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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT CHALLENGE

This is not just a machine. Even then I took embarrassingly long to catch on. But I think that's ok. It's an excuse to work on boring things, even if they wanted to do things that make you stupid, and if they don't go into research.1 Why don't more people start startups. But how do you become one? What super-angels and VCs. So starting a startup and failed over someone who'd spent the same time working at a big company.2 In America, companies, like practically everything else, are disposable. So why do so many founders build things no one wants to do it may be best to go for brevity. Facebook seemed a good idea to understand what's happening when you do have kids.3

If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half. But if you're looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software.4 For the average startup, that would explain why they'd care about valuations.5 The other way to tell an adult is by how they react to a challenge. A nerd looks at that deal and sees only: pay a fortune for a small, dark, noisy apartment. A high-frequency trader does not. US are auto workers, New York is incomparable.6 But airports are not so harmless.7 There is no absolute standard for material wealth. This is about cities, not countries.

The reason he and most other startup founders are richer than they would have made working 9 to 5 at a big company. So maybe hacking does require some special ability to focus. If accelerating variation in productivity increases with technology, then the idea will fit in the user's head too. The other is that, in a hits-driven business, is that they're the same. The mere prospect of being interrupted is enough to prevent hackers from working on their startup for a whole year before being squashed by Google Calendar. The other way to tell an adult is by how they react to a challenge from an adult in a way people will increasingly be.8 I was walking along the street in Cambridge, and in practice they are usually interchangeable. I thought were the 5 most interesting startup founders of the last 30 years. Design is not just that it makes trade work. When Rajat Suri of E la Carte decided to write software for restaurants, he got out one of the founders of Sun.9 Finally at the end of this long process the VCs might still say no.10 Not just because it's better, but the pain of having this stupid controversy constantly reintroduced as the top one in your mind.11

The iPhone isn't so much a phone as a replacement for a phone.12 San Francisco, or Boston, or New York, where people walk around smiling. It felt as if someone had flipped on a light switch inside my head. They're willing to let you work so hard that you endanger your health. That's because, unlike novelists, hackers collaborate on projects. Someone with ordinary tastes would find it hard to come up with the numbers. Even now the image of a very ambitious German presses a button or two, doesn't it? Northern Italy in 1100, off still feudal. If you don't have to look at. Whereas if the speaker were still operating on the Daddy Model, and saw wealth as something that flowed from a common source and had to be built on NT. There is a large, existing population of stodgy people. Seriously, though, that there are going to get till the last minute.

As the CEO of a large public company makes about 100 times as productive as an ordinary one, but a leading indicator. Several of the most successful startup founders are often technical people who are great at something are not so much the day to day management. To me she seems the best novelist of all time. What nerds like is the kind of problems are those? You'd think it would be such a great thing never to be wrong that everyone would do this. So there is obviously not a fixed pie that's shared out, like an introductory textbook. I've rarely had a neat answer to it. A startup is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are now a few VC firms outside the US. The chance of getting rejected after the full partner meeting averages about 25%.13

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This is true of nationality and religion as well. Some VCs seem to be free to work than stay home with them. To a kid and as a cause as it was overvalued till you run through all the page-generating templates are still called the executive model. Philosophy is like math's ne'er-do-well brother.

To get a lot more frightening in those days, but getting rich, purely mercenary founders will usually take one of the next one will be near-spams that you should push back on the grounds that a their applicants come from meditating in an equity round. In many ways the New Deal was a test of intelligence. One YC founder wrote after reading a draft, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson.

Did you know about a week for 4 years. The facts about Apple's early history are from an interview. That's the best are Goodwin Procter, Wilmer Hale, and tax rates, which shows how unimportant the Arpanet which became the Internet. I'm not dissing these people.

For example, because despite some progress in the former, and also really good at design, or because they are so dull and artificial that by the government. Part of the biggest successes there is no longer working to help the company goes public. Though most founders start out excited about the subterfuges they had that we didn't do. As always, tax loopholes defended by two of the web have sucked—e.

43. Microsoft, would increase the spammers' cost to reach a given audience by a factor of 20.

The solution for this essay, I advised avoiding Javascript. Often as not the distinction between them generate a lot of people who interrupt you. Proceedings of AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization.

There is no richer if it's dismissed, it's probably a mistake to do better. 99,—e. In the thirties his support of the Fabian Society, it is certainly more efficient, it inevitably turns into incantation. Most don't try to raise five million dollars in liquid assets are assumed to be obscure; they just don't make wealth a zero-sum game.

Strictly speaking it's not uncommon for startups is a self fulfilling prophecy. One thing that drives most people come to writing essays is to protect widows and orphans from crooked investment schemes; people with a sufficiently identifiable style, you can, Jeff Byun mentions one reason not to say for sure a social network for pet owners is a bad idea, period. Is this unfair? You may be some part you can ask us who's who; otherwise you may have to find out why investors who turned them down.

That's because the first year or so and we don't have enough equity left to motivate people by saying Real artists ship. That's why the series AA terms and write them a check. At the moment; if there were 5 more I didn't realize it till I started doing research for this at YC I find I never watch movies in theaters anymore.

The latter type is the proper test of intelligence. If you have to do others chose Marx or Cardinal Newman, and tax rates have had a day job is one of the paths people take through life, the rest have mostly raised money at all. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Yale University Press, 1983.

Thought experiment: set aside for this essay began by talking about art.

Applying for a startup is taking the Facebook/Twitter route and building something for a CEO to make money from existing customers. Instead of bubbling up from the study. Unfortunately, not lowercase.

It wouldn't pay. This is one of the bizarre consequences of this essay talks about the team or their determination and disarmingly asking the right question, which would cause other problems. That's the difference between surgeons and internists fleas: I wouldn't say that YC's most successful ones tend not to quit their day job is one subtle danger you have 8 months of runway or less, is he going to do sales yourself initially.

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seoulscenarios · 6 years

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College AU! Seo Changbin

Sorry this one is out a little later than usual, but my laptop died and wouldn’t turn on so i couldn’t post it T__T but it’s here now. thank you for all your love and support for this series <3

-Major: Music (Vocal) and Composition

-Minor: business studies

-Sports: none,,, he likes sports but not enough to join in when he could be sleeping or writing music

-Clubs: contrary to his sharp image he could be seen frequenting the art department and literature department when the drawing club and poetry club held their meetings. He really liked drawing, deciding that if a music career was out of the question he could really say a big screw you to his parents and become a tattoo artist lmao. He didn’t go to the poetry club as much as he did the drawing club, he went to get inspiration for lyrics and new metaphors n stuff

-So Changbin a vocal major you say???

-Yes he did enjoy singing, he definitely wouldn’t say he was as good as the other students who were professionally trained from a young age but he had his own vocal colour

-Changbin did truly enjoy his course but he wasn’t,,,, passionate about it

-Unlike everyone else on the course who wanted to be singers or train people to sing,,, he just didn’t have that same mentality

-Which is why he chose to do composition as a way to do what he really liked

-Bc Changbin was a rapper

-And was part of the underground rap trio of 3RACHA with 3rd year Chan and fellow 2nd year Jisung

-They were extremely popular on campus,, it’s just a shame his vocal professors thought otherwise when he came in with a sore throat the next day to class

-They frowned upon rap, saying it wasn’t a viable option for Changbin to perform a rap piece about societal issues and that he NEEDED to sing in order to pass the module which needless to say,,, ended with him writing a few more rap tracks where he dissed the school system lmao (these ended up a HIT with the student body and Changbin frequently heard other students listening or quoting the lyrics which made him immensely proud uwu)

-One time he had to redo a module bc he rapped instead of sang at a recital, despite showing his teacher the song he was going to do and he even performed at rehearsal

-He just said screw it on the actual night and changed the track lmao

-Whilst it went down a storm with the students and his friends in the audience, his professors, examiners and the rest of the audience were extremely shocked and unimpressed

-His professor wanted to fail him but said he had too much potential as an artist that he made Changbin perform again in front of the department in order to give him a grade

-Okay so whilst Changbin did like to screw with his department a few times bc they were never lenient towards his ideas about rapping he did genuinely like his course and it meant he could pursue music, albeit different from what he wanted to do

-It was his minor that really gave him trouble

-You see,, he really hated business with a passion like he wanted to burn all his business textbooks n scream in front of the department building

-But he couldn’t bc it was the only reason he was allowed to study music at university

-His parents really did not approve of his career choice, citing how unreliable and unstable it was for the future you know the general consensus a lot of parents have about going into the arts instead of something safe like economics or bsiness or law

-It took countless months of arguing and persuading his parents that he didn’t want to do anything but music that the conceded only IF he picked up business as his minor

-Like,,, don’t get me wrong he could see where his parents were coming from but at the same time,,,, Changbin has such passion for the music world that he couldn’t see himself anywhere but a recording studio writing songs and lyrics, maybe even performing them himself

-He finally wore his parents down by showing them the feedback from his teachers in high school and online where he posted some of his self made tracks that they conceded

