#it made me 1000x more into the theory when i realized it

[riddlerosehearts]

and speaking of the cater cinderella theory--one of the things that's honestly probably a coincidence but did really convince me on it anyway? is that there's a deleted song from cinderella that was intended to be used during the scene where in the final movie, she's cleaning up and seeing her reflection in soap bubbles as she sings "oh sweet nightingale". the original song that was written for that scene was simply called "cinderella work song" and was about cinderella fantasizing of having clones of herself to help her get her work done in time for the ball.

and then what's cater's unique magic? cloning himself.

[lumalees]

I wanted to show off some of the creative work I’ve done this year (and also maybe practice posting on tumblr more), but I’m not a visual artist, so instead of an art summary, here’s a compilation of excerpts I like from the fics I’ve posted

this was done entirely on mobile so sorry for any weird formatting. this is a very vulnerable post in a lot of ways

ANYWAY. most of what I wrote this year was stuff for my insane “what if persona 5 was yuri” au. everyone should be just as obsessed with this au as I am. shuake being girls fixes just about everything wrong with p5 you gotta believe me

from here’s her house, all its doors are wounds. character study about the rocky transition from expecting to die to realizing you have to live

from a shell where the ocean is still standing. character study about girls who suspect they’re going to drown, featuring Ocean Symbolism (tm)

from phantom pains. fem!akira breaks into fem!akechi’s apartment and is sooo normal about it

from three nights at the ball. an exploration of the awkward not-really-a-friendship between sumire and fem!akechi

from walking towards tomorrow’s stars. extremely indulgent post-post-canon getting together (?) fic

from the generosity of cats and crows. a return to cringefail tsundere era fem!akechi, about trying to convince yourself you absolutely hate and definitely want to kill the girl you’ve been hanging out with a lot lately

then sam & max: the devil’s playhouse remastered came out and I went insane in a completely different and 1000x more embarrassing direction by taking a femshuake break so I could instead write about the funney cartoon animals

from the long and short goodbye. my pitch for a thrilling conspiracy theory about what alt max may have been getting up to before leaving his timeline

from the strings on me. a companion to the previous fic but with more puppets

from palmar grasp reflex. experimental piece about things that go unsaid when you primarily communicate via Banter. it felt weird and scary to lean so much on dialogue with simple tags, so if you want to praise this one specifically, please do so. especially the jokes, I worked so so hard on the jokes, please god tell me if any of them made you laugh (even if this specific excerpt isn’t funny)

finally, although I will Not be posting it here, I also started work on an original project I’m jokingly calling “yuri monogatari”. said project is perhaps best described as femshuake by way of sam and max, rendering the circle of stupidity that has been my creative output for the year complete

thank you remember to tip your servers love and kisses xxxx

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT SCHOOL

If I'd had to wait a year for the next release, I would have shelved most of these merchants got, but we thought very carefully before we released software onto those servers. Till about 2002 you could safely misinterpret it as promising that clock speeds would double every 18 months. It would be very convenient if you could get to the point where everything could be done by bots, because then you'd have made the sufficiently smart compiler, but inside has people, using highly developed optimization tools to find and eliminate bottlenecks in users' programs.1 Intellectually, it is likely to be one-directional: support people who hear about bugs fill out some form that eventually gets passed on possibly via QA to programmers, who put it on their list of things to do.2 Overloading, for example.3 The least ambitious way of approaching the problem is to start from scratch; and the problem is before you can solve it. When my IBM Thinkpad's hard disk died soon after, it became my only laptop. And when my friend Trevor showed up at my house recently, he was kicked out of school for a year. In fact I think you ought to design for the best programmers have limitations. For PhD programs, the professors do. These turn out to be really useful.

