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Agreed. We're becoming more and more a certificate-society than one based on true understanding. There are few mechanisms used to evaluate people's abilities that aren't based on whether or not you have a piece of paper.

“When you bet on a winner, diversifying is likely to be a case of you selling the winner to buy the loser.”

Well yeah, that assumes you know the winner. The point of diversifying is that you don’t know the winner. So, it’s better to make a few guess with a chance of making up losses than likely backing a total loser.

Maybe I’m missing Saylor’s main point?

Hey HN!

Just pushed my first public GitHub repo! It's a simple password manager in Python for the terminal. I thought it was about time I started “building in public” and learning more about encryption.

This process gave me a serious appreciation for what has to be done to protect your data.

Would love to hear where you could hack it!

After a reading a pretty crazy and inspiring story from OurCrowd CEO, Jon Medved, I realized something:

As founders, we often try too hard to keep our startup story as neat as possible...and then we miss the opportunity to show how strong we really are.

Thought I’d share this perspective as it might be helpful for those in a similar situation!

Would like to emphasize this. They’re some great tools that manage knowledge extremely well (including Innos). But now I’d like to see more work on the knowledge’s deployment into the user’s life — a tool to help make it actionable (in conversation for example) without having to boot up the library every time.

I see that Innos has a programming feature which I think is a good step. But more features that specifically help the recall of knowledge would be awesome.