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Alt account. This happened to a few companies in our batch too. It seems normal that 5-10% of companies game the character test. 100% of these companies basically end up with solo dictator CEO/founder and underperform. 100% of big companies from our batch had difficult founder heart to hearts on level ground, equal equity, and are still together.

Alex Karp of Palantir.

You'd be forgiven John, because Taiwan is indeed a country.

The market demands indefinite optimism!

Liberals forcing kids to be in learning prisons doesn't sound very inclusive.

No. The variants are variants, not strains. It's based on gene deletes primarily. More Sneaky just means a bit less effective. Studies suggest about half as effective. So from 90% to 80% etc still highly effective.

We stopped having this issue when we raised comp 50%. Worth a shot.

Humans are adaption machines, information is only valuable to the extent that it is useful for our immediate and maybe some future higher order survival. Most isn't.

I have been thinking something similar. Certainly if budget is the defining constraint, lean makes way more sense, because it's resource to progress ratio. First principles is more about upside maximization, which benefits a lot from removing short term resource constraints in the VC sense.

Much like starting a 'garage team' for innovation, it doesn't seem like it makes much sense to use generalist hospitals to handle extremely intense covid patient waves. It seems like field hospitals where more resilient doctors and nurses make significantly more money from a hazard pay perspective that can handle significant ramp would make way more sense. That way, the people who can handle it get the extra comp and treat one thing (and become very good at both the rapid changes in the course of the disease and the treatment of it).

The nice thing about profoundly gifted kids is that you couldn't stop them from learning STEM topics if you wanted to.

The hard thing about PG kids is that if it isn't interest led, it isn't happening.

PG kids are way out ahead intellectually than they are emotionally. But it's like any person: mentors who challenge them, coaching on good and bad influences, and age appropriate social learning.

I grew up in the country without internet, but similarly had 160 IQ at 4. I'd say nature was my favorite way to learn until I was 8: just walking around asking what and why about everything. I was unschooled though so I can't say what school experience would have been.

As I got older, I struggled emotionally more, especially as a teenager. It turns out having #1 marks in your school is not how to win the social tournament. So I calibrated that mid 70s grades would be game theoretic optimum between parental disappointment and cool to friends.

At 16 I essentially decided I was done with school, did two years in one and got a full time white collar job. At 18 I ran a business unit, etc. You couldn't stop me, that was the obsession.

Around when I was 12 I realized most adults were too stupid to have much to offer. They couldn't really cope with how hard their lives were, and couldn't synthesize things beyond 3 month timescales. I just read hundreds of books trying to find adults who were ahead of me, and found it. But again, STEM wasn't the limit, philosophy, social sciences, religion, etc you can't can it up and try to Google engineer path someone that smart.

It's very stressful being able to imagine worlds that could be but can't because people can't understand them and you can't patiently communicate it. That doesn't really end though.

I think if they can read, curating intellectual age reading list of wide range of subjects including and beyond STEM would have been something I appreciated more. Also encourage creation, books are stimulation but what about writing?

They will probably have adult STEM abilities including coding by like 14. So it's really going to be more about character, social and values education for the next little bit when you still have moral high ground.

The hard point isn't how fast they think it's how different. They will be an island of one. I wish my parents helped me cope with that and I didn't have to feel like an island before I understood I wasn't normal.

Hope this helps.

People can't cope with the fact that vaccines are both 100% effective and safe for kids, and DALY wise much, much better than getting covid. Plenty of kids dying in Brazil and India to prove this is the case.

As a CEO, all my best people prefer remote, and all the stragglers who copied off of them can't wait for office. Will be leaning all the way into remote, personally.

Is this an april fool's joke? Being fat is obviously worse for health outcomes.

I thought the same thing. It sounds like they'll continue to be on the board together though.

We recently announced apolitical and it went over really well. Thankfully we have avoided the wokeness for now it seems.

Yes that increases air quality but it would not add oxygen back into the air in place of CO2.

If grocery store duopolies are any indication, fast follow strategy is great for when the rewards of being second significantly exceed the rewards for not being in the top two, but that's all you're going to get with fast follow.

Like a mob boss that grew up unloved by their father, they just want organic respect but see the world through zero sum eyes.

This is not true, it really is at board discretion. Generally speaking many companies hesitate to even put stock offers in writing because of stuff like this. Whether they can do it legally (they can) and whether it's okay (it's not) are different here.

All organ damage heals around six months unless you had an C-ARDS diagnoses or chronic deficiency of Nicotinic Acid.

The only intellectually honest interpretation of this comment is that you were born outside of China and have since moved there for values reasons. Is that accurate?

Never.

It is interesting to see governments accept that a 1/700000 risk of blood clots is worse than covid for under 60s.

I wonder how many category defining businesses Nathan has started.

Black Mirror.

$20M net worth at 27 while being financially independent at 17 years old here. AMA.

I have generally always liked letting customers leave. Ultimatums can easily be two way. If they threaten to quit, I can always fire them :)

Commenting from my non YC founder account, a company in our batch lied about revenue numbers and was unceremoniously dropped. No demo day, strong negative background check. So yes, demo day means something due diligence wise even beyond the initial stamp of approval.

Most likely coastal cities smart person liberal, probably followed by moderate libertarian.