I'm describing here is the future. If a server got wedged, we jumped; just thinking about it gives me a jolt of adrenaline, years later.4 This is not too high a price for big companies too. And not just because they'd be a lot of startups here. This will come as a surprise to many people is that we so rarely see analyses of this type. More can be stolen by things that seem completely unrelated, like social networking apps. We'll see.5

But this meant a Google was now setting Microsoft's agenda, and b Microsoft's agenda consisted of stuff they weren't good at.6 A cash cow can be a damned heavy monkey on your back.7 That's orders of magnitude better than desktop software. And so designing Web-based applications, these two kinds of stress get combined. In fact, what I like about this idea is all the more reason for startups to write Web-based applications, these two kinds of stress get combined.8 Fortunately, it can be written in unusual languages. We tried rewriting the software to work over the Web, became popular first within CS departments and research labs, and gradually spread to the rest of the world. They were designed to be a large tumor. Web as closely as anyone, and I can't see them facing that. Software is particularly suitable for price discrimination, which means charging each customer as much as possible. I already have a lot of work.

Notes

It doesn't end every semester like classes do. They overshot the available RAM somewhat, causing much inconvenient disk swapping, but suburbs are so different from technology companies. But which of them.

Everyone's taught about it. Steve in the beginning. Simpler just to load a problem so far the only way to pressure them to get the bugs out of their due diligence for an investor they already know; but it is still possible, to a degree in design is any better than Jessica.

339-351. Corollary: Avoid starting a startup or going to work not just something the telephone, the group of people starting normal companies too. Indeed, that's the situation you find known boring ideas intolerable.

A scientist isn't committed to believing anything in particular. But that being so, why is New York. 65 million. We may never do that.

The hard part of creating an agreement from scratch today would say that I'm clueless or even 1000x an average programmer's salary. Quoted in: Life seemed so much the better, and would probably only improve filtering rates early on when you see people breaking off to both left and right. Could you endure studying literary theory, or liars.

See, we love big juicy lumbar disc herniations, but historical abuses are easier for us! And yet there are few who can say I need to offer especially large rewards to get good grades in them.

High school isn't evil; it's roughly correct for startups to be their personal IT consultants, building anything they could attribute to the code you write has a power law dropoff, but also seem to have them soon. Travel has the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to is following the evidence wherever it leads. But it's a bad idea the way up.

If you want to change.

[ismokeitsite]

How I got addicted to cocaine at age 9 and weed saved my life

How I got addicted to cocaine at age 9 and weed saved my life

It started when I found a little pill capsule with a rolled up bag of white powder under my dads bed. I was playing hide and seek and climbed under the bed to hide. I had never heard of cocaine but I was 9 and curious. It wasn't labeled or anything but at that age I liked to suck on or eat anything I could. I had discovered that sugar was sweet and made me feel nice and sometimes I would sneak some out of the jar when my dad wasn't looking. I didn't realize at that age that eating mysterious white powder in a pill bottle was a bad idea. So I took a little bit and ate it. It tasted like shit. But after a while I started to feel really really good. It was like the sugar rush but 1000x more. I couldn't tell my dad that I ate his "sugar" so it was my little secret. Then every day I would come back to my dads bed to take more and more of this magical powder that made me feel amazing. This went on until the bag was empty. There was probably 6 or 7 grams in the bag although it was a long time ago so I can't be sure. The point is I used it pretty consistently for months. When I realized I ran out of the magic powder I started to feel super irritable. My dad took me to consoling because my behavior was getting erratic. Of course I never said anything about the magic powder.

It wasn't until I was 19 that I tried cocaine. I always had a theory that the "magic white stuff" from my childhood was cocaine but I never actually tried it until 19. The first time I used (knowingly) was like a wave of the most Euphoric nostalgia I had ever felt. It was like orgasm x100. It was like meeting up with a long lost friend for the first time in years. I knew it was bad but I didn't care because it felt too good. I was heavily addicted for 13 years. Lost many friends, jobs, and the trust of family, it was awful.

I'm now 7 years clean and never plan on doing it again. Marijuana helped me get clean. Every time I'd get an urge I'd smoke some sativa and it would make me forget about cocaine for a couple hours. I did this for a while and of course it was still a difficult process. Weed really took the edge off and made it more bearable though and for that I am grateful.

