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by mizzao 5y ago
Can you share some of the better discussions and resources you've found for this?
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by mizzao 5y ago
I seem to have similar issues and personality as you. I co-founded a startup last year and started at a frenetic pace, but was unable to turn myself off. Over the last 3-4 months, the insane productivity was replaced by constant anxiety whi
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by mizzao 5y ago
Can you share more about how the current job market is different than usual?
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by mizzao 6y ago
Is it possible to bootstrap a consumer startup in the same way as a B2B SaaS? Seems a lot harder, given that revenue from day one is not easy.
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by mizzao 6y ago
By that argument...the faster the world is changing, the bigger of an advantage generalists have. There's even a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
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by mizzao 6y ago
> I would actually go so far as to say that the best "IC turned managers" I've had have been about at par with the most mediocre "good people mgrs that didn't come through coding for that role", and the peop
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by mizzao 6y ago
Here's a good argument why the dots will connect eventually as long as you keep doing interesting things. One of my favorite books: https://davidepstein.com/the-range/
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by mizzao 6y ago
This is generally spot on. Also, in my last life I only used LinkedIn when I needed a new job, but as a startup founder it became far more useful. The #1 feature is "who do I know that can give me a warm intro to person X?" This r
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by mizzao 6y ago
Yep, the Dyson might perform worse in some tests but the box fan is very noisy, and I hate noisy fans... especially for sleeping.
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by mizzao 6y ago
That gives a 404.
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by mizzao 6y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_%28video_game%29 - spent many hours here when I was younger. There is a reverse engineered version that is still running here: http://fre
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by mizzao 6y ago
> repair your marriage instead of finding a new partner. There are two ways to think about this. The first is that once your car gets too broken to repair, you should just ditch it and get a new one. The other is that once your arm/
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by mizzao 6y ago
Is this a private cable that only connects Google datacenters? If so, too bad for open, neutral Internet.
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by mizzao 6y ago
Yeah, I think I'd have reacted pretty defensively / pooh-pooh if I hadn't transitioned out of an academic career into trying to start a business. Instead, I'm just left wondering which ladder I'm actually climbing a
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by mizzao 6y ago
A recent observations my co-founders and I also made are that companies are basically authoritarian regimes. This is probably necessary during the startup phase, but perhaps less so as the company matures. Is there a precedent for moving fr
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by mizzao 6y ago
Sigh. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.
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by mizzao 6y ago
Would be also interested in a deeper comparison to Svelte here.
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by mizzao 6y ago
This already exists, with a focus on machine learning: https://distill.pub/
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by mizzao 6y ago
Nicely put. Really hit the nail on the head here. And if people are trustworthy, then you can figure out things even the mechanism can't account for.
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by mizzao 6y ago
Are you at one of the 4Catalyzer companies?
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by mizzao 6y ago
Can you share more about this? Trying to figure out how to be fair to future employees as a founder and considering all the options
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by mizzao 6y ago
Great article! I'd heard about this maneuver only in theory before and never saw it written up. Sounds like a bit of a moral hazard / principal agent problem for founders!
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by mizzao 6y ago
This sounds like the good old 1970-80s "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" argument.
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by mizzao 6y ago
Right -- if you assign everyone on Earth a 33-bit number, the questions would just be "what is the bit at position i"? It seems impossible for any question to be replaced with an interpretable meaning.
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by mizzao 6y ago
TypeScript makes almost all of those asterisks go away.
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by mizzao 6y ago
I've been using Windows 10 with WSL2 and found it a surprisingly effective development environment with all of the Linux goodies accessible. And games are available without a reboot or VM!
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by mizzao 6y ago
Reminds me of Fifteen Million Merits from Black Mirror...
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by mizzao 7y ago
Here's a google slides deck I put together for how to make good-quality sourdough for a fraction of the effort that the "bread hipsters" go through: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UoH_BhRWUi
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by mizzao 7y ago
> Google and Amazon have the EEE under lock right now what is EEE?
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by mizzao 7y ago
Reminds me of the difficulty of getting Madagascar in this game: https://www.addictinggames.com/strategy/pandemic-2 Too soon?

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