Well let me first start of by saying I respect you and what you have done so far. --but your response itself is symptomatic of what you have demonstrated on my

Well let me first start of by saying I respect you and what you have done so far. --but your response itself is symptomatic of what you have demonstrated on my post and the sentiment I have initially outlined. 1) You said: I didn't intend the post to come off as arrogant, nor the replies to be defensive. I guess it's very hard to know what impression you give to people. Reply: This is the same notion you expressed about how people/press have perceived you. Has it ever occurred to you that the way you are interpreted is because thats how you portray yourself. The impression you give people are at least 50% your responsibility and waving the flag of ignorance doesnt absolve you from that responsibility. Hey dont get me wrong. I love guys like you, because your confidence/arrogance makes me sleep at night, cuz hiring guys like you is what its all about! 3) I agree with you on this. And I think its ok and great that you vented. But you must at least concede that there was an undercurrent of emotion(such as guilt) that motivated the post -and it eventually permeated thru the carefully chosen words. but yeah... sucks! 4) Maybe an apology enmasse would be good for therapy -maybe cathartic 5) But, you did assign blame. At least thats how it read. And I can only assume that is what you intended, since you have demonstrated your effectiveness with words. you did give up. you were three month in to it. you basically decided to do something else than NewsTilt. And I think that is by definition giving up. Theres no other perspective to it. there is no other way to interpret it. You start to do something, and three months in to -you stop; thats giving up. I think you've fallen into a fallacy I see a lot on HN: that making the startup work is more important than anything else. -- now, thats just condescending and disrespectful though, im sure you are very wise in your grey old age. -but; Family, friends, life and love are ALL important. And yes, Startups too. Actually, theres a bit of irony that you comment on the fallacy of "startup work is more important than anything else".. because/// on your post.. you get chastised and you defend yourself for saying: "...but startups need that kind of work ethic from very early employees–exactly the reason that intrinsic motivation is so important. If your first employee doesn’t love what you do, doesn’t wake up each morning dying to work on HIS product, you have likely chosen poorly, and that’s exactly what we did." * Anyway...