Many people think they will get will become millionaires if they follow the style of person X.
Person X is like a trial in which a coin was tossed 10000 times and got 6000 heads.
Since there is no information about the others persons, the others trials, many choose to follow the illogical thinking that they will succeed in the same way.
I remember a comment by google people, they said something in the lines that they prefer not to employee many valuable people because they being out are better for IT progress.
If YCombinator culture is too strong, it may damage the necessary diversity in people conception of a startup.
A good group of people need a lot of small differents groups in order to explore the landscape of startup opportunities. So let's hope that YHacker influence doesn't grow to excessive influence.
I have a Ph.D. in Math and CS, but never worked in IT. I like to think about problems and how to solve them. I like to learn and enjoy hobby programming and coding in Python, Ruby or Lisp. I think I don't really need a job, just some challenge to solve.
As I posted in The Next Social Winter, measuring is difficult and learning to measure complexity is a key factor to avoid catastrophe, from the New Science of Morality Pannel:
Harvard cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher Joshua D. Greene sees our biggest social problems — war, terrorism, the destruction of the environment, etc. — arising from our unwitting tendency to apply paleolithic moral thinking (also known as "common sense") to the complex problems of modern life. Our brains trick us into thinking that we have Moral Truth on our side when in fact we don't, and blind us to important truths that our brains were not designed to appreciate.
Summarizing: we are using Paleolithic moral thinking, that is we are not addressing the real complexity of moral thinking.
Clearly the story is not about being Smart. More in the lines of: you can get a dog job if you learn to bark. But then don't complain if you are not a dog, don't ask for meat and eat the bones that a dog eat.
In a real world of webs applications and jobs for the net, macros are a dream for another universe. Php people don't dream, they step by step are making what macros can't do: expanding their universe. Joomla! they say.
To be a king you only need one crown. Magic moments are magic because they are the exception to routine days, not the rule. Coin too many gems and their will be transformed into simple rocks.
Many people think they will get will become millionaires if they follow the style of person X.
Person X is like a trial in which a coin was tossed 10000 times and got 6000 heads.
Since there is no information about the others persons, the others trials, many choose to follow the illogical thinking that they will succeed in the same way.