Your scenario sounds like a nightmare of sorts. Constant chatter of what or where to go and no commit to one place. I think you can overcome a lot of excuses by meeting at one place and then sorting it out.
It doesn’t work for that either. That’s the point. It’s akin to looking at a Texan middle grade schoolbook and then concluding everything significant was invented in America.
I think it's possible to listen and discover things (e.g. companies I don't know) without further succumbing to opinions or other comments about those companies.
Right, like running a sanitation department for a city. Who wants to do that? No one, but it's pretty important and everyone will raise hell and almost riot when it's not working.
Totally. I’m in insurance. So much is unsexy but critical. And that’s where you see a lot of folks churning on core systems, process, etc that makes insurance actually work vs any headline tech/investment/AI stuff. Don’t get me wrong - wins there too. But 22 year old Harvard grads aren’t going for underwriting assistant jobs (to use an example)
I also think this has to do a lot with storytelling and message in the company. Do you have someone that can motivate and etc. Many things are boring under the hood to someone and interesting to someone else, but a good story about why and how is what makes a difference.
A well-written reflection on top of Marc's point in the podcast. I don't think it's a hot-take as I'm sure many others will be.
I've tried to interpret his point with a less literal lens. The real point being: give yourself as many opportunities to try, experiment, move on, move forward, etc. Spending excess time reflecting internally and/or on past may not be so productive.
But spending zero time (as he seems to suggest) feels illogical.
My personal experience is somewhere in between. Serial over-thinker and ruminator, and the more I break away from that behavior, the better I feel. And I'm probably more productive.
I don’t know. What I do know is that he shares a similar insane accelerationist / libertarian philosophy that is popular in certain drug-fueled circles within tech.
Got it. Thanks for article. Not on West Coast so hearing less about SF things. Don’t see much or anything about the drug part here either - the part I was really curious about.
> Interesting. Is he a known user? Also curious if you are more broadly against some of that overall?
Just in case you're not aware, Garry Tan, then author of TFA, is YCombinator's current CEO and someone who, while cosplaying as a "moderate", at least subscribes to right-wing ideas (some of them pretty fringe, read the article in another comment).
Scary times. It's like we are suddenly surrounded by sociopathic tech entrepreneurs CEOs.
They became confident enough in their plan to take their masks off. And they are almost definitely collaborating with the very old circles of power who have been poisoning and enslaving people for centuries.
If these are the people making the decisions (and don't even get me started on the 'technical' folks at a16z...), the cluely-esque enshittification of VC over the last few years makes A LOT of sense.
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