DelaneyM

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by DelaneyM 10y ago
"optionality bias"
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I can't help but feel career plans, even inherently flexible ones such as the 80000 hour plan, discourage serendipity and encourage sunk-cost thinking. I'm not saying this is a bad idea, just that for the specific HackerNews demo
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
How many chief diversity officers do you see cruising through the mission in their new Teslas? Visibility equals neither impact nor income.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
In my personal experience people are far more eager to pay lip service to diversity than dollars. Though since both hypotheses support the same conclusion I'm not sure it matters which is correct.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
This is the reasoning. It's enormously exacerbated for female founders with young children. And God forbid you be pregnant or planning to have more.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
It's a tiny minority with a higher-order impact: * A small subset of the startup ecosystem is implicitly/explicitly biased. * A larger subset of the startup ecosystem recognizes that fact, and won't invest in diverse founders
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
> What is the consequence of coming out to gay men? Out gay people are both more likely to out someone and more likely to have complicated feelings about others preferring not to be outed. > What counts as absolutely necessary? It&#x2
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
An alternative is to say things and let your friends pass them on anonymously. Things very wise and/or experienced VCs/founders have told me which I'm sure they wouldn't publish, which I have valued very much: * If you
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
"Books" is also not a static category. Just like the way we consume movies has changed to adapt to technology and taste (3D, lux theatres, etc.), the book business has innovated as well. Amazon is printing books at the edge for ra
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I agree that's a better interpretation, but this is a post for an audience to whom that's not necessarily the most obvious way to read it. I'd hypothesize that diversity is both among the best qualities to have in one's
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I doubt we disagree as well. But (as said in OP) I am disappointed in how he's framed it in this particular think piece. The casual reader without out-of-context knowledge is unlikely to pick up on the nuance, and he's missed a g
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Hah - if I'd changed my name so often for malicious intent, instead of family & marriage reasons, it'd probably be much more rationally arranged. Not having a canonical "real name" is a giant PITA.
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
It's the "people like you" which I disagree with, and the presumption that you should choose those who you trust and respect from that group. That's probably not what Sama means, but it's what is technically advised
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I empathize with the "find your tribe" concept, but am deeply disappointed by how sama has framed it here. > You want to find your tribe – the types of people like you that you can imagine working with for the rest of your ca
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
The problem isn't just discrimination/harassment (though that's huge - I used to use a male pseudonym on my github & stackoverflow accounts, and still do on medium.) It's also just pragmatically impossible. I have c
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I wonder how much the emergence of fintech is affecting this trend? Debt is a powerful, but often fairly complex, financial instrument. Much like venture capital. The difference is that most folks in the financial industry are intimately
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
For any ES6-ers around here: le=>(f=>f(f))(f=>le(x=>(f(f))(x)));
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Trump invites tech leaders to roundtable next week(usatoday.com)
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Canadian Exceptionalism(opencanada.org)
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I'm a CTO and active developer with a Harvard MBA, and I think you're nuts. Not because the opportunities you see aren't there; they are. Not because management isn't losing its lustre in tech companies; it is. But bec
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Early hires should be solely dictated by the needs of the business. That said, I hear where he's coming from. It's nearly impossible to build a great sales team if you, yourself, don't know sales. Ditto for ops, product, bu
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
> > I'm not willing to work with an investor who wouldn't respect my marriage to my wife, or think I deserved equal pay. > And what if Peter Thiel did say this? What gives you the right to set what you consider to be the
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I'm a gay female entrepreneur. I would be happy to work with, or take investment from, Peter Thiel. I believe Peter Thiel is acting in what he believes to be the country's, or possibly the world's, best interests. I also be
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
FWIW: I have interviewed twice at Google for Dir. Eng. jobs, both times going the distance. (Once rejected after a few weeks, once received an offer two months later, too late to accept.) In those interviews, I was never asked a seriousl
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I'm a female founder. I go to a handful of woman-only events. I don't go because I need or want any special accommodation for gender, nor do most other women I know. We prefer woman-only events because attending mixed events is m
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Which is exactly what makes an A/B test on age based on resume call-ins implausible.
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Who puts age on a resume? But if you're suggesting age as measured by years of experience, that's supposed to be the most relevant deciding factor, so...
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I found overwork to be an issue when I began managing large (20+ engineer) teams. Unlike clients, it's not easy to set boundaries with employees. If something is preventing their forward progress, or a decision needs to be made, my no
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by DelaneyM 10y ago
I don't think there's any indication that the bottom 99% commit fewer crimes or require less policing.
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It's curious/disappointing that none of the respondents suggested that a good criteria for joining a startup is being on the founding team. That may not be in the spirit of the question, but I've found that the best way of fi

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