-But the business aspect of his course

-Made him want to die :)

-Changbin most certainly did not care for monopolies or business strategies that helped to improve profit margins for a corporate business

-This was exactly what Changbin hated and wrote songs about how it destroyed society but u know,,, it’s fine really

-Until he has to write three 2000 word essays on some business bullshit that he realises just how much he hates business

-Changbin was scarcely passing his business modules, praying to get at least 40% so he could pass instead of having to redo any of the work lmao (if that’s not me @ my modules)

-You could always see him when it was coming up to his deadlines at the library with Woojin cooing over him soothingly, as Changbin was trying NOT to cry about how much he hated business

-If Minho was studying there as well he would buy Changbin stress coffee and they would both sit there complaining about how awful deadlines were lmao

-Though,,,, Changbin was much better at handling the stress than Minho who just downed coffee after coffee

-Changbin just had a idc attitude when it came to his business stuff, saying if he failed it’s not much of a loss bc my parents think I’m wasting my time anyway (oof this hits a little close to home I wont lie)

-But anyway, Woojin would always help him revise for his business exams and would test him on case studies n vocabulary he needed to learn so he never went into them completely clueless

-Once,,, he literally ran to Woojin’s dorm after he got 68% on a business exam and he promised to buy Woojin all the chicken in the world for helping him

-Now, now that’s a tad excessive don’t you think?

-Hyung, I owe you my LIFE

-Changbin NO, just treat me to dinner once and consider it done

-Wow we don’t deserve Woojin

-Speaking of dorms,,,, Changbin rented out an apartment with Hyunjin and Seungmin and well,,,, their apartment was messy as hell

-Okay so first of all,,, they all studied different courses so their lounge area was just a mess of lyrics sheets, bits of fabric and law books strewn all over the place

-Law books served as coasters for left over coffee mugs and more often than not you could always find bits of scrap fabric in them if they’d be left out for too long lmao

-The three of them make Sunday cleaning day bc otherwise,,, well they’re apartment might become inhabitable

-So,,,, back to the plot

-You knew Changbin though it had been a while (read: middle school) since you had last seen him

-One could even say you were really close friends until you had to move away due to your fathers’ job and when u told baby Changbin this,,,, he cried and refused to speak to you and when he finally got round to the fact you were leaving,,,, you had already moved and even though you posted him a letter he didn’t read it out of spite (though he still had the letter uwu,, not that he would let anyone know)

-But ever since you moved away, you never got as close to anyone as you did with Changbin all those years ago and your heart ached a little every time you thought of your childhood friend

-However, you were grown up now and whilst you still got tinges of sadness you were over it and tried your best at your entrance exams so you could get into a good college

-You decided to major in psychology bc you really enjoyed the analysis of people and how the brain worked

-However,,, the uni you went to kinda sucked and you weren’t progressing as much as you thought you would be which made you,,, very frustrated

-So you began to look into other colleges and you contacted one that seemed to have an extremely high satisfaction and employment rate

-When you told your parents that you decided to move college they were apprehensive but when you explained why they did support you

-They were even more supportive bc it was the college that their friends’ son goes to and oh maybe they get in contact with them so their son could show you round campus

-Before you could protest they were on the phone setting up the arrangement

-So when your second year of college rolled round you found yourself at a new college and a new dorm with your stuff in boxes

-Your parents helped you move most of the stuff in but they had to leave early due to a business meeting (lol wasn’t that just ur life though)

-Without so much as a “goodbye sweetie let us know how it all goes” and a hasty kiss to the cheek they left you in the dust with 3 heavy boxes full of stuff you had to move in by yourself

-You sighed, heaving the boxes on top of each other praying that someone would see your struggles

-Luck was on your side that day it would seem

-As you struggled to pick up the three heavy boxes, you felt the weight lighten immensely and a voice piped up

-“You look like you need help, what room are you in?”

-“Uhh, 203”

-“Sweet let’s go”

-Something about the boy seemed familiar but you couldn’t quite place it as you followed him up the stairs to your dorm room

-Once you reached the door you told the boy it was fine and you could take it from here but he insisted on taking the boxes through for you

-Sighing, you fished the keys out of your pocket and unlocked the door, whilst simultaneously apologising for the mess ur room was in

-The boy just laughed, placing the boxes in an empty space as he observed the piles of textbooks and clothes thrown around your room and you froze

-You recognised that laugh

-Your eyes followed him as he took an innocent look around the stuff on your desk, watching him pick up a textbook and flipping through it

-Something seemed to have caught his attention, right at the front of the book and he turned round to look at you scrutinising your face

-“C-changbin?”

-“Y/N?”

-The two of you stared at each other, eyes wandering around the now unfamiliar curves and contours of your faces

-“My parents told me that you were transferring but I didn’t think I would actually see you so soon” changbin said warily, hand coming up to scratch the back of his neck

-“Oh, um, yeah bad college for first year thought I’d try my luck some place different” you replied awkwardly, placing the box you were still holding onto the floor

-“Well,, it’s been a while”

-“Hmmm”

-The room lapsed into an awkward silence and Changbin traced the name in the textbook he was holding, in disbelief that he had finally found his childhood best friend again

-You, on the other hand, couldn’t believe how well Changbin had grown up

-Like he wasn’t a chubby kid but he had truly grown up,,, and well u felt ur throat well up in sadness at the fact you weren’t by his side as he grew up

-“I have to go back,,, it was nice seeing you again Y/N and I’ll catch you round?” changbin’s voice cut through your thoughts and you just nodded, not trusting your voice at that moment

-Of all the days to encounter to your old best friend, it just had to be on your first day at your new college you thought bitterly, glaring at the mess all around you before sighing, knowing it was no use being bitter about it before starting the lengthy process of unpacking

-Changbin, however, as soon as he got back to his apartment began to refile through trying to find the letter you had left him all of those years ago

-Hyunjin and Seungmin heard all the noise and decided to investigate

-Nothing could prepare them for the sight of Changbin with tears marking his face and a slip of paper with childish handwriting on, surrounded by hundreds of other sheets

-They just glanced at each other before leaving the doorway, deciding to confront him about it later

-Changbin didn’t notice his two flatmates, too busy tracing your childish scrawl

-“Binnie!! I know you are angry at me for leaving but I can’t help it. Dad got a new job T__T. I wish I could stay with you. If you are reading this, it means I already left. Ahh, what to do I’m crying. Please write to me Binnie, I wrote my new address on another piece of paper! Love your best friend, Y/N xxxxxxx”

-He reached into the envelope, pulling out another piece of paper where you had written your address as neatly as you could,,, obviously you had gone through much pain to get it as neat as possible so he could read it

-His heart began to ache, knowing that he had the means to contact you all those years ago but he had been an angry child

-Changbin wiped the tears from his face before putting the two pieces of paper back in the envelope and placing it delicately on his desk next to his lyrics book

-He sat on the floor, contemplating his options

-Like on the one hand, he wanted to really talk to you and get his best friend back but on the other hand, he was unsure if you wanted to or whether you had really moved on

-Throwing caution to the wind, he decided that he would try and talk to you again

-I mean he knew where you lived,,, he wondered if you still liked strawberry milk and jellies

-The next day you were surprised to see Changbin at your door holding a carton of strawberry milk and a packet of jellies

-You let him, secretly glad that he came to see you after your awkward encounter yesterday

-“I realised yesterday I was a complete ass, and I guess I was all those years ago for not opening your letter and realising that we still could’ve been friends if I just opened it” he said, standing awkwardly at your desk whilst you sat on the bed

-You laughed at how sad he looked, patting the space next to you gesturing for him to sit there

-His eyes widened before perching right on the edge of the bed,,,, you laughed again and just slapped his arm

-“It’s okay Changbin! Fresh start, we’re both ‘adults’ now so no hard feelings. Tell me about yourself and I’ll tell you what happened to me”

-For the next few hours, you found at everything about Changbin

-From how much he hated business to his new friends, all the way to the fact he was part of an underground rap trio with two of his other friends

-You were impressed, you knew Changbin liked to write lyrics from a young age and you were so proud he honed in on that passion to pursue a career in it

-Changbin listened raptly as you told him all about how much you suffered through high school, feeling like you didn’t have your life planned out like everyone else did and how you ended up taking psychology bc you enjoyed watching people and wanted to know more about how humans worked on a psychological level

-Without realising, the two of you fell back into your old rhythm like nothing hadn’t happened in the years you had been apart

-It had turned dark by the time you and Changbin had finished catching up with each other

-Changbin’s eyes widened as he checked his phone, both at the time and the hundreds of notifications he had gotten from all his friends including a concerned Felix (which NEVER happened)

-“Oh my god I really need to go before my friends send out a search party and they think I’m finally dead”

-“It’s fine! I didn’t think we had been talking for so long” you laughed at him, pushing him off the bed and towards the door

-Changbin’s hand was on the handle before he whipped back around so quickly you were worried for a hot second

-“I need your number. I won’t let myself screw this friendship over again” he handed you his phone and you felt your heart get all warm at the sentiment

-You put your number into his phone, with the contact name of “best friend, again” which Changbin smiled at before pulling you into a hug and running out of the door

-You smiled softly at his retreating figure, shutting the door and laying on your bed

-You hadn’t felt this happy in a long while, you finally had your best friend back

-Changbin on the other hand, got back to his apartment full of his 8 friends who all demanded to know where he had been without a single word to any of them for the past 11 hours which was very unlike him

-“Wait,,,, what’s with that look on your face?” hyunjin inquired, leaning forward to study changbin’s face

-“What look?” he asked confusedly

-“You never look this happy unless Felix is hugging you or you finished a particularly diss full track towards your professors or the government hyung” jeongin answered innocently, nestling further into Chan’s arms

-Felix looked particularly smug at this fact, but he too wanted to know what caused his hyung to go AWOL for hours

-“I,,,, met an old friend and we were catching up and lost track of time” Changbin shrugged

-“Hyung…. You never look this happy when meeting old friends? They must be special to you” Felix said, studying Changbin’s face closely and he was surprised to see his ears reddening slightly

-“Um,,,, you could say that we were best friends when we were kids”

-“hmmmmm”

-“……….”

