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I've been experimenting with writing longer-form content. I do agree the main point could be condensed a lot and I'm not the a great writer by far. This is kind of a rant and really cathartic for me to write after working more than 5 years on startups. Just wanted to share it.

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I read it full and I loved it and bookmarked it.

It resonates with my personal experience, and your writing style is fresh and dynamic.

Thanks for sharing it, and it deserves to be on the front page and #1.

Glad you did share, really enjoyed this... and I've never worked at a startup. Rings true to my hollowed corporate soul. The main difference: your peers might think they're founders; tend to forget they were acqui-hired.

Really liked it, and somewhat envious that you were able to create such a well-written, cohesive piece of just about the right length. (I blog on different topics and it's so hard to keep things short and not wandering.)

I enjoyed it, but it is uncomfortably realistic.

Some folks want to gripe about everything. Life's too short to worry about them. They need to live in the world they make; not me.

Personally, I really liked both your writing and the fact that you took the time to flesh out the main point.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up and share it ^_^

It's fine, don't worry about it. It's hard for me to read long form on a computer and I read your entire story.

You can't please everyone

I loved it. It was cathartic to read, too. It's really a rather short story. There's no accounting for taste.

On another post from today, titled "Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test", aparently the TLDR is the name of the dead man. The rest of the article explaining how, when, why, with whom the man was there, for some people, is cruft, a total waste of reading time.

I loved every paragraph

You're at the least a good writer. It's a lot like music (or any other artform). No matter how good the result, even if it's utterly sublime, there will be a group who doesn't enjoy it.

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