Hacker News with Generative AI: Success

'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 1 day 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 36 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 36 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 44 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 84 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 89 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 92 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 111 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 111 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 113 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 124 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 128 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 133 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 134 days ago | 75 comments

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

Sleep, Mental Health, Productivity, Success

56 points by jseliger 188 days ago | 27 comments

The Right Kind of Stubborn (paulgraham.com)

Persistence, Success, Motivation

557 points by urs 194 days ago | 238 comments

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