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Very interesting, but the guy sounds as if he's choking on dick.

My bad. The emotions were high. I wanted to remove it, but I can edit the post anymore.

I think you're using "indiscriminately" as if it meant "if I personally don't like it". But you're right, my litmus test is very sloppy and it could be phrased much more precisely.…

> but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take…

EDIT: For comparison: * "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers" (5hrs ago, 110 points, 30 comments) -> rank 2 * this post (2hrs ago, 1000 points, 500 comments) -> rank 20 Why…

That's the correct way to look at it. You want to evaluate ideas on their own merits, but you also want to use heuristics and proxies when determining which ideas to consider in th…

I find Sam Altman's essays completely devoid of any insight. He's trying really hard to be like PG, while he simply doesn't have the street-cred required. Case in point, when they …