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Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree with this claim. It is my firm belief that high school grades do not reflect intelligence. But rather, applied work ethic. Indirectly, I chose to get poor grades by allocating my time to things I thought were of greater importance. Then again, is that in it of itself indicative of ill-wit?

Why is your writing so formal?

Pride in difference between himself and his peers?

Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet. Go to college. Take 4 years to earn a qualification as something to lean back on just in case anything goes wrong. You'll still be 18 in college. You can still do things on the side. You are 17 years old, and have no experience dealing with other people. The fact you are willing to let anyone invest in you without knowin…

Agreed. To effectively grow or run a business, fluency in risk and payoff distributions of your decisions is important. Taking the time to up your education a bit decreases the downside risk of failure, forces you to learn a wider range of material than you (realistically) will teach yourself, and it doesn't hurt that brain cognitive development doesn't really end till 22-24 age range in most people. These all improv…

I think Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates would disagree.

Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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A lot of people here are recommending you stick it out with school. I had your attitude 5 years ago. I was (am) very smart and entrepreneurial, and I hated high school. My senior year, I only took 4 classes, showed up at 9:15 and left at 11:45. I got mediocre grades at best.

I stuck it out with school, went to college and got a CS degree. College ended up being excellent, but my advice to you would be not to go... yet.

The best thing you can do is find a programming job or internship. Learn to work hard (rather than talk hard), build things (publicly on github is best for opening up opportunities), save money, and go to college in several years. College will be the best experience of your life, and if you do it when you're 22-26, you will get way more out of it than the rest of us who went straight after high school. Make friends, build things with them, and use the education to become a far better engineer than you ever were. You will then be able to build something amazing.

I can guarantee you if you go out now and try to build a company at your stage of skill/experience/age, you will build a heap of crap, that you might be able to sucker some company into paying you a million dollars at best. But you will have squandered your talent, and you will not be as amazing as you could have been.

P.S. like other people have said, stop writing as if you're referencing a thesaurus for every sentence, it reeks of immaturity and naivete.

Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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post #15

If you can't get As in high school humanities because you're too busy managing a single desktop computer & residential internet connection, you're probably not half as smart as you think you are. You should take about 5-10 years off for introspection.

That was a loaded statement followed by a visceral suggestion.

Take years off for introspection? I'd find that quite insulting if suggested to me in person -- I hope you realize that's the opposite of constructive advice.

Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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I'll sacrifice some potential wit and explain that your writing style is rather self important. It's not uncommon at your age (not trying to be insulting here) but you need to balance your desire to self-promote with a demonstrated ability to get to the point. People will notice more if you show instead of tell. Your letter has a lot of words in it which are clearly used in an attempt to impress. Coupled with the num…

Thank you for your feedback. It would be so much more helpful if you could provide specific examples within my writing that are grammatically incorrect. Lastly, to comment, I am very curious to know why I am receiving more feedback on my style of writing rather than the ideas I am attempting to communicate.

> I am a ... left-brained neurosis (did you mean 'neurotic?' not sure what this means) diet regimented monk (did you mean 'diet regiment monk'? not sure what this means) zealous disruptive product fiend (did you mean 'zealous fiend for disruptive products'? not sure what this means).

> "All of the above is far too subjective to have any empirical value. So, here is a quick and porous synopsis of my "experience" over the years"

This would read better without the disclaimer, flowery words, and air quotes, e.g.: "Here is a summary of my limited experiences"

> "Age 11 (as far back as I can recall in my life)"

Really? Anyway, why is this important? This whole paragraph would be better if you left out the commentary: "Age 11 - Discovered that I could ping youtube.com and use the resulting IP to get around my school's DNS blocking. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."

Also, phrases like "my technology inception" stick out like a sore thumb and will make you sound grandiose, regardless of how many disclaimers you include.

> Eight months later, my port-forwarded router became an LLC with 6 full-time employees.

I know what you are trying to do here, but unless you really mean that your router had business papers and employees better keep it simple, especially since this is a story about how you took money from people to run a business whose operations were highly dubious at best.

> Meanwhile, my grades in all but anything STEM were an abysmal.

This is the kind of error you'll catch if you read your prose aloud carefully. Also, "to the demise of the business and the other employees" makes it sound like your mother killed them. I think you meant 'dismay'. Normally I would not comment on these kinds of things, but since you asked...

Your surprise that your your style is attracting more attention than your ideas is another thing that you'll eventually grow out of as you age and learn more about human behavior. In part it's because people feel smart when they notice things; anything that is simply asserted by you will be immediately suspect and scrutinized against other information, namely your other works and overall tone.

This is not unfair, it's actually a big part of communication. You transmitted more information than you intended, and that has business implications.

Re: 17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll sacrifice some potential wit and explain that your writing style is rather self important. It's not uncommon at your age (not trying to be insulting here) but you need to balance your desire to self-promote with a demonstrated ability to get to the point. People will notice more if you show instead of tell. Your letter has a lot of words in it which are clearly used in an attempt to impress. Coupled with the num…

Thank you for your feedback. It would be so much more helpful if you could provide specific examples within my writing that are grammatically incorrect. Lastly, to comment, I am very curious to know why I am receiving more feedback on my style of writing rather than the ideas I am attempting to communicate.

The simple truth is you've put alot of time into thinking about how to look smart, and it shows. Just relax a bit and solve the problems in front of you and your natural intelligence will show, naturally.
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