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A comment on Ask HN: What's Wrong with Penny Pinching?.
1) The author uses "penny pinching" to mean something other than its common definition[1].
2) By definition, the rich don't need to be concerned with pennies.
3) While not getting lost in minutiae is a good thing, not caring about details is not optimal in all circumstances.
Statements such as
> The best generalists have a very specific way of being so.[2]
and the blog post seem to constitute part of a personal branding campaign.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168440
[2]: https://twitter.com/sean_a_mcclure/status/142650253938255872...
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1) The author uses "penny pinching" to mean something other than its common definition[1].
2) By definition, the rich don't need to be concerned with pennies.
3) While not getting lost in minutiae is a good thing, not caring about details is not optimal in all circumstances.
Statements such as
> The best generalists have a very specific way of being so.[2]
and the blog post seem to constitute part of a personal branding campaign.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168440
[2]: https://twitter.com/sean_a_mcclure/status/142650253938255872...