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Comment by sombremesa | Hacker News Reader

This read to me like it belongs on reddit's /r/iamverysmart. Looks like other content from this author [0] is also not well received on HN.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868558 (too bad the actual site is down)

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I find the author's direct expression of his egotism refreshing, and I don't need to worry about his hidden motives as much.

Well, I suppose that's something, but it feels like faint praise to me.

You just explained the appeal of Trump in one line.

Thanks for sharing that subreddit, I'd never heard of it before. It reminds me of reading hackernews :D

I found the read all over the place with a good helping of ego.

Honestly my main thought reading this was "no wonder their books didn't create the result expected" There is no order to the article, it starts out good, then morphs into the matrix, then a history lesson on phylosophy"

If true, the things they have achieved are "AWESOME" and "FANTASTIC" but the rant came off kind of "AWE-TASTIC"

I wonder if there may be some value in them hiring someone else to "Recompile" the books they wrote to make them more palatable. Of course I have not read the books, they may be page turners. I just wanted to offer something constructive instead of just putting them down.

the site is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20101105111623/http://www.erasma...

Thank you. It's kind of sad to read this, though in a way that's probably unintended by the author.

Looks like the page moved, this is the new URL: http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/sixty.html

That was hard to read, it doesn't feel like someone who is mentally stable, clinging on to an idea he once had. Sometimes you have to listen to the world, adjust your ideas and move on, maybe he should have listened more to the world instead of expecting the world to listen to him.

I understand what you meant, and it makes sense to majority of people. However, I'd argue that the ones who actually change the world are those who do not listen or adapt to the world. This is true because in the end most of us adapt to whatever is given or presented to us by the world.

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