Hacker News with Generative AI: Success

The game designer playing through his own psyche (newyorker.com)
A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success.

Video Games, Psychology, Design, Success

141 points by FinnLobsien 10 days ago | 99 comments

1k True Fans (2008) (kk.org)
To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Creative Industries, Success

7 points by Tomte 11 days ago | 2 comments

Don't compete (invertedpassion.com)
The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping, eating, smiling, chatting with friends, and spending time with your cat.

Life, Success, Comparison

41 points by paraschopra 12 days ago | 15 comments

How to Let Go of a Product You've Built with Passion (leadinginproduct.com)
There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success, it becomes clear that it’s time to move on.

Product Management, Letting Go, Success

15 points by benkan 20 days ago | 0 comments

What Makes Technology Good? (thomaslemstrom.substack.com)
I like the simple word ‘skill’. A skill is not just a trick—it’s what enables survival and success. Many things are skills. Reading is not just words—it’s a way to unlock the world. Selling is not just a hustle—it can be the power over your fate.

Technology, Skills, Success, Reading, Selling

7 points by thomaslemstrom 24 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)
Like a lot of successful people, he’s world-class in some dimensions of intelligence but deficient in others.

Elon Musk, Intelligence, Success, Human Behavior

5 points by doener 31 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)
Like a lot of successful people, he’s world-class in some dimensions of intelligence but deficient in others.

Elon Musk, Intelligence, Success, Personalities

18 points by robinhouston 36 days ago | 10 comments

Yes you built that but at what cost? (abhinavomprakash.com)
You tighten the last screw on the bridge. Feeling triumphant you raise your hands and cheer. Your crew cheers. The bridge is five years too late but it is done. The people you started with are no longer with you. But they were traitors and disloyal people. “Tough times don’t last, tough people do” you utter to yourself, rationalizing the loss of your entire team.

Management, Leadership, Team Dynamics, Success, Cost

9 points by lazyfolder 46 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: If I am so smart, why I am not rich? (ycombinator.com)
I grew up very modestly, borderline poverty. None of my extended family/friend went to college, I was the first one to graduate from college later in life.

Personal Finance, Education, Success, Social Mobility

19 points by LeoDTO 64 days ago | 49 comments

Hidden Champions (wikipedia.org)
Hidden champions are relatively small but highly successful companies that are concealed behind a curtain of inconspicuousness, invisibility, and sometimes secrecy.

Business, Companies, Success, Management

9 points by aragonite 71 days ago | 1 comments

'Everything we were taught about success is wrong' (theguardian.com)
Made good life choices yet still feel dissatisfied? A life coach suggests an alternative way to look at our goals and aspirations to find more positive outcomes

Success, Life Coaching, Personal Development, Psychology

17 points by jethronethro 76 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"? (ycombinator.com)
I am constantly amazed by the output of certain people, often ones with some public visibility, for example active in open-source.

Software Engineering, Productivity, Open Source, Success

13 points by theappsecguy 110 days ago | 23 comments

Why Do Some People Succeed After Failing, While Others Continue to Flounder? (kellogg.northwestern.edu)
A new study dispels some of the mystery behind success after failure.

Success, Failure, Psychology, Research, Studies

9 points by paulpauper 111 days ago | 8 comments

Why overplanning makes projects fail? (sanju.sh)
The funny thing about success - it usually shows up when you least expect it. Let's talk about why.

Project Management, Planning, Success, Productivity

43 points by spikey_sanju 118 days ago | 31 comments

You only compete with one thing (world.hey.com)
There's so much chatter and advice out there about how to handle "the competition".

Competition, Success, Productivity, Philosophy

7 points by blueridge 159 days ago | 1 comments

Is it better to fail spectacularly? (danielmangum.com)
Three weeks ago I wrote the following draft of a blog post entitled “Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?”.

Failure, Success, Opinion, Blog Posts

120 points by hasheddan 164 days ago | 118 comments

Why Is Elon Musk So F'ing Successful? And how do we do more of it? (jacobrintamakiblog.substack.com)
“What have you gotten done this week?”

Success, Entrepreneurship, Elon Musk, Productivity

14 points by sebg 167 days ago | 30 comments

Clever, Brave, Persistent (camhashemi.com)
I wonder: is there anything more predictive of success than being clever, brave, and persistent?

Success, Personal Development, Motivation

32 points by 1penny42cents 185 days ago | 18 comments

When To Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
In fact there's an edge case here so spectacular that it turns all the preceding advice on its head. If you want to make a really huge amount of money — hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars — it turns out to be very useful to work on what interests you the most.

Entrepreneurship, Success, Money, Startups

245 points by underdeserver 185 days ago | 213 comments

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? (2018) (technologyreview.com)
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

Wealth, Success, Luck, Economics, Investment

61 points by jmsflknr 188 days ago | 73 comments

Words on Founder Mode (randsinrepose.com)
I’ve worked at three successful start-ups and one failure. I’ve also worked at post-IPO successes such as Borland, Netscape, and Apple, which means I’ve seen a lot of different founders who, if you measure success financially, were quite successful.

Startups, Business, Leadership, Success

42 points by Spoom 198 days ago | 9 comments

How to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You (2014) (businessinsider.com)
When asked for advice, comedian Steve Martin likes to say, "Be so good they can't ignore you."

Self-Improvement, Career Advice, Success, Motivation

4 points by squircle 203 days ago | 0 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide (subtledigressions.substack.com)
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. One has to wonder how many songs have been written that didn’t have a Jeff Buckley to rescue them from obsolescence. How many manuscripts and artworks lay in forgotten places, lost to us and future generations?

Music, Arts, Death, Success, Genius

170 points by Curiositry 207 days ago | 101 comments

Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman (sigops.org)

Ethics, Computer Science, Gender, Success

64 points by thread_id 209 days ago | 75 comments

Adequate Sleep Is Necessary for Sanity and Success (ryanholiday.net)

Sleep, Mental Health, Productivity, Success

56 points by jseliger 263 days ago | 27 comments

The Right Kind of Stubborn (paulgraham.com)

Persistence, Success, Motivation

557 points by urs 268 days ago | 238 comments

How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD (science.org)