gilesgoatboy

what do you mean the dark side? it's all dark. fake money, wild overspending, draconian laws against drugs and sex. next up: a provocative look at the dark side of killing babies and eating them! you thought it was just a harmless hobby, but oh no. oh no. turns out those babies are high in cholesterol! gasp!

Arrington's really weird in this one. It's like a 50s B movie starring the incredible dangerous Twitter! It's a growth monster! And there's somehow something wrong with it buying its search feature, for some reason?

But there's one flaw in this monster movie - we have absolutely no reason to care about the protagonist. He cast everybody's favorite star as his villain and a no-name schlub as his hero. It's true that one of FriendFeed's founders did a cameo in a Paul Graham essay as an amazing startup founder wizard guy, but one paragraph of hearsay vs. a company that took over the world on a shoestring budget?

I don't get why he thinks we wouldn't side with Twitter here. I don't get why he thinks it's either FriendFeed or Twitter. I don't get why he thinks siding with either one makes sense in the first place. This thing could be written in Swahili for all I understand of it. I think Arrington's just insane.

By the way, I know my vernacular doesn't ever give this impression, but that thing about the differences between colleges is based on statistical analysis I read somewhere. It is scientifically proven that with a very few exceptions, any good school is as good as any other.

Tufts. The differences between colleges don't make as much difference as people think. Being debt-free is awesome. If you get into Yale, go, maybe. Other than that, Tufts. Most of college admissions and college-choosing is just utter bullshit. You've already given it too much thought. People who do anything interesting with their time are incredibly rare and your chances of becoming one of those people will not be adjusted in any direction by any amount by what college you choose. So give it LESS thought. It's not worth any energy. It is worth doing, however, but you'd have to be a complete fucking idiot to go anywhere other than Tufts given that it's free. Unless Yale gives you a fantastic deal, and even then, you'd still want to give Tufts some serious thought.

Best way to get a reality check: make a list of 100 people you admire, find out how many of them went to an Ivy League school. Wikipedia makes it easy as hell. The schools are great but saving that money is much, much better.