I applaud you for stating your theory out loud in public: that I'm "experiencing mental illness".
I offer an alternative theory: that I'm saner than almost anyone and a talented and tenacious builder and will indeed lead the project that reduces cancer deaths by 50% by 2027.
Let's look at the evidence and the credibility of the sources behind the 2 positions.
> there is no team
Anyone with a web browser can determine this is false. You could have said "small team". It's true, I thought we'd be on our way to 100 by now, and instead are still in the low double digits, but saying "no team" is a lie, and big strike against your credibility. Some recent quotes: "the best experience of my life", "It is really great working with you and the team."
That being said, I feel bad about the job I've done at leading the team. I have been under constant attack for months, and that has been a distraction and hard on the team.
> 12 weeks ago you stated: "Our team is going to radically accelerate the cures for cancer in 12 weeks."...you haven't done that
You left out a huge part of that quote: "I just need people to #LetMeCode. And unfreeze my bank accounts." This hasn't happened. Instead it's been the opposite. I've been harassed to this day—personally and people on my team, have had even more money stolen/frozen, and been banned and censored from many forums that I helped build. I've also had my children kidnapped, and haven't seen them since September. Anyone who knows me knows my daughters are my top priority in life, and that has not been easy. Had people simply remained neutral, we would be further along with CancerDB.
What I learned was that: there are really bad people in this world AND there are people who are total cowards and do really bad things out of fear.
I've had to adapt our strategy appropriately and shore up our flank defenses while going on the attack against this kind of cowardly behavior.
> related to pandemic isolation
Lol. I am a 1% social person. People think because I post a lot online I must be on the computer all the time. I don't own a phone. When I'm AFK, I'm in the real world, and have lots of friends, and no one who spends time with me would call me isolated. Your data again, is very wrong.
> It seems like delusions of grandeur from psychosis
It's not a delusion of grandeur. I am grand. Look at my 3 long bets. Very contrarian. Very grand. Either I'm experiencing a 20 year "psychosis", or like I said, I'm smarter and saner than most anyone.
I think it's the latter. Let's look at COVID. I called COVID right from the very first datadump, on February 18th, 2020 (https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1228117546974371840). I then went on to build the Covid Data Explorer for Oxford's Our World in Data that has been used by over 100M people, including I think every president of every country. In winter 2020, when the vaccines came out and then the FDA cancelled the control groups, I called bullshit, despite extreme pressure from everyone I knew, and now have been vindicated.
And yes, on the matter at hand, I got into YCombinator. Twice. The first time I spent a lot of time helping my batchmate AirBedAndBreakfast.com. The second time PG wanted me so bad he went from 7% to 3%! (Smart move, as that class became their 2nd most valuable of all time, spawning a startup called Stripe, again that I was involved in helping in the early days).
> It's apparent to anyone seeing your HN submissions and twitter.
Plenty of smart people are on our team and our side. The sheep call me mentally ill, the honest ones call me a man of honor.
> You need to immediately see a therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist, and get to the bottom of this.
Lol. I did! One said "he doesn't need to see a therapist they need a divorce lawyer". And the other—who I saw at the insistence of my wife—knew an order of magnitude less about the medication he wanted me to take than I did! She wasn't happen with that meeting, and I later found out in court her and that phony went to court in Hawai'i and tried to get me involuntarily committed (the court told them rightly to screw off).
Here's the bottom of it: I am an honest, sane person in a world full of cowards and liars. We have now 2 statements and 2 theories. The "I'm crazy" argument supported by lies, and my statement, backed by evidence. My daily peaceful existence and the continued growth of our products and new friendships is pure evidence that I am fine.
> Your startup and change-the-world ambitions can wait one year.
See I have people coming to me begging me to help save their loved ones. They don't have a year. I've already shed many tears and been to many funerals. This is real. This is war.
I will not slow down. Not so cowardly sheep can feel better about themselves. (Not speaking of you there, but specifically the people I know personally who have told me to "slow down").
I applaud you for stating your theory out loud in public, and opening yourself to criticism. My harsh words are not so much directed at you as they are the argument, which has been disproven over and over now, that I am crazy.