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Don't tie your future to the new (but transient) economic opportunities that will open up.

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Hilarity ensues.

If the big players would stick to the RFC's it wouldn't be a problem.

How to tell the difference between someone who's been burnt a few times too many and someone you probably don't want to work with in one easy conversation.

Hiring is a hard problem of computer science, maybe even harder than naming things!

That would be golden!

Will you still like it enough that you're willing to pay a 30% premium as more and more services start passing the Apple Tax on to the consumer?

This is why I love capitalism!

Massive investments in AI and Crypto, both of which will face less regulatory oversight and more opportunities to centralize both wealth and power under a Trump presidency.

I really hope the other 2/3 are with me when I say that having either Apple or Google integrated with my vehicle is a deal-breaker.

Only if we also make a case for criminalizing managerial misconduct using an equivalent metric to the author's proposed QALY measure.

Hard to swallow pills:

- When the goal of medicine is profit instead of helping patients the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of education is profit instead of teaching students the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of politics is profit instead of collaboration the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of business is political, educational or medicinal the outcomes will be poor.

Generic formulation:

Any attempt to apply a metric that works in one context to the entire system will result in poor outcomes.

Figure out what you'd be doing if you didn't have to earn a salary, spend six months doing a side-project and/or contributing to a related libre-software project in this area.

Chances are you'll make new friends in the process and, in my experience, chances are that new friends will lead to new job opportunities.

Caveat: This is not a lucrative strategy, but it is a sustainable strategy.

Listening is indeed the hardest thing to do if your organization's metrics places immense pressure on you to be (or at least appear to be) the smartest person in the room.

Luckily there are other organizations out there that encourage kindness rather than penalizing it.

Only catch is, you probably won't make it through the first interview if you don't start practicing being kind right where you are. Soft skills are hard and take sustained effort to internalize.

I think you underestimate the size of the silent insufferable minority.

Mate, sometimes your starting point is so wrong that it is impossible to formulate an answer to the question inherent in your response.

I think you're right but I'd add another choice:

1. Psychiatric care 2. Rehab 3. Jail

The mayhem created by deinstitutionalisation is vastly under-appreciated.

Whomever is downvoting you clearly has an interest in one or more startups.

I find private equity's enthusiasm adorable but the temporary hiatus on anti-trust enforcement that first gained momentum during the Reagan era is no longer in effect.

Some expensive lessons are about to be learnt.

(assuming democratic governance remains in effect, otherwise all bets are off)

Treating everyone as if they were engaging in good faith is equally not a good approach to discourse. I get where you're coming from but the system you're proposing creates a situation where it's cheaper to pollute the discourse than the consequences you face for polluting the discourse.

Yes well… I can see where the confusion would arise if we believed keeping foreign policy unchanged and just calling it globalization would somehow align the values.

Super useful work. Thank you!

It may be cheaper thank you think.

Ask one of the many people who know today!

I can't help but think of Apple's "think different" campaign and then contrasting their past and present behaviour against the actual message those great minds spent their lives transmitting.

Think the same is: Screw everyone and everything as hard as possible for maximum personal gain even if it's only going to benefit me in the short term and take special care to let everyone know how great a guy I am while simultaneously skullfucking them!

Think different is: Hey, check it out! There's so many of us here, let's work together and then who knows how far we could go?

Barf.

It's always sad to watch a wildly profitable company that thinks it's still too poor to refrain from engaging in the worst kinds of bottom-feeding behaviour. Daddy issues maybe?

The true measure of success and character is not the money you're making but the actions you take to protect your reputation by passing up on opportunities to behave like a common or garden-variety street crook.

Society has a long memory and the last of your filthy lucre will be long gone before anyone's gonna give you the time of day again.

This article should be forwarded to the US gov antitrust division. I suspect it would be of great interest given their current activities.

There is a way but no one ever likes it when I bring it up:

Build a search index that excludes anything with ads on it.

Yes, that excludes a lot of content and no, I really don't care if it does. We'll always have Google for that.

The point you're missing entirely is that risk is an independent variable which is not related to any factor under control of the participants.

Income security 101. Great article.

There's an inverse relationship between how good folk think they are vs. how good they actually are.

Anyone who's spent time in musician communities will be intimately familiar with the phenomenon.

Anyone who's spent time in musician communities will also understand just how good you need to be if you're still doing it after two decades.

This is the nub of the matter. I could have saved myself a decade. The only thing from YC that survived our relationship was the incorporation of the company.

I still think there's a massive gap in the market for an ergodic startup community where the young ambitious people tell the Gen-X's to go fuck themselves with a police baton and instead enjoy the benefits of pooling the risks & sharing the rewards.