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I appreciate the remark, that said Speaking as a person whose gone to some of those schools.... That doesn't make me feel excited. While I learned a lot in th
by carterschonwald 13y ago
I appreciate the remark, that said
Speaking as a person whose gone to some of those schools.... That doesn't make me feel excited. While I learned a lot in those envs, they were toxic and homogeneous in many ways.
Also I'm deep enough in some OSS ecosystems these days that I already have the pleasure of being the (in my mind) slacker in a community of amazing technologists.
Heterogeneity and brilliant folks who are wildly different from me, who I can still communicate with, are how I thrive. Variety is good for the brain!
I'm not in any way suggesting YC isn't great for most folks. I'm pretty weird, being an general extrovert and a deep technologist in the same day is a really odd combo. Both as a help and hinderence