For anyone interested the tl;dr, here it is: smart people aren’t necessarily happier because intelligence mostly helps with well-defined problems (logic, puzzles, work tasks).

Happiness depends on poorly-defined problems (relationships, meaning, values, identity).

Being good at solving structured problems doesn’t equal being good at navigating the messy, ambiguous ones that actually determine well-being.

Oh well

It's even worse than that. If you try to apply pure reason to a problem like meaning or values - because you're conditioned to approach any problem this way - the results are often outright depressing.

"Join thousands of developers, founders, and indie hackers who are sharing knowledge and building amazing products with vibe coding." but you just made this.

Thanks so much, Moti! Would love to answer any questions if you've got any.

Hey folks, I'm around to answer anyone's questions :)

Love that you took something that meta wrote about but didn't actually release and then... did it for them haha :)

I lol’d

OP here: curious to see what the community thinks and to answer any questions!

Pretty close naming to Little Snitch - the Mac network monitoring tool!

I assumed that was intentional (rat being slang for snitch)

haha yes, I called it Tiny Snitch at first, but it's too close.

I respectfully disagree with the latter part (as for the former, you’re obviously free to like or dislike anything :)). I think we should each play to our strengths - and this is especially true in marketing. If this is what ends up grabbing someone’s eye where they would have otherwise ignored it, then good for the author. It’s unusual to launch a startup at that age, and therefore (in my view) interesting and merits discussion.

Agreed, if anything, I actually would have liked to hear a little more about the author, given the title.

A lot of startups have founder backstories weaved into their pitch. 'Who are you, and why are you doing this?' can be an interesting story to tell.

Hello, yaseer. Thanks for your comments. Actually,here is my linkedIn profile.[1] I have had a wonderful life to date. Like everyone else, wonderful achievements and devastating disappointments. Life comes at us hard sometimes. For me I have always believed I did the best I could with the information I had available. So when something bad happens, its never the end of the world, so it isn't the event that is important, it is how you respond to the event that is important. I'm happy to wake up in the morning and realize that I am just a small grain of sand on a very big beach.Thanks for asking. [1]https://www.linkedin.com/in/dearmontydotcom/

Hello, cutemonster. Yup. You can when you enjoy what you do it is not work. Go for it. Richard

Hi,yuvalkarmi. Thanks for weighing in. I appreciate it. Richard

Thank you but I know how clickbait works and I prefer my hacker news without it.

I've seen dall-e being able to imagine additional parts to an existing image along with a prompt, I'm sure it's possible. But probably not with this amount of creativity.