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Raising money fucked me up

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Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by utopiah »

resonious wrote: post #48

This may sound weird but this was a very interesting read for me as a father of 2 small kids. A somewhat common (yet often not followed (because it's hard)) piece of parenting advice is to not praise kids too much. Especially character judgements like "you're so smart" or "you're so creative". Reason being it makes them do things that seem smart or seem creative just to get the praise. Then it comes crashing down whe…

Genuine praise on the attempt, rather than the result.

Even if it's a failure but a lot of effort and learning along the way, it is still a success.

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by resonious »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #59
resonious wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly if I exercised and ate perfectly from 20-29 I would've had a miserable 20s. Doing high-discipline stuff like that is way easier when you have a material reason (i.e. you've actually felt the consequences of not being fit or healthy) compared to when people just tell you "do it! you'll really thank yourself for it 20 years later!". Being in perfect physical condition at the cost of the psychological stress of…

> forcing myself to do stuff I don't want to do every day If you make it over the initial hump of developing the habit it just becomes an expected part of your day. The dislike evaporates. Skipping it feels weird.

Maybe I'm just a baby, but I actually have done routine exercise for long periods (sometimes months, sometimes years) and stopping felt AWESOME.

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by eucyclos »

resonious wrote: post #45
Nition wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard being human. A lot of cognitive ability peaks before age 25[1], physical before 35[2], and to some extent it's an inexorable downward slope from there. Accumulated experience often makes up for it, but only to a point. You still won't be as good as the version of you that started earlier, or learned faster. People reach 40 and finally start exercising and eating properly and miraculously feel 25 again - the…

Honestly if I exercised and ate perfectly from 20-29 I would've had a miserable 20s. Doing high-discipline stuff like that is way easier when you have a material reason (i.e. you've actually felt the consequences of not being fit or healthy) compared to when people just tell you "do it! you'll really thank yourself for it 20 years later!". Being in perfect physical condition at the cost of the psychological stress of…

The trick is to tie your sense of identity to being a badass with more than enough self control.

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by fc417fc802 »

resonious wrote: post #73
fc417fc802 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> forcing myself to do stuff I don't want to do every day If you make it over the initial hump of developing the habit it just becomes an expected part of your day. The dislike evaporates. Skipping it feels weird.

Maybe I'm just a baby, but I actually have done routine exercise for long periods (sometimes months, sometimes years) and stopping felt AWESOME.

Fair enough. That is most definitely not normal but I believe you that it's just how it is for you. It's the same thing with any given medication - it will work for most people most of the time but not for everyone all of the time.

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Post by Nition »

ekianjo wrote: post #50
Nition wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard being human. A lot of cognitive ability peaks before age 25[1], physical before 35[2], and to some extent it's an inexorable downward slope from there. Accumulated experience often makes up for it, but only to a point. You still won't be as good as the version of you that started earlier, or learned faster. People reach 40 and finally start exercising and eating properly and miraculously feel 25 again - the…

Most people are complete dumbasses at 25. (I include myself at 25 in that assessment) So if this is peak intellectual capabilities something does not add up.

It's the lack of experience, essentially. See this chart from the study I linked: https://i.imgur.com/zhR6NC1.jpeg

Things that rely on experience peak at a much higher age, but the pure mental stuff peaks earlier.

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by eucyclos »

Nition wrote: post #43
taurath wrote: post #7

Expectations that we hold inside of ourselves can be a really difficult echo of identities we tried fantasizing about when growing up and as an adult. We want to do well, we want the approval, we want the validation. The anxiety over expectations can kill you. It’s self abuse - people (investors, bosses, spouses) don’t invest in you for your anxiety driven productivity, they do it because of who you are outside of th…

It's hard being human. A lot of cognitive ability peaks before age 25[1], physical before 35[2], and to some extent it's an inexorable downward slope from there. Accumulated experience often makes up for it, but only to a point. You still won't be as good as the version of you that started earlier, or learned faster. People reach 40 and finally start exercising and eating properly and miraculously feel 25 again - the…

Your last paragraph brings to mind an insult from a fictional culture where the very wealthy and powerful can live indefinitely: " has grown nothing. And he has planted nothing". Such a perfect summation of the attitude of a culture with lots of time

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by monero-xmr »

It’s just really, really hard to get someone to pay you money. This AI boom has made earning money optional for some companies, but for the long tail of AI-adjacent companies you need revenue. Convincing someone to pay you is just simply so so hard. No one really gets it until they have to actually make revenue. It’s sooooo hardddd

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by youoy »

Nition wrote: post #76
ekianjo wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people are complete dumbasses at 25. (I include myself at 25 in that assessment) So if this is peak intellectual capabilities something does not add up.

It's the lack of experience, essentially. See this chart from the study I linked: https://i.imgur.com/zhR6NC1.jpeg Things that rely on experience peak at a much higher age, but the pure mental stuff peaks earlier.

To me that graph seems to say that the pure "subconscious" stuff or "ML similar" stuff peaks earlier, but comprehension peaks much later. So you perfect your tools in the brain at around 25, but then it takes another 20 years to really know how to use them correclty.

Re: Raising money fucked me up

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Post by saint-evan »

This is absurd! The author raised money without a concrete execution plan, treating capital as permission to “think,” and then panicked when thinking alone didn’t magically turn into value. The post implies there was no wedge, no market insight, not even a search strategy... just the weird hypothesis that people say 'I fit the founder profile, therefore I should found something' It frames the absence of structure as a psychological tragedy, but irl this was a self-inflicted governance failure. The author clearly had no personal theory of value creation before taking investor money, and the money simply magnified that undefinedness. Paying yourself to think is ridiculous unless you’re running a consultancy otherwise it’s just accountability theater... Cinema being what this post is!
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