mroll

> If you quit your day job, you’ll most likely fill your schedule with low-value activities to put in a regular workweek and feel the pressure to build or sell too early.

This is too broad a generalization. Yes, some people will not spend their time the best way. And they probably shouldn't be the ones quitting their day job. But the people this quote doesn't account for, the ones who quit a day job to focus on a product, are more likely to be successful.

I like a lot of the stuff you brought up about what separates poker from other seemingly similar strategy games. Like the aspect of real cash, which makes the emotional stakes and ability to remain rational more important.

One problem that immediately stands out to me is how sweaty everyone would be. I'm in shape but riding around a city on a hot day would have me drenched.

A significant part of this feat is programming computers to understand text. Ironic that there are two typos in the first column of text in the paper.