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I'm not sure who you are, but I'm sorry that RC was a bad experience for you. I appreciate your sharing your experience so respectfully, and I hope you've since found other communi…

Yes, we want people to be making an intentional choice to come to RC, and not just to do it because it's free, so we don't lead with that. Our hope is that people will get excited …

Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center ( https://www.recurse.com/ ) My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the ini…

Zulip is a critical piece of software for my business: It's the main tool my company has used to communicate for more than 13 years, and it's the primary forum used by our 3,000+ p…

I've known Tim personally for over a decade. I'm certain that he's not doing this because he wants more money.

Congrats to Tim and the rest of the team! I've been a happy Zulip user (and realm admin) for 13 years: it's one of my favorite pieces of software, and I use it daily. My understand…

Thank you!

Would they be easier to easier to answer without the superlative? E.g., "What's a project you're proud of?" Thanks for the feedback!

(I'm one of the founders of the Recurse Center.) At least so far, the impact of LLMs has been overall positive for RC. We have a big-tent community, which includes everyone from th…

If you've not seen them, the All Souls questions are really worth checking out. I've found them to be both fun and inspiring: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/past-examination-papers

(Recurse Center cofounder here) Most folks do RC between jobs, either because they quit their job specifically to do RC or because they lost their job and then decide to apply. Oth…

All the games are custom ones built by people at the Recurse Center!

I don't think he's released the code yet, but my understanding is that he plans to!

I've had the pleasure of following Peter's progress on this project over the past 18 months or so, and it's been incredible to see how far he's taken it. When he first described it…

We were among the first Paper users (starting from the private beta). We loved the product for the first few years, but then it stagnated. We finally switched away from it a year a…