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hugh3 on April 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ultimate Guide To Getting Nowhere In Life

I don't know. It's really just a cheap trick that makes half-assed advice sound much cleverer than it really is. But it works!

chipsy on April 19, 2010 [–]

We need to go one step further and make inverse inverse guides: "How to not fail at not failing" etc.

smwhreyebelong on April 19, 2010 | [–]

Funny you say that. pg used an inverse-inverse title for his 2007 Startup School talk. It was titled :"Why to Not Not start a startup"

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

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