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541.
by lisper 2y ago
Sure, but at this point, YC is a pretty big echo chamber. And for an individual inside the echo chamber, Paul's words can hurt more than most.
542.
by lisper 2y ago
> did you have any plans what to do with that freedom? Yes. I was going to solve really hard problems without any pointy-haired bosses standing in my way. I was specifically going to solve AI. > So interested to learn if it was that
543.
by lisper 2y ago
> it's not that big of a problem to the people that would need to solve it That's not wrong, but it misses the point. It's not worth the bank's time to solve it, but for me it would produce a pretty damn good ROI.
544.
by lisper 2y ago
Smart Charter. I think that might still be a viable business even today, though I have not really kept up with the industry so I don't know. Ironically, today I have a part-time consulting gig at a company designing network switches,
545.
by lisper 2y ago
Thanks, but my motives for leaving were a lot less kudo-worthy than you might think. When I left in October 2001, success was far from certain. If I knew then what I know now I probably would have stayed, and I probably would have put a l
546.
by lisper 2y ago
No. That's another long story. I think bitcoin is basically a scam. (That's another essay I should probably write.) This is not to say you can't make money at it. People make money on scams all the time. One might argue
547.
by lisper 2y ago
Because I'm not a bizdev guy, so when my partner, who was the bizdev guy, had to quit, and we had no customers, the odds of success seemed too low for me to deem it worth the effort to continue.
548.
by lisper 2y ago
In conversational English, the phrase "He's just a guy" carries an idiomatic meaning along the lines of, "This person is no different from anyone else. He has no special power or influence or insight." And that mi
549.
by lisper 2y ago
> there seems to be a common theme around not believing in the idea/product/people too deeply, thus leading to faulty or mis-step execution. would it be right to say that? Not sure whether you're asking whether that sentim
550.
by lisper 2y ago
> What a fun read. Thanks! > I hope you'll try again! Thanks for the encouragement, but I just turned 60. Running a company is too demanding for me to try it again. My ambition now is to be a writer and find an audience that wa
551.
by lisper 2y ago
I suppose a truer test of character would have been if I had not had one big win fall into my lap that offset all the non-wins. But one of the messages I was hoping to convey is that one's life trajectory includes a lot of randomness.
552.
by lisper 2y ago
See https://blog.rongarret.info/2013/02/a-simple-solution-to-cre... That's actually the start of a multi-part series: https://blog.rongarret.info/2013/02/a-simple-solution-to-cre...
553.
by lisper 2y ago
> why the hell those two? Good question. I could probably write an entire essay about that but the TL;DR is that I thought that tenure and financial independence were the roads to freedom, which is what I really wanted. I also really l
554.
by lisper 2y ago
Author here. AMA.
555.
I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts(blog.rongarret.info)
547 points by lisper 2y ago|313 comments
556.
by lisper 2y ago
The word "just" in the GP implies that the author did intend for them to be mutually exclusive.
557.
by lisper 2y ago
> He's just a guy. A guy who entered into business transactions with a number of people Unfortunately, that's not true. He is also a well-read and influential essayist. He wields power and influence through his words as well
558.
Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space(arstechnica.com)
5 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
559.
by lisper 2y ago
> The haplodiploidy hypothesis, though nice, is not without its problems. Firstly, there are plenty of species with haplodiploid genetics which do not form eusocial colonies. That is not a problem. Reproductive fitness must always be me
560.
by lisper 2y ago
Yes, exactly. The first time I used booking.com it was because I was trying to book a particular hotel in an under-developed country and the hotel's web site wasn't working so I had no other option. I then had to cancel the rese
561.
by lisper 2y ago
I mostly agree with this, but with two exceptions. First, I've had surprisingly good experiences with booking.com (no affiliation, just a satisfied user). And second, if you're booking a cruise, it's actually better to book
562.
by lisper 2y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity.
563.
These Are the Worst Cities in the World to Live in [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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I Am (Not) a Failure: Lessons Learned from Six (and a Half) Failed Startups(blog.rongarret.info)
1 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
565.
by lisper 2y ago
Or just remove the parens. They don't really add (much of) anything. (See what I did there?) Or maybe: "... trying (unsuccessfully) to succeed..."
566.
Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
567.
The southern California fire event was accurately forecast on Jan 4(weatherwest.com)
4 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
568.
by lisper 2y ago
Conservatives have been known to be a wee bit hypocritical from time to time. (To be fair, liberals can too, but IMHO conservatives are more adept at it.)
569.
by lisper 2y ago
No, they aren't boring at all. I love reading them. And I don't fall asleep reading other things, like news articles or fiction. But my brain's response to seeing Greek symbols is to fall asleep.
570.
by lisper 2y ago
Heh, I often fall asleep reading technical papers. I always thought that was normal, but now, hearing all this, I'm starting to wonder. Maybe narcolepsy is another spectrum disorder.

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