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[SilasX]

Yes! I had previously noted how Holmes was, in many ways, taking the HN/SV memes seriously, in believing:

- that an entire industry has been doing it wrong

- that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup

- that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down

- that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it"

- that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice

- that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes

- that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068536#12071172

[return0 → SilasX]

I remember watching an interview where she actually said those things. I would be suspicious with a person who talks like that.

[GabrielF00 → SilasX]

This actually sounds a lot like Donald Trump's campaign message.