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I was just going to post the Google Talk with the same guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ELAkV2fC-I.

Choice is good as long as people don't feel like they need to optimize, but instead feel they can settle for good enough.

No it's also a Johnson.

As a Swede it's hard not to blush reading the name of the interviewee. Kuk means cock in Swedish (not the bird).

Sorry, no idea.

Could it be that your worst quality is that you worry too much about not being perfect?

Then you won't take the necessary risks to make mistakes and learn.

I have gotten somewhat older and realized that some of the happiest people are the ones who don't worry too much but instead seek healthy relationships and indulge in their passions.

Great input!

I have called and declined the offer.

The company has drivers and a shop which will do all online orders via them. They will also be featured in magazines promoting their business.

They have no investment because they want to increase value by doing first and then scale up via investment. Is this called bootstrapping?

I'm not sure if I want to be a co-founder with an equal share since that would force me to go all in on the business idea.

I am interested in the idea of working close to self-employed and create new services which can grow. It's just the "no-salary until date X" deal I'm unsure about. I'm thinking about suggesting some alternative contract offer.

He hasn't presented the offer to me yet. Just wanted to know if I was interested in joining them. The offer might be that I would get stocks immediately but no salary until after so many months. He hasn't accepted any investments yet to build the software and add value before sharing ownership.

But I'm on you people's side that I don't want to work for free. Just wanted to hear pros and cons on joining a startup and defer a potential reward. I've long wanted to do something of my own that I feel passionate about instead and get investors aboard early enough that I can get salary.

But bring a boat in case of a Katrina 2 coming in

He has very good industry connections but I'm still very hesitant and think I'll say no.

Thanks for your great comment!

Martin Fowler discusses this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197977

He has customers and drivers but cannot scale without a system.

Computer Science teaches useful stuff that helps with problem solving. It's not useful APIs or revision control. Those things you can learn on your first job.

For me, the whole idea of management in the software industry is to get out of the way to ensure engineers can do their job and and https://twitter.com/therealfitz/status/623526248338186240

People should be masters over the technology, not the other way around. It's important to feel in charge and to retain the right to freedom of choice. Too many people are too worried not to keep up with everything new and shiny. But many people don't care and go their own way...

I think the biggest mistake is to let guys like him step up and tell everyone vague generic tips on how to avoid failure. Even if he has some good points. This is a symptom of a hype where people are just talking instead of doing.

“Whenever you hear anyone talk about ‘growth hacks,’ just mentally translate it in your mind into ‘bullshit’.” http://robsobers.com/paul-graham-growth-hacking/

Seems to be a lot of text with a lot of random complaints about code. I think the author has misunderstood the value of code. It's not inherent but related to the corresponding business value.

The work doesn't scale and do more things and handle more customers if you don't hire more people and develop better systems

I got fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'gittorrent'

The Java 8 syntax improvement is actually shown a bit down the page https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.4.x/Highlights...

"powerfulnonsense.com"? Why waste time and/or money on this kind of quasi-psychology?

Infact I have read lots of psychology books over the years. However I have found that I feel worse if I think too much about how I am and behave. I prefer to think about what I like to do since that feels less depressing and I have since become a much happier person. I posted my comment in a hope to find others with a similar feeling/experience about self-help vs well-being as opposites.

Hacker News unfortunately seems to be more and more about depression/psychology and less and less about positive entrepreneurship and tech/programming. I want to be inspired.

Don't be too self-concious. Don't worry about what other people will think about you. Think about what YOU WANT and the rest will follow.

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Here's an old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6404929

I heard somewhere that it should be rm -rf /<star>

I think learning has a lot to do with talent and persistence. Different people have different genes to learn different things. I think learning has a lot to do with someone really needing you to fix something for them. Deliver a product with some new technology, bug fix, analyse something complex, whatever. You really HAVE to deliver and your brain will get into ultra focus mode. Some people I know say that they learn best when things are broken and they need to fix it urgently because the customer might be losing money.