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by visakanv 11y ago
What: A friend asked me this question, and it's a question I've gotten often over the years. I felt like answering it this time. Why: I've gotten some good responses to my writing on HN before, so I thought it would be well-r
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“Do you have any writing advice?”(medium.com)
1 points by visakanv 11y ago|2 comments
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Nice way of framing it, clicked a couple of things in my head.
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That's my thinking too. Startups have become more "sexy" since The Social Network and such. So YC is probably seeing a lot more naive/opportunistic gold-rush type folks than before.
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by visakanv 11y ago
> Hinduist thought Nitpicking, but "Hindu thought" will do! Thanks for the link.
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Protip: Always get a referral if you want to meet busy people!
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I've tried to do some reading about all of this... the main argument that makes sense to me is that it has to do with increased consumption of sugar. To oversimplify, sugar triggers an increase in insulin, and something about insulin (
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by visakanv 11y ago
Man, I am so jealous of people who can express themselves clearly through drawings and visuals. I try my best, but I'm nowhere near as good as I'd like to be. A quote comes to mind: "A prototype is worth a thousand meetings.&
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by visakanv 11y ago
Nice post, the examples really drive the distinction home. My big takeaway from this is that it's NOT about asking people to compromise their personal values- that probably makes people feel attacked and undervalued. Rather, it's
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by visakanv 11y ago
> Every private University recruits from their "tribe" whether it is 'quirky' at Reed or 'cosmopolitan' at Harvard, while not discriminating on race, religion, Etc they do pick people who create a community
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by visakanv 11y ago
I'm very passionate about the problem of procrastination, having suffered terribly from it all my life. For some people it's a relatively minor thing, but for others it's debilitating– ruining educations, careers, relationshi
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by visakanv 11y ago
Yep. This is like someone saying "all pop songs sound the same". Yup, they do, and because they're meant to be accessible. The consumer doesn't always want to be challenged. See "Don't Make Me Think". A fa
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by visakanv 11y ago
> Love marraiges are a more natural, a more realistic option over the arranged marriages setup Just for fun, it's worth pointing out that marriage itself is a human-created institution and not exactly "natural". But if we
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by visakanv 11y ago
Yes. I've often heard people say things like "Oh, divorce rates are rising, how terrible" – but that's got a certain "silent evidence" problem to it. Divorce rates increasing doesn't NECESSARILY mean marri
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Usually this is best done by in-house engineers, I think. At least, that's what the founders at my startups did. You want to really be intimate with your metrics. I suppose it could be productized, I am pretty surprised that there isn&
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How would you do it instead?
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you wouldn't be paying for the images, you'd be paying to have somebody do the grunt work of organizing them, presenting them, etc
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by visakanv 11y ago
I wonder if it'll eventually make sense to have free driverless cars that serve you with ads. That would be interesting.
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by visakanv 11y ago
It actually sounds quite a bit like the "cell group" system that some popular 'megachurches' use.
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by visakanv 11y ago
"Fire you for average performance" is a bit of a loaded term and implies a certain unfairness or vindictiveness. I'd rephrase that to be– do you work in a team with uncommonly high standards? I'd imagine this to be the c
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by visakanv 11y ago
Yup, especially considering that new technologies emerge that break old assumptions about how things work. "The way it always has been done" works until it doesn't.
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HubSpot Fires Longtime CMO in Book Scandal(bostinno.streetwise.co)
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Human spaceflight isn't just about scientific breakthrough, or even planetary life insurance. It's also about inspiring people and radically changing people's worldviews. After all, once we're on two planets, it becomes
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Life imitates art!
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by visakanv 11y ago
Good call. What else would you bet on?
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> Do people really think like this? All you have to do is "pay your dues" and you "deserve" it instead of voting on issues, track record & potential to make real change? Yes. Source: Click around the Facebook comm
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by visakanv 11y ago
Twitter, blogs I read, colleagues, friends, GrowthHackers, Slack channels I'm in
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by visakanv 11y ago
If they like you, this won't stop them from hiring you. If they don't like you, this won't get them to hire you. So non-issue, really. Enjoy yourself.
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Ask HN: Does this exist? “Help Me Choose” app/site
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> After spending a few weeks away from work catching up with movies, I started feeling better. Once I got my thoughts back, I decided to quit. By that time I didn’t like my job at all, I couldn’t imagine going back not even for a day. If

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