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@samuel_biyi These things aren't one man one vote, or we'd all be using grocers' apostrophes.
@aladejebideji I agree with you, and indeed I suspect that's most of the reason this is even controversial.
@Spotlight_Abby So if someone's writing is verbose and they attribute this to local custom, they're probably mistake... |
The Top of My Todo List
April 2012
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the
biggest
regrets
of the dying
. Her list seems plausible. I could see
myself —
can
see myself — making at least 4 of these
5 mistakes.
If you had to compress them into a single piece of advice, it might
be: don't be a cog... |
@mattyglesias There are also people (primarily young women) who enjoy a pretext for pursuing heretics.
@c0n5tantinople @pharmabroo It would seem that way to outsiders who don't understand the business, but early stage investing is very different from currency trading.
@pharmabroo Less soulless than people in finance?... |
The Need to Read
November 2022
In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often
been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge.
Mysterious "tapes" would load it into one's brain like a program
being loaded into a computer.
That sort of thing is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Not just
b... |
@mattyglesias Many if not most presumably from fake accounts run by Russia.
@HeinrichKuttler @growing_daniel The way I acquired it was mainly by looking at a lot of art.
@AlexCaswen Try reading the next tweet in that thread.
@michael_nielsen My first experience with the internet was presumably the day they changed t... |
@SpencerHakimian There's a lot of fat in the federal budget. Done right, something like DOGE could have been very effective.
As we approach the end of the drive:
Me: Are there any cars coming?
13 yo: No.
Me: I can see a car right there.
13 yo: Well, there usually aren't any cars coming.
@aviramj Thanks for your c... |
@janeandrsn @JCBForumSpeak Look them up for yourself.
@OliverBeedham Not if every startup moved to the UK, but if 20% of people are afraid to work in the US now (probably a conservative estimate), the first few startups who move to the UK get that whole 20% to themselves.
@russell_m It has lower GDP per capita, but i... |
@cheerupstanley At the very least it will harm European citizens by making them relatively poorer than the rest of the world. And as any relatively poor country knows, lots of other bad things follow from that.
@KarthikIO It gets in the way of using interactions with European users as training data.
How strange it wo... |
@wideofthepost I dislike Bill Ackman as much as the next man, but the numbers you quote don't add up to 9 billion.
@garrytan I don't think anyone's claiming anything changed about society in that year. It was just when a number happened to peak.
@Austen No one is better at assembling groups of cryptographers, and if ... |
AI is evolving so fast and schools change so slow that it may be better for startups to build stuff for kids to use themselves first, then collect all the schools later. That m.o. would certainly be more fun.
For the next 10 years at least the conversations about AI tutoring inside schools will be mostly about policy,... |
@Noahpinion Interestingly I believe numbers 2 and 3 (antitrust and crypto) are both ultimately due to Elizabeth Warren, whose proteges are in both cases the cause of the problem.
@ghostofhellas How do they know this mound is from that battle?
@bonker_99 I have. I'm complaining about a rental.
@ntldr2020 It was a new... |
@oscarle_x The exact opposite of that.
@shashj Just out of curiosity, is it legal to say you're not in favor of proscribing a proscribed organization?
Someone asked how to expand startups' ideas. The best way is to shrink the idea down to its essence, then ask how broadly that essential idea could be expanded. You ha... |
Charisma / Power
January 2017
People who are powerful but uncharismatic will tend to be disliked.
Their power makes them a target for criticism that they don't have
the charisma to disarm. That was Hillary Clinton's problem. It also
tends to be a problem for any CEO who is more of a builder than a
schmoozer. And yet th... |
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
August 2005
(This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.)
Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source.
Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its
monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has
prevented that.... |
@lies_and_stats @cperciva Their simpler alternatives are also common though. Presumably even more common.
@Tired_ofit_All Some writers can get away with doing this a fair amount, but most people should just aim for simplicity.
