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There was some guy here a year ago, who made a simple, easily searchable recipe site, but I don't know the link. It was just recipes.
if you find it let me know
It seems to pull from other sites, but just give the recipe. Don't click on the link, only the cooking instructions.
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I mean, we all make choices and sacrifices. Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything, and I think it's reasonable that starting a startup a la YC requires a lot of commitment (that's their model and principles, there's plenty of other opportunities out there). Being an astronaut is closed off to a lot of people because they di…
> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited amount of time in everyone’s day” is a rather disingenuous way to frame the discussion. You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be. The YC (and by extension, all…
Have people tried remote accelerators? If they're viable and competitive then they should have no problem flourishing, especially given the apparent number of WFH diehards. Honestly I wouldn't bet on it.
What if you want to be an actor, or a comic, or a filmmaker? You basically have to move to LA or NY. There are lots of opportunities that require very large commitments. You can think of your commitments, hobbies, routines, each on average occupying a certain percentage of your day. Having a kid is a huge one. Doing a hustle growth startup is another. Is it really reasonable to try and do both at the same time? One or both will suffer.
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I mean, we all make choices and sacrifices. Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything, and I think it's reasonable that starting a startup a la YC requires a lot of commitment (that's their model and principles, there's plenty of other opportunities out there). Being an astronaut is closed off to a lot of people because they di…
> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited amount of time in everyone’s day” is a rather disingenuous way to frame the discussion. You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be. The YC (and by extension, all…
The core hypothesis is that the startup team should be working in person to be more effective. If one doesn't agree with that, they have a great market opportunity - start "YC, but fully remote". YC is not going to compete there it seems.
> Before covid, founders often asked us to run YC remotely so that they would't have to move to SF to participate. We never did…[we feel justified in our decision] Completely ignoring the founders who still have to move, apparently?
And not the most elegant display of the power dynamic between investors and founders, to put it mildly. Note that this self selects for people able and willing to jump through hoops for their investors.
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> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited amount of time in everyone’s day” is a rather disingenuous way to frame the discussion. You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be. The YC (and by extension, all…
> You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be. The core hypothesis is that the startup team should be working in person to be more effective. If one doesn't agree with that, they have a great market opportunity - start "YC, but fully remote". YC is not going to compete there it seems.
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> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited amount of time in everyone’s day” is a rather disingenuous way to frame the discussion. You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be. The YC (and by extension, all…
I mean, if everyone's copying them, it's hard to argue that they haven't hit on something that works better than the known alternatives. Have people tried remote accelerators? If they're viable and competitive then they should have no problem flourishing, especially given the apparent number of WFH diehards. Honestly I wouldn't bet on it. What if you want to be an actor, or a comic, or a filmmaker? You basically have…
Thats not what I said.
> it's hard to argue that they haven't hit on something that works better than the known alternatives.
Does it work better though? Barring some statistical outliers such as unicorns, VC backed startups from accelerators don’t measurably do better at all for the founders.
> What if you want to be an actor, or a comic, or a filmmaker? You basically have to move to LA or NY.
So, actors only work in […checks notes…] LA or NY?
This kind of egregious reductionism as support for the idea that a startup can only be successful if you dedicate your entire life to it to the exclusion of literally everything else (family, hobbies, “routines” - whatever that may mean) is not giving me the feeling that you are interested in a meaningful discussion, this is more like reddit point-scoring, which is not interesting, so I’m leaving it at this.
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I can’t speak for YC or FAANG management but as a regular software engineer I totally get where they’re coming from. I worked at a FAANG company through and after covid, the difference in teams productivity was noticeable. Not in the remote working favour. I understand some people are more productive at home but I’m yet to see a _team_ that is more productive being remote. I lack the experience working in remote-firs…
Oh, I've seen a team get completely obliterated by moving back to in person, even though everyone really did live in the same city and with reasonable commutes. This was a startup, that had one big problem: a CEO that believed he was better than any and all of his workers at what the workers did. He also believed that collaboration was important, as through discussion, everyone would agree that he was right all along…
You more quickly arrived at the point were the company fell apart, which was clearly inevitable.
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That seems to list a bunch of destroyers and other vessels, but not "battleships". Probably the tweeter was just using that term colloquially, like "ship of war", rather than as a classification of size and function.
Ah, you all are correct. Thanks for the correction, will use the correct term going forward.
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Ok, then suggest some other platform that has the network effects of an existing large audience? Technology matters far less than network effects. Not saying it doesn't matter at all, but you have to overcome the audiences stickiness to a platform first.
One tweet link to a blog post on the YC blog? Yeah, sure, there will be some drop off bc people don't click out of the app, but most people not on twitter can't even read this content anymore without workarounds.
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> Has the physical world discovered how to replay past conversations where important decisions were made? Yes, they're called "minutes", memos or simply taking notes in meetings. > Has it become socially acceptable to have long silences of 5-10 minutes while people formulate thoughtful replies in a conversation? Yes, you can always say "let me think about that for a minute"
I’ve literally never seen a meeting grind to a halt like that. Instead, meetings are full of half-baked ideas, and I sometimes notice show-stoppers hours later when it’s quiet.
At google, doc reading is done before the meeting along with comments/replies, but during a design review, the host will go through each comment and then open a live discussion if needed.
Both of these formats allow for productive meetings but it does require a culture to support it and people to write down their thoughts ahead of the meeting and share it around.