Sam Altman posts uninspiring list of advice. What would you add to this list? \ stacker news ~culture

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I disagree with number 7 but found number 15 🤯

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 22 Dec 2023

Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.

What do you disagree with? I know you well enough to know you don't think bureaucracy is good.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 22 Dec 2023

and get other people to fight it too

this part, getting people to do your bidding is wrong imho

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 22 Dec 2023

Do you think that's what he means? I read it as "when you're running a corporation with thousands of employees, instill in the culture a distaste for bureaucracy."

309 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 22 Dec 2023

Obviously, I don't have his experience, but I suspect getting people to trust you because you pay them is really not the best advice. Especially when it comes to helping you "fight bullshit," they should want to do this because they believe in what you believe. Otherwise, be the change you want to see, and they will follow.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @bataroot 23 Dec 2023

It's missing number 18:

Act like a dork, so you can hide your creepy agenda to collect personal data under cover of solving the biggest challenge of our times: proof of personhood.

https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/introducing-world-id-2.0

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 22 Dec 2023

Did you mean inspiring?

687 sats \ 2 replies \ @roytheholographicuniverse OP 22 Dec 2023

This post was titled poorly, but I did in fact mean uninspiring. Not to say there weren't pieces of good advice in here (I love YC/the YC ethos), but found myself feeling pretty disappointed with this one. I wonder what PG's list would look like or yours @k00b !

444 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 22 Dec 2023

I don't know enough things yet.

One reason you might be disappointed with Altman's list is that it doesn't seem earnest. I think it's a great list of things to know, but I'm not sure it's the list he'd hand to a younger self and expect it to land. Many of them are cliches and probably had been told to him. They just require more experience to appreciate.

Great advice is generic and borderline axiomatic. These are all rather specific and easy to dismiss as being non-applicable.

888 sats \ 0 replies \ @roytheholographicuniverse OP 23 Dec 2023

@k00b you articulated all the strangeness I felt upon reading his post and put it into perfect clarity for me -- you even articulated things I didn't know I felt -- but upon reading your thoughts -- realize I do feel. Thank you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pi 31 Dec 2023

I was actually very much inspired by #4...