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Comment by dpapathanasiou | Hacker News Reader

Altucher doesn't get a lot of love on HN b/c he embodies the worst of the excesses of the dot-com bubble, and his continual "Follow me on Twitter" exhortations in this piece are annoying, but most of his points in this article are actually good.

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why do i embody the worst of the excesses of the dot-com bubble? I try to help people as much as I can with my posts and ask nothing for it.

"I needed to make one hundred million dollars pretty fast." http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-ar...

Dude, it's written to be humorous and he's sharing the experience of the time.

Aside, I enjoyed this blog post of yours, good reminder. http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=438

Hmmm... maybe, but take a look at the comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134720 I tend to agree with Colin Percival and others.

Just looked at the comments, still like the post. There's sharing of experience, what he did wrong and why, humor, and lessons learned.

We agree to disagree. Despite his occasional sensible points, I can't say I respect him.

I disagree. I've taken the time to read all his blog posts, each one. I've found that level of value from his blog. What he does that's beyond most bloggers out there - he freely shares how he's screwed up, what's he's learned and is learning. The guy is smart! It's refreshing and I've learned a lot from reading his blog.

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