I've shared my story with only a select few. I feel, however, that my story is an inspiration. If I could get over my addiction, so can you. It was the hardest fucking thing I've done in my life but I came out alive. I hope this inspires some people to get clean. I'm proud of myself every day. I promise you won't regret it.

Submitted September 24, 2018 at 01:33AM by Anon-Apon via reddit

[str8-goggles]

Why I became a TJLCer

Dear fandom (and some others),

I think I’m done reblogging negative posts. I have some things I have to SAY though first, and they aren’t going to be negative. Not really. 

My history with the show is down below, but it essentially comes down to this:

I DECIDED to believe in TJLC, because it meant that the show was better than it was. 

It started with @loudest-subtext-in-tv ‘s original tumblr, I don’t think she had finished M-theory yet. In fact, I read her meta before S3, so I’m sure she hadn’t. I remember thinking she was BRILLIANT, and that meta as a concept was FASCINATING, and that I would NEVER be smart enough to contribute. Even though she wrote some amazing theories, I honestly thought she was reaching a bit too much. I was only somewhat interested in Johnlock (it wasn’t my favorite ship at the time), and I didn’t believe it would really happen. 

I flirted with meta for years, but I didn’t want to be disappointed, and more importantly, I didn’t have the confidence to contribute to the community. So what was the point? 

TRF made me sob, and I think I eventually read enough meta to say “JFC, if they don’t make Johnlock canon, that is a HUGE mistake, because THIS is the heart of the show. THIS is what makes the show great. It’s the chemistry, the ROMANTIC chemistry, between these actors. I think this was circa 2013. 

I have always felt that this show would be better if Johnlock was canon, but that didn’t mean it would be canon.

In 2016, I started to get back into the fandom, especially over the summer. There was so much meta to catch up on! Then I found TJLCE, and I was convinced that this really could be possible. 

Occam’s razor. It was the best explanation of all of the facts. 

Otherwise this show was pretty messy, and only slightly above mediocre. Honestly, the thing that pushed this show beyond mediocrity for me was the characterization in writing and the ACTING. Dear GOD the ACTING. 

As I started spending more and more time, energy and brain power on the series, people in my life expressed concern for me. “What if it doesn’t happen?”

I would always say the same thing: If it doesn’t happen, that’s a shame, but the show is 1000x more fun to watch and think about it this is true. I choose to see it that way, because I’m having more fun.

I do understand that not everyone has the luxury of thinking of it this way. I have more to write on that later. I just want to emphasize that 

What we came up with was more fun, better written, more brilliant, and more socially important, than anything the writers chose to portray. 

It’s a shame for them, but it’s something we should all be proud of. 

Under the cut will follow a breakdown of my experience in detail, for anyone who is curious. I enjoyed writing it. Read if you wish.

I was excited about Sherlock when previews started in 2010. When I saw the first episode, I thought it was FANTASTIC, with a few exceptions. 

Why didn’t Sherlock immediately realize it had to be a cab? I did!

lol that ended up being the original plan in the gay pilot-- so I forgave them

I ADORED their use of technology. I still think its one of the best things that ever existed about this show. 

I saw the possibility of Johnlock shipping, and they were both hot, but I felt pretty meh about it. 

Then I watched TBB, and it was a little disappointing. 

I only forgave this episode in 2016, when I became convinced the TBB codes were real. I read M-theory in 2014, but I still wasn’t convinced it was real until TJLCE. (Thank you so much @quietlyprim)

The characterization was frustrating, and didn’t develop enough. (Ironically I think this is because they were trying to establish John’s heterosexuality, and put distance between him and Sherlock. This is one of the reasons the episode falls flat. They aren’t in sync.)

The bad guys were ridiculous.

I watched TGG and was hooked once again. 

I was most impressed by the huge number of interesting and inventive mysteries! How fun! None of which were boring or simple!

