> Has it ever occurred to you that the way you are interpreted is because thats how you portray yourself. Yes, of course. What I'm saying is that I don't delib

> Has it ever occurred to you that the way you are interpreted is because thats how you portray yourself. Yes, of course. What I'm saying is that I don't deliberately portray myself like that. It's very difficult to get tone right in internet communication in general, and I don't have that solved, and nor do most people. 3) Sure, there was lots of guilt at the time. We lost $25K that belonged to small-time investors, as well as spending the $20K YC gave us. As well as that, we promised lots of things to lots of people, which we didn't deliver. I'm not sure it's what motivated the post though. The post certainly wasn't targeted at the people we felt we had failed. 4) But who would we be apologizing to, and why? 5) I really wasn't trying to assign blame. I was rather trying to be as forthright as possible about the causes of our failure. Assigning blame would be ridiculously difficult anyway. Who would be to blame for the breakdown in relationship between my co-founder and I? Both of us? Neither of us? Just him, just me? None of those are really satisfactory answers, and even if they were, there's nothing to be gained from them. > you did give up. you were three month in to it. We were about 8 months into it, but I think this doesn't affect your point. What I'm trying to say is that you're trying to assign a pejorative label ("giving up") to something which doesn't merit one. > -- now, thats just condescending and disrespectful though It must be possible point out stuff like this without the assumption that I'm being condescending, which I'm not (at least not deliberately, see above). > Actually, theres a bit of irony that you comment on the fallacy of "startup work is more important than anything else" I didn't love what I did anymore, I was waking up dreading the days work, so this seems to be exactly on point.