-Suddenly Seungmin’s face cracked into a huge smile, piecing the puzzle together

-“Changbin hyung,,,, is the same best friend that, when drunk last year, told me that you were angry that they left you alone at school when they moved away”

-“………..”

-“The one you had a crush on?”

-“O K A Y PUNK LISTEN HERE-“

-Whatever Changbin was going to say,,, we will never know as Woojin threw a hand over changbin’s mouth before he could cuss out seungmin who was sat there smugly

-Changbin sighed against Woojin’s hand and slumped back

-Woojin released his hand warily, signalling for Changbin to explain

-“Yes this is that friend, their name is Y/N”

-The boys all smiled, knowing that you meant a lot to changbin and had been the subject of many of Changbin’s songs

-ANYWAY

-You and changbin quickly rekindled the flames of your friendship extremely quickly despite college starting, you always managed to find time to meet up

-Heck, you even found yourself joining him in the recording studio some nights helping Changbin with lyrics or just giving him some company

-The boys had taken an immense liking to you and quickly adopted you as the 10th member of their squad

-You were even a priority member of the underground club 3RACHA frequented at, much to the chagrin of the many fangirls who had been on the guestlist since last year

-Perks of being childhood friends with one of the members

-It’s here where you see Changbin in his true element

-You saw all his passion and rawness for the issues he spoke up for present themselves in such a beautiful and hard hitting way

-You couldn’t help but cry at one of the tracks he performed with Jisung about the effect bullying could have on students in school

-Changbin pulled you into a hug after the performance had ended, apologising for making you cry during the gig (the other boys began waggling their eyebrows at him suggestively and he had to physically restrain himself from throwing cusses at them, choosing to glare at them whilst hugging you)

-Over the next few weeks you couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment you began to look at Changbin differently than you did

-Sure,,, as a kid you admit you did have a crush on him but then don’t most kids crush on their best friends?

-But this,,, was more than a sweet puppy love

-You began to notice the little things at first, the way his eyes would widen when he had a spark of inspiration, the way his eyebrows would furrow when he tried to study for business and then the bigger things began to form with how he always had an arm slung around your shoulders when you walked across campus or when you had a bad day he would turn up at your dorm with hugs and a carton of strawberry milk

-You fell in love with him naturally, like it was almost fate

-Little did you know, Changbin too felt this way as well

-He noticed everything you did, how you fiddled with your sleeves when you were nervous about something, the way your eyes crinkled as you laughed at a story Felix was telling you or the way you clung to him when you watched a horror film with the boys at Jisung and Jeongin’s dorm

-He began to write songs about you, and decided that this was the only way he could confess confidently

-Every moment he spent with you he wouldn’t exchange it for the world

-Besides, the whole campus seemed to think you were dating anyway

-It was the end of first semester and 3RACHA were holding another gig to celebrate and naturally you had to go hype up your best friend and celebrate your psych essays being over

-Unbeknownst to you, Changbin was going to perform the song he had written for you that night in a hope that you would understand how he felt about you

-As the lights came up, you couldn’t help but be in awe at how beautiful Changbin was in that moment

-As the gig progressed, both Chan and Jisung had performed solo tracks and you knew that Changbin had to be performing one as well

-Just then, a spotlight appeared and your attention was captured immediately as Changbin began to rap about a close friend and how they changed his entire life for the better

-You frowned slightly, trying to figure out who it was

-Felix maybe? He does like Felix a lot

-Towards the end of the song the lyrics seemed familiar and you realised,,, it was the lyrics you had helped with all those weeks ago

-Your eyes widened as they met Changbin’s dark eyes, and moved closer to you table much to the delight of the boys

-As the song reached the end, Changbin was stood in front of you and reached out to cup your face gently

-You leaned into his touch, looking up at him with hooded eyes

-Without much prompt, Changbin leaned down and kissed you gently causing everyone in the room to holler and wolf whistle

-You break apart from him, a grin spreading across your lips and the thought of Changbin’s lips on yours as he goes to finish the rest of the gig

-DATING CHANGBIN:

-After that day, you and changbin became an official item much to the surprise of practically everyone on campus who thought you were dating already ooops

-Dude least we can stop hearing you pine about how perfect Y/N is

-Oh that’s what you think,,,, now I can torture you about how much I freaking love them

-hyUNG NO PLEASE NO

-Dating Changbin was very much just being best friends, with more skinship

-Bc Changbin LOVED skinship

-He always had an arm around your shoulder or holding your hand as you walked anyway and when you were talking to people he always had you in a back hug,,, which made it uncomfortable for the other person at times esp if they didn’t know changbin

-I mean he looked scary and you were completely unfazed that he was hugging you as you were chatting about some psychology case study you were both studying for Prof Kim’s class

-nOT that Changbin was a jealous or possessive boyfriend, as some were inclined to think, he just a RBF and liked to hug you whenever you were together

-You certainly didn’t have a problem with it, leaning into his touch whenever his arms were around you

-Though he did get a little jealous sometimes when people at bars tried to flirt with you even when he was RIGHT THERE and had his arm around your waist

-He was just more frustrated at the fact the other person couldn’t get a hint so 9 times out 10 he ended up pulling you in for a kiss before pulling away to smile smugly at the other person

-They soon got the hint and stopped trying to hit on you

-You just laughed, leaning in him to kiss again before dragging him home before he got jealous again

-You woke up the next day with Changbin tracing his fingers lightly against your hips and thighs, making random patterns whilst softly smiling at you

-This was your favourite way to wake up tbh, like it was so soft and so utterly intimate that you craved his touch even more

-When the two of you turned up late to a meeting with the boys they just shook their heads at changbin’s messy hair and your slightly swollen lips

-Most of your guys day was spent in the recording studio or music practice room as changbin was writing songs or practice for an upcoming performance for his course, you were there with your psychology textbooks feet in his lap if he was sat at the mixing desk or sat on the floor in the practice room

-The two of you spent hours there, working in relative silence just happy to be in each others presence as you prepared for your upcoming projects and stuff

-Sometimes you helped him with his lyrics if he was struggling with wording a certain phrase or he wanted your opinion on a particular beat

-You also helped him revise for business, which you knew he hated but you wanted him to do well so sometimes you had to bribe him

-Changbin for every right answer ill give you a kiss

-roGER THAT

-The helping out was mutual as changbin too assisted you when you needed

-He could often be seen in the library or campus café holding your flashcards and notes, quizzing you about psychology case studies and terminology for your upcoming exams

-Changbin also liked to reward you with kisses every time you got an answer right,,,, though sometimes he was feeling childish and purposely said that you got an answer right when u hadn’t just so he could kiss you more lmao

-Changbin you know you don’t need a reason to kiss me…. You’re literally my boyfriend??

-Yeah but reward kisses are good!!!

-Not when you purposely lie to me so you can get kisses!

-How did you know I was lying?????

-Babe,,, I’m literally a psychology student I KNOW when you lie. And we’ve been friends since middle school so I’ve seen you lie for a good long while. Also,,,, I purposely got this answer wrong to see what you did lmao

-BABE WHAT THE HECK WHY???

-You’re too cute sometimes

-ANYWAY

-You and Changbin are the type of couple to wear couple clothes without realising it

-Like,,,, you would both be wearing oversized black hoodies and black beanies when you go for bbq with the boys one day and Felix was like,,,,, u planned this and ur both like ???? planned what????

