Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
by gottagetmac on Friday July 26, 2013 @02:22PM
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What are you talking about? PIH is the Myles surrogate in that conversation. He's making fun of Startup Guy for thinking that anyone who does what he (Myles) is doing is "unethical or lazy."
Oops...apologies to Myles if I mis-read this - I thought he was mocking the PIH, taking the side of the startup guy.
Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
by gottagetmac on Friday July 26, 2013 @09:38PM
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Myles in fact does have a small one-person low-intensity startup off which he claims to make 5 figures per month. And don't you notice how he makes his lifestyle sound really good, and the startup guy's judgments seem silly?
The funny part here is that you read this and actually agreed with Startup Guy for almost all of it. (From the rest of the comments it seems like a lot of HN did). That's part of his point, I guess.
Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
by jreinholdt on Sunday July 28, 2013 @09:39AM
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I made the same mistake. Maybe we are so used to other people being super skeptical to what we do? See you in Prague ;-)
I think we can all agree that there are multiple ways to approach startups.
The misstep Myles makes is to assume that one approach is somehow superior to another, and then take the further step of insulting everyone who is striving for something different than what he sees as the best option.
We all have opinions on this topic, and it's an interesting discussion to have. But let's try to avoid dogma and judgment.
What's right for your unique situation isn't necessarily right for the 100,000 other people with similar ambitions, but who may be in vastly different life situations or just have different goals than you do.
Oh, and call me when you're 40, married with 2 kids and a mortgage, and you're coding Perl for a bank because none of your startups made you the millions that TechCrunch promised.