These days, not having met Peter Thiel looks like you dodged a bullet.
(Also perhaps worth recognizing that the guy berating you for not patronizing YC is a founder of YC. I also think you're a loser for not buying my product ;) )
(Also perhaps worth recognizing that the guy berating you for not patronizing YC is a founder of YC. I also think you're a loser for not buying my product ;) )
> I agree with you that I need to buy some of your furniture! That's some beautiful stuff! How long have you been woodworking?
Thanks! About 8 or 9 years. I recently got into chairmaking. I haven't sold any yet, but my goal through the end of the year is to make a handful and then try to sell some at local maker markets in 2025.
Awesome! There's another woodworker I follow (https://nondot.org/sabre/Woodworking.html) who is also a pretty good programmer ;).
> Causing massive harm to other people because it might possibly make the number in one's own bank account slightly larger seems like pretty miserable behavior to me.
I disagree with a ton of what PT says/does, but I respect how he always come about things in an original way--he's got his own model of the universe that he follows. From what I can tell he also is always learning, and willing to update his model when shown wrong.
Most people just accept the model of the universe given to them by authorities.
This is why we have careers and specialties ("authorities", to give it another word). When you break your arm, you don't go learn bone medicine from scratch while your arm turns gangrenous. That would be stupid. You go to the doctor because fixing broken bones is their specialty and not yours. Similarly, climate change is staring us in the face, and Thiel is going "nah, screw the experts, I know better" and spending his resources to send us straight into the surface of the sun. That's stupid. There's nothing to respect in his bold, willful ignorance causing harm to everyone on the planet.