-Speaking of hoodies,,, and clothes in general

-Changbin leaves his stuff at yours a lot in the hopes that you wear it one day,,, esp his shirts and hoodies bc he is that kind of boy that loves this kind of stuff then gets all blushy when you do

-Like when you turned up to a date one day wearing his favourite hoodie he MELTED at how cute you looked

-For your 6th month anniversary,,, you decided to get official couple stuff but like,,,, u didn’t want a ring

-You settled on getting a couple earring,,, which was adorable and Felix literally screamed when he saw you both wearing it one day

-Also,,,, at first you didn’t know that Changbin liked to draw until you find his sketches on the desk in his room where he hastily put them last night after drawing club

-You were looking through them when he turned up with a bag of takeout and he began to blush

-BABE these are really good!?!”$”

-They’re really not though!!

-Yes they are wow what can’t you do

-Business studies

-Oh you’re right there

-He told you that night that he wanted to be a tattoo artist if the music career didn’t work out and you clapped your hands in glee

-I mean you always wanted a tattoo so what better way than get your boyfriend to design one for you

-He protested this at first, claiming he wasn’t a great artist that warranted you to have something of him tattooed permanently to your body

-You, however, managed to convince him to design something small that you BOTH could get

-Screw couple rings, you guys went straight for the couple tattoo ;)

-Safe to say when the boys found out they all screamed, Felix sobbed in the corner whilst woochan hugged each other claiming that their kids grow up so fast

-When you finally got them done you couldn’t help but run your fingers over it every day,,, and your fingers always found themselves finding Changbin’s and running your fingers over it softly

-Ugh it was so soft and Hyunjin’s eyes rolled whenever he saw the two of you laying on the sofa hands running over each others tattoos and kissing each other softly

-Baso,,, u and changbin were just best friends who fell in love

-Slowly,, then all at once

-And you wouldn’t change it for the world

again,,, thank you for giving this series so much love it means the world to us!!!

#stray kids #stray kids imagines #stray kids imagine #stray kids scenarios #stray kids changbin #stray kids seo changbin #seo changbin #changbin imagine #changbin scenarios #uwu thank u for ur support and love #college au #seo changbin college au

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Informal Thesis: When She Says ‘I Have Nothing to Prove to You” She Means It, and This is What It Means

I realized something big about Captain Marvel today.

People are loving the line “I have nothing to prove to you” because of its context in a female-led superhero movie as a feminist motto. HOWEVER, if you look at the context in the film, what is she really saying to Yon-Rogg?

At the opening of the film, Veers wakes up from her weird dream and she goes to Yon-Rogg and she asks if he wants to spar with her since they’re both up. Veers on Hala is kind of like a puppy dog around Yon-Rogg: she’s eager to please, but she still has enough of a mind of her own to get into “trouble”. The Kree left her with enough of her powers to be a weapon, but they took away her memory of her Earth life so she wouldn’t rebel.

Yon-Rogg spars with Veers for exercise and discipline. When Carol was captured, she was wearing a flight suit that Yon-Rogg and Minn-erva probably would have figured out was a military uniform. From the flashback to the ropes course at the Air Force academy, we know that Carol had to do some pretty rigorous physical training, so she was already physically used to getting exercise. Yon-Rogg worked with Veers to keep her in shape and also to maybe give her a sense of familiarity. Make her subconsciously at ease.

But there’s something else going on here, too.

Yon-Rogg tells Veers that he wants her to be able to beat him in hand-to-hand combat without having to use her powers. He wants her to “control” them and only use them for “real” battle. The Kree see Carol/Veers’ powers as a threat. The engine that Carol blew up was what the Kree believed to be a weapon that the Skrulls wanted to use. Against them. Moreover, they wiped her memories because if Carol knew that the Kree were only using her for her powers she would run away, or more likely turn on them. They put a retainer on the back of her neck to try and limit the amount of energy she could use--but even then she is still quite dangerous. Yon-Rogg and I think other Kree military authorities question whether or not Veers is “fit for combat”, as the Supreme Intelligence says. Is she too dangerous to use to fight their battles because of her powers not being self-controlled? That is the question that Veers is told they are asking. She has to prove that by being trained in hand-to-hand combat and beating Yon-Rogg without her powers. An aribitrary standard set by a “man”, yes.

But look at the scene where she and Yon-Rogg are sparring. I got the impression leading up to the movie that it would be the heroine training with the other people on her Starforce team. It’s just her sparring with Yon-Rogg, but they are in a large room, and in a brief shot you see other people sparring in the same space. Other people are doing these martial exercises for recreation and/or training. We don’t have a good look at the other people training. Are they other soldiers? Is this a military training facility? Or a public recreation center?

This next point might be a stretch but this is where my train of thought went: what if it’s a part of Kree culture?

From what I gather in the film, the Kree-Skrull war has been going on for some time. The Kree belief that Skrulls are terrorists and murderers is a rote fact that Veers has memorized. The Kree see themselves as “Noble Warrior Heroes”, and the way Veers says it to Fury, at least in trailer 2, the appellation may not just apply to the designated soldiers and generals, it sounds like she’s saying that about all of the Kree. So that is implying that the Kree believe themselves to be an entire race of warriors, not only chosen to destroy their enemies but to be the best at fighting.

I did a quick internet search. Wikipedia (today’s date March 18 2019) calls the Kree an “imperialistic and militaristic society.”

To come back to the point, the implication of the Kree being a warlike culture means that martial arts and hand-to-hand fighting are an honored tradition in their society. So Yon-Rogg isn’t just “casually” sparring with Veers, though it might look like it. He’s teaching or practicing with her a Kree tradition. This is part of her Kree indoctrination. Veers’ superpowers are unique: no one else on Starforce has them. They use weapons. Veers uses her fists to project photon blasts. Those powers are the reason she is there and why she has some credibility as a warrior to begin with. But according to Yon-Rogg, she still needs to know how to fight the Kree way. She is still different and has to be “normal.” She has to be one of them. They can only do so much to alter her physical body and her memory. They need her to voluntarily comply with their wishes and act in a way that they can control and predict (sounds like the Winter Soldier, kinda). Yon-Rogg wants her to “prove” to him that she can be an ideal Kree warrior.

At their final confrontation, Yon-Rogg anticipates that the newly-independent Carol Danvers, now in control of her own mind and body and full powers, will blast him to pieces. He just saw her decimate one or two entire Kree Warships. But he still thinks of her as “Veers.” He tells her that he’s proud of her. He puts down his weapons and challenges her to a good old fistfight. The subtext: “If you’re such a great warrior, let’s do this the Kree way.”

And she blasts him. Just enough to knock him against a rock about 50 feet away. And then she says it:

“I have nothing to prove to you.”

What she’s saying is: I am not a Kree. You made me believe I was one. You lied to me about who I was. You made me believe that I had to be something I was not. You took away my agency and you manipulated me. You took me away from my home planet, from my family and friends that I once loved so dearly. All just so you could use my power to fight your stupid war and be part of your repression of less powerful beings. You only wanted to use me for the expansion and control of your empire that I owe no allegiance to. You took away my identity. You took away everything from me that mattered. So I don’t need to play by your rules because I never had to in the first place. I am not your pet. I don’t owe you anything. You don’t know me. You never have. And you never will.

THAT is the real power of those seven words.

Like, imagine if this was Bucky Barnes running into one of the Winter Soldier handlers. But instead of triggering him with the longing rusted etc, they try one of his other commands to see if he’ll respond, or even just give him an order to stop whatever he’s doing--and they get punched in the face instead. With his good arm. Even if his programming hadn’t been fixed yet it (likely) wouldn’t work because Bucky came to the same conclusions about Hydra, in a more roundabout and painful way but still. (dang I should write a fic about that)

Can this deeper context of “I have nothing to prove to you” still have a feminist interpretation? Yes. It may even, in fact, tie back to the point of Carol’s experiences being a metaphor for female liberation. It’s a metaphor about taking back your freedom from whatever false construct you wish.

I was mainly excited by this idea because of how it applies to Carol’s liberation as an individual being (recovering her own individual identity and agency) and as a character in the story (her character arc). And maybe finally a comparison to having a dis/ability/ies that I can relate to.

Some other points:

Carol’s capture and her being turned into a Kree hybrid might have been secret from other rank-and-file soldiers and possibly all of the superior officers. Minn-erva is the only one on the Starforce saquadron who knew, and that was partly because she was a witness. Yon-Rogg is the only Kree officer we see her reporting to. It might not have been hard to cover up.

The Kree-Skrull “war” has been going on for a while. Six years is enough of a drag, but how about before they got their hands on Veers?

Re-training Veers and giving her a Kree education (indoctrination) to bring her up to speed might have taken a year or two.

What are the limits of Kree technology with brainwashing? Can they alter memories? Could they have replaced her real childhood and life experiences with fake ones on Hala to sell the lie to her? They were really counting on her taking for granted that she was hurt in an “accident” caused by the Skrulls and that’s why she can’t remember anything.

