Don Zhen

There will always be a need for data just like there will always be a need for oil.

I think a harder benchmark is the parent’s approval since they have to make the purchasing decision

Glad to see deployments + model :) Good work Sunday team and your contribution to the robotics ecosystem. Gonna be a red hot robotics summer.

Has anyone reconciled why when things naturally move toward more entropy, that within this entropy there is organization? In all things, there is balance. Matter and antimatter, optimism and pessimism, light and dark, virtue and vice, positive and negative, different sides of the same coin. In the end they are one, the singularity.

Hot take: most VCs who haven’t founded/operated before who go on to get into the startup game generally will make better operators than founders. They think ecosystem but fail to execute. You have to eat glass to truly empathize. No amount of calls, coffees, conferences, or dinners/other events substitute.

@Alfred_Lin Yes, that’s also why I don’t use them anymore haha. I think I got the worst reference question back in 2016 from a YC founder. Most folks realize and prep on variants of the same question (I know I did). These days I try to do few compound questions that are a lot more indirect.

@zhen_do_ob Both helpful questions, though most people have also prepared for those

One of my past favorite interview questions was asking who would be your worst reference and why. Generally, this question puts the conversation into a more vulnerable discussion, and gives you insights into their level of introspection. My answer was my mom, because she cared too much about me not to tell me about my many flaws and didn't want them to become a liability. What are your favorite interview questions to see people clearly, either professionally or personally?

The one I used to use was what is your biggest strength and what is your biggest growth area and why? The order in which they answer and their focal area signals also whether they are strength or weakness focused. The other Amazon LP favorite was Give me a time when you got feedback and the deep dive that came with it. I think those are two A Tier questions. S Tier needs more creativity.

@zhen_do_ob Fair to keep to yourself!

Why I’m not in the full-humanoid camp: 1) For most economically valuable jobs, other form factors are sufficient. 2) Customers are willing to reshape environments for robots if they can consistently do useful work. This is counterintuitively the strongest signal of pmf. The customer loves you so much that they are willing to adapt to adopt. 3) Why stop at humanoid when you can go superhumanoid?

@Jason He was probably just projecting lol

There’s a DJT tweet for every occasion! 😂😂😂

Is it me or are long time lurker accounts created in the early days of twitter that just become active recently get sent to some x/twitter algo purgatory? @nikitabier is this true? I might just a/b test this by creating a fresh burner account.