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Patrick McKenzie
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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on Atlas. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Austen