Let's mock Ramit

Posted at 6:57 on Friday February 17, 2006 | Filed Under

Lots of people have bookmarked IWillTeachYouToBeRich on del.icio.us, the social-bookmarking site (What's del.icio.us?). While there are lots of nice comments ("Great blog for personal finance and investing," etc), there are some smartasses on del.icio.us. Check out their descriptions HAHA:

"some asshole Stanford graduate writing about how he's better with money than you are"
"To-the-point budget advice from a cocky Stanford kid."

Aww yeah. Make your own description: Add IWillTeachYouToBeRich to del.icio.us

Update: The descriptions have started rolling in. My favorite: "I was going to leave a comment, but it was too much of a barrier."

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Comments (13)

1.: Here's what I said:

"The ever sexay Ramit laying the smack down on business and economics. w00t!"

Posted by Jonathan at February 17, 2006 07:27 AM

2.: Any PR is good PR, right?

Posted by Flexo at February 17, 2006 07:35 AM

3.: Is this del.icio.us stuff really all it's cracked up to be? I haven't used it, but it doesn't sound that appealing to me.

Posted by Mike at February 17, 2006 07:36 AM

4.: It's addictive when you start to use it. Imagine being able to save random pages you browse for future reference. You can assign multiple tags (finance, interesting, etc) and browse your own stuff later! Well, it's addictive to me.

Posted by Ramit Sethi at February 17, 2006 07:40 AM

5.: It take a little while to get your head wrapped around the idea that bookmarks could be so cool and useful. Try it for a month and you'll see how useful it is.

Posted by Make Love, Not Debt at February 17, 2006 08:15 AM

6.: Aw, rocketman and syntheticpubes are just jealous. My favorite comment was "The world is not Darwinian."

Posted by nichole at February 17, 2006 08:52 AM

7.: "There are plenty of money advice sites out there, the sad truth is that all the others huff mad dongs. Read this site!"

Posted by Rick at February 17, 2006 10:29 AM

8.: Nichole: That's the name of an article I wrote!

Posted by Ramit Sethi at February 17, 2006 12:03 PM

9.: D'oh. See how your genius shines through. :)

Posted by nichole at February 17, 2006 01:15 PM

10.: You do sometimes come across as a cocky asshole. In fact, you probably are a cocky asshole. But hell, cocky assholes are doing everything cool these days. People just don't like to be hearing "Not only am I doing really cool intelligent stuff, but you can too, but you're not."

Posted by Dave at February 17, 2006 06:27 PM

11.: Wouldn't it be more cocky/asshole-ish for you to simply brag about how you handle money, rather than going piece by piece, article by article trying to explain to your fellow young adults on how to manage it themselves?

"Haha! I've got money strategically saved and invested, and you don't. I'm not tellin' how I did it, either!"

Posted by KMulligan at February 18, 2006 09:38 PM

12.: another explanation could be that being a contrarian pays. if ones wants to be noticed - especially by the person the comment is about - one has to say the opposite of what the crowd says.

hence, with few people trashing you, you must be heading in the right direction.

Posted by Kirubakaran at February 20, 2006 01:07 PM

13.: "Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds." - I think that sums up those comments

Posted by Mike Grossman at February 22, 2006 10:53 AM

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