My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator

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Post by nnnnnn » Tue, Oct 14, 2014, 10:50 PM UTC

My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator
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Post by was_hellbanned » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:10 AM UTC

I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:13 AM UTC

was_hellbanned wrote: post #2

I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

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Post by prawn » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:20 AM UTC

was_hellbanned wrote: post #2

I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

So, are you saying it to be negative, unnecessarily?

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Post by cyberjunkie » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:20 AM UTC

Something about that first photo also also reminded me of the Last Supper.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:25 AM UTC

cyberjunkie wrote: post #5

Something about that first photo also also reminded me of the Last Supper.

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Post by fchollet » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:27 AM UTC

was_hellbanned wrote: post #2

I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

It should be expected from this kind of personal blog post to be about one's own story, rather than ideas or outward advice. I see nothing particularly negative with that.

There are 48 instances of "I", 19 of "my", and 6 of "me". So on average 90% of sentences have one instance.

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Post by radicality » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:30 AM UTC

I'm interested how she got that domain, women.com doesn't sound cheap.

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Post by salome2 » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:30 AM UTC

I found this very inspirational myself as a mom of 3 (and I'm psyched to have just applied last week!)

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Post by jp » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 4:31 AM UTC

So is the person sitting next to PG a real prime madonna ? He he... (Sorry!)