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The relevance of some of this advice seems like it best serves an VC track company dealing with SV ecosystem pros and cons - especially commentary around investor behavior and availability.

Some of the points around distractions, planning, and tactics do apply outside the bay, but in general the term "High Growth" feels like "early high valuation large cash infused startup", which while interesting, isn't terribly relevant to an extremely large portion of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Given that - does anyone have any recommendations for reading in this space that are a bit less "valley flavored"?

This was an interesting read as someone unfamiliar with this space - there were mentions of researcher's trying to prove things about P and it's relationship to other problem classes. Are there any examples of what actual research is being performed or how they're experimenting or trying to tackle these things? Is there practical work involved or is it more about mathematical proof from theory?

It's fundamentally your leader's charge to create an environment where you can produce high quality work and sustain. Part of that sustenance is you feeling like you can learn, grow, and with that growth deliver increasing value. Based on at least your side of the description, I think what you have is a failing manager who's 1) eschewing proper delegation and 2) a peer who isn't collaborating well. These two things will lead to shitty outcomes for the business. You'll either have crappy productivity (either through wasted time or low quality), or you'll have a work culture that breeds turnover, possibly both.

You should have an honest conversation with your leader about your commitment to being part of a productive team and voice your concern about how the team dynamic is affecting you. This should be something you lay out honestly in a 1:1 setting.

If your leader is worth staying with and working for, they'll take you seriously and try to help.

If they balk, offer excuses, or do anything short of hearing you out and giving a thoughtful, rational response, get on the market. You have a skillset that is in demand, you'll likely be able to try and find something that's a better fit.

I would encourage you to look at product managers currently employed in your area by big co's. From those cohorts there might be some who are disenchanted with the cube life and looking for a change. Especially if the big co might have people who possess domain expertise in the area you're building in.

I'd also encourage you to seek out startup meetups or any programming that's done by people in the entrepreneurial ecosystem as it often attracts people who are thinking about getting in to the startup game but aren't quite there yet.

Networking is a huge part of being a successful startup. You could treat this as your first foray in to an activity that's absolutely critical for success.

Good luck out there, but take your time and be extremely selective. A truly amazing cofounder is 1) hard to find 2) a pre-requisite for success.

This report juxtaposed with some of the descriptions I was reading on a reddit thread about what it's like to be in SF on a day to day basis just paint such an insane picture. A place where the median house price is 1.6 million dollars and it's completely commonplace to see a person defecate on a street in broad daylight.

For a place that has generated such wonder, it seems like some kind of social anti-pattern born out of a hyper-capitalist society.

For those who might be looking for alternatives, I've had really solid experiences with ExpressVPN - really solid functionality that works across all my platforms. I've been a customer for a couple of years, and have had a really good experience overall.

The old 50 gold stack of wool cloth method!

I'm curious if it will have a commercialization model similar to Yelp! - a la "extortion as a service", wherein the business owners have to pony up to defend themselves against potentially false allegations.

This is pretty cool - I'd love to see similar analysis for truly "contentious" comments, wherein there were an almost equal but large amount of upvoting and downvoting, controlled for accounts that have the ability to do either.

Got any examples of it not?

I would encourage that you not bend to the will of those who would impose upon you what your brand might be or might be associated with. If you make a meaningful product in your space and the origins of the name are easily explained through 1: your aforementioned wordplay and 2: the GoT reference (likely more common), then I think you should fight to keep a name you love and find meaning in.

As one of your potential customers / users, I would not base any judgement of your company or product based on some a shared name with a small fringe organization that some people find unsavory which uses a pretty common term or combination of terms.

I disagree. I think I laid out a fair argument for my opinion, and I believe I have the right to express that opinion in our lovely open internet as much as they have a right to be a thing in the first place. Me wanting this to cease to exist isn't calling in to question their right to be there in the first place. I think if we ever lose our voice in calling out things that seem detrimental to our society at large for the sake of not seeming "judgemental", then we've devoided all platforms of value - especially HN.

I don't see any policies around types of businesses, code of conduct, adherence to Do-Not-Call policies or information regarding privacy or security rigor applied to the citizens that would be effected by this platform.

This just seems like an amoral SaaS service I kind of want to die. Fast.

I mean FB is so huge that numbers lost on these deals are probably flashes in the pan, but the tbh acquisition seemed like they were buying target demo behavioral data more than a company / feature functionality anyways. No big surprises here.

Well this certainly holds up in the Belgium vs Japan match today.

This is absolutely brilliant. It feels like every B2C site in the current landscape falls in to some element of this hellish anti-pattern.

Whitepaper download sales funnel material. Nothing useful here.

The game is called Gorogoa, feel free to google it. Clickbait titles on HN suck.

Well that's just like... your opinion man. I, like many apparently (judging from the activity on the thread), feel like the commentary around communication involving commitment to different technologies feels misaligned, and this seems like an example of one. I felt like this perspective was fair game for the discussion. I can empathize with your desire to have explicitly defined and targeted discussions that meet your individual needs, I get how that would be a wonderful thing, but I politely decline your request to take my thoughts elsewhere. You can certainly get more engaged with the community and earn enough Karma to downvote discussions that lack value in your eyes, that's completely reasonable.

I would like them to rebuild the Macbook Pro from the ground up. It's a much more critical element in my life. If they keep producing inferior notebook hardware, I'll change platforms. If I change platforms, I'm less tied to macOS and iOS, if i'm less tied to iOS I'm more likely to change to some other platform. If I change to some other platform, it won't matter if they made Maps useful or not, they'll have lost me because of a more important element in the ecosystem failed me.

What will you be using my transactional information for? Will you be commercializing my transactional information in some way? With the banking information you require for sign up will you be funneling other financial information about my startup to other companies? What safeguards do I have that a competitor won't have a way to gain knowledge about the financial state of my company through data commercialized by Brex?

This whole article seems borderline nonsensical. It's taking outlier companies and shoehorning them in to fitting a cursory take on Foucault's work for the sake of entertainment.

It's not a lesson or meaningful or helpful in any way, which was ultimately a huge disappointment for me as the reader.

This is just an advertisement with no content. It's a link to a whitepaper / sales funnel for the service titanvest.com.

The startup is Tachyum and they're based out of eastern europe. Here's their webpage: http://www.tachyum.com

I really hate clickbait styled article titles on HN.

It only reveals IBM's problem with AI if you were at any point under the impression that it was something more than marketing for them and watch actual market signals.

The audience that gobbles up their ad campaign during the Masters that touted their "block chain" logistics probably wouldn't even notice that they had layoffs at Watson health.

Early YC - Reddit, Dropbox, Twitch - products and services tackling massive meaningful technology things.

YC now - Here's some expensive detergent for a niche audience.

I feel like YC is losing its mojo.

Based on your requirements and the change in your environment needs I'm not sure why you're considering a MBP - at least not until the next iteration potentially addresses the keyboard issue and comes with a spec bump. Seems like the X1 would be a far superior fit in this specific context.

The db side limitations seem like a temporary but significant hinderance for adoption. I'd be interested in the author / authoring team's take on why they would really announce this with those parts lacking given that in the context of the framework it seems like a big deal.

I think Jack's feeling the genuine pain of making a mistake on his own platform. It's poetic in a way, and hopefully visceral with regards to helping him really understand the power and danger of what they've built at Twitter.

I feel like articles sometimes elicit a certain "no shit" reaction, but then don't really dig in to solutions.

Specifically around the mechanism of the performance review, this piece is pretty practical for framing thinking about an alternative approach: https://medium.com/the-carrot-or-the-stick/the-performance-r...