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mediarighton SQL: One of the most valuable skills

[digs out copy of "The Manga Guide to Databases" I bought in school as a gag...but actually turned out to be really good]

mediarighton Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

You should both check out WNYC'S "On The Media." It's NPR style, but every interview you hear is a 40-60-120 minute interview that's been boiled down to 8-10 min for the show. It's truly bespoke radio in that way, so they get to cover the issues at the core of something. It's my favorite show week to week.

mediarighton The Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget

Sometimes the best things are memorialized in song: https://youtu.be/OEa8wqv4QM0

mediarighton How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

..."professional hoop-jumper" ...He means being a kid?

There's a self-importance and arrogance to all of this that really comes through from this type of rhetor. I think the imposter syndrome might not be that much of a syndrome in the case of far too many startup teams sadly.