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“Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech | Ian Betteridge”
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/14/founder-mode-hackers-and-being-bored-by-tech/
> But the other reason why the whole founder mode thing is a hot mess is that Paul Graham is entirely wrong about management and leadership
Not going to go and read Graham because every time I have I come away thinking it was dumb and thinking less of everybody for linking to it, but this looks like a solid take on the overall thing
> I doubt that commentators who love technology are bored with tech. But I do think we are bored with blow hards like Graham being the centre of attention, of hype cycles, and of huge corporations that are more interested in boosting revenues through digging moats and buying off potential competition.
> what Neil is detecting isn’t boredom, but dismay. If you lived through the excitement of the 80s and 90s, [..], it’s difficult to [..] get excited about the future of the industry.
@vladimir_lu@hachyderm.io@baldur This is spot on, and as a practitioner in tech this is exactly where I find myself (because I think those get-rich-quick people should go and live on Mars for a while)