@cperciva I've seen a lot of this sort of comedic effect recently. Sadly it was mostly unin... |
@halabi @growing_daniel Few people anywhere, rich or poor, have any taste.
@htmella @growing_daniel Is it a good idea to marry someone you like a minute after meeting them when you're 17?
It's possible to like bad people, and just as possible to like bad art.
@dbasch @growing_daniel Oh yes it does. It's very easy to... |
@nitinmalik A lot of programming has always been scutwork.
@Omeyimi01 @ahistoryinart Phew.
So if I had to boil down my advice to one sentence, it would be: Find a kind of work that you're so interested in that you'll learn to do it better than AI can.
The most interesting consequence of this principle, though, is th... |
@eluft You can do better than that. Ideally you don't have a political tribe.
@lukepuplett You might think that, but empirically I haven't noticed a difference. Poor people don't seem more unprincipled than rich people.
@sarmadgulzar I wouldn't assume that they do.
Your moral principles and your economic interests w... |
@pitdesi @tacobell It would be very alarming if the answer was no.
@SaleemMerkt That it was never 9-5.
You know the founders are still running things when a company can talk openly about its "most hated feature." Hired managers would never dare to be so candid.
For the 10% of the US electorate who were nodding their... |
Here's the masterpiece of bland evasion that I got in reply: https://t.co/1D21PA9fDU
If you want me to ignore your email, put the word "opportunity" in the subject line. If you want to make doubly sure, put "exclusive" in there too.
I dreamt there was a new fashion for plaid lambda expressions. I didn't like them, so... |
I've seen several organizations criticized for removing woke stuff from their sites, as if this showed a lack of integrity. Not necessarily. If they were swapping woke stuff for new stuff sucking up to the Republicans, that would show a lack of integrity, but they're not.
@ATabarrok If they swapped it out for stuff su... |
How Not to Die
Want to start a startup?
Get funded by
Y Combinator
.
August 2007
(This is a talk I gave at the last
Y Combinator dinner of the summer.
Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of
a party. But it seemed worth spoiling the atmosphere if I could
save some of the startups from
preven... |
The Age of the Essay
September 2004
Remember the essays you had to write in high school?
Topic sentence, introductory paragraph,
supporting paragraphs, conclusion. The conclusion being,
say, that Ahab in
Moby Dick
was a Christ-like figure.
Oy. So I'm going to try to give the other side of the
story: what an essay rea... |
@ESYudkowsky Do you suppose ships will never be powered by fusion?
@GuyInSF2 They can't make Bond female or they have nothing left. Anyone can make a movie about a dashing MI6 agent. The name "James Bond" is the main thing the franchise consists of, besides a couple other minor things like "007" and the music.
@abemu... |
@joes_ai_x Usage, so revenue.
OpenAI is growing as fast as a promising new startup, but they're already huge. I can't remember ever having seen this before.
At least the founder was never in the Forbes 30 under 30. Then I'd really worry.
@AlecStapp Resubmit in a month.
@amwilson_opera Are they contemptuous of it? I... |
@mauraball Her birthday is a holiday in our family. The boys can ask for something they ordinarily couldn't, and they get it because it's a holiday.
(That advice is a bolder claim than it may seem. There's a lot missing from it, and not by accident.)
My mother would have been 90 today. She was an interesting person a... |
The Lesson to Unlearn
December 2019
The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you
learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.
When I was in college, a particularly earnest philosophy grad student
once told me that he never cared what grade he got in a class, only
what he lear... |
@X_FedericoX @growing_daniel When they were having their pictures taken.
If you want to feel hopeful about the future, this is a great account to follow.
@levelerai @growing_daniel The best people aren't looking for jobs.
@ahistoryinart Somerville and Ross write about it in the Irish RM.
@nizzyabi This is the troug... |
@whatifalthist Your children.
@johnmsides Already there.
How many Olympic medallists even know why one would bite a medal?
