evanwarfel

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by evanwarfel 11y ago
Ah, perhaps. Our systems will only improve to the extent that someone takes the inherent issues on as personal problems. And in some sense, what we are saying is that systems with metrics that are only shallow proxies for actual success (ci
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by evanwarfel 11y ago
+1 The state of Academia in the softer sciences is now a negative feedback loop -- as the system gets worse, the only people who are attracted to the system are those incapable of making it better. The people who have the capability for sel
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
I think it's time to replace 'Make something people want' with 'Solve a problem that people have'. This works regardless of if people can cogently articulate their problem.
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
There is one, and only one reason to be 'data driven'. Or to test one's hypotheses, for that matter. And that is to make sure you aren't fooling yourself; that you haven't fallen prey to the myriad cognitive biases;
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
Good to know that YC doesn't seem to be affected by biased selection process. The low overall percentage of minority or female founders is a reflection of the current state of society, which, alas, isn't where it could be.
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
Updating one's beliefs to get more accurate priors is something we should all strive to do. There is no such thing as having two beliefs of equal weight that contradict each other - that's an illusion created by either applying a
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
I have a hunch that impostor syndrome is also a symptom of poor / unempathetic* management - while the implication that there might be something 'wrong' with the individual may or may not be true, I would not be surprised if
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
It's not so much that pg has a different definition of 'meanness', it's that he has a broader notion of 'success'. If we define successful as playing the capitalist game well, then sure, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg,
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by evanwarfel 12y ago
It's subtler than a facial tattoo, louder than the startup-school after party, and it looks gaudier than be-sequined sliced bread.