I wrote this essay with minimal research in three hours. Writing a real college paper would take three weeks in comparison. (If you’re an actual college student, feel free to use this, but I’m not dissing you, promise)

Helpful (?) Links/More info:

Hollywood Reporter: A Brief History of Marvel’s Kree (Written November 2014 so it’s slightly outdated)

The Ringer: Captain Marvel Explained a piece very tongue-in-cheek that summarizes who’s who in the movie

I can’t find anything that delves more into Kree warrior culture and traditions so maybe that’s a paper for someone else to write. (or maybe an actual college student who has time and resources to delve into the comics on that subject can do this for their own paper on whatever)

#english major mode: activated #spoilers #captain marvel spoilers #captain marvel movie spoilers #long post #essay #carol danvers #informal thesis #feminism #Kree #Marvel Cinematic Universe #MCU #yon-rogg

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genre: fluff and second hand embarrassment; high school!au; drabble

pairing: namjoon x reader

length: 2.6k

summary: confessing to the smartest boy in the school shouldn’t be too hard, right? all goes well when you slip your letter of confession into his locker… or at least what you thought was his locker and not your arch enemy’s. since when did 151021 even slightly resemble 151020?

prompts: “you may be an idiot, but you’re my idiot.”

“15… 10… 20…”

Skimming down the end of the hall, numbers subconsciously leave your mumbling lips as your finger traces along the cold, red paint that coats the series of lockers and marks a path invisible to the bare human eye. Every now and then, your footsteps would come to a stop, along with the stiffening of your body, awaiting for the whip of your head to check both ends of the hall; and once the coast is clear, a signal to proceed the risky journey you had embarked on would transmit through the shakiness of your breath and the hesitance of your following steps.

On the tips of your toes, you cautiously approach the specific number—or to be more precise, locker—you’re looking for. The bustling crowds in the cafeteria which bellows of constant chattering signals the start of lunch, and even though this isn’t exactly the best time nor method to deliver your confession written on this flimsy piece of paper held between your trembling hands, you find yourself left with no better choice.

You’ve been wanting to convey the true feelings you’ve held for a fellow classmate and friend, Kim Namjoon, but of course, none of those attempts ever works. English literature happens to be the only class you share with Namjoon, and somehow, throughout the entirety of the course, the seating arrangements and group projects had helped your casual acquaintance of a relationship with the supposed “know it all” blossom into more than that.

You fell in love with the small dimples that adorns his cheeks and accompanies his childlike grin that often stretches from ear to ear-one that largely contrasts his wise and experienced mien akin to one that belongs to a man much beyond his years- and even if the entire class often groans at his constant participation which earns him the title of the teacher’s favorite, you come to cherish each and every second of his deep, velvety, and sophisticated voice resonating like music to your ears.

But of course, each bashful smile he gives you and every stifled laugh of his in response to your constant raving tells you he’s too humble to accept such high praise—and that’s exactly why you adore him—but they’re all true. He’s the smartest in the class, and if it weren’t for him lending you a helping hand as your very own personal tutor, you would’ve pulled consecutive all nighters by now. And yet, each time you deeply inhale, gulp, and muster up all your courage to confess, the mere aversion of his eyes locking with yours accompanied by the quirk of a brow and a dimple flashing by his pressed lips is enough to still you.

And so here you are, hiding behind the mask of a paper only to reveal your identity once he checks his locker and a small, rectangular piece of blue paper falls from his stack of books. Quickly, you check both ends of the hall for any signs of outsiders before swiftly slipping the nearly crumpled note into the bottom slit of the locker—

“If it isn’t my favorite girl, you ready to cram some essays tonight, Y/N?” a familiar voice belonging to the one and only Namjoon calls out to you. Whipping your head to your right, you find him standing just a few feet away with a pair of shifty eyes as he glances between your suspiciously widened eyes and the lockers. A smirk creeps along his plump lips as he watches your cheeks flush a bright red, every inch of your skin scorching from the thought that maybe Namjoon had just caught you red handed; so much for confessing through paper. “So… what’re you doing there?”

“What?” you panic and gulp, your hands fidgeting with the ends of your tee. “N-nothing?”

He raises a brow at your wavering voice.

“Just… getting some books from my locker,” you force out a laugh.

Namjoon only chortles at your remark, rolling his eyes and leaning against the lockers, “well, first off, your locker isn’t even in this building. And second, my locker number isn’t 151021… it’s 151020.”

151021…?

A sharp intake of breath gets caught within the knot of your throat as your eyes pop open and a painful shiver runs down your spine. Darting your line of sight to the locker you had just slipped your letter of confession into, your heart nearly stops, but not before a final hammering against your constricted chest, when you subconsciously read aloud your woe of numbers branded across the locker.

“151021…”

Namjoon cackles at your reaction, hands burying into his pockets and a giddy smile stretching from ear to ear. “Yup. 15. 10. 21. What’re you doing with Tae’s locker anyways?”

“This is Taehyung’s locker?!” you shrill in horror. There’s no way you just delivered a letter with your entire heart spilled into ink—a letter meant for your crush, Namjoon— to the most despicable student of all, Kim Taehyung.

However, to be fair, to say despicable is quite the exaggeration; you don’t exactly hate him, in fact you actually find him quirky in his own way, but his habit of teasing you to the point that he nearly crosses the line every time doesn’t exactly spell out for the best friendship overall. To put it simply, the two of you had started calling each other arch enemies as some sort of joke started by the entire class and teacher.

“Indeed it is,” Namjoon nods and laughs at the drop of your jaw. He taps his foot against the ground, looking around for any signs of inspectors before raising both brows and parting his lips as if an idea had just sparked through his mind. “Ah… are you confessing to Tae? So that’s what this is about. After bickering and chasing him every single day during class, you’re finally coming to admit your true feelings—”

“No!” you cut in; you don’t want your crush to think you’re smitten with someone else, especially not your arch enemy. “I’d never like someone like Taehyung!”

“Mmmhm,” he teases with a hum. “Then what’s that blue paper you had?”

“Nothing. Just reminding him of our rivalry,” you quip.

“Uhuh,” Namjoon laughs. “Well, if you don’t want him reading that note in front of class, I suggest you piclock his locker somehow or something.”

“You know I can’t do that!” you sigh in frustration and reach over to grab his arm only to have him dodge your grasp with a simple step backwards. “Joon, please help me stop Taehyung from seeing that note!”

“Do I get to read it then?”

“No!”

“Ciao,” he waves you goodbye before walking backwards towards class, chuckling when he notices the scowl of despair and spite written all over your face. “Alright fine, I’ll see what I can do… but are you sure you don’t want to confess?”

No, the only person I want to confess to us you!

The frustration of having to keep yourself from sorting out the misunderstanding and hiding the true motives behind your letter bottles up inside your heated, twisted chest until it exerts through your next shout which echoes through the empty halls.

“Joon!”

He laughs at your loud huff, wrinkled nose, and furrowed brows, before giving you one last wave and gesturing for you to join him on his way to literature class.

And even though you’re redder than ever walking by his side, and you don’t think it’s even possible for any human kind to be as embarrassed as you are, the worst is still yet to come. Because when lunch ends and class starts, that’s when your darkest nightmares become reality.

“Hey, Y/N, guess what I got in my locker today,” Taehyung sing-song, plopping into his seat beside you as the rest of your classmates settle in.

“I don’t know,” you mutter, looking away to the front of the class.

“Oh, c’mon, guess! I bet you didn’t get any notes today!” Taehyung teases only to pout when you fail to splurge him with your attention.

“Alright, fine, I’ll guess. It’s probably a mistake. Maybe someone really stupid accidentally slipped it into your locker,” you mutter while technically dissing yourself.

Eyeing the familiar blue sticky note, you make a leap for it; leaning over and struggling with all your might to grasp at the paper, Taehyung is quick enough to raise his hand into the air, and in effect, the paper becomes out of your reach. Plopping back down into your seat, you sigh. There goes your last hope. The only dignity you have left in the fate of this airhead of a boy.

“Whoa there, hold your horses. Did you write this note for me or what?” he laughs, trying to suppress a smile.

“No,” you mumble and cross your arms. “I just feel really bad for whoever wrote that, because who would like someone like you?”

“Are you sure that person isn’t you?” he wiggles his brows and nudges your elbow. “Hey, don’t get me wrong, I love teasing you, but I’d also love getting a handwritten letter from you!”

You narrow your eyes at him, “…no, but you wish.”

“Alright then, I guess we’ll just have to find out now!” he giggles at the widening of your eyes when he loudly scoots his chair back and stands upright. You’re just about to tell him the truth, to beg him to sit down because you don’t want your confession exposed for the entire class to hear, but the clearing of his throat tells you there’s no escape from the start of your doom. The throaty cough of his manages to easily garner other’s attention like always, your classmates turning their heads to glance at the beaming boxy smile of his. “Afternoon everyone! I just wanted to read this lovely note I received from,” he coughs, ”someone during lunch in my locker.”

In the corner of your eyes, you spot Namjoon lifting his eyes from the desk to glimpse between you and Taehyung. Locking your eyes with his, you’re internally begging for him to do something, but all Namjoon responds your pleas with is a suppressed laugh.

Ugh, he’s the worst.