I bet few do. And for the rest it must seem such a bizarrely pointless thing to do.
Occasionally I check the profiles of random people who reply to me, and often 20 out of 20 of the last tweets... |
Me: How much salt do you put in your tomato sauce?
Jessica: Not too much. But not too little.
Me: How long do you cook it for?
Jessica: Not too long.
This monster parsnip from our garden ended up yielding three dinners and a lunch. https://t.co/N9ZHZBYv4A
We developed a new technique for measuring the boys' height... |
@Carson By their support for autocratic leaders killing large numbers of people in neighboring countries.
It's alarming to think how many people on Twitter would be supporting Germany if World War II were happening now. After Pearl Harbor nearly all the American ones would instantly go quiet, of course.
@VDHanson I c... |
@QualiaLogos Yesterday I saw someone riding a horse.
@cixliv There are still steam locomotives.
You know perfectly well what I mean.
Interesting data point about the date of Trump's mental model of the world. Television repairmen disappeared in the 1990s. https://t.co/ChzdntWCuF
@fentasyl Yeah, that's the other thi... |
@rauchg Have you heard of Syd Mead?
@raahilgadhoke I don't know what high deterministic need is.
@mayacfounder Maybe, but conviction is a terrible predictor of how well a startup will do. There is an infinite supply of (usually single-founder) startups with unshakeable conviction about bad ideas.
@nwbotz Definitely ... |
@Chris_arnade Intellectuals always think that as people get more time they'll spend it the way intellectuals would.
@LandsknechtPike Thank you, I just bought a copy.
@CompSciFact Languages shouldn't enforce levels of abstraction.
@APompliano Every national leader says that. What people are upset about are the ham-fi... |
@garrytan Prediction: Once all the parents in Palo Alto realize this has happened, it will get reversed very quickly.
Palo Alto parents are just about the last people in the world to tolerate something like this.
@AssalRad @nytimes The real question is not why she spoke out, but why so many others have remained sile... |
Journalists don't like Occam's Razor, because it implies that events have more boring causes than the ones they'd like to write about.
@urandomd @garrytan I think what motivates it is British culture. Kindness is more prized here.
@ESYudkowsky @garrytan Our kids' school in England teaches it very successfully. The te... |
@jsngr They care a medium amount about it. They're not obsessed with design like Apple, but they don't want things to look bad. There are a lot of companies in this category. In fact probably most companies are, including some of the biggest ones.
@JimDMiller @pitdesi The difference — and this is a very big difference... |
Believe it or not, it's usually wise to walk investors through the risks involved in your startup. Investors know there's risk. If there wasn't, your valuation would be billions of dollars right now. And if you're vague about the risks you seem glib, or worse still, clueless.
@mmay3r @cremieuxrecueil Presumably my mod... |
@jamesrcole @mattyglesias Probably what he means is that a lot of government spending is entitlements. I wouldn't have disputed that.
@harris I don't know. I don't think I'd ever advise a startup to delay making money in order to please investors. Investors are fickle idiots. You can't let them be your compass.
@type... |
"She wasn’t looking for the next killer product, though. She was looking for people."
https://t.co/iNNewXj25H
One way Timex made their watches cheap was to cut the retail markup in half. Jewelers resisted, so they sold their watches off racks in drugstores.
Something I told 17 yo: Till their early 20s most people ar... |
@grace_za This is a very important point.
@JuanIsidro You're conflating people and work. People themselves aren't commodities. You can't legally buy them. But their work is. You can buy that.
@CburgesCliff Did you mean that as a joke? Because that performance is a byword in England.
@lamg_dev Does talking of stealin... |
@cullenroche It's not so much six months apart as one election apart.
@remusrisnov Yes. If you're making something for kids or families, for example.
@billybinion I don't even think it's political theater. I think the employees making these decisions are simply incompetent and insufficiently supervised.
@Signalman23... |
Now that many of the top American universities have gone back to requiring standardized tests, which still don't? That might be a useful index of where the rot is deepest.
