chenpengcheng

well said.

only when the tide turns, you get to see who was swimming naked.

luck plays an important part, but not everyone realizes it or admits it.

well said.

he is not the best. i am very impressed by how little his thinking and writing have improved over the years.

there is always a flavor of lecturing in his words. sometimes, it makes me wonder if i am just too stupid to understand his answers to all matters.

these days i could not finish reading his writings. his twitter feels like a talkative kid who hasn't learned self control. i have unfollowed him long ago.

he may want to be different. but how is he different? really.

do they avoid death?

this smells like bullshit

it is annoying. as a reader, who cares about the last time someone else commented.

whatever, i found reddit better.

unhealthy diet, drug addiction, wealth disparity.

this shitty move would be neutralized if you own Google stock.

can you add emergency use to the title!

how did this get to top 10?

this is ignorance.

lol wishful thinking

clickbait. lame.

move them to Amazon. before Amazon discontinues unlimited storage, download everything to a portable storage.

at the end of the day, you will realize that only yourself can be trusted.

that is right.

great question!

that is not going to happen in the US.

this is the Google curse. every company will become like Google only if they can.

every of them. the only exception is Wikipedia and i donate monthly.

I remember how good Google was in the early days. most of the “alternatives” could become much worse when they reach 1/100 of Google scale.

I can’t trust “alternatives”.

a blue wave is coming

freedom is not a trademark of the West. the world one hundred years from now could be very different.

i stopped reading medium because of large amounts of click bait.

is this thread locked?

beyond good and evil

open your mind

I never got into this situation, but heard people got options but they became underwater after IPO (e.g. Dropbox). There are several hot startups that had a lot of hype, but turned out just so so. I work for a VC funded startup now, but I feel there have been huge dilution, so I started asking if it is worth it. There is poor work life balance and liquidity risk. At the end, if a company goes IPO, I don't expect to make too much money. Why not get a job at a big company and enjoy life.

Same experience with tiny startups. Worked like crazy and earned pennies.

Reading this for a year and posts have become less interesting.

Remove the caps. Let us change job easily. Give green cardright away. Make immigration suck less.

Outsiders may think people made a lot of money in the ICOs. I wanted to answer that question so I dug a bit and found out what really happened: a lot of the developers didn’t make much money because they are just like any average people — when prices go up, they don’t sell and when prices come down, they hold.

Some of them even “diversified” their gains into many other projects in the same space, so even it may look great on paper that someone who has invested in many crypto projects must be insanely rich. The truth is many of the had a spectacular run directly into the ground.

The big money is not made in speculation as always. It is made when we build something which will last for a long time and we capture the value in the future (in the next decades).