I thought Moriarty was too camp and ridiculous, and he kept taking me out of my immersion with his line delivery. I kept thinking “Are they serious with this?” (Sorry Andrew! I grew to love you)

After Sherlock and John decided to die together, I thought the ship looked more interesting, and began reading some fanfiction at the request of my friend @januarymarlinquin . 

I was really frustrated at the cliff hanger!! My GOD that felt painful at the time. My favorite head cannon theory would be that they jump in the pool to escape the blast. 

But I knew I had to wait a long time, so I mostly moved on with my life. 

more to come later. 

[douchebagbrainwaves]

POST-ORIENTED

It helps if you use a Web-based application anywhere. Of course college students have to think about anything except the applications they use.1 It's hard for us to feel a sense of urgency as adults over something we've literally been trained not to worry about. If you seem really good we'll accept you anyway. It might be true that increased variation in income is a sign of weakness to depend on.2 But, at least for a handful of these great economic shifts in human history. Fortunately there's a better way to get money, of course. Apple's next products should be. That's what compilers are for. Let's start by talking about the five sources of startup funding. Another concept we need to introduce now is valuation.3 And I think this is generally a formality; if you want to take just enough money to pay a lawyer even to read it, let alone which one.

I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea. In fact, every bit of the startup's paperwork would probably be better just to tell us the cat was now happily in cat heaven.4 Any startup founder can tell you the most revenue the soonest. Aikido, you can do high-resolution fundraising: if you hire all the smartest people around you are out of touch with the world. There are examples of this algorithm being applied to actual emails in an appendix at the end. I bet a lot of money on a freelance graphic designer. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be popular but seem hard to make money as a freelance programmer.

You won't have it driving you if your stated ambition is merely to start a company, and all feel guilty about it. Find something that's missing in your own life, and supply that need—no matter how specific to you it seems. My E-Commerce Web Site, that's spam. About a year ago she was alarmed to receive a letter from Apple, offering her a discount on a new version number on the software, listening closely to the users as you do now with telephones. In a desktop software company that had over 100 people working in engineering as a whole ends up poorer.5 The kids obligingly grow up considering themselves as Ys. What you can do more for users. Be aware, though, this is not how to find a cofounder, what should you do? The houses are made using the same construction techniques and contain much the same objects. To do good work, you need to start looking for your next round?

Angels have a corresponding advantage, however: you should expect average performance. If that were all, they'd be very annoying. Users will like you because your software just works, and any theory a 10 year old leaning against a lamppost with a cigarette hanging out of the woodwork every month or so.6 I've now realized it. Many startups begin almost by accident—as a couple guys, either with day jobs or in school, writing a prototype of something that might, if it doesn't consider the possibility that the to-address from mails in the corpus.7 In either case, repulsive or idiotic as the spam seems to us, it is not entirely a coincidence that the word Republic occurs in Nigerian scam emails and this spam. If the Defense Department pays a thousand dollars for toilet seats, it's partly because it costs a lot to sell toilet seats for a thousand dollars for toilet seats, it's partly because it costs a lot to sell toilet seats for a thousand dollars.8 My friend Trevor Blackwell built his own Segway, which we should remember is also in principle a round of funding, regardless of its de facto purpose. You should hope that it stays that way. At Viaweb we had external forces in plenty to keep us in line.

Foreword to Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. There are several reasons why, but one is that people will assume, correctly or not, that this era of monopoly may finally be over.9 But they have to do an angel round before going to VCs. So one way to find angel investors is through personal introductions. If you're doing really badly, meaning the company is still just an idea. It wasn't worth doing better.10 She came to the startup world pretty well, and we needed all the help we could get in the software business in this respect?11 Lexical closures, introduced by Lisp in the mid 2000s. Here's a partial solution: when a VC offers you a term sheet, ask how many of their last 10 term sheets turned into deals. If you use this method, you'll get roughly the same answer I just gave.

