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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Beautiful, educational and clever. I love it. On the subject of fireflies and emergent patterns, RadioLab did a wonderful podcast on the subject as well a few years ago: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence&#x
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I am not a CIA field agent, but I know a few. Those I know tend to be risk-averse and methodical, and decidedly not overtly badass. That said, I've never "shared a foxhole" with an agent, so maybe I just don't have a fu
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Anecdata: We've had a mix of ~40 t2.u & c4.l instances running for a year with no downtime. Our i3.4xl has fully borked twice (memorable when we lose the ephemeral drives and need to reconstitute the analytics data). Though it wil
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"Salary" and "organizational breadth" are pretty objectively measurable things, and are what I'm using as a measuring stick. Also: "her"
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Comparing MBAs' & undergrads' experiences is specious, at best. And if you're comparing other graduate students against MBAs, the recruiting process for MBB is exactly the same. (source: I did my time at McKinsey, the &
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
I suspect that for a population of 80k with a relatively low variability, n=300 is more than enough. One of us needs to brush up on their stats...
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> I have to ask. In your opinion, is access to this network really worth the cost of going through the program? Not even close to worth it. Networking is pretty easy and the vaunted HBS network is very bloated. I'd still do it agai
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
My data point is the observation of three years' grads, n > 3000. Or hell, just the ones I knew well in my year, n=200 or so.
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
It's a good two-year summer camp at a time in our career when we're all racing towards our first burnout, and a good opportunity to hang out with other high-achievers. It's also the lemming effect... HBS is a rung on the &qu
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
> The top management consultancies, the top investment banks and private equity groups are full of HBS grads. You think they all would have got these jobs without going through the HBS process, networking with their peers and alumni who
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
I have a Harvard MBA ('14, sec C), and where this whole argument falls apart for me is the idea of "The Golden Ticket". The author is confusing correlation with causation. My MBA has had virtually no effect on my opportuniti
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
"Scotia" is Latin for the island now known as Ireland, and though it inspired the name "Scotland" it has never technically been a translation thereof.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
"Prima Scotia"? (We (Canada) have a province already named Nova Scotia, roughly translating to "New Scotland".)
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
This article assumes naive founders and doesn't mention the many situations wherein convertible notes and (especially) SAFEs are very advantageous to the founders. I wonder which situation is more common?
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Is it possible to get a React component implementing these suggestions? I appreciate the thought which went into this analysis, and it'd be particularly helpful to have an implementation.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
No bankers, but we do have a rather dapper gentleman pushing (over?) sixty. One of my strongest leads.
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I'll just cut to the only relevant question in your reply: > So, unfairly discriminating against people makes them "the most capable individuals for the roles they assume"? Yes, it does. If you find a woman with ambition
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
To those expressing concern that this proposal represents "reverse sexism" or is anti-meritocratic: Merit is equal parts nature and nurture. "Pushing women into positions of influence" can also be interpreted as identif
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
People who don't "look" like typical programmers always deserve a second look. This is the one hiring maxim which has never steered me wrong, and also provided a very diverse (and really fun!) development team. :)
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
A woman in HR is still in HR, she's responsible for protecting the company from employees (and not the other way around). A woman as her boss' boss is responsible for the health & effectiveness of the team, and is likely to be
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I hate stories like this, because there's such an easy solution: hire more women. Nobody should ever have to work with a single-gender reporting tree; in the five or so steps between each individual contributor and the CTO there should
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Ah, thanks. You're completely correct - their CTO did leave, but he wasn't a founding CTO.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
We hear about co-founder dynamics a lot in the startup community, and I wonder if the traditional business/technical dyad exacerbates conflict? I am a technical co-founder, and that means I build things. In a conventional co-founding
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I find the idea that this is all some Machiavellian scheme somewhat reassuring. It would imply a level of competence we haven't seen in conservative leadership (this group in particular) in decades. I mean, it's not like their ev
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Manufacturing -> programming (particularly superficial web programming as taught at a bootcamp) seems like an awfully impractical leap for those people currently affected by this labour transition. Manufacturing -> augmented materials
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
During the worst of times we fail and try again later. The goal is to win in decent or better times, so I optimize for that. And honestly, keeping it professional removes the emotional overhead of a deeper relationship. I don't need
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Experienced, and reasonably successful (3 exits) technical cofounder here: Sales. Experienced, demonstrable sales excellence. Ideally selling things of comparable size to similar customers as my venture. We should get along well, I suppos
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
You seem to be describing donating to the EFF. That's good, I support the EFF. But an EFF which gets to negotiate my salary for me? No thanks. I'll keep donating to the EFF and just not join the union, thanks. Without colle
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Speaking as a manager, it's better for you to leave before than after. I'd want to know that the right team is in place to support a product before releasing it, and once it's out there's no reigning it back in.
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Adversity is an illusion, relatively. I'm known as a relatively unflappable person who excels under pressure, but that's not entirely true. The reality is that after spending a few years in my teens couch surfing and sleeping und

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