What is it about the 'entrepreneur' (can we really still call it that?) that makes him so susceptible to this kind of endless, self-perpetuating chaff? What cultural force or common characteristic has led so many website founders to believe that they should bloggers, to believe that by becoming bloggers that they are writers—and perhaps most dazzlingly, to constantly consume and recirculate self-obsessed, content-free articles like this one, which say nothing of any substance and only recycle the same increasingly thin air first breathed by Guy Kawasaki 20 years ago? What is it about this class of businessperson that its members could hang out in a place called Hacker News, spend a non-trivial amount of their time solving subtle, difficult puzzles of design and development, and somehow also dive face-first into these lowest-common-denominator, sub-Tony Robbins schlockfests with such gusto and frequency?
<p><pre><code> 1. Nobody fact checks
2. Procrastination kills
3. Shipping something awful is still a numinstance of "shipped"
4. Writing is easy when I write about what I like and know
5. Making a plan and sticking to it is now a .hack
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Sorry for the pedantic response, but when an article trolls us, I want to return the favor.