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by dsugarman 4y ago
It's not really disingenuous if you look at it from another perspective that you really are a team. It's generally productive to try to position things from the same side of the table rather than opposing sides of the table. It&#
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by dsugarman 4y ago
"I told you so" has no value to a conversation, relationship or business results. 100% I think it can be very productive to say something like "hey, I'm a little upset because I tried to get ahead of this problem and t
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by dsugarman 4y ago
My frame of reference on this topic is that my family is mainly medical doctors and I started and run a yc backed Series A stage startup. In my experience, the administrators are often doctors at hospitals and people all the way to the top
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by dsugarman 4y ago
Even if publishing the underlying algorithm isn't useful, they should be able to do research on what the end result of endless a/b testing has created in practice. I'm sure you could find the highest level heuristics and tha
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by dsugarman 4y ago
At some point we need to start talking about the pandemic's short and long term effect on mental health, especially in children. We need to somehow remove the political and emotional lens in evaluating the efficacy of policies across
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by dsugarman 4y ago
They are for sure risk adverse and they for sure act like sheep. Most VCs would agree with that in private, if not about themselves, about the space in general. They all like betting on hot startups in hot spaces, there's a lot of bi
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by dsugarman 5y ago
When this happens I generally pause and say something like I just said X, what did you hear? If that doesn't work then I throw out a hypothesis like it sounds like you heard Y, is that right? Once we agree upon what I said and what th
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by dsugarman 5y ago
>Does anyone know how to refer these people to law enforcement for prosecution? Your best bet is probably to contact the office of the Illinois State Attorney General.
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I assume there is some level of exaggeration here? If not, it might help to actually try this. Take an aggregate of 15 interviews in the next couple of months and you're bound to learn something. My hypothesis would be some new empathy
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by dsugarman 5y ago
exactly, this line in particular sounds ridiculous with those counter examples in mind. >In this product-led world, folks won't simply use whatever tool they're given. They want to use the same tools at work as they choose to u
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by dsugarman 5y ago
Yes Instacart, although Kevin Systrom did visit us for one of the weekly YC dinners to share his wild startup story. Easily the most memorable summer of my life. I agree that even though we were told everything was falling apart at our bat
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by dsugarman 5y ago
Here is evidence of your conclusion that they are into Russian propaganda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30514215 If you read through their other comments, they are doing everything they can to spread pro-Russia misi
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I've taken a minute to read through your other comments after referring people to state run propaganda on this one, and it's a whole lot of misinformation about the war. I have my own thoughts on your account origin but either way
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An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire(oohbleh.github.io)
170 points by dsugarman 5y ago|67 comments
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I could totally understand how you would read it that way, it's true that I don't know exactly what he would empathize with, but the point isn't to be fake, it's to be genuine. It's not that you are feeling imposter
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by dsugarman 5y ago
Your broader post shows that you actually care to someone soliciting feedback and I know you didn't solicit any yourself but I hope I could add some value. You're trying to give the gift of perspective but the tone is just awful t
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by dsugarman 5y ago
There's a lot here, I just want to respond to one small thing and not central to your larger post but genuinely hope it's useful. Networking events are not a good place to make meaningful relationships, period. People are going in
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I'm having trouble following your logic, if productivity is defined as revenue per labor hour, and you're saying this is due to the anti-work movement and labor shortage, that's decreasing the denominator. Or are you saying w
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Zentail (YC S12) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers in Columbia, MD(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by dsugarman 5y ago
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by dsugarman 5y ago
This article really vibes with me in general and is just a great piece of content. I was a little disappointed in the examples though, running a course is an MVP and delivering a meal is an MVP. MVPs don't need to be software, in thes
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by dsugarman 5y ago
Why are you assuming that means you need to make 400k / yr, you could make 50k in salary and sell stock worth more than 350k
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by dsugarman 5y ago
>"do children need vaccinating at all, or does a lifetime of encountering build a good immune defence?" >"However, he said the argument in children had "already been won" as "40-50% have already been infe
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by dsugarman 5y ago
"You're wrong to feel this way" is a ridiculous notion, one I had to personally unlearn. Emotions aren't right or wrong and you can't control them. Disregarding someone's emotions as wrong has exactly one resul
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by dsugarman 5y ago
This was brave self exploration and a lot of empathy for others, I strongly resonate with everything you said. I think these surveys of people saying they feel more productive at home are taken as law right now but it will look different o
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I'm pretty sure if this was a comment on HN it wouldn't meet the guideline standards, one snarky comment after another, "Stupid Reasons", "Sounds like you hire clowns".... The only reason this flies is that at
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by dsugarman 5y ago
I read it as I didn't understand how my actions were received, how I made you feel, that was not my intentions and I let other shit going on in my life feed into my grievances of that meeting. I always had so much respect for you that
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Zentail (YC S12) Is Hiring a Director of Growth Marketing in Columbia, MD(ycombinator.com)
1 points by dsugarman 5y ago
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by dsugarman 5y ago
The author doesn't present a single logical argument that I could follow. The entire piece is just hand waving with a self proclamation of logic. I'm confused how this could reach the front page of hn. My best guess is people ju
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by dsugarman 6y ago
I think your list is probably the right list for getting a high paying job but pretty wrong for being an effective developer. I think that's what you were saying in a cynical way anyway.
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by dsugarman 6y ago
Congrats on the launch and excellent writeup, I learned something new today!

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