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Epic!

I think the social-media meets brick and mortar environment you predict is going to happen one way or another whether it's FB or someone else.

Frankly, it all makes business sense. Apple's decisions today are all part of their strategy to increase the pie, increase their piece of the pie, and create new pies.

People are analyzing the shit out of Steve Job's decisions as of late, but when you look at it from a business perspective, objectively, it all makes great sense.

Furthermore, Steve Jobs does not answer to the tech community, at the end of the day he answers to only one group of people: the shareholders.

*Note: I know that he is a major shareholder himself, but the point is still valid.

This is why I F*ING love hackers.

You're better off finding a skilled developer who also does design rather than vice-versa -- it will be easier for you to judge his design skills (which are his secondary) right off the bat from his work samples than it will be to judge his development skills.

My opinion is biased though, as I am a developer myself. I think intelligent developers have enough skills to pick up Photoshop/Illustrator and hack together great designs, granted you give them guidance, inspiration, and a few examples of styles that you dig.

I really like the idea, I could see this becoming a platform that would quickly get acquired by a large news organization.

I agree - you seem like a smart cat, best of luck with YC.

Did this guy toss in the subheading "The Magic Bullet Secret To Getting 17 million followers in 3 hours!" in order to pull in some search engine traffic on that phrase?

Thanks for sharing your experience and giving us some useful insight. Just based on your whole approach to the process and dealing with the rejection, I think you will be fine with or without the YC experience.

best of luck

I think that physics class was the highlight of our freshman year :)

I agree on the lack of rigor, but I think this was intentionally written this way. I think one of their goals is to disrupt the reader's assumptions on what comprises a business.

Yup! I think most people are in the same boat. My original intention was "OK, if my 2 cents about this book motivates someone to go out and buy it, I guess Amazon could share a few cents with me" but now I see that this lumps my review into the "sales" and "ad pitch" department.. and that is not what I intended.

In any case, as you can see from my tumblr blog (narekk.com) I do not write or post much. I may, however, post meaningful things in the future. HN readers gives great feedback.

This is true. The last thing I want to do is offend the community.

I would use your disclaimer suggestion, but the few dollars that my Amazon link would generate is not worth offending HN readers. Getting feedback, creating discussions, and contributing to the community is more important here.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jfornear, my review was well intentioned. But I've removed the link anyway.

Wow, did not think people would get offended by that. Amazon link has been removed :)

Would love to here what others thought about the book as well.

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I think the sheer number of helpful responses this post has received indicate the absolute value in the Hacker News community. If you are reading this or have commented here, I respect you -- me and you are a part of a great community.

In regards to this post, I can connect with you, kksm. You are certainly not alone, it's common to find yourself overwhelmed, especially if you, like myself, are ambitious and love to take advantage of opportunities.

Unfortunately, the downside to this type of ambition is that along with a few great things you make take up, you often take up many "bad" things. By "bad" "things" I mean tasks or projects that you are not motivated to do, or as others here have described, "do not align with your life goals and motives."

I want to repeat JustOnce's suggestion, diligence is critical. Diligence is the mother of success. Look at all of the responses on here--it is evidence that what you are trying to resolve is an issue many people deal with.

Good luck, and don't ever give up. Divide and conquer. Fight for what you love, it is my guess that you are not stupid or lacking any passion in what you do. You may simply be taking on more than you can chew.

Hahaha, thank you for posting this! It's fun going back and reading journalists' predictions.

This is rediculous, I'm just glad to see that this has resurfaced and people are taking notice.

Great stuff man. I recommend you change the sample copy that you used to something more relevant (i.e. programming/web dev related) so your google ads are more relevant.

Certainly being a web entrepreneur is considered "not following the herd", but within the "not following the herd" there is also two paths, and one is indeed another herd. I love his philosophy, do not follow the herd. Do your own thing.