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"3) The CEO of the company is not the entrepreneur w/skin in the game, but often some acroparasite actor milking the system." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Andy Tran
@andyttran
investor. startup founder. ex-google swe. helped 1000+ swes land jobs. licensed structural engineer.
USA Katılım Ekim 2008
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Consensus decision making helps you be rigorous, avoid making mistakes and dramatically lowers your odds of finding product market fit before someone else does.
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Law of Viral Inaccuracy: There are more ways to misunderstand a thing than to understand it correctly, so the most viral form is probably inside the erroneous set. Your most widely known idea will be distorted. The story about you that the most people have heard will be false.
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A lion grown too old & weak to hunt pretended to be sick as a ruse & ate the animals that came to visit him in his cave. But a fox only greeted him from outside, On being asked why it did not enter, it replied, "Because I can only see tracks going in & none coming out." -- Aesop
Nick Szabo@NickSzabo4
If it's easier to enter than to leave, think twice before entering. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_a…
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You can't predict business success, but you can predict business failure: someone who writes lengthy and frequent emails.
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We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself!
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Executing a plan you no longer believe in is like dropping your toothbrush on the bathroom floor and using it anyways.
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Founder as victim, founder as God.
A brilliant application of Girard's theory of mimetic desire, violence and scapegoating to startups.
blakemasters.com/post/245786838…
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@spencernoon I sold Bone Thugs in Harmony song lyrics for $0.50 a pop which I printed from the public library computers. 💰💰💰
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What's the first dollar you made using the internet?
I'll start: I wrote thousands of Textbroker articles when I was in middle school ⌨️
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2) Those who cause disasters judge themselves by the intentions not by the outcome. ( Socialists will blow us up.)
+ "First, do no harm" (primum non nocere): the most robust way for the world to get better.
+ No virtue without courage...
medium.com/incerto/the-me…
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Alas people have done more harm while trying to “do good” and trying to “improve” the world than by trying to pursue their selfish aims while leaving others alone.
Silver rule>> Messianism
#vianegativa (Orthodox theology) #naiveinterventionism
#virtuesignaling
Pope Francis – ARCHIVE@Pontifex266Arch
Nobody can delude themselves by thinking, “I’m fine because I’m not doing anything wrong”. To be a follower of Jesus it is not enough not to do wrong, because there is good that we must do!
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If you surround yourself by people who give you weak, overly-nice feedback you will NEVER BE GREAT.
Look for the people who are going to give you the straight talk about the things you are doing shit at. Michael is one of those people.
Michael Seibel@mwseibel
When I talk to founders often I am very very direct and that can come off as inconsiderate. This is not my intention...
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Give me questions I can't answer not answers I can't question.
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Advice for young programmers:
1. Write unit tests. It'll help w/refactoring
2. Get good at git. You'll save time
3. Don't rely on a particular IDE. Makes you fragile
4. Don't fear doing things twice. Think of it as an early refactor
5. Learn new tools. You'll learn how to learn
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@APompliano In 08’ once liquidity dried up, the rush to cash caused a short-term but significant dip in GLD. If BTC is used as a SOV, then we would likely see a similar drop along with GLD and SPY.
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Unpopular opinion:
Crypto is going to save pension plans from their upcoming crisis.
They have to #GetOffZero.
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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz details how the American economy (and the political system) is rigged in favor of the wealthy. Inequalities have increased dramatically in the US since the 1980s (much... scientificamerican.com/article/the-am…
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