I had a different takeaway - that a lot of folks on here read Ben Thomson and respect his work! It sounds like Ben is pretty bullish on OpenAI and maybe he's convinced folks through his work to agree with this take.
This is just a roundup article (though there are still some good nuggets about Sora vs Meta's app.) Looking forward to another HN discussion purely driven through article title vibes. With nothing mooring the discussion, you know it's going to be "good".
I do like stratechery but this is a roundup newsletter and not an article. If the HN thread gets engagement it will likely be based on the headline and not any of the articles in the roundup.
Ben Thompson bopped around doing engineer things at Apple, Microsoft, and Automattic, until more than a decade ago he started this subscription newsletter with business-of-tech kind of analysis. The success of his paid newsletter gave Substack the idea [0].
A fair chunk of the tech who’s-who seem to find his thinking useful.
I've seen articles from this blog over the years and every time there are a bunch of comments referring to the author on a first name basis. As far as I can tell he's a guy who posts a bunch of hot takes on finance/economics/markets/etc. and I guess is very well known to a core audience that might overestimate his name recognition to other people who might just be seeing something on the front page of Hacker News without recognizing the source.
There's nothing inherently wrong with comments referring to him with by his first name, but I don't think I've ever seen a similar pattern with any other sources here outside of maybe a few with much more universal name recognition. It's always struck me as a little bit odd, but not a big enough deal for me to go out of my way to comment about it before now.
Anecdotes are only a datapoint and nearly meaningless by themselves. For a great many others just the stratechery.com website alone is enough to get a view and an upvote.
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A fair chunk of the tech who’s-who seem to find his thinking useful.
[0] https://www.vox.com/2017/10/16/16480782/substack-subscriptio...
saghm|4 months ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with comments referring to him with by his first name, but I don't think I've ever seen a similar pattern with any other sources here outside of maybe a few with much more universal name recognition. It's always struck me as a little bit odd, but not a big enough deal for me to go out of my way to comment about it before now.
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