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Agreed..I actually have a separate laptop (Windows) that I use for nothing but excel. Even Excel on Mac isn't the same as on Windows

Google sheets is useful for basic tasks. But as a power tool for complex models etc. it pales in comparison to excel. Not to mention that keyboard shortcuts are not the same which makes everything take significantly longer.

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If we consider Doordash's approach to be similar to Amazon's then companies such as Chownnow and Ritual are more equivalent to Shopify. They want to arm mom and pop restaurants with the tools to enable delivery without the hefty commissions and fees. I know that personally I don't want to live in a world dominated by chain restaurants and sub-standard options simply because they are the only ones with power to negotiate favourable terms with Doordash etc.

Very early in someone's career most people's job interest is more a factor of environment, salary, perceived social status etc. than it is of true interest. This is also because at that stage you don't really know what interests you since academic life is so different from a real job or career. A clear example of this is how many students 10 yrs ago claimed to be interested in a career in investment banking, consulting etc. vs how many actually satisfied investment bankers there are.

Google's Meet has improved considerably and most importantly it comes free with G-Suite. They are also pushing it quite hard as every calendar invite has a Google Meet link automatically included.

The reason that people went with Zoom is "because it worked." As other products improve it's hard to see what Zoom's moat is and why we should continue to pay for it.

It has to do with supporting the winners that are actually going to return money to your investors. They are refusing to fall prey to sunk cost fallacy, which is a good thing.

Had the same issue. Found customer response times extremely slow, especially for a live chat app! Additionally, the way they broke down their pricing made no sense to me. At the end I wasn't sure what the incremental cost of adding features I wanted would be.

Shipping features without talking to users is a death knell. You end up with an bloated product that serves no one particularly well.

It sounds like all the other problems are just derivatives of this because all of the time was spent head down and "working" and no time spent being strategic, creative or learning what your customer base actually wants.

This is factually incorrect given that ~25% of the world literally does not eat pork

It would interesting to see some data on CEOs that were fired, at what stage and the eventual outcome for the company. My guess is that firing a founder-CEO before the Series B stage rarely leads to a positive long-term outcome.

On the website you mention using it in conjunction with other note taking tools. How do you envision using Dendron in conjunction with another note taking tool like Roam?

Agree completely. The method I describe is not prescriptive for a general population. However, it can be taken as a case study and an opportunity for experimentation.

It is also refreshing to see that modern science is now starting to investigate these various practices so as to determine the mechanism and physiological impact behind them. The fact that psilocybin and ayahuasca are now being researched for their medicinal properties under lab settings is refreshing. 

However, going back to breath work it would be nice if these publications gave credit to the original practitioners instead of framing the research as novel and revolutionary.

Yes and by no means am I stating that we take all traditions or techniques for granted; otherwise we'd still be sticking leeches on people. The point is that in n=1 studies (ie. self experimentation) one can learn a lot more and a lot faster than by waiting for a double-blind study to be conducted on the subject matter.

The same is true in strength training, where coaches like Charles Poliquin used techniques that weren't "scientifically validated" till decades later.

Meditation and mindfulness has pre-dated Calm, Headspace and the SV bubble by a couple of millennia so it's important to have an open mind to practices that don't yet have papers in PubMed. Just because a doctor can't prescribe it to you doesn't make it bogus.

I find Readwise does a good job of using spaced repetition, when it comes to my reading across various platforms. Additionally, it integrates with all the popular note taking apps so that you can create a knowledge repository of the most valuable insights.

This is something that yogis have been saying for 1000s of years, using breathing techniques like 'pranayam'. It's ironic that how until something is promulgated by or studied by a western university it is discredited.

Now we are seeing an explosion in breathing related practices from Wim Hof, to Kelly Starrett and the Navy Seals essentially taking a practice that people have been doing for millennia and making it seem novel.

This is great. One of the biggest challenges I find with WFH is the lack of serendipitous communication/idea flow and the sense of loneliness that comes with being by yourself all day. While remote work has many benefits and the principles make sense, it would be great if some of the positive's of office work could be recreated in remote work

Potentially there are software solutions that help solve these issues?

Agree that the lower funding amount doesn't make sense and will probably further disadvantage minority and other founders. However, the problem identified seems real where the culture seems to be shifting from attracting relentless company builders to those seeking another checkbox on their Linkedin profile.

This is also why other accelerators are emerging that aim to capture the YC essence of old (OnDeck & Jeff Morriss Jr.'s new initiative)

I would add a distinction that an additional screening step should be based not only on whether a round was raised but also who it was raised from.

Given that venture returns are distributed by Power Law and not normally distributed it doesn't make sense to treat all sources of funding as equal

How do you overcome the adverse selection problem? ie. only founders who know their startups are duds want to diversify their holdings?

My understanding is that with the flu shot scientists and epidemiologists essentially make an educated guess as to which strains are going to be prevalent in a particular year.

Why is COVID-19 different where the expectation is that one vaccine will prove a panacea. The virus has already shown that it can mutate similar to the flu vaccine.

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1283921361627344896?s=12 This is the thread that led me to look into this more

What does this mean for the future of work?

There is also an element of hubris where Germany and the EU so badly wanted to have a tech champion emerge that was competitive on a global level, where they looked the other way anytime someone raised concerns. The FT has been criticizing Wirecard for yrs..

How do you balance the want/willingness to do deep work with the external pressures of the tech world that result in new fires emerging constantly?

While I don't disagree with you, I think at some level we need to remove the "lens" with which we are appreciating poetry or any other art-form and to appreciate it for the art itself. In that regards his privileged upbringing or whiteness shouldn't take away from the merits of his actual poetry.

Thanks for the detailed response. To answer your questions

Looking for someone with a design background (strong creative + Figma + wire frame) skills to help build a prototype for web based software.

Have a detailed PRD/requirements doc so ideally would work together with this person to translate the requirements into a high fidelity MVP

Do you have a portfolio I can see?

Ideally these would be organized by stage, sector etc.

The fact that you can copyright a rendition of something that itself was created hundreds of years ago is appalling and shortsighted.