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@vcstarterkit "Founder: You can have high standards and accountability without being an asshole." I think everyone wants to do this, but, the real question is: how?

Founder: You can have high standards and accountability without being an asshole. Unless the company is solving a difficult or worthwhile problem (iPhone, clean tech, space, etc) then an intense culture is wholly unnecessary and simply an extension of the founder’s insecurities

Going to try this with twitter. If you’re a VC, founder or journalist, DM me your thoughts on the Away piece and I’ll anonymously post your response here (and I’ll commit to keeping your identity confidential)

@wizyakuza_art Do a lenticular art of Akuma doing raging demon!

@LifeMathMoney Don't complain about not getting something YOU DID work for, as well

Man, it looks like everyone is trying to become the next Naval.

@LifeMathMoney Muhammad Ali said "Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion." Do you disagree him?

@PottsJustin @maiab @owens Welcome to the real world dude.

@maiab @owens No, they should refuse to hear pitches for any idea they're planning on starting. Or at least disclose they're thinking about starting a company in the space.

When you pitch someone at a VC firm and then they leave the firm to start a competitor 🤔

"If you're not hiring from a top 10 school, you're basically hiring dummies. They are not creme de la creme" - Max Levchin.

@wizyakuza_art Really cool but Obelisk doesn't look right. In the original, he looks like a demon. But in your work, he looks like an Ojama.

My new 3D Triple Transition artwork is FINALLY in stock! All pieces available on my website for a limited time! 🔥🔥‼️🚀 #YuGiOh #Wizyakuza

@shaklakhani Interesting. Do you have a reference for this?

@SuzannaAloni What about NoFap?

@jmdagdelen @sirajraval I don't know if this is 100% plagiarism. I see students do this all the time. I think he was just lazy, he didn't want to paraphrase.

The @sirajraval situation gets even worse than the course tuition fraud and the plagiarized paper. A large portion of the very words he says in his videos are stolen from articles and other courses on the topics without proper attribution. bit.ly/2VYln7v

@orangebook Hmmm, yeah. Good point. I always think "Man, I wish I had Bill Gates's parents or Patrick Collison's parents."

Seeing so many people constantly blaming their parents for everything. They are as imperfect as you are. They grew up in a world scarce in information with many lies. Don’t focus on what they didn’t do for you, focus on what they did for you considering the tools they had.

Writing a letter to your parents is the fastest way to remind yourself of what you forgot to be grateful about.

@sirajraval @vkhosla @soumithchintala @zacharylipton @vkhosla Please look on the ML Reddit and then make a decision for yourself if you want to be associated with this guy. Virtually everyone in the ML community is upset by his recent actions. reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…

@sirajraval @vkhosla @soumithchintala @zacharylipton

Podcast interview with the legendary Silicon Valley icon @vkhosla comes out next week! Vinod has spent the past 30 years using his $1bn+ in wealth to invest in entrepreneurs building life-improving technologies & he's made an incredibly positive impact. I'm excited to share it!

@zacharylipton @jetivr22 @sirajraval I've talked with Shkreli. Shkreli's actually quite knowledgable (about almost anything) and built two billion dollar companies basically himself. Shkreli just really likes playing the bad guy and loves the attention.

@jetivr22 @sirajraval The connection is there, just slightly less literal than you're looking for: "smug opportunists"

Pinterest got this one right: @sirajraval ≈ Martin Shkreli

@FHabetler Can you do a cover of this song? It's not DBZ, but, it fits your style and I think you can do it better. youtu.be/BfQgTz_znn0?t=…

"The traditional declarative programming model of building a graph and executing it via a tf.Session is discouraged" the end of an era github.com/tensorflow/ten…

@dhh I agree but phenomenon happens in so many other contexts. Ex: You work late and some idiot says "Wow, you are such a hard worker". It really messes with your utility function.

Nothing makes me wish for my kids to throw a tantrum than hearing a stranger say "oh, they're so good" on a plane or in a shop or anywhere, just because they're being quiet. This equation of "quiet" with "good" is some toxic, repressive shit.

@zacharylipton @sirajraval @katyanna_q @annielizard Man, I thought I was the only one who hated him. All the comments on his YouTube videos are like "Haha, this is so awesome!".