Building a company is fucking hard

Post by cik » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 11:05 PM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #36

cik wrote: post #7

There's an old adage that successful people surround themselves with success. It's all about cohort - if you don't have other friends who are pushing themselves the way you are, it will be very, very, hard. It doesn't matter if you're in tech and your friend is in gardening, what matters is the shared struggle, and dreams. It helps knowing you're in a boat others have been in before. Spouses/partners can understand a…

This is why it's important to grow up in the right zip code, do well in school, score high enough on standardized tests, get into the best universities. If you want to maximize your chances of getting to the top, the best way to do that is to know the right people.

Post by faitswulff » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:07 AM UTC

adpirz wrote: post #157

faitswulff wrote: post #83

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I wonder if the median age of HackerNews readers has shifted through the years? I started reading HN probably around my early 20s, if not sooner, and now I'm in my thirties with children. Life doesn't get easier or less complex as time goes on, that's for sure.

Anecdata re: readership age: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636856 Eyeballing: average age seems to be mid 30's. EDIT: 35.4, you can run in your console on that thread: function averageAge(){ const ages = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('.commtext')) .map(span => span.innerText) .map(text => text.slice(0,2)) .map(firstTwo => Number(firstTwo)) .filter(n => !isNaN(n)) return ages.reduce((x,…

    let avgAge = [...document.querySelectorAll('.commtext')]
                  .map(span => parseInt(span.innerText))
                  .map(Number)
                  .filter(Number)
                  .reduce((i,d,c, ages) => ages.reduce((x, y) => x+y) / ages.length)

Post by the_clarence » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 9:20 PM UTC

jbigelow76 wrote: post #80

the_clarence wrote: post #65

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Can’t agree more. I experience and changed a lot when I was in my early 20s. Now life moves slowly.

I can't make assumptions as to whether you or the gp have kids, but I didn't have my first until 37 and the second last year at 41. For me personally, having kids was the single most trans formative experience of my life with regards to how I have to examine my life and the world around me. Nothing before that came anywhere close, perhaps if I had lost a parent/sibling when I was younger or had enlisted after 9/11 I…

Post by readhn » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 1:22 AM UTC

vecter wrote: post #168

srrge wrote: post #45

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I don't understand why you are downvoted, because you are right. Conducting a successful career is also very hard. Let alone a successful marriage! Or getting fit, loosing weight. You want to build a company? Just do it. It's not harder than other things in life. Edit: some words.

Building a successful startup is infinitely harder than having a successful career as an employee.

Post by dang » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:28 AM UTC

artur_makly wrote: post #19

PREEEEEEECH!