thecage411

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by thecage411 12y ago
For someone in type A, how do you decide if it's worth pursuing an MBA vs moving into technical management without an MBA vs sucking it up?
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by thecage411 12y ago
This is exactly what I meant, thanks for filling in the details.
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by thecage411 12y ago
I wish more people knew this. Even if you beat the odds and the startup you work for goes places, you may only get 10%-15% of the proceeds now, and be hoping for the rest even further out in the future. Almost certainly better to just wor
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by thecage411 12y ago
I've noticed that the combination of math and communication skills is pretty well correlated with producing clean designs and code. Data scientists probably have those skills more often than programmers, but I'd argue that it&#x2
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by thecage411 12y ago
Do founders get the 'fame' ? Sure, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Sometimes it makes you a target. I was amazed at how much Eric Schmidt paid for personal security (its in the 10Q) he can afford it of course but really? You
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by thecage411 12y ago
This has to be the most bizarre interpretation of the broken window fallacy I've read.
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by thecage411 12y ago
Not necessarily, it only starts the long term capital gains clock: you still need to hold the stock for a year and have the grant be at least two years in the past to qualify. Also, the company may not allow you to early exercise. Ask them
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by thecage411 12y ago
The answer is florida, right?
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by thecage411 12y ago
Do you think founders have a moral obligation to educate potential employees about financial projections?
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by thecage411 12y ago
FWIW if nootropics are seen as somewhat "mysterious and shady" I wouldn't use the words "drop-dead".
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by thecage411 12y ago
Have you done the math?
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by thecage411 12y ago
> Where will the money come from? The math doesn't work. This is of course a ridiculous argument when the parameters of the discussion haven't even been established. For example, we could get rid of all our social services and
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by thecage411 12y ago
I'd rather be asset rich than straight up poor!
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by thecage411 12y ago
"Working insane hours is a sign of commitment, of willingness to sacrifice for the job; the personal destructiveness of the practice isn’t a bug, it’s a feature." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/
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by thecage411 12y ago
I still remember the shock I had upon taking my first few graduate-level classes. The lectures and assignments were actually focused on the material rather than weeding people out through large, poorly specified projects / problem set
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by thecage411 12y ago
No it isnt. See other comments in this thread.
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by thecage411 13y ago
It depends on what you mean by value; if you mean the price someone is willing to pay for them this is clearly not correct -- otherwise every out-of-the-money option would sell for 0.
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by thecage411 13y ago
I do find it amusing that legal experts were consulted for their insight on business and economics.
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by thecage411 13y ago
I don't think your example is very strong. It's not exactly clear what you mean by government "sticks its nose in your internet business" but for most that probably means regulation. But in your example Medicare is jus
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by thecage411 13y ago
He who dies with the most stuff wins.
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by thecage411 13y ago
What about randomizing the auction time?
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by thecage411 13y ago
Except that the terms "economic central planning" and "rent seeking" are orthogonal, even if the results are the same. You could, in theory, have economic central planning without rent seeking -- though it may not work
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by thecage411 13y ago
What's your definition of public? For #2 and #3 things seem less public, since the conversation is between the manager and the individual, rather than the entire team. Maybe I'm just misinterpreting though.
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by thecage411 13y ago
Can you give an examples political considerations that are out in the open in a formal org compared to open allocation? I think you could make a case for the opposite.
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by thecage411 13y ago
I didn't see anything in article about forcing you to take time off when the company is slow. In fact this seems to contradict one of their goals, to make sure the systems are maintainable without you.
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by thecage411 13y ago
Yes! Your quote reminded me of Jaime Escalante, the calculus teacher portrayed in Stand and Deliver. In the movie, he teaches some completely unprepared kids calculus and they pass the AP exam. In real life, he taught for years and set u
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by thecage411 13y ago
What I've seen happen, at least with doctors, is a bunch of them get together and from a group/partnership and then the group negotiates with hospitals. This has the advantage of increased leverage as a group and thus much better
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by thecage411 13y ago
How does one, after a couple of startups, move to a hedge fund? What skills are they looking for? Any good reading out there?
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by thecage411 13y ago
Well, the weather is good in some places. It's because of the recent good weather! No, it's because of the simultaneous good and bad weather in different parts of the country!
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by thecage411 13y ago
I'd say there are three main reason, in decreasing order of legitimacy: 1) he uses his academic credentials to write a more-or-less partisan column 2) a lot of the time he can't just disagree with someone, he has to call them an i

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