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Out of curiosity, what did you segue into from the second youth, or are you still in it? Those phases seem fun but potentially hard to get out of, either because you don't want to or because you've lost the legibility that employers and potentially love interests want.

There's also the related failure mode of deciding you're going to fix all your other system problems as part of the migration, bloating the scope and creating too much complexity. Just do the necessary stuff, migrate, and then go back and fix the nice to haves.

I'm not a lawyer, but if you've been using it commercially, I believe you have the trademark. Theoretically, you could sue them for infringement, although I don't know whether you could claim damages or just get them to stop using it.

Flow state

Ride sharing as a whole isn't going away. It's better than calling a cab or whatever used to be. But I could see Uber and Lyft each ending up as $5-10 B software layers on top of driving, not $50-100 B ones.

I don't think you need to be social at all, but it is helpful to have meaningful work samples for potential employers to evaluate. Github's just the easiest place to put those. It's similar to a design portfolio for a designer or writing sample for a writer. Otherwise, people end up making decisions based on their interview impressions, which can be very inaccurate.

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Because it's not their government, and it opens a very large door to foreign governments trying to influence elections. Really, this is a question?

The scarce resource in being a successful politican isn't really money, and it certainly isn't being smart, progressive, or informed. It's the ability to persuade people. Regardless, I think the idea that anyone could be president is kind of sweet but not very relevant. Most people can't or don't want to be elected to president of their high school class, let alone anything bigger. Democracy simply means that you get to vote, not that anyone could be president.

Oh boy, so now it's a spelling comment. Even better.

Good talk, but lots of big generalities. You have to pick and choose what to really take to heart, IMO. Good counterpoint that you may have already seen: http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-give-bullshit-advice

Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long.

Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?

We all agree the article's dumb and pretty poorly written. Many lower income people pay no income taxes at all. I think that's rightly so, but it seems silly to write about a lack of redistribution in the US. In fact, the top 50% of households in income paid 97% of income taxes in 2008.

What is troubling, and what the author ignores, is the changing distribution of returns in our economy. There's no point in trying to legislate it away, but more and more work is becoming automated. We're in the middle of a second industrial revolution, and many kinds of work that people rely on for income and identity will go away over time. Will we end up in a society where 90% of us, who don't have the skills to be productive, are subsidized by the remaining 10%? That seems like an awful outcome from a social perspective, but I'm not sure how we should respond to it.

From a policy perspective, I would like to see a higher short-term capital gains rate to limit the attractiveness of financial instrument trading, and I think carry income (on VC and private equity) should be taxed as income, not at the lower rate for capital gains. But apart from those areas, we need to address the long-term trend of growing income inequality as a society, not with legislation.

Really? I actually think sandwich making will be dead easy within 10 years. You just need a robot arm that can recognize and manipulate ingredients that costs less than maybe $300k.

To me, the most important point is that even extraordinary people face many times in the development of their companies where things look very dim. Being able to ignore that feeling and keep working and changing your assumptions and approaches is at least as rare as more definable talents. There are a lot of very talented people who are actually less resilient to hardship because they're not as used to being tested or failing as people with supposedly lesser abilities.

Personally, I'd be more inclined to just email my friends and ask them. I feel like I already have too many online services, pages, and who knows what to manage, and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this.

A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone.

It depends on whether you think you need to index the same fraction of web content over time. I think that's one of the unexamined principles of the search engine industry. Also, software costs are in some ways decreasing even faster than hardware costs because of open source infrastructure.

To go back to the Blekko example, I'd say it's pretty clear you couldn't build something like that with $10-15 MM (assuming they've gone through maybe half their funding) a few years ago.

Yeah, I think of it as the Google uncertainty principle (after Heisenberg). As soon as Google measures a search signal, just the fact that it goes into the rankings means that it degrades in quality. People start reverse engineering the ranking and trying to game it. So it's kind of an arms race between Google and the text ad industry they've created.

Yes and no. Pretty basic spelling correction is pretty good, and as Google makes its spelling operation more sophisticated, I actually find myself needing to reverse their corrections more often.

Indexing is more complicated. You could argue that 20% of Google's index contains at least 80% of the information people need. The problem, like the old advertising saying, is figuring out which 20%. So if you have a clever way to address content quality and uniqueness, suddenly your crawling and indexing costs plummet.

Talk about an incoherent article.