<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>This is a good HBR article on the topic, &amp;quot;Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;stop-reading-lists-of-things-successful-people-do&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;stop-reading-lists-of-things-success...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most analyses show unsuccessful business people do all of the exact same things that successful business people do, at least when it comes to the sorts of things you find in these books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Survivorship_bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Survivorship_bias&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;p&gt;Also: it&amp;#x27;s quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not you become profitable, in which case their book recommendations may or may not be useful.&lt;p&gt;And finally: did these founders read these books _before_ they became profitable, or afterwards? As the website says: &amp;quot;a few [succesful founders] weren&amp;#x27;t into reading books at all&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Books recommended by profitable founders</title><url>https://microsaashq.com/insights/founder-insights-books-recommendations</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kkoncevicius</author><text>Survivorship bias - yes; but I think it&amp;#x27;s still better than getting recommendations about books and productivity systems from people who do nothing but peddle advice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Survivorship_bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Survivorship_bias&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;p&gt;Also: it&amp;#x27;s quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not you become profitable, in which case their book recommendations may or may not be useful.&lt;p&gt;And finally: did these founders read these books _before_ they became profitable, or afterwards? As the website says: &amp;quot;a few [succesful founders] weren&amp;#x27;t into reading books at all&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Books recommended by profitable founders</title><url>https://microsaashq.com/insights/founder-insights-books-recommendations</url></story>