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by bgroat 5y ago
This is where I learned it, and it's why I'm much more forgiving of leaders than most people I know. Which isn't to say they should be unaccountable. But these are people who make impossible choices all the time
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is inline with what I was thinking, but the Type 1 and 2 Decisions that a child comment outlines enriches my post in a way that I really appreciate
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by bgroat 5y ago
I had never heard of these Type 1 or 2 Decisions, but this is absolutely where my head is at. And it can be really hard for someone who loves to code to realize that this is primarily their job now. And they're always going to be kind
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by bgroat 5y ago
Is it possible that you're not making the "right" moves because you're the CTO? Leadership is hard and it's hard because you're making bayesian calculations on suboptimal choices. Almost by definition. Say
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by bgroat 5y ago
I think this is Mullvad's stance too.
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by bgroat 5y ago
I always roll my eyes when crypto bros roll out the argument that BTC would bring peace because there's an immutable record of who owns what. I can still just seize the factory, ledger be damned. Or deploy a military to seize your priv
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by bgroat 5y ago
I think it has to do with too many products being companies. If your SaaS company is one product, then you HAVE to keep developing, and tweaking, and optimizing. If you claim you're "done" you have to downsize to a maintenanc
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by bgroat 5y ago
I agree with this. But why not waterfall out 90 days then? Or 75 or something
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by bgroat 5y ago
I like that it makes Jesus seem like a fun guy. Here's a guy who socially hangs out with a hooker while passing no judgement, and who's first documented miracle is turning water into wine. This SOUNDS like a guy you'd want to
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is basically why I still hold a whole BTC. I'm something of a collector of bullshit hype tech
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by bgroat 5y ago
But hasn't it been pretty trivially manipulated by people tweeting? Sure, I could manipulate USD by seizing control of the Federal Reserve, but BTC can be manipulated by tweets from laser-eyes
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by bgroat 5y ago
Which is awesome, but I Algorand is < 0.5% of the crypto-ecosystem
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by bgroat 5y ago
The problem is that PoW is hurting everyone via greenhouse emissions.
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by bgroat 5y ago
Headline - I agree with you. Just retire, or do something else. You own the shares. Fine Print: There's still some screwy stuff they can do diluting your shares in particular.
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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm also a fund manager, and I also agree with it. That said, "Fund managers/economists have successfully predicted 9 out of the last 4 crashes!"
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by bgroat 5y ago
Not the OP, but I thought it was well known. That said, I do a lot of SEO work. Still, it should be best practice to define any acronym or initialism the first time you use it
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is the best case for a CEO/CTO relationship. The CTO shouldn't be writing code, it's too low leverage. But they must be ABLE to write the code at least 80% as well as the best person actually writing. The CEO should be s
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by bgroat 5y ago
Finding Nemo as as a live-action film with people would be amongst the scariest concepts imaginable. A young couple is expecting twins and moves into a respectable neighbourhood. In a home invasion the wife is killed, one of the twins are l
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by bgroat 5y ago
Is there an email list where I can subscribe for information about this book/pre-order?
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by bgroat 5y ago
What's helped me is getting really comfortable to the fact that the things around me are never really real. They're either wholly manufactured (dreams), or partially manufactured (flawed senses and biases). This tends to make me v
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by bgroat 5y ago
90% of lucid dreaming is just becoming extremely aware of your surroundings, and your experience of your surroundings, and whether they're real. Once you find out a few times that they aren't it can pretty fundamentally change s
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by bgroat 5y ago
I don't have skin in this game, you're probably right. All I know is what Lewis thought on the matter.
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by bgroat 5y ago
I have a bit of a backdoor experience into mindfulness through my background in lucid dreaming. And I completely agree that people need to handle their psychic health before they go down these rabbit holes. Reality can get very fuzzy for an
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by bgroat 5y ago
That's not strictly true, RE: Lewis. His opinion was even cooler. Basically, Jesus was either: - A liar - A lunatic - The Lord And any three of those is incredible and worth learning about. He's either a crazy person who founde
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is another big point. "Liberty" is a wonderful lag measure, but a terrible lead measure. The only thing you can really do to immediately create more liberty is deregulating. But in a world without laws, the only law is that o
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is my big problem with anarcho-capitalists. God didn't come down and give us governments. We started without order and survival based on individual output. And every single living thing beyond a threshold of intelligence agreed th
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by bgroat 5y ago
You're absolutely right from a narrative sense. I meant that writing a believable normal person is hard. Most people are normal. But writing a smart person is hard, because you often just have to have them solve problems faster/re
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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm also Canadian and thought the very same thing! I also really liked how he dialed in: - Okay, so I use X unit when I thing of A, and Y Unit when I think of B.... But what kind of person am I that I know those values off the top of
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by bgroat 5y ago
A normal *smart* person. Which is even more rare. The chapter where he deduces where he's from based on what units he uses when he thinks about distance is incredible.
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by bgroat 5y ago
I used to believe that media representation didn't matter. After all, fictional characters are fiction, why should I expect them to look like me? Then someone pointed out to me that my favourite super-hero was Spider-Man because Peter

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