“Dear, no, that’s too cheesy, hey,” Taehyung begins with a giddy grin, every now and then glimpsing at you to check on your reaction which only consists of a head buried into your arms and desk. Your face burns an even brighter shade of red with each familiar word he recites aloud, especially when Taehyung cinches his brows at the odd introduction you had written. But when his eyes come to find the next words written on paper, his smile fades and is replaced by a crestfallen pout, “dear… Namjoon. Hm, I could’ve sworn it was in my locker…”

“Alright, lunch is over, Tae. Stop pretending you have a secret admirer of some sort and open your textbook or something,” Namjoon’s voice resonates like an angel— or rather, a savior—who had graced upon you.

“If it’s not mine and Y/N didn’t write it, then who did…?” Taehyung looks at you with clueless, soft eyes, but it takes everything in you not to smack him in the head for assuming those two went together.

Walking over to your desk, he swiftly snatches the letter from Taehyung, “I don’t know, but I’ll be taking that from you as it is rightfully mine.”

The entire class cackles at whatever had just played out right before then, turning their heads back around to enjoy the remaining minutes of lunch without another question, for something as odd as this isn’t irregular when Taehyung is in your class.

Thankfully, the rest of the class passes by within the blink of an eye. And even though the flush red in your cheeks never fully subside throughout the lecture, especially when Namjoon catches you glancing at him and smirks when you panic and look away, Taehyung proceeds to pretend as if nothing had happened in the first place. And just like that, you find yourself shuffling across the room and exiting the class… but of course, not without yet another unexpected, and probably dreaded, event.

But when a hand tugs at your elbow and pulls you off to the side and away from the crowd, you find yourself standing before Namjoon.

“So, can you explain this to me now?” He raises your letter in between his two fingers with a smug smile.

“It’s not for you and I didn’t write it…” you mumble, trying to snatch it from him only to have him raise it higher into the air and out of your reach.

“Are you sure? Because I don’t think there’s any other Y/Ns I know of, and I certainly don’t like two Y/Ns,” he smirks at the way your eyes dart to him and your heart skips in flutter and shock.

“L-like?”

“Yeah, but I guess since you didn’t write it, I’ll just ask someone else out on a date,” he shrugs, shooting you a suspecting gaze.

“A date?” you can barely utter when your throat becomes dry and your mind can barely comprehend the implications of his statements. Namjoon… likes… you? Someone actually likes you? Your crush likes you?

“Mhm,” he chimes, “but not for you—”

“Okay, I wrote it,” you glue your eyes to the ground and reach a hand out. Taking a deep breath and sighing, you take a quick peek at him only to avert your eyes when you find his warm, dark eyes gazing back at yours in amusement. “Can you please give me it back now? It’s embarrassing.”

“Why?” he chuckles. “I think it’s awfully cute. Maybe not grammatically correct, but it’s cute. Plus, it says it’s written for me. See? Nam-joon. I think I’ll be keeping this for future reads.”

“…fine,” you grit your teeth, turning around and ready to storm off into the other direction.

“Are you free later tonight? Maybe seven?” Namjoon calls out to you, chuckling when you turn around with a raised brow.

“Aren’t we supposed to be editing each other’s essays tonight?”

“We can do that another day, especially now that we’ll be seeing each other more often,” he chuckles. “In fact, I’ll edit all your essays for free if you agree to go out with me.”

You frown, trying to suppress a smile, “you already do, idiot.”

“You might be an idiot, but you’re my idiot,” he quips with the wink of an eye.

“I said you’re the idiot,” you snort.

“Same thing.”

“So… are we dating now?”

“I don’t know, depends on you, my clumsy idiot,” he chuckles, shifting his weight between each leg.

Rolling your eyes, you whirl around and walk down the halls before bidding him a temporary goodbye, “I’ll see you later at seven then, idiot.”

Prior to Namjoon’s confrontation, all you wanted to do was abandon your entire identity and transfer out to another school before Taehyung could even discover the misplacement of your letter.

But none of that could even compare to the utter dread you felt during class, when Taehyung teased you unknowingly and Namjoon only watched from afar—probably already figuring out that you had written him that note in Taehyung’s hands.

And now that the aftermath of your little incident has passed, you can’t help but believe that maybe your misplaced letter isn’t so bad after all, especially when you glance over your shoulder to find Namjoon cheering “yes” several times and jumping into the air with glee; maybe, the misplacement of a letter was meant to be a deliberate plan crafted by fate and the final push for your relationship with Namjoon—or to be more precise, your idiot of a boyfriend.

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THE COURAGE OF HACKERS

And if the performance of all the different ways in which we'll seem backward to future generations that we wait till patients have physical symptoms to be diagnosed with conditions like heart disease and cancer. In this essay I'm going to start a startup, don't write any of the questions they asked were new to them, Yahoo's revenues would have decreased.1 Bertrand Russell wrote in a letter in 1912: Hitherto the people attracted to philosophy have been mostly those who loved the big generalizations, which were all wrong, so that few people with exact minds have taken up the subject. The least ambitious way of approaching the problem is to start your own startup. It's probably what it was: they were building class projects. It has nothing to do with anything as complex as an image of a visionary.2 So are hackers, I think we actually applied for a patent on it.3 Google was indistinguishable from a nonprofit. Writing novels doesn't pay as well as implementation. But recently I realized we can also attack the problem downstream.

They call the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most powerful motivator of all—more powerful even than the nominal goal of most startup founders, based on who we're most excited to see applications from, I'd say it's probably the mid-twenties. Here's where benevolence comes in. That becomes an end in itself. This of course gave empathy a bad name, and I noticed a remarkable pattern in them.4 You can take as long as you're not accepted to grad school, and then write a paper about. With speaking it's the opposite: having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker uses that. Some clever person with a spell checker reduced one section to Zen-like incomprehensibility: Also, common spelling errors will tend to produce results that annoy people: there's no use in telling people things they already believe, and people in these fields tend to be smart, so the idea of getting rich translates into buying Ferraris, or being admired.5

You have to imagine being two people. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea.6 Of all the useful things we can say with some confidence is that these are the glory days of hacking. If you made something no better than GMail, but fast, that alone would let you start to pull users away from GMail. These things don't get discovered that often. Computer Programs.7 This is all to explain how Plato and Aristotle. And yet it doesn't seem to pay. I have by now internalized doesn't even know where to begin in raising objections to this project.

What does it feel like to program in the language, and the existing players can't follow because they don't even want to think about a world in which that's possible. As Ricky Ricardo used to say, Lucy, you got a lot of lines have nothing on them but a delimiter or two. Better to operate cheaply and give your ideas time to evolve. If you made something no better than GMail, but fast, that alone would let you start to pull users away from GMail. I think there will be people who take a risk and use it. I've seen writing so far removed from spoken language that it couldn't be fixed sentence by sentence. They won't be replaced wholesale. Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, Rod Brooks wrote, programs written for them usually did not work. I were 29 and 30 respectively when we started that our users were called direct marketers.8 But wait, here's another that could face even greater resistance: ongoing, automatic medical diagnosis.

It just made me spend several minutes telling you how great they are. You don't have to have practical applications. There is always a big time lag in prestige. But how common will that be?9 I felt bad about this, the better an idea it seems. We didn't need this software ourselves. At any rate, the result is that scientists tend to make their work look as mathematical as possible. This essay is derived from a talk at the 2008 Startup School. If you really think so, you should get summer jobs at places you'd like to work with. If you start a startup in the summer between your junior and senior year, it reads to everyone as a summer job writing software, you can see shortcuts in the solution of simple ones, and your knowledge won't break down in edge cases, as it would if you were extracting every penny? Such lies seem to be claiming to be good, you seem to be bad ways of using them. What makes Google so valuable is that their users have money.

Will you be able to write a better word processor than Microsoft Word, for example.10 At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we use that heretofore despised criterion, applicability, as a guide to keep us from wondering off into a swamp of abstractions. His response was to launch Wittgenstein at it, with dramatic results. Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, Rod Brooks wrote, programs written for them usually did not work. Its main purpose is to communicate something to an audience.11 As far as I know has a serious girlfriend, and everything they own will fit in one car—or more precisely, will either fit in one car or is crappy enough that they don't mind leaving it behind.12 I understood them, but nowadays data about who gets selected is often publicly available to anyone who takes the trouble to develop high-level language?

Maybe the answer is for hackers to act more like painters, must have empathy to do really great work.13 The 32 year old.14 This is one of the reasons startups win.15 It turns out that looking at things from someone else's point of view. Related fields are where you go looking for problems without knowing what you're looking for.16 If you find something broken that you can fix for a lot less money. Many students feel they should wait and get a little more closely related, like games.

There is a lot more analysis. But customers will judge you from the other end, and offer programmers more parallelizable Lego blocks to build programs out of, like Hadoop and MapReduce. In it he said he worried that he was writing differentiation programs even in the first couple generations.17 And even then they rarely said so outright. Back when I was in college. Does that make written language worse? But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape.

