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Q&A was good - I think Zed is wildly missing the non technology/boring business aspects of starting up (I guess he hasn't tried to start something up before? Or maybe he has...).

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Reading your post and considering it further, I guess his message is less about starting up than about how to survive a day job and continue to grow as a human being by doing interesting work at night.

Blub work on a startup at night could be another path away from employment that isn't really addressed in the presentation (though it's very difficult to pull off, IMO).

possibly - I watched probably 80% of the presentation, so I might have missed some nuances. My brief experience with startups showed me the last thing you worry about are tech choices and if you are in blub or not, more along the lines of "holy shit holy shit they won't pay that bill". But that was sometime back, startups now seem like a whole lot more fun (maybe thats VC backed ones were you aren't focusing on cashflow up front??).

It's strikes me that his advice on how to avoid getting burnt out at work is advice that is precisely designed to ensure that your day job is boring, unfulfilling and that you never get given any tasks that are interesting or designed to let you stretch your intellectual wings.

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