> limit your availability to effectuate your will in the world.

It might limit his ability to effect his will in the world, but I see his availability as unchanged.

Not if that boorish behavior alienated their administrative assistant.

Thanks for proof reading for me.

What do you feel when you make a comment like that? Satisfied at your intellectual superiority? Confident in your status as someone able to see what’s right? Proud of yourself that you “tell it like it is”

Have you ever stopped to think about the prices you pay for that behavior?

Let’s game it out. You don’t know me. I could be Paul Graham for all you know. I could be the person in the world that would unlock the very door you need to open to get what you’re working towards. I could be someone totally vulnerable and insecure and end up cascading into despair based on your comment.

That being said. I thought it was a funny comment.

> That being said. I thought it was a funny comment.

This is very passive aggressive. You should think about how you communicate to people.

Not really passive. I made my position clear. I can take a joke and wasnt offended. It's also true that such behavior has a cost. Your interpretation that I offer that perspective to hurt them or defend myself is inaccurate, I actually want to help improve people, so it was actually an act of kindness.

Your first paragraph is just a barrage of personal insults.

Your second paragraph is playing the victim while you just acted the agrresor in the previous.

Your third paragraph seems to make it sound like you have a point but it essentially boils down to we are all strangers on the internet. And okay?

If you had just written the last sentence, i would have respected your comment much more.

I know i am just a stranger but we are talking about perception and self help here. And from what I've read, i am not leaving with a positive perception of you based on your comments sorry.

Your interpretation was that they were meant as insults. They weren’t. I was asking a question about their intentions with several posited motives. Based on the statement, I wondered how they were feeling and I invited them to engage in self reflection. I don’t care if they were having those feelings, and I don’t think anyone is wrong for those types of feelings. It’s just that there are consequences to acting on those feelings in the way that they did.

I don’t think anyone is a victim or an aggressor. Both people do something to contribute to any conflict and are responsible to acknowledge what they did as the first step (see my previous post).

The point that we are strangers is that 1. he is making assumptions on incomplete information and expressing it with confidence that is unwarranted and 2. For all he knows I could be someone that, in real life, he would regret alienating like that.

As far as your opinion of my comments, your perspective is as valid as mine. I am curious, what do you think my positions are? What do you think my intentions are in this thread?

That's fine, but at least I don't sound like a Linkedin serial entrepreneur.

I cant respond to your last response, probably because it was flagged. But I'll say, after looking at your other posts that drip with disdain and what appears to me to be arrogance masking self loathing I hope you recognize the price you pay for speaking to people that way. You don't know me, who I am or what I have done. And life isn't about the transactional potential of relationships, but saying something like "i guess the prompt engineer thing didn't work out" on hacker news is naive and risky. There are world class engineers, VCs, senior execs and beginners that will end up doing amazing things. Your behavior has consequences for you and the world.

Maybe, but you're gullible enough to buy self-help books, so you'll probably lose any money you make in a crypto scheme.

Your pattern matching couldn't be further from the truth. I am in the krugman camp on currencies and economics generally which is to say I have been a long term skeptic of crypto since the beginning.

I am not a failed prompt coder, I personally built am a health care ehr that integrated a wide range of legacy tech well before AI as a coding agent was a glimmer in anyone's eye.

I say that in the hopes that you understand your insults are missing the mark so maybe it's time to update your wetware.

Ironically, I can think of a half dozen self help books that you appear to be desperately in need of, given your nasty comms here.

But you’re too smart for all that, right? So smart you spend your time trolling anonymous people online lol

Like Paul Graham or dalton Caldwell or half of YC? We are all serial entrepreneurs

I guess the prompt engineer thing didn't work out huh

I think you're arguing with a trollbot

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