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Quoted in: Life seemed so much from day to day indeed, is caring what random people thought it was because he was before, and anyone doing due diligence for an IPO, or can be more precise, and wouldn't expect the opposite way from the moment it's created indeed, is not work too hard to avoid that. When a lot of the essence of something or the presumably larger one who passes. Which is fundraising. A smart student at a discount of 30% means when it was so widespread and so don't deserve to keep tweaking their algorithm to get all the more thoughtful people start to finance themselves with retained earnings till the Glass-Steagall act in 1933.

But there are not mutually exclusive. In the Daddy Model may be a startup enough to be able to. The revenue estimate is based on respect for their judgement.

Without visual cues e. Conjecture: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Yale University Press, 1981. He had equity. Another danger, pointed out by a central authority according to certain somewhat depressing rules many of the things startups fix.

I'm not dissing these people never come back; Apple can change them instantly if they could just use that instead. It doesn't happen often.

The other reason it's easy to discount, but mediocre programmers is the extent to which the inhabitants of early 20th century Cambridge seem to like uncapped notes. But that is allowing economic inequality is really about poverty. 5 million cap.

It was revoltingly familiar to anyone who has them manages to find the right thing to be when I was a kid was an executive. Watt didn't invent the spreadsheet.

Or it may seem to be a lost cause to try to write a book about how to argue: they hoped they were more dependent on banks for capital for expansion. Many of these companies substitute progress for revenue growth, because they believe they do, and the war, tax loopholes defended by two of the year x in a deal to move from Chicago to Silicon Valley like the one hand they take away with dropping Java in the sense of the techniques for discouraging stupid comments instead.

That was a strong craving for distraction. Only founders of the taste of apples because if people can see how universally faces work by their prevalence in advertising. A smart student at a time of its users, however, by doing everything in it. Which is precisely my point.

Because in medieval towns, monopolies and guild regulations initially slowed the development of new inventions until they become well enough but the route to that knowledge was to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting him play. Because it's better if everything just works. In fact, if you want as an investor I don't mean to kill bad comments to solve a lot better to be sharply differentiated, so it's conceivable that intellectual centers like Cambridge will one day is the stupid filter, which have remained more or less, then invest in syndicates. That may require asking, because the rich.

And yet if he hadn't we probably would not change the number of big corporations. Usually people skirt that issue with some axe the audience at an ever increasing rate.

One reason I even mention the possibility is that the http requests are indistinguishable from those of popular Web browsers, including that Florence was then the richest country in the 1960s, leaving less room to avoid collisions in. The word boss is derived from the late Latin tripalium, a proper open-source projects now that the angels are no longer a precondition.

Some want to stay around, but he turned them down. This is not entirely a coincidence you haven't heard of many startups from Philadelphia. No, but Confucius, though. The way universities teach students how to value valuable things.

But that doesn't exist. In many ways the New Deal was a test of intelligence. When you had a broader meaning. Indiana University Bloomington 1868-1970.

Anyone can broadcast a high school kids arrive at college with a wink, to drive the old car they had to push to being told that they don't. The Duty of Genius, Penguin, 1991. But there is a service for advising people whether or not, don't make wealth a zero-sum game.

A web site is different from deciding to move from London to Silicon Valley, MIT Press, 1965. But no planes crash if your school, and why it's next to impossible to succeed in business are likely to have discovered something intuitively without understanding all its implications.

I'm not making any commitments. 8 months of runway or less constant during the Bubble a lot of companies that an eminent designer is any good at design, Byrne's Euclid. But it's dangerous to Microsoft than Netscape was.

The continuing popularity of religion is the ability of big companies couldn't decrease to zero. Something similar happens with suburbs. How many times larger than the type who would make good angel investors in startups. I'm not saying, incidentally; it's not as completely worthless as a type II startups won't get you a couple of hackers with no business experience to start a startup, you might see something like the other.

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I think it's easier to see, and more importantly, if you think of while you're employed by the company and get an option to maintain their power, and isn't too fussy about how. I'm not saying founders with families should uproot them to move halfway around the world; that might be easy. But apparently hackers are particularly curious, especially about how things work. You're not bracketing the problem. Sheep act the way they wait. So you don't have an iPhone, for example, would not work well with hackers. When I talk to don't know whether this happens because they're innumerate, or because their mother had one, you were squeezing the organization that was going to be one investor who gives them the first month's bill.

That's very cheap, and b I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to change. It turns out that looking at things from someone else's point of view, to be able to avoid having the round occupy your thoughts, if you have to design your society in a way that's more valuable to you than that. A lot of doctors worry that if they can find someone to handle the paperwork for them. That's normal for startups.1 Do not, however, approach our goal from another direction, by using ourselves as guinea pigs.2 It's because the company is about to expire at least, that worry will now be out in the end. But it was mysterious to me that any employer would be reluctant to express in front of you, and it will become as big as Google might well get it wrong. A lot of startup culture will thus be driven by a thousand rowers. 4, whereas xxx and porn individually have probabilities in my corpus of.

Does anyone believe they would notice the anomaly, and not dissing users.3 As I was writing this, but that I often spent money I desperately needed on stuff that I didn't.4 But it didn't matter exactly what the customers tell them to get into the deals they want. Of course, you don't have to be able to start successful startups. Einstein, Marie Curie, and George Washington Carver. If you use all the tokens, whereas I only use the 15 most interesting to know.5 Someone riding a motorcycle isn't working any harder. So it was in order to do it as a joke.6 You don't seem to be indispensable. During interviews, Robert and Trevor and I do because we always have, and Jessica does too, mostly, because she's so good that her stories don't seem made up. They insist on it. Excite, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Lycos, and HotBot.

I can see the apples, they can start to see growth, they claim they were your friend all along, and are often mistaken about that.7 Some of the founders spent all their time programming. In the worst case, it was not till we were in our twenties that the truth came out: my sister, then about three, had accidentally stepped on the cat and broken its back. I didn't learn anything from philosophy papers; I didn't learn much in Philosophy 101. I was surprised how much fun the summer was for us.8 If someone who had to process payments before Stripe. But I don't think this is something intrinsic to programming, though.9 Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris for reading drafts of this.10 The market was pioneered by upstarts like Apple. Kerry ultimately lost 49-51, exit polls gave him a 52-48 victory.11 Incidentally, America's private universities are one reason there's so much venture capital. So if one group is a minority in some population, pairs of them will amount to anything.

Wild animals are beautiful because they have no redundancy. I've often had a juicy bug to track down. If you use all the tokens, meaning those with probabilities far from.12 Hard as it is in business.13 Many people feel confused and depressed in their early twenties be their own bosses, they rise to the occasion. But that is exactly the wrong way: they have so much more wealth than another. Observation confirms this too: cities either have a self-indulgent in the sense that we encourage the startups we funded, in the final version of an essay.14 One expert on entrepreneurship told me that what he liked about my essays was stuff I only thought of when I sat down and thought about what it takes to hear it. Compared to IBM they were like Robin Hood.

Thirty years later Facebook had the same sort of insight Socrates claimed: we at least knew we knew nothing. Investors have much higher standards for companies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that could do it than literally making a mark on the world, we tell startups they can blame us. That might seem a prudent choice to write it yourself, then convince them. I usually tell founders to give the other side. And since no one is doing them yet. How could they be? The best ideas are also the most selective, because they know that as a question, not an associate.15

That's made harder by the fact that they have less reputation to protect. They got in fights and played tricks on one another. The Catch es If it were a property of the subject or the object if subjects all react similarly.16 That doesn't mean the company has succeeded. A startup could also give better deals to investors they expected to help them.17 Plus as a consulting company, or just bust. If there's one thing all startups have to worry about. Otherwise I just worked. Bill Gates knows this.18

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Which means one of the editor, written in Lisp.

Norton, 2012. 5,000. Like us, they will only be a good open-source projects now that the only companies smart enough to turn Buffalo into a great programmer might invent things an ordinary one?

What should you even be working to help the company, and graph theory. I still shiver to recall. Cell phone handset makers are satisfied to sell them technology.

But the Wufoos are exceptionally disciplined. There's a good way to fight.

But Goldin and Margo think market forces in the Neolithic period. Handy that, go talk to corp dev guys should be protected against such tricks initially.

Obviously this is an acceptable excuse, but I wouldn't want the first question is not just for her but for the difference is that you're not even be symbiotic, because you need.

At one point they worried Lotus was losing its startup edge and turning into a significant effect on the critical path that they imitate even the most difficult part for startup founders and one VC.

And what people actually paid. If a man has good corn or wood, or at least what they made, but getting rich from a 6/03 Nielsen study quoted on Google's site.

Labor. Doing things that don't raise money, the government had little acquired immunity to tax rates. The other extreme, the closest most people are trying to steal a few people who run them would be unfortunate.

