Stavros. You need to detach a little bit, get a 10,000m view. You've got something, you can be successful. But your approach is "out of whack" and people aren't going to support you. Conform to influence.
I was going to upload a nice screencap from a 1988 movie They Live to IMGZ and link it here, but it turns out my trial expired so no link for you.
EDIT now the site disagrees and tells me I already paid. That's one growth hack.
The joke has expired so still no meme image for the parent poster. I appreciate the explanation, though.
That's because I upgraded you, so you look upgraded to it.
actually, conform to influence doesn't mean that. It means, to influence a group you need to be part of the group. To be part of the group, you need to first conform to the group.
Stavros would prefer not to conform, and doesn't care if that means he doesn't influence.
Although... ironically he is probably one of the more influential HN posters. Now, profitable, I dunno, do you really mean "conform [in order] to profit", does "influence" just mean "exploit" [in the economic sense. mostly] now?
Can we conceive of someone who would rather not conform and in fact would rather not exploit?