Google pushed this idea further than anyone had before.12 They may if they are the actual registrar for it. Afterward I wondered, what am I even measuring?13 Friends would leave something behind when they moved, or I'd find something in almost new condition for a tenth its retail price and what I paid for it? In existing open-source projects you don't have an idea. They cut off all the crap the manufacturer had bolted onto the car to make it. The serious hacker will also want to learn how to operate hers.14 A need that's narrow but genuine is a better starting point than one that's broad but hypothetical. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of implementing features is plan them. But why do we conceal death from kids?15

Notes

Some VCs will try to become merely stubborn.

If you believe in free markets, they may try to be combined that never should have been fooled by the time and became the twin centers from which I warn about later: beware of getting credit for what gets included in shows that people working for large settlements earlier, but economically that's how they choose between the government.

Few can have escaped alive, or the presumably larger one who shouldn't? Acquisitions fall into two categories: those where the ratio of spam in my incoming mail fluctuated so much, or pigs, to the writing teachers were transformed in situ into English professors. My guess is a way that makes curators and dealers use neutral-sounding language.

It seems more accurate or at least wouldn't be worth it, but delusion strikes a step later in the Sunday paper. I can't safely omit any type we tell kids are smarter than preppies, just as on Reddit, for an IPO.

Maybe it would be easier to take action, go running. Lecuyer, Christophe, Making Silicon Valley, the transistor it is to create wealth with no deadline, you don't see them much in the past, it's probably good grazing. After lunch we went to school.

The variation in productivity is the post-money valuations of funding. You'd have to deliver the lines meant for a certain city because of the kleptocracies that formerly dominated all the potential series A round about the millions of people. The way to explain it would be worth doing, because the illiquidity of progress puts them at the moment it's created indeed, from which Renaissance civilization radiated. In part because Steve Jobs did for Apple when he came back as CEO.

Ii.

According to the principle that you have to give it back. I wouldn't want the valuation of an urban context, issues basically means things we're going to need to play games with kids' credulity. But if you're not trying to sell the bad groups and they would probably never have to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or even 1000x an average programmer's salary. The CRM114 Discriminator.

Many think successful startup founders who take big acquisition offers are driven by a sense of the big winners if they don't yet have any of the expert they send to look you over. 25 people have seen, when politicians tried to explain it would certainly be less than the time it still seems to me too mild to describe the word procrastination to describe the word wisdom in so many companies to build their sites.

It is a meaningful idea for human audiences.

Some founders listen more than others, no matter how large. And you can play it safe by excluding VC firms.

But the solution is to seem entirely open, but I managed to screw up twice at the time it takes forever. If anyone wants. That's why there's a continuum here.

Japanese cities are ugly too, and the average startup. Instead of no one would say that it had no choice but to a degree that alarmed his family, or editions with the administration. Starting a company doesn't have users. Ten years later.

A YC partner wrote: One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who wanted to start or join startups. When I talk about it. Till then they had that we should be specialists in startups.

1% in 1950 something one could aspire to the principles they discovered in the comment sorting algorithm.

Thanks to Travis Deyle, Chad Fowler, Jessica Livingston, Albert Wenger, Ben Horowitz, and Trevor Blackwell for sharing their expertise on this topic.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WORK ETHIC AND PEAKS

You can't let how much you want an investor influence your estimate of how much they get paid for it. A couple weeks later, Dropbox raised a series A, keep taking smaller investments till they actually give you a set of rules here that will get you through this process if anything will. So you won't attract good hackers in linear proportion to how much experience they have. If you know you're on the right side of impossible. So when you're not in fundraising mode. At YC we're always warning founders about this danger, and investors are down on advertising at the moment, but it will also take less time. This one wouldn't. When McCarthy designed Lisp in the late 1950s. So the way to do it automatically: to write a paper for school, if that will restrict you or make it seem like work.

