Aha, I'd been remembering types I/II but forgotten about III — now that I'm reminded, it's time to rewatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPpjU1UeAo .
>the second kind is capable of indefinite extension
Rather i took the hint from here. But his third class does seem to have some overlap with [my intended] type IIIs. E.g. (esp?) technicals from the cadet branches who feel (attribute guilt? stereotype threat?) the need to do some legacy-laundering..
(Compare with the social origins of SPJ)
Stronger connection to founder mode is that YC is in their own words (having a hard time locating exact quote) modelled after Harvard. So while the coarse-grained view from the POV of hoi polloi does look like your music video, our “local deities” were inside-outsiders, once upon a time in New England (as well as Ithacan transplants, for a couple of them)
For me, type III starts when one can not only stay in bed all monday and tuesday, but even go sailing across the pacific, without impacting one's income stream in any way — and is confirmed when one actually does so. ("Did nothing in particular / And did it very well")
The circles which I find are enriched in these type IIIs are also very geek-poor.
I think HN's stereotype of financial independence is of someone who's made a successful exit, but (or is this just my parochialism talking?) imx most of my type IIIs were born with it or married into it.
(BTW, I have trad Sand Hill experience, and therefore only the haziest idea of YC. I've been holding off on another, "riding herd", model of what I suspect may be a different sol'n to bigco hires than founder mode, because it'll take a great deal of explanation, but maybe if you're willing to explain the distinctive parts of YC to me I can attempt to explain why I think it's possible bigco hires could very well have been successful under a two-decades-of-sales CEO but tank under leadership that came up through engineering — if so, there's another [imnsho better] alternative to founder mode)
EDIT: http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/farina.html
> On weeknights they had to be inside these places by something like 11 P.M., at which time all the doors were locked.
I'm not even close to that old, and I've been kicked out of a women's dorm because they were locking the doors.
Compare the concierge's (knowing but ironically ignorant) smile, at Lydia's dorm in Наваждение(1965)!
(BTW)
most distinctive part is that the first gen, and maybe the 3rd gen*, take time out to consider whether things are still working in theory. But i suspect you only care about the practice.
*https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxapm9Ekdz3_kiyvo_14pOzNY_cga...
(Another “lazy” response)
An insanity inducing game that i’ve sometimes had the misfortune of playing is when I try to discern whether a particularly hard-to-parse paper by people i only know in passing in my subsubsubsubsubdomain (classified by dot product of tags) in a highish impact journal is spam or advertising. Wondering if that feeling approximates what you feel when encountering Yarvin. (Luckily, these havent ever appeared on the HN fp - but there were a few close calls)
* "And [it] was very calm. No-one was being oppressed." — exactly
That was the best blurb anybody could have written. Lumper, in my mind, is now a 50’s pinup candidate..
My current 50's diafilmy-crush is Anya Zagolina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF3V0Uiof5s&t=2851s
She had a slow machine
She kept her motor clean
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU2miApn-Ww