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Your high IQ will kill your startup

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41 pointsRBerenguel22 comments

That's quite a flamebait title for something that is just reiterating the classic "hard work counts" theme.

i'd point out that this is pretty common for his posts.

I agree, but look at how many comments on the post. Perhaps there are some parallels to selling to customers, what matters not is what you have, what matters is how you color it?

Until the buyers catch on

I think he just wanted us all to know that the article would be relevant to us.

Flatter and insult your audience in one sentence: it's the greatest attention-grabbing trick since... I dunno, boobs.

Your high traffic will kill your site.

It was already discussed in the past:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166638

I wasn't aware of it... HN should give a hint of resubmitted content as Reddit does :/

I do this before I post: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:news.ycombinat...

It pays to be smart eh?

I look for the direct link, in case the title was changed:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombin...

I'll try to remember doing it from now on. I always thought HN had a "no duplicates" search like reddit does. I was wrong.

It seems it also kills blog posts.

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NHOzY_o...

This was already posted, debated. It was part of a two week session of people posting about how being smart was a detriment to one's ability to be successful.... I suspect there are many smart / successful people who do not agree.

The title of this article is absolutely irrelevant to the actual arguments presented therein. He never argues that a high IQ will kill your startup. He only argues that not working and avoiding problems could lead to the destruction of your startup. Which, of course, is patently obvious, even to someone who isn't intelligent at all.

A high IQ won't ever kill your startup; being a highly intelligent person can only help you. Don't be so sensational with your titles.

2010/07/21 15:02 Zulu time:

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Same here, half an hour later.

Your cheap server will kill your startup?

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one should be smart not intelligent.

So will too many fap breaks or a bad meth habit.

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