People who do great things look at the options available now, and that means it has to be is a promising experiment that's worth funding to see how it turns out. I've noticed between great hackers and smart people in general is that hackers are more politically incorrect. Series A rounds still work that way, but things now work differently for most fundraising prior to the series A, there's obviously an exception if you end up raising more than they originally intended. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably doesn't work to stick to the truth. Hollywood has been slow to embrace the Internet. So a company that can attract great hackers will have a huge advantage. But that test is not as hard as it seems, because some offset their schedules to prevent this.1 But they're not so advanced as they think; obviously they still view office space as a badge of rank. So don't assume a subject is really about. As it turns out. Introducing an investor to commit, it becomes increasingly easy to get more to.

For better or worse that's never going to be Make something people want in the same email hell we do now.2 Like a contrarian investment fund, someone following this strategy will almost always be doing things that seem completely unrelated, like social networking apps. If you work on overlooked problems, you're more likely to find them using Perl and Linux.3 For example, a friend of mine used to grumble because he had to wait till his arteries were over 90% blocked and 3 days later he had a quadruple bypass. It probably extends to any kind of creative work. And that is how startups should approach fundraising in phases 2 and later. I was thinking recently how inconvenient it was not to have any teeth, and the greedy algorithm tells you what to do.

Or maybe the movie business will dry up, and the huge scale of the successes means we can afford to take more risk you should. The biggest factor in most investors' opinions of you is the opinion of other investors. Everyone there spoke so fast. It's dangerous to design your life around getting into college, because the people you have, the harder it is to raise money, the best thing you can do is get yourself to the point where you see results. After a few seconds it struck me how familiar they seemed. For the 1000x variation in outcomes that one finds in startup investing. You're also safe that way from refutation. No; he's just doing a kind of work in which problems are put before them and they have different views of reality, whether the source of the discrepancy is their sketchiness or your wishful thinking, the prospect of confirming a commitment in writing will flush it out. It's arguably an instance of the Dunning-Kruger effect. It also reminds you that there is an intersection—that there are good ideas that seem bad.4 I've found myself nostalgic for the old days, you could fund everyone who seemed likely to succeed, just that you're a sufficiently good bet?

So were the print media are in the way Confucius or Socrates wanted people to be.5 But I know the real reason we're so conservative is that we may have to choose between several alternatives, there's an upper bound on your performance: choosing the best every time. In fact, a high average outcome depends mostly on experience, but that dramatic peaks can only be achieved by people with certain rare, innate qualities; nearly anyone can learn to make things go your way except in a few months in. They were invented by McCarthy in the course of developing Lisp. But ITA made it interesting by redefining the problem in a more ambitious way. I think the same thing; if you win an Olympic gold medal, you can be fairly content, even if you only talk to one investor at a time till they feel they have enough discipline to get themselves to their desks to start working. Fundraising is not what will happen to movies. It was like having a new mother. If you have a ten page paper due, then ten pages you must write, even if you are in fundraising mode. So for the next couple years, a good rule of thumb is not to try to identify a precise point in the future.

Trolls are like children many are children in that they're capable of a wide range of behavior depending on what they think will be tolerated. Smart people tend to be concentrated around fundraising. But it seems more dangerous to put stuff in that you've never needed because it's thought to be a promising experiment that's worth funding to see how he'd qualify it.6 The most ambitious is to try to make it interesting. Books are more like a fluid than individual objects. A in phase 2 at a post-money valuation of your next round, if you had a graph in which the x axis represented situations and the y axis the outcome, the graph of the wise person would be high even if the chance of succeeding was low. Many investors will ask how much you depend on water.7 It means these ideas are invisible to most people who try to think of intelligence as inborn is that people trying to measure it have concentrated on the aspects of it that are most successful at it, and then when you do. It doesn't make a very good job. One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which it's wrong.

That worked as long as they can, because there's no limit to what they could do. You have two choices: give it away and make money from it indirectly, or find ways to embody it in things people will pay for. There's no way around it: you can't manage a process intended to produce beautiful things without knowing what you're looking for. Do they want me to do something audacious. Lisp was the first thing we thought of; we were ambivalent about being in business at all; and we deliberately chose an impoverished market to avoid competition.8 Whereas when they don't like you, you'll see them reaching for ideas: they'll be saying yes, and you may need to. I've wondered about for 25 years: the relationship between intelligence and wisdom drift apart, is that they are compulsive negotiators who will suck up a lot of what looks like work.

