<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>Loughla</author><text>&amp;gt; Big smile, nice suit, lots of self promoting bullshit. And then people start calling it charisma and flock to it and we end up in the realm of populism and fad instead of getting shit done.&lt;p&gt;This is the world we live in now. Self-promotion and public relations are the controlling factors in most large decisions I see in my profession (higher education) that it&amp;#x27;s just, well, sickening.&lt;p&gt;It seems like, across most fields, public relations and how we are perceived is far more important than the work actually getting done.&lt;p&gt;If you can wrap up a shit sandwich in a pretty bow and sell it, why worry about the quality of what you&amp;#x27;re selling?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s depressing. Honestly, it drags me down on a daily basis to see people who plainly have no function except to be self-promoting and who can play the PR game get ahead consistently.&lt;p&gt;And the best part is, it&amp;#x27;s an impotent rage. What is there even to do about this? I have no idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I mean, I&amp;#x27;m visiting it because it showed up on HN high enough for some reason. It&amp;#x27;s not like I reached out to find him. And now he&amp;#x27;s in my face and I&amp;#x27;m annoyed. I guess you could say I have anger management problems but these guys give off such a &amp;quot;punchable&amp;quot; vibe. Big smile, nice suit, lots of self promoting bullshit. And then people start calling it charisma and flock to it and we end up in the realm of populism and fad instead of getting shit done. Just remember that bitconnect guy; people ate that shit like chocolate santas</text></item><item><author>harperlee</author><text>I agree with your skepticism, and I think it is healthy, but on the other hand what is being said in the post is sensible.&lt;p&gt;The best way to read this, or most of the internet really, in my opinion, is as if he were a friend, a colleague, family or an acquaintance, not as an authority; you listen politely, nod and smile, and reflect&amp;#x2F;research on  your own on what it seems useful.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the web enabled anyone to write, and this guy should not self censor just because that advice could be given elsewhere by a more authoritative role. It is his personal blog that we are visiting! If you were talking to a friend over coffee&amp;#x2F;beer about an idea that seems important to you that he hears, wouldn’t you be energetic, perhaps taking an “authoritative” tone? Not far-fetched!</text></item><item><author>kungito</author><text>Sometimes I wonder how I would turn out if I did organized people stuff like this. What bothers me is these life advices always feel like bullshit. Like, check this guy out. He has his own website with a title &amp;quot;Den Zhadanov\nTechnology. Productivity. Inspiration.&amp;quot;. This is life coaching 101. He writes about how burning man didn&amp;#x27;t change his life and has pictures of books on beaches. How does one take this person seriously? Can someone read this crap and think &amp;quot;Yeah, I find this guy to be honest and want to take his opinion seriously.&amp;quot; I get that he&amp;#x27;s a Forbes 30 under 30 but personally it all smells way more like hustle than some profound knowledge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I read books: a guide on how to learn</title><url>https://denzhadanov.com/how-i-read-books-a-guide-on-how-to-learn-a943123a4aeb</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>pelario</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m with you.
I mean, already the title perspires arrogance. I&amp;#x27;m not going to click on it, even though there might be good advice there. I probably have already heard it and probably will heard it again from someone without that attitude.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I mean, I&amp;#x27;m visiting it because it showed up on HN high enough for some reason. It&amp;#x27;s not like I reached out to find him. And now he&amp;#x27;s in my face and I&amp;#x27;m annoyed. I guess you could say I have anger management problems but these guys give off such a &amp;quot;punchable&amp;quot; vibe. Big smile, nice suit, lots of self promoting bullshit. And then people start calling it charisma and flock to it and we end up in the realm of populism and fad instead of getting shit done. Just remember that bitconnect guy; people ate that shit like chocolate santas</text></item><item><author>harperlee</author><text>I agree with your skepticism, and I think it is healthy, but on the other hand what is being said in the post is sensible.&lt;p&gt;The best way to read this, or most of the internet really, in my opinion, is as if he were a friend, a colleague, family or an acquaintance, not as an authority; you listen politely, nod and smile, and reflect&amp;#x2F;research on  your own on what it seems useful.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the web enabled anyone to write, and this guy should not self censor just because that advice could be given elsewhere by a more authoritative role. It is his personal blog that we are visiting! If you were talking to a friend over coffee&amp;#x2F;beer about an idea that seems important to you that he hears, wouldn’t you be energetic, perhaps taking an “authoritative” tone? Not far-fetched!</text></item><item><author>kungito</author><text>Sometimes I wonder how I would turn out if I did organized people stuff like this. What bothers me is these life advices always feel like bullshit. Like, check this guy out. He has his own website with a title &amp;quot;Den Zhadanov\nTechnology. Productivity. Inspiration.&amp;quot;. This is life coaching 101. He writes about how burning man didn&amp;#x27;t change his life and has pictures of books on beaches. How does one take this person seriously? Can someone read this crap and think &amp;quot;Yeah, I find this guy to be honest and want to take his opinion seriously.&amp;quot; I get that he&amp;#x27;s a Forbes 30 under 30 but personally it all smells way more like hustle than some profound knowledge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I read books: a guide on how to learn</title><url>https://denzhadanov.com/how-i-read-books-a-guide-on-how-to-learn-a943123a4aeb</url></story>