How to Keep Winning
12 comments
·November 3, 2025dosinga
hashemian
I donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. Some had a breakthrough and ended up being a huge win. But I'm sure there are many many more who just ended up nowhere. So, I guess it's a gamble.
chistev
If you persist and win, they'll write good things about you. If you lose, they'll say you were stubborn.
chistev
But how would you know when you've gotten to that point of trying something else?
BeetleB
"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots"
tester756
It reads as if written by teenager...
>For me, I would stand there and keep reciting difficult words. And although I was slightly dyslexic, I still won every freaking spelling bee. With this simple trick, I dominated it so much to the point that my teachers, who loathed me for being a slacker, once tried to rig it in favor of their obedient A-students (I still won).
>I used to be a pro gamer, and when my friends and I picked up a new video game, everyone would follow the game's instructions and do the obvious thing. On the other hand, I would explore the edges of the game. I'd explore every weird build, every different weapon, and frankly look like a noob for a long time. That's good. They'll underestimate you. But you're compounding. And eventually, you'll go vertical, creating a massive distance between you and the next participant before they know what hit them.
You just put way more effort, that's it. That's the real advice - put effort into things and make consistent progress. Be curious.
>Think of Apple and how taking privacy and security seriously—despite competing against Microsoft, which didn't care about either at the time—created a lasting consumer trust advantage.
Yea, because Apple is saint :D
smy20011
Just don't play the game have winner and loser. Play the game that both side can win.
4ndrewl
At first glance I thought this was just an extended "Live, Laugh, Love" style post, but it's more of an autobiographical piece about what worked for the author - albeit with examples retrofitted into the chosen categories, and clearly not generally applicable.
renjieliu
Not knowing who the author was until now. I just read some articles from the website. For me, he's like Derek Sivers. I will keep reading his posts.
skeeter2020
Can't be bothered to read these type of posts as too many of them are AI-generated, low value beige. Major tip-off: the numbered headings could all be t-shirt slogans.
dpark
These sorts of blog posts existed before LLMs. I don’t understand why every bit of low value content is attributed to AI now. Humans have been generating low value content for millennia.
scubbo
It's just another CE-bro spouting the same "_success is inevitable if you keep trying, failure is forgiven and survivable_" survivorship bias propaganda. You're not missing much.
This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.