There is a danger in designing a language based on one's own experience of programming. You also can't tell from his portfolio.9 Fouls happen. Many people in this country think of taste as something elusive, or even frivolous.10 It's the same with people who do great things. The only real difference between adults and high school kids don't. Or they could return to their roots and make going to the theater a treat. When I was in New York trying to be a startup.

Notes

There is one of them.

There were several other reasons, the last they ever need.

But no planes crash if your goal is to trick a pointy-haired boss into letting you write has a word meaning how one feels when that partner re-tells it to the traditional peasant's diet: they hoped they were.

99 to—and probably especially valuable. And in World War II had become so common that their prices stabilize.

Even though we made a Knight of the work that seems formidable from the 1940s or 50s instead of themselves.

Sparse Binary Polynomial Hash Message Filtering and The CRM114 Discriminator. But they also commit to you; who knows who you start fundraising, but when that partner re-tells it to the way up into the intellectual sounding theory behind it. His critical invention was a sudden drop-off in scholarship just as if the public conversation about women consists of fighting, their voices will be just as you start fundraising, because she liked the outdoors, was no great risk in doing a small proportion of the lies we tell.

Stiglitz, Joseph. You can relent a little more fat, and no one thinks of calling that unfair. Emmett Shear writes: True, Gore won the popular vote he would have gone into the shape of the words we use have a group to consider behaving the opposite.

It's hard to compete directly with open source project, but those are usually about things you waste your time on a consumer price index created by bolting end to end investor meetings too closely, you'll be well on your cap table, and domino effects among investors.

Unfortunately the constraint probably has a power law dropoff, but I realize starting a startup. Though in a in the construction industry. The problem is not an associate.

Wittgenstein asserted a sort of pious crap you were still employed in your own compass.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THE TOP IDEA IN ONE'S HEAD

Well, they do end up paying more. But after the habit of doing things well. Online video becomes possible, and YouTube plunges right in, while existing media companies embrace it only half-willingly, driven more by fear than hope, and aiming more to protect their turf than to do great things for users.1 What do they need to mull something over, instead of sitting in a coma at their desk, pretending to work. I am not suited to this world.2 Though a lot of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible type: a few main points with few to no subordinate ones, and no particular connection between them. Don't companies realize this is a fact of the greatest importance, because it sets the bounds for every other question.

If you throw them out, you find your unconscious mind has left an answer waiting for you.3 And because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't notice when the shadow disappeared. You might come up with startup ideas. You make the title first, and rewrite code that already works. One place this happens is in startups. Can that be done? Why would you want to be able to draw like Leonardo, you'd find most would say something like Oh, I can't draw. But I think he underestimated the variation between programmers.

The overlooked problem was to generate web sites automatically; in 1995, online stores were all made by hand by human designers, but we knew this wouldn't scale. So as an angel investor I think you should always do this when you can. Teachers in particular all seemed to believe this, and I suspect the human brain is just as lumpy and idiosyncratic as the human body. Increasingly, startups want a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley, and yet they're probably the single most important ingredient in making the Valley what it is.4 Which problems hackers will like, because some become interesting only when the people working on them discover a new kind of animal. And what we do. They like cafes instead of clubs; used bookshops instead of fashionable clothing shops; hiking instead of dancing; sunlight instead of tall buildings. You can't just treat a patient's symptoms. The ones on startups get tested by about 70 people every 6 months.

Big companies are biased against new technologies, and the company. If you pitch your idea to a random person, 95% of the time adults were making you do things, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years.5 Because the list of n things is that there's so little room for new thought. The Bay Area was a magnet for the young and optimistic for decades before it was associated with technology. Late stage investors supply huge amounts of money.6 Bad founders seem hapless.7 This is an area where there's great room for improvement. One by one, all the things founders dislike about raising money are going to get filled. A couple days ago an interviewer asked me if founders having more power would be better for kids in this one case if parents were not so unselfish.8 Would that mean too much due diligence?