@overtquail @cremieuxrecueil The way they've always wanted to: they chose the people the admissions officers liked the most.
@AlexShulepov7 They n... |
@robinhanson Mafia doesn't imply monopoly.
@alexandreforget The labels.
@rickasaurus At least it's not hardware or music.
@josephjojoe Seems to be a lot easier now.
When people say "Next time I'm not going to start an x startup," two common values of x are "hardware" and "music". But for completely different reason... |
Life is Short
January 2016
Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder
about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining
about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life was
short if we lived 10 times as long?
Since there didn't seem any way to answer this question, ... |
One of my favorite videos. https://t.co/QFkEQBqGgz
@noclador They only have to pretend to care about his wishes though.
@AliceFromQueens If you consistently uphold the same principles and the government swings back and forth from left to right, then you'll seem to be alternately on the right and the left.
@Austen @g... |
Alien Truth
October 2022
If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd
share certain truths in common with us. The truths of mathematics
would be the same, because they're true by definition. Ditto for
the truths of physics; the mass of a carbon atom would be the same
on their planet. But I think w... |
How to Think for Yourself
November 2020
There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking
differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for
example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be
both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other
people alrea... |
@bscholl Does that mean we can now vote Netanyahu out?
@pickover No one with kids would restart at 10.
@ThorChiggins @BasedMikeLee The first time I wasn't sure if I could trust the NY Post story that reported this. It seemed best to be cautious. But since then more evidence has emerged.
@bamboo_master_m @BasedMikeLe... |
@rauchg "A great software engineer who’s now making a killer career in sales" is a fairly accurate description of a successful startup. Except the great engineer has to keep writing software too.
@davidsirota You won't tell people what your story is about even when they ask explicitly? That has to be a new world recor... |
@RSwynar Not yet but maybe soon.
12 yo asked what people do between when they start working and when they become famous. I told him they work super hard at whatever they'll later be famous for. That's how they become famous.
@JohnDCook @electricfutures I often produce sentences almost identical to ones I've written b... |
The title of the email is "Investor Update." Talk about underpromising and overdelivering; the email itself brings the news that the company is switching from web design to a nutritional drink mix. Well, it might work...
@TomCayman It's one of the ingredients in Old Bay.
That said, it's actually pretty good. The medi... |
Holding a Program in One's Head
August 2007
A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it
in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working
on. Mathematicians don't answer questions by working them out on
paper the way schoolchildren are taught to. They do more in their
heads: they ... |
@patrickc @IDC Paypal seems to be sniffing your butt though.
@PP_Rubens I thought Canaletto when I saw the women, but not anymore.
@RealTimeWWII Sound just like Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
@leigh22nyc Wow, hi Leigh!
@gf_256 Fortunately for you, there are other people focusing on the world of ideas and thoughts.
@... |
Undergraduation
Want to start a startup?
Get funded by
Y Combinator
.
March 2005
(Parts of this essay began as replies to students who wrote to
me with questions.)
Recently I've had several emails from computer science
undergrads asking what to do in college. I might not
be the best source of advice, because I was a ph... |
When something is fundamentally bogus, it ends up being surrounded by a cloud of subsidiary bogus things. It's like the way you can prove any proposition if you start with contradictory premises.
We should give credit where credit is due, and it sounds like the administration deserves some credit here.
Trying to get ... |
@nutix_ai I always use m-dashes.
@harsh_dwivedi7 There may be AI startups that are overpriced, but some weird connection to Microsoft via VS Code is not the evidence of it.
These AI-generated spam replies are becoming increasingly common. Will it be possible to fix this problem with filters? Or will they make the Twi... |
This is even more the case with "not a good look." Someone saying "read the room" can at least pretend they're giving advice about how to convince people. But someone saying "not a good look" is just saying "conform."
