HACKER Q&A
📣 jesuscript

How did you all figure it out? Since your so smart


How did you all figure it out? Since your so smart


  👤 inphovore Accepted Answer ✓
We are not all actually “so smart.” Though some of us operate with varying cognitive advantages.

Here’s what worked for me…

In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.

Success is a function of persistence, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, application, willfulness, doing it. Do not forget that.

Everyone is a pathological lier, stop listening to whoever the hell that is.

Simple truths, no matter how boring or unpopular are better in the long run than made-to-believe, whatever it pays.

Oh, and do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it. If you haven’t noticed, everything else is over leveraged.


👤 mac3n
I used dogs. I used probes. I used cardioplate crossoffs. I used teepers. I used bribery. I used stiktytes. I used intimidation. I used torment. I used torture. I used finks. I used cops. I used search&seizure. I used fallaron. I used betterment incentive. I used fingerprints. I used Bertillon. I used cunning. I used guile. I used treachery. I used Raoul Mitgong, but he didn't help. much. I used applied physics. I used techniques of criminology.

(with apologies to Harlan Ellison)


👤 pettycashstash2
It’s you’re not your. :) but seriously be specific in what you want figured out.

👤 helph67
You gotta know the odds and the Pareto principle may help.

👤 amalgamated_inc
Trial and error.