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Umm…ketamine IV at these doses is most certainly a unique and insane experience, speaking as someone who’s done it about a dozen times for anxiety.

I find it hard to read anything by Paul Graham these days without an allergic reaction to its hubris.

Couldn’t this be simplified to 3-4 sentences? Why so much ink spilled?

I can speak from direct experience that a lot of highly successful people in tech are miserable. This is not a path to try and copy.

I love how Wells Fargo, which was nabbed for a massive wide ranging scam / fraud, gets to be all sanctimonious about ethics or standards.

The categorization is interesting albeit deeply ungrounded in any real rigor and seems of a piece with one of his other recent essays, in which he developed a psychoanalytic theory…

Yikes. You make some pretty strong claims that are not credible on their face. 1. "Not adaptive in any situation..." Putting aside the many problems with evolutionary psychological…

They do in theory but there are countless excel spreadsheets in circulation with a full list of companies way in advance of demo day. If you're not plugged in and arrive at demo da…

I suppose I'm a combination of relieved, offended and proud to not be on the list.

The notion of control over one's life is elusive. Our futures can be wrought by trauma, poverty and the lottery that is our DNA, and by extension, our brain. Given the randomness/c…

I think there's a bit of cruelty in so casually reducing people to "losers." Taking what must be a complex set of personal histories and circumstances that lead people to that beha…

Yes, I know. But if you want to tell YC they don't get their pro rata (or practically speaking, convince the founder to tussle with them over that), have fun. I've seen them not bu…

Well, I think YC is pretty clear about the sorts of companies they aspire to invest in, e.g., Dropbox, AirBnB, etc. I also imagine quite a lot of the founders who apply to YC aren'…

Well, mea culpa. The piece does address the issue of bad investors. My main beef is with the line, "in the end, while some investors are better than others, none of them translate …

Point #2 is so patently absurd its hard to take seriously. One, YC are themselves investors, and as far as I know they don't position themselves as causally inert in relation to a …

This might work to maximize price but it won't necessarily land you with the best partners. The smartest, best money knows it and they make you pay for their investment. Moreover, …

If I'm not mistaken, YC gets pro-rata as preferred shareholders, so their dilution is not any different from everyone else in that class.

This article seems to be in some conflict to how YC operates, which is designed around the demo day auction frenzy, where you might see valuation caps rise overnight on a rolling b…

Will do. Best number?

This is particularly hard for people with ADD. That said, I think it’s potentially dangerous to give advice that’s in any way titled the “Psychology of...” without actually basing …