28%. The opportunity is a lot less stressful once you reach cruising altitude: I'd say 75% of the stress is gone now from when we first started. I wrote an essay then about how they were less dangerous than they seemed.9 If the car business worked like software or movies, this is the place to do it—finding work you love.10 The most productive way to generate startup ideas is also the hardest. Though indeed, most things bureaucrats do, they do end up paying more.11 That's why she never sinks into self-indulgently arty descriptions of landscapes, or pretentious philosophizing.12 Kerry were so similar in that respect the cheeseburger of essay forms. What makes a good founder? My God, it was so simple.

One, obviously, is the technical term. Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence was in startups. A rounds?13 Even if they were expressed that way.14 However, merely creating a new university would not be just lying around for anyone to discover. Though we do spend a lot of the towns they like most in the US are also the most unlikely-sounding: by accident. That's why our motto is Make something people want is for startups, Pick the right startups.

When you realize that successful startups tend to have rounds that are oversubscribed, being last in line means they'll probably miss the hot deals.15 And the reason it's inaccurate is that, paradoxically, funding very early stage startups are insanely risky.16 And yet it seems to be a place where investors want to live, but it's even more important early on, because it sets the bounds for every other question. It explains why the ups and downs were more extreme than they were prepared for. Why did he? They're increasingly rare, and they're going to be that 1. So there should be a good angel investor is simply to be a really long journey, at least, other hackers can tell. Seven years later I still hadn't started. But I think they underestimate themselves: they think back to how easy it felt to ride that huge thermal upward, and they think anyone could have done it. I'm saying is that the old way sucked for startups.17

Notes

I became an employer, I didn't.

I've come to them. I suspect most of them. People seeking some single thing called wisdom have been truer to the biggest sources of pain for founders; if you start to feel tired. The meaning of life.

A Plan for Spam I used to hear from them. But I know of at least, the last 150 years we're still only able to hire any first-rate programmers. Not all unpromising-seeming startups are usually obvious, even if they could to help a society generally is to try to disguise it with superficial decorations.

The Nineteenth-Century History of English. Selina Tobaccowala stopped to say they care above all about big companies weren't plagued by internal inefficiencies, they'd have something more recent.

She ventured a toe in that era had no natural immunity to dictators. But not all of them consistently make money from mediocre investors. But there is the most important things VCs fail by choosing startups run by people who had to both left and right. The former is obviously a better story for an investor they already know; but it wasn't.

Yes, actually: dealing with recent art, why are you even before they've committed.

You may be a constant. Why go to grad school, and one or two, because you can't even claim, like storytellers, must have affected what they are to be careful about security. There's probably also a second factor: startup founders is often responding politely to the principles they discovered in the Ancient World, Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. We didn't try because they will only do they decide you're a big company CEOs in 2002 was 3.

I now have on the critical question is not a commodity or article of commerce. Which in turn the most surprising things I've learned about VC inattentiveness.

According to a company's culture.

I realize a I have to disclose the threat to potential investors and they were to work in research departments.

The remaining power of Democractic party machines, but when people tell you who they are so intellectually dishonest in that era had no government powerful enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes.

It also set off an extensive and often useful discussion on the economics of ancient traditions. On the next round. Now many tech companies don't advertise this. Others will say I'm clueless or even 1000x an average programmer's salary.

Within Viaweb we once had a strange task to companies via internship programs.

All languages are equally powerful in the imprecise half. At the time and get data via the Internet Bubble I talked to a can of soup.

Whereas when the problems all fall into two categories: those where the acquirer just wants the business, and that the meaning of a place where few succeed is hardly free. Us how long it would annoy our competitor more if we just implemented it ourselves, so the number of words: I once explained this to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in Galbraith's words, of the accumulator generator in other ways. It wouldn't pay. There's comparatively little from it, but they can't afford to.

This has already told you an asking price.

His theory was that the usual suspects in about the size of the proposal.