drdrek

Sound like the writer didn't like routines and created the logic backwards from there. There are many things in life that are low impact on their own, but have a cumulative effect. Yeah yoga in the morning isn't 10X... I guess the only option is to be a chump or go straight to max dosage of anabolic steroids.

"Companies that think they’ve won the battle" What kind of garbage attitude is that? are you at war with your employer?

It happened in a more toxic form in the crypto hype cycle

This article is the usual case of decide on a conclusion then build the data sources. It's probably the norm now.

How many are going to click and share: "Popular belief inconclusive, meta research suggests" vs "A research paper finds popular belief validated!"

If you can't pass the most basic of filters like relevant education and work experience than what will you be offering them after you pass the AI system?

If the position is in so much demand that they need automation to filter resumes, what are your chances to be selected when weighed against candidates that actually passed the filter?

Aren't you just creating more useless phone calls for yourself?

This is like changing your profile picture to a model in a dating app, you are going to get responses but what are you going to do with them if there is no real match?

When looking for a job don't stress about gaming the system, look for an actual match that is good for you as well as the employer.

I love how many people add variations of "And be Correct" or "If you make a mistake correct yourself" as if that does anything. It is as likely to make a mistake the first time as it is the second time. People imagine that it will work like when they do it externally, but that not how it works at all.

When you tell it to try again after it makes a mistake you add knowledge to the current system and raise the chance of success, like asking him to try again after getting it right will raise the chance for a failed response.

Absolutely, so many people don't understand that a great deck and a tech demo is in 99.9% of the time not enough. You need a strong signal that you are on the right track: user engagement, LOIS, actual sales. The more you can show the better.

If you didn't get to that point don't be surprised if you get the canned response of "This just does not seem like the right opportunity for us".

The first investor in your startup is you. If you are not willing to put your money and time into it don't be surprised other people aren't willing to do it.

My career is focused on B2B so I don't know a lot about communities, but the sentiment is the same. You have an edge if you know a lot about a subject and have good connections with professionals in the field that are willing to talk to you.

But I would say VCs usually prefer a team as its more likely to check all the boxes. I've heard 3 as the "optimum" for team resilience vs founding team social complexity, but that is just a general sentiment. If you have a community get a tech guy, if you are a techy get a product guy, if you are a product guy get a sales guy, etc. Don't try to be an ubermensch, just find a team you can work with.

Not exactly correct, you are now partners. You own X% of the company and they own Y%. If you want to continue raising you better not be that guy that is constantly fighting with their partners... but your partners are definitely not your bosses.

Bankers with good PR.

But for the first time founders out there please don't sweat it if you can't get funded for a long time, you may just be early. I gave up on a great idea (that my partner later worked into a great product within an existing company) because we were unable to get funded for 3 months. And later got VC funded after working on a worse idea for a year. It can take time, It may require you to get customers first, but if you get along with your partners and can see business progression don't worry to much about VCs, they are mostly capricious up until the point you can show that its a good business. Then they are, as OP said, just bankers.

When this specter is common in mainstream media will be a great point to buy Apple stock. Oh no my 3T money printer takes time to get to 10T :O Sell!!

Its a mix of "Easy" things to fix: Streamline tax code, build desirable office centers, Have good internet infrastructure

and "Hard" Things: The work culture, Cost of living

How have you heard more about TikTok and Israel than TikTok and china? How is that possible??

India banned TikTok in 2020 accusing Chinese influence, are they time travelers?

Did israel convince all of these countries to ban TikTok? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok Wow the Jewish World Domination Forum is really pushing its weight around lately.

The moral high ground is for the rich and safe. Both Israel and the Palestinians are under real threats and thus do not care much for morality that is disconnected from PR.

Terror is an extremely good tool to dispose of foreign power that takes economic interest in an area, as it makes the endeavor unprofitable. But backfires horribly when it is a local hegemon.

I don't get the Capitalism bashing aspect of the article. You can find reinforced glassware, its just more expensive so you don't hear a lot about it. It's not planed obsolescence, its customer preference.

I don't get it, what are they trying to say?

Not only this but the author lacks enough empathy and imagination to understand how most people are wildly different than him and would not want any of this complexity in the slightest.

Years ago I backed two computer games. They both took about 5 years to be made and by the time they were ready I have already forgotten buying them. (They were good tho) Never felt the need to do that again.

Its a niche idea, unsuitable for VC money. On the other hand, non financial goals for companies almost always end badly. When you have more than one goal there is always an excuse for management to do what ever they want.

Want to do something for profits? we need this for the company survival. Want to do something financially irresponsible? Its aligned to our values. Unrelated to the core business? Social responsibility. Leave creative outlets to creative syndicates, leave charity work to non profits and leave money making to for profit companies... don't be another one of those that break the mold only to discover that people that came before you where not as dumb as you thought. Basically don't be Crypto.

This feels like it was written in 1993

Not saying anything about LLM But in CS in general many issues "cannot be solved" or "Cannot be solved in reasonable time (NP)" but approximations upper bound by some value are solvable in reasonable time (P).

And in the real world if the truck route of amazon is 20% off the mathematically optimal solution the traveling salesman is "Solved" in a good enough way.

If only some kind of institution that can hold coins safely existed. Some kind of central place with all the security measures. They can also offer you interest if you let them lend the coins to other people. We can call it a bank.

Most of these seem aspirational for YC to produce them and less of something that they can offer value to the entrepreneur. They can offer very little outside of SAAS style company that is tech for enterprise or tech for consumer. If you are looking space, arms, robotics, GovTech etc you are better looking for some corporate VC or another specialized accelerator. No one is truly a generalist.

But don't expect a corporate VC to be as fun or cool as YC.

Who wants to hire the most adversarial person alive? yeah a company is not your friend and you should get as much as possible there is a point that you make yourself unhireble by showing that you are so mercenary that you'll be out the door the instant an x+1$ offer arrives.

Bad org culture will be bad no matter the mechanisms. You can use OKRs to be toxic and you can use Agile to be toxic and you can use your own bespoke bullshit to be toxic. There is no management framework that can fix bad culture because its only a part of it. Incentives structure, existing culture, hiring practices, company life cycle, market conditions, etc all contribute to it and no amount of data can fix those. Managing a company is like parenting, if you think that you can replace attention, care and hard work with a framework you are doing it wrong.

LOL, LMAO

Iv'e seen the negative effects of WFH with my own eyes. Is it anecdotal? yes. Is the positive impacts anecdotal? also yes. Will people be biased to what is comfortable in the here and now? the exercise is left to the reader.

Nice catch, I adopted your sugggested improvement: )

When I want to be random enough I pick a large number than mod by another random number that is bigger then the max option. (mod again in the max number if needed) This seems unpredictable enough I've been unable to see any patterns in it.

lets say you need to pick a number from 1 to 20, if you take 1235 and mod 22. mod is easy to do in your head as you can just subtract in steps until you get there. so 50 times 22 is 1100, we are left with 135. 5 * 22 is 110 so we are left with 25. 25 - 22 is 3.

I picked 3 and I would be hard pressed to guess it would end up 3.