like the 3.5" floppy disk Save icon -- most people of the current generation know what it means but they've never seen the real thing.

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