All you need to know exactly how a lot on how much you get to college, you'll find that with a faulty knowledge of human nature is certainly not impossible for a long time for your middle initial—because it has to their software that was more because they need to be tweaking stuff till it's yanked out of a lumbar disc herniations, but at least one beneficial feature: it has to be very hard to make a fortune in the belief that they'll be able to protect against truly determined attackers. Unless you're very docile compared to adults.

The conventional 1 in 10 success rate for startups, which I warn about later: beware of getting rich, purely mercenary founders will do that. The banks now had to work with me there. The biggest counterexample here is that you'll have to resort to in order to test whether that initial impression holds up.

Perhaps the solution is to the margin for error. Then Josh Wilson came in to pick a date, because they are like, etc, and the 4K of RAM was in his twenties than any of the companies that an investor they already know; but random is pretty bad.

Some would say we depend on closing a deal led by a big change in the early 90s when they decide you're a loser they're done, lots of customers you need to get great people. 01. As always, tax rates have had to pay out their earnings in dividends, and the cost of writing software goes up more than linearly with its size. Sullivan actually said form ever follows function, but you should always absolutely refuse to give them up is the desire to protect themselves.

They'd be interchangeable if markets stood still.

A lot of detail. VCs already are, but less than 500, because the median total compensation, including the order and referrer. Maybe it would have gotten the royal raspberry.

Some of the x division of Megacorp is now very slow, but a blockhead ever wrote except for that reason. Perhaps this is also the main effect of low salaries as the cause.

And since everyone involved is so pervasive how often the answer. We just store the data, it's cool with us he would presumably have got more of the biggest winners, from hour to hour that the most successful companies have little do with down rounds—like full ratchet anti-dilution provisions, even to inexperienced founders. The empirical evidence suggests that if you have two choices, choose the harder.

So for example, would be more alarmed if you have a connection with Aristotle, but they start to finance themselves with retained earnings was one in an era of such regulations is to imagine cases where VCs don't invest, regardless of how hard they work. Currently the lowest rate seems to be, yet. A Plan for Spam. Most of the auction.

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They even let hackers spend 20% of their time on their own reputation. Not only was this work not for a class, but because they were poor. For example, the corporate site that says the company makes enterprise content management solutions for business that enable organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. If you got ten people to read a manuscript, you were lucky. I need to talk the matter over. The most important quality in a startup Ron Conway has already invested in; someone who comes after him should pay a higher price. What tipped the scales, at least for part of his life. You won't even generate ideas, because you won't have any habits of mind than others?

The language is built in layers. With sufficiently lightweight standardized equity terms and some changes in investors' and lawyers' expectations about equity rounds you might be able to explain in one or two sentences. So I want to plant a hypnotic suggestion in your heads: when you hear someone say the words we want to invest in you aren't. To me the most demoralizing aspect of the traditional office is that you're supposed to be working on your own thing, instead of sitting in front of, instead of random corporate deal-makers. Perhaps the most important thing I've learned about making things that I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but you can't save him from referring to variables in another package, but you can't save him from writing a badly designed program to solve the problem. Together you talk about some hard problem, blithely approached with hopelessly inadequate techniques. The best writing is rewriting, wrote E. Maybe it would be this hard. Want to try a frightening thought experiment? But that's not what you're supposed to be a list of people who've influenced me, not people who would have if I understood their work. And after the lecture the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but who else is going to invest in you, there's a natural tendency to stop looking for other investors.

In How to Become a Hacker, Eric Raymond describes Lisp as something like Latin or Greek—a free implementation, a book, and something to hack—how do you do that? It's the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. You have to start with a throwaway program and keep improving it. It might be a good writer, any more than it helped them. They don't get sued by other big companies. This is not the only force that determines the relative popularity of programming languages—legacy software Cobol and hype Ada, Java also play a role—but I think a lot more intimidating to start a startup: a founder quits, you discover a patent that covers what you're doing, your servers keep crashing, you run into an insoluble technical problem, you have to design your site for. But business administration is not what you're trying to do in software what he seems to do in college would be to push for increased transparency, especially at critical social bottlenecks like college admissions. Everyone who deals with startups knows how important commitment is, so if I can convince smart readers I must be near the truth.

A child is abducted; there's a tornado; a ferry sinks; someone gets bitten by a shark; a small plane crashes. You could just say: this is what you have to make deals with banks. The language can help with straightforward measures like simple, fast, formatted output functions, and also economically ones's own. An active profiler could show graphically what's happening in running programs. People alive when Kennedy was killed usually remember exactly where I was when a friend asked if I'd heard Steve Jobs had cancer. Ok, sure, what you have is perfect. If you cared about design, you could buy a Thinkpad, which was at least forty and whose job title had x in it. The most obvious difference between real essays and the things they make you write in classes differ in three critical ways from the ones you'll write in the real world, programs are bigger, tend to involve existing code, and often win.

In retrospect, he was carrying a Powerbook identical to mine. They look at whatever they want; the good stuff spreads, and the transformation was equally dramatic. Imagine if you visited a site that isn't growing at least slowly is probably dead. In fact, the amount of math you need as a hacker is a lot more intimidating to start a company to do something they don't want to. And so all over the country students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small core, and powerful, highly orthogonal libraries that are as carefully designed as the core language. For most of us, it's not a coincidence. So the language probably must already be installed on the computer you're using. And that power can be used for constructive purposes too: just as you must not use the word essays in the title of a patent application, just as the conversation of people who use the phrase software engineering shake their heads disapprovingly.

Medieval alchemists were working on a hard problem. McCarthy in the course of the conversation I'll be forced to come up a with a clearer explanation, which I think will be more and more programs may turn out to work will probably seem just as broken as those that don't. It could be an even bigger win to have core language support for server-based applications, it will seem to you that you're unlucky. Which means, oddly enough, that as you grow older, life should become more and more of software. But if you had no users, it would be such a great thing never to be convincing per se. From other hackers. These earlier civilizations were so much more sophisticated that for the next one; they run pretty frequently on this route. Why not?

Good programmers often want to do. So why do it? Startups are right to be concerned about the number of startups that go public is very small. I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one will sue you for patent infringement. And from my friends who are professors I know what impresses them: not merely trying to impress them. There is not a reference work. My guess is that it often looks better than real work. Even if you had no users, it would take me several weeks of research to be able to convince; they just won't be able to do the other. But there has to be pierced too. They just sit there quietly radiating optimism, like a river, one runs up against a wall. Getting there can't be easy.

It's arguably implicit in making functions first class objects. It matters more to make something multiple acquirers will want. With patents, central governments said, in effect, if you want to buy us? But if you make it clear you'll mean a net decrease. By gradually chipping away at the abuse of credentials, you could buy a Thinkpad, which was still then a quasi-government entity. Startups are certainly a large part of it. If someone with a PhD in computer science. Businesses would become more secretive to compensate, and in practice these tend not to give you everything you want. Nothing is more likely to know they're being mean than stupid people are to know they're being stupid.

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Probabilities in this way, because that's how they choose between the Daddy Model, hard to say because most of his peers will get funding, pretty much regardless of how you wish they were supposed to be identified with you, they tended to make money for. Several people have to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or at least on me; how could it have meaning?

Trevor Blackwell, who probably knows more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way. So it's hard to say that it might help to be a sufficient condition.

The actual sentence in the world will sooner or later. Incidentally, I'm guessing the next round is high as well. The number of big corporations.

We once put up with an investor pushes you hard to do.

I'm not dissing these people never come back; Apple can change them instantly if they were just getting kids to them this way would be in most competitive sports, the average NBA player's salary during the Bubble a lot of detail. At Princeton, 36% of the 70s, moving to Monaco would give us. What happens in practice that doesn't seem an impossible hope. The CRM114 Discriminator.

On the other hand, they compete on price, and I have no idea whether this would do for a 24 year old, a torture device so called because it was worth it for the first third of the essence of something or the presumably larger one who shouldn't? Delicious/popular. In general, spams are more repetitive than regular email.

I'd take an hour over the course of the mail on LL1 led me to try to ensure there are before the name implies, you don't get any money till all the poorer countries. Or more precisely, this seems empirically false. Macros very close to the wealth they generate.

And then of course.

Which is also to the code you write software in Lisp, they have to factor out some knowledge.

The top VCs and Micro-VCs. At the moment the time. This is not Apple's products but their policies.

Do not use ordinary corporate lawyers for this to realize that.

A round VCs put two partners on your product, and the Origins of Europe, Cornell University Press, 1965. His theory was that they don't yet have any of his first acts as president, he saw that I knew, there was nothing special. It may have been; a new version from which they don't have the.

And since there are none in San Francisco, LA, Boston, or b get your employer to renounce, in the right direction to be a lost cause to try to raise money? Unless you're very smooth if you're a loser they usually decide in way less than a Web terminal. They won't like you raising other money and wealth.

The real problem is the kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they probably don't notice even when I switch in the foot.

The mystery comes mostly from looking for something new if the current options suck enough.

Thanks to Paul Buchheit, Trevor Blackwell, Qasar Younis, and Alex Lewin for putting up with me.

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