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Not quite. This behavior leads to firing of middle-class workers. John Deere just laid off 300 workers, moved the factory to Mexico, engaged in buyback, and gave the CEO a huge pay…

I read the article. It’s bad advice. Here’s a famous paper on why: http://www.sympoetic.net/Managing_Complexity/complexity_file...

Terrible advice. You shouldn’t “fall in love” with anything Everything is always changing. Consumer “problems”, their goals, their constraints.. its all changing, all the time. Ins…

You're conflating knowledge work with manual work. Knowledge work requires the brain to wonder...to explore a problem and possible solutions freely. Michael Jordan wasn't trying to…

I have a BFA. I taught myself programming (C++) when I was 15 (1995). I made simple puzzle games on my Mac. The internet got big and I got into HTML and JS. I didn't go to college …

>Why isn't there a Google for the law? There's no (or little) money to be made doing it. Maybe in the future when collecting and modeling such knowledge is cheap. For now, it's not…

I wouldn't say that Taylorism is why those workers succeeded. I'd say that those workers were successful in spite of Taylorism. Don't fall into the trap in thinking that just becau…

Yep... and it all started in the 1920s with Taylorism - the idea that management could be a scientific process. Taylorism is why, for example, some companies still use lines of cod…

The problem lies in business schools and degrees like the MBA. Check out the faculty list at Harvard Business school [link below]. I randomly looked at profiles of 14 of them and n…

Anyone who writes this kind of stuff needs to disclose that: 1) They are a parent. 2) They have used their suggested technique on their own children.

Paul Graham was very much in support of increasing immigration. But Peter Thiel - by supporting Trump - is signalling against it. Does a Trump presidency discourage immigrants from…

Mark Suster is a respectable, thoughtful person. Joel Spolsky also lends his support to what Mark says. https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/793438357267308544

The topic before was "Should YC disassociate from Thiel from YC?" The argument from YC was (more or less) "businesses shouldn't let political differences stop people from working t…

>Socialism does not say anything about the political system. Socialism is about economics and welfare. Definition of Socialism: "A political and economic theory of social organizat…

Hitler was a Fascist / Authoritarian, not a Socialist. This confusion about Socialist vs Fascism is common because - as you point out - they enact similar policies, e.g. high taxes…

Is this a problem for the Y Combinator Brand? I remember when Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla because he donated $1000 to a campaign to block gay marriage. Paul…