@wssnr No, in practice the kind of people who say "read the room" are not people who agree with you b... |
@StefanFSchubert The problem used to be much worse. Now there is a new attorney general, a new mayor, and many new supervisors.
I asked some British friends visiting SF what surprised them about it. The drug problem is much less serious than they expected. Public transit works well. The streets are surprisingly empty.... |
@AviationMarlene The addition of rotors must have made the 3210 much more popular than its predecessor.
Jessica dared me to tweet that I lunched upon a heel of bread that I retrieved from the trash. (She said "stale bread" but it wasn't stale. It was still perfectly good. It was also, critically, sitting on *top* of t... |
"Everything would be so much better if everyone would just listen to me."
— Jessica
The strange thing is, she's right.
@ArthurB @Noahpinion I think the explanation for that is a very nasty individual being in charge of them. Possibly ultimately Miller. Or some minion of his.
@WillManidis The most dangerous version ... |
My side of the sink in our bathroom: toothpaste, shaving cream, mouthwash, dental floss. Jessica's side: Snape's classroom.
The sweet spot for present-day AI seems to be projects that were constrained by the rate at which humans could produce text. That's why it works so well for programming. Basically programmers pro... |
Incidentally, this also means that startups are relatively safe investments in times of chaos. What you're betting on in a startup is whether the founders are Larry and Sergey or not, and that's almost completely independent of external conditions.
Macroeconomic factors might affect the value of a startup by 2-3x. 5x ... |
@NathanpmYoung I spent a lot of money and a good deal of time on the last two election cycles.
Which of America's bold new cohort of Republican leaders is bold enough to answer this? https://t.co/ZORjuOS8K2
@aparanjape Air France bailed, and without them there wasn't enough demand to keep the spare parts operation ru... |
It's so much more interesting focusing on things that are unfashionable, undervalued, overlooked. And there are so many of them! People are great at overlooking.
One of the biggest problems afflicting young writers is the belief that writing has to sound fancy — that it can't just sound like spoken English. Actually t... |
Yet another thing that only happened because Ronco was behind the scenes making it happen. The idea of a powerful force working behind the scenes sounds sinister, and maybe it usually is, but not always.
@sarmadgulzar He talked about his experiences running Airbnb and how much his current m.o. differed from the advice... |
@ccccjjjjeeee That's the norm. Twitter mobs attacking you are usually attacking you for something you didn't actually say.
@davidiach Oddly enough that's a name I know very well. From working on online shopping back in the 90s, if you know what I mean.
@mundanemun Data works. That's what convinced me that climate cha... |
Writing, Briefly
March 2005
(In the process
of answering an email, I accidentally wrote a tiny essay about writing.
I usually spend weeks on an essay. This one took
67 minutes—23
of writing, and
44 of rewriting.)
I think it's far more important to write well than most people
realize. Writing doesn't just communicate... |
"When I was a child she worked as a schoolteacher, and her school was next to mine, so in the mornings we would walk to school together. I don't know why I remember this — but she'd always walk between me and the sun. So that I could stand in her shadow."
He said if I'd asked him 6 months ago he couldn't have said for... |
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
November 2016
If you're a California voter, there is an important proposition
on your ballot this year: Proposition 62, which bans the death
penalty.
When I was younger I used to think the debate about the death
penalty was about when it's ok to take a human life. I... |
It's strange how much more people are talking now about the bad things Assad did than they did when he was actually doing them.
15 yo returns in mid-afternoon from staying at a friend's house.
15 yo: I'm hungry. I haven't eaten all day.
Jessica: My poor baby! How have you not eaten anything all day?
15 yo: Well, I'... |
Wow, yes, this is an important point from @patio11:
https://t.co/jEvijYDSQB
If business class travelers have a choice of a 10 hour subsonic flight from Seattle to Tokyo or a 5 hour supersonic one at the same price, they're all going to take the 5 hour one. Which means all the business class travelers switch to supers... |
The Venture Capital Squeeze
November 2005
In the next few years, venture capital funds will find themselves
squeezed from four directions. They're already stuck with a seller's
market, because of the huge amounts they raised at the end of the
Bubble and still haven't invested. This by itself is not the end
of the wor... |
Let's try this. Blecharczyk. (I got it right the first time!)
