[SandersAK]

“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“

These sort of ideas telegraph that the author knows they got rich but don’t actually understand how they got there.

[tyre]

I think this is generally true of Naval.

He tweets these vague pseudo-philosophical koans, things that look fine as 280 character retweets. It's fine for self-branding and he's certainly played the genre well.

But that middle ground between advice directly relevant to a practical question and a nuanced, deeply investigated ethical framework isn't as self-helpful as marketed.

It's those things people read and _feel_ like they've done some life-work today (and perhaps that's what people really want.)

As you point out, much content by well-known, materially successful people is a post-hoc constructed narrative to explain why they are where they are.

[dang]

Ok, but please don't post shallow dismissals to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[SandersAK]

This isn’t a shallow dismissal. I’m literally quoting a part of the piece that is absurdly bad.

Would it be edifying for you and others if I explained why I think suggesting that a smart startup employee should not be doing the CEO’s laundry?