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The SoMa Costco Dog Hard Tech Meetup is back May 31st Bigger and better, (supposedly) endorsed by Costco management, and as always the dogs on me

Billion dollar startup idea: Twitter but you actually block bots / spam

THE AUTISTIC URGE TO NOT REGISTER RED FLAGS AS RED FLAGS BECAUSE YOU’RE SO USED TO PEOPLE MISINTERPRETING YOUR HARMLESS BEHAVIOURS AND YOU DON’T WANT TO DO THAT TO ANYONE ELSE, SO YOU GO OVERBOARD TRYING TO FIND ACCEPTABLE EXPLANATIONS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

A founder I spoke to last week spent 3 years learning everything about their industry. Now they want to pivot to “AI for Dentists”. The grass only looks greener because you’ve not trampled through the shit yet.

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