@nikitabier @Ankx6 @ReheSamay @MrBeast Launch fast and iterate is like developing software in a REPL or painting alla prima with oil paint.
@Ankx6 @ReheSamay @MrBeast FWIW, this is some kind of scam. I'm not participating in this, and I expect none of thes... |
@cremieuxrecueil I always made a point of saying 5' 11 3/4", though alas I'm an inch shorter now.
The problem with the ILA is not that they're Luddites. It's that they're mafia.
"You may know elves as tall, wise beings or as hardworking toy-makers. This is elf propaganda. In reality elves are small, idle, frivolous c... |
@KTmBoyle Holding grudges is a double-edged sword, because it costs you too. So I think you want to be very careful about when you do this, and only do it occasionally.
When I discover I've forgotten to hold a grudge, I'm usually pleased rather than annoyed.
@Scholars_Stage Just today I tweeted a graph claiming there... |
@LeonardChoong Many. Marxist governments too.
@adityaanupkumar Because thinking of something as part of your identity is extremely powerful. It will motivate you when nothing else can.
@harjtaggar These employee mobs also needed one other ingredient to function: Slack, or something like it. Imagine how hard it would ... |
@waitbutwhy Are you sure these revolutions actually did suck for people at the time? Nomads had to abandon those who couldn't walk, and kill children born too close to their siblings. And the people who went to work in factories during the Industrial Revolution were leaving something worse.
@AlanRMacLeod That and "tra... |
@octavianslash There are a lot of things you can see based on social media videos that aren't true.
Arguably the White House correspondents got us Trump. If they'd reported Biden's decline earlier, the other Democrats would have pushed him not to run, and there would have been an opportunity for a more charismatic can... |
@cremieuxrecueil No, do you have more years' data?
@Noahpinion That has always been the big flaw in Tolkien's imitators. He had a deep feeling for medieval history from decades of studying it, but most of his imitators' work felt like people from the local shopping mall dressed up in elf suits.
@aryalpranays @Niklas_... |
@TolkienWonder They look like the Beatles.
@HuntsmanNichole It's more than that. It actually operates in reverse.
@adequacity That would be surprising. IIRC he doesn't talk a lot about math.
"It came in at 4.5 pages but can be slimmed down a bit. My wife and I are leaving for the hospital in 30 minutes to go have ou... |
@brandon_xyzw @ycombinator That was a mistake (I don't have a LinkedIn account myself) and this is now optional.
Ragged right is ok on computer screens and for shorter things, but when a book is set this way there are only two explanations: the designer is trying to look cool, or the designer doesn't read much. Though... |
@Itsjoeco That's one to frame and hang on the wall.
@debracleaver All politicians are somewhat charismatic compared to normal people. But it wasn't enough for her merely to be somewhat charismatic. To win she had to be more charismatic than Trump.
@clintbetts I had to look up what this was about, but it was in fact b... |
@garrytan That's actually true. Startups are provably the most effective way to get that rich, and the best way to make more successful startups is to help them (a) en masse (b) at the very beginning.
@ellipticurve You seem to have no idea how forest fires are fought. You don't stand there pointing a hose at it. Most ... |
Crazy New Ideas
May 2021
There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly.
If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable person
proposed an idea that sounded preposterous, I'd be very reluctant
to say "That will never work."
Anyone who has studied the history of ideas, and especially t... |
@ThomasThorbur11 @DartsJey I know about the term's history. But it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one.
@monty_teaches @DartsJey Here you go: https://t.co/jvOj5AyYT5
@GinnyMcDonald8 Also true.
@DartsJey No, wokeness means something more specific than opposing injusti... |
I'm not a Democratic insider but I know people who if not insiders themselves are definitely close friends with them. And those in a position to know what's going on have gone silent, which means they've been sworn to secrecy, which means a rebellion is happening.
Prediction: Biden won't be the Democratic nominee. I d... |
@staysaasy True, I probably haven't written this much.
@GGGHHHHHH1111 I predict it will happen exactly a year after he turned 13.
13 yo has now dictated 83,663 words of the trilogy he began when he was 9.
@DanMcKenziePSS They could all have been freed if Netanyahu had agreed to a cease-fire a year ago. https://t.co/... |
How to Make Wealth
Want to start a startup?
Get funded by
Y Combinator
.
May 2004
(This essay was originally published in
Hackers
& Painters
.)
If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best
bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a
reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The... |
@McCormickProf Do you honestly think that he would have been capable of serving as president for 4 more years?
@JillFilipovic Isn't it forbidden now to say that men can never be pregnant?
@BW_Jones We hope...
@mattyglesias There's no new information. Everything in Biden's announcement was already priced in.
@Chris_... |
@Kukewilly You think you've got it bad? Almost all of mine are written by him.
@Rapahelz I generally agree with Mill, but I think his statement is tilted toward politics. The clash of ideas isn't what produces scientific truth. If anything it's a drag on the people who are right.
12 yo and I are sitting at breakfast.... |
@ritendn Not only did I not say that, according to Google search, no one else has either. So feel free to say it, just don't attribute it to me.
@SyntaxAndChill @elivieira It seems like a lot of people would like to believe that, but if anything the people I've noticed leaving are less political than the average accou... |
@SantiagoSirvana @federicoantoni It makes me happy that it was that one.
@amasad Hah, we have that in common. I was YC's first chef.
"If you tap them and they're hard as rock, that's a bad sign."
— local bakery manager on their croissants
@Noahpinion Interesting. How do you think this time is being spent instead?
... |
Incidentally, this is a perfect example of why it's a mistake for Twitter to deprioritize links. Presumably Elon's justification is that he hopes all content will one day live here. But an app like this viewer is never going to.
This fascinating app lets you view the present-day British landscape in parallel with maps... |
The phrase "your data" conflates two senses of "your": about you, and belonging to you, and data about you doesn't necessarily belong to you. If I observe, for example, that you're at place p at time t, you don't own that observation. https://t.co/tr8T1Apl1V
The puppy in question, taking a nap after his exertions yest... |
I talked to a startup today that was already doing everything right. We're only three days into the new YC batch. How could they be doing everything right already? It turned out the founders had spent several years working for another YC startup and learned what to do there.
Man, doing office hours with startups gives... |
@DaivikGoel It's so valuable to have places where smart people congregate.
I don't mind letting NPR or the ACLU or the New York Times decline into irrelevance, but we should probably fight for the universities.
@bast_i Regulation isn't only policies, but also enforcement actions, and that's where the real abuses tend... |
Watch with the sound on.
@billclerico @RichAberman @jesslivingston @tlbtlbtlb @ycombinator That logo was and still is well into the top half.
@avocado4096 How is it that you have zero followers with insights like this?
@kaush_trip You'd have to give people more money (as YC does) but otherwise I wouldn't change anyt... |
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Want to start a startup?
Get funded by
Y Combinator
.
March 2007
(This essay is derived from talks at the 2007
Startup School and the Berkeley CSUA.)
We've now been doing Y Combinator long enough to have some data
about success rates. Our first batch, in the summer of 2005, had
eight st... |
@MarkLambeWrites The back button does this.
@FilippoAlimonda @growing_daniel Not because of this. The graphic design of VC firms is random; there's no signal in it.
@kelvinhk1987 @ravroberts More vocal than other VCs, but not more powerful.
@jameskjx @ravroberts Not at all. We have midterm elections coming up.
@jam... |
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