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ME: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

ChatGPT: Walk

50 meters is basically “parked across the street” distance — you’ll spend more time:

starting the car

pulling out

finding a spot

pulling in

…than you would just strolling over.

Plus you avoid the awkward moment of driving 10 seconds like a cartoon villain.

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ME: You are dumb. I need to have the car with me in order to wash it!

ChatGPT: Fair — I deserved that.

Drive the car to the car wash… and then walk home.

(Just kidding. Yes, obviously drive.)

Here's San Francisco guidance for school reopening: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/covid-guidance/Preliminary-...

Comparing COVID-19 deaths to flu deaths is like comparing apples to oranges. The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates. See: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss

The OBD interface is too cumbersome (vehicle owners have to mess with hardware installation, etc...) and is more geared towards aftermarket devices and software. This effort must be at the core of each OEM and be completely seamless to the end-users and even third-party developers.

Once an OEM opens up its vehicle data and control to Android (and/or Google Automotive), it's game over for them. The OEM becomes a commodity hardware maker. Plenty of analogy with mobile phones manufacturers. The OEM will not make a dime after the sale of the vehicle while Google will build and strengthen a development platform to enable third-party applications and services and profit from them (something Google knows how to do really well). Think Turo/Getaround, cleaning, refueling, charging, insurance, package delivery, in-car applications, etc.

One way out of this is for the major OEMs to band together and create their own standardized platform that works across OEMs. At minimum, that platform should expose a single standard interface to all third-party service providers.

Video of our team's analysis on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2RwG7U_GEU

SF has learned its lessons from Uber (and presumably read up on the bike sharing problems in China).

My take on these scooter startups is that they won't make it very far: https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/electric-scooter-startups-in...

BIG congratulations! What an amazing journey and I look forward to tracking Dropbox and its impact!

Never easy to do this. But most founders' mindset is to do whatever is best for the survivability and growth of the company. That's the path I took.

It comes down to cost. Shipping with FedEx would likely break their unit economics.

It's immature to "hack" company culture. There's only doing it right. Here's a good article by Zappos' culture coach David Vik: http://bit.ly/Z84nHv

I highly recommend http://www.imgix.com/

His Acoustics class was arguably the best course I took at MIT. His numerous anecdotes about hard work, perseverance, and applying thought process to every challenge we face really stuck with me. The end-of-semester field trip left a long lasting impression. He made me a better person I am today. I'll really miss him.

Sounds good, but it will introduce new problems: 1) someone called and said "I sent you that urgent email; didn't you get it?!?" and you had forgotten about the rules you set up for email receipt. 2) Services that send email notifications now have to add another reminder so people may have to check their email rules in addition to the Spam folder in case mail is "lost" there.

Munchery chefs' rule #1: taste is King. By using fresh and local ingredients, healthiness comes naturally.

Sorry to be late to the conversation. I want to note that at Munchery, we work ONLY with independent chefs and caterers to serve you meals. There are no restaurants in the mix. Thank you for your feedback and I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the service!

Indeed there are. Our chefs have business licenses, ServSafe certification, and food reseller permits.

Regardless of legality, there are food safety issues. I wrote about how the traditional peer to peer doesn't work for food: http://blog.munchery.com/2011/11/pro-to-peer-a-new-paradigm/

Also, do not curse out your competitors. You may end up being partners one day, or worse, get acquired by them! I have seen the latter happen and feel embarrassed for those who disrespected others.

Everyone's situation is different. We notice that we are significantly more efficient with whatever time we have available. We get back to work as soon as the kids are asleep for example.

Thank you for your well wishes. It's definitely not for the faint of heart! :)

As a father with 2 fairly young children, I can tell you from my experience that it will be extremely difficult. You will become very aware of your limited time availability, which allows you to be much more productive during the time that you do have.

In the end, there's only so many hours during the day. You have to limit what you can work on and carefully pick what the top priorities are. Focus on those intensely. Good luck!

Thank you for the feedback. As we expand, we'll introduce specific diet plans for sure.

Here at Munchery, our independent chefs have been cooking healthy balanced meals for a number of startups, most of which have no time nor staff nor facilities to make food in-house.

We have found a way to make it extremely affordable too. It's usually no more expensive than if you order takeout elsewhere. On top of that, we deliver directly to your office.

We currently offer first 5 dinner meals as complimentary to ANY startup based in SF (and we discount the rest if you have more than 5) with no strings attached. We have had a bunch of companies signed up. See details here: http://blog.munchery.com/heres-to-the-crazy-ones

We bet our chefs' food beat the traditional takeout/delivery stuff by a mile. :)

I don't see how this would be like true OH (not that I've ever been to one), which only truly works if it's about one or a couple specific/isolated topics.

I suspect it would be more like a pitch-your-company-and-Paul-will-give-you-his-opinion-about-it session.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Case-Shiller index chart showing home value fluctuation over the past 100+ years: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011...

It's pretty telling what you should do regarding buy or rent (beyond the NYT calculator).

Those were great perks since no other classes I knew had them. Bose didn't offer these things so he could have impossible exams. He offered them because he was cool like that. :)

If you knew your materials, it would have taken about 1 to 1.5 hrs to finish the exam. The vast majority finished within 2 hrs (typical duration of MIT night exams). But indeed there were a few who stuck around for 4-5 hrs. At least one TA had to stick around too.

Bose spent over a decade working with Wiener. It started when Lee recruited Bose (as a grad student) to work under Wiener.

Bose often told the story of the initial encounter, in which he spent 6 months fearing for his life because his level of math versus that of Wiener was equivalent to a child who knows basic arithmetic versus someone well versed with Calculus.

They worked together on a wide variety of projects, including bio-engineering projects where they measured brain signals of hospital patients who lost, say, their arms but was asked to pretend to move their fingers as if their arms were still attached.

According to Bose, Wiener was a total genius who had an amazing memory. He fully memorized AND understood the human anatomy down to every detail, and often corrected experienced Harvard doctors from mistakes, large or small.

Wiener told Bose that he resented his upbringing because his parents wanted to see if they could raise a genius. By age 7, Wiener's eyesight was nearly shot from so much reading, but his parents pushed on and made Wiener do everything in his head instead.

Dr. Bose strongly believes that the company would have gone down a terrible path had they taken on any VC money. He had always wanted Bose Corp to focus on research, and thus all profits are poured into funding more R&D. No doubt this decision makes it possible for him to donate the majority of shares to MIT today. I still remember his words: "Those MBAs would have had me fired in no time."

So how did he fund the company initially? According to Dr. Bose, Lee handed over his entire life savings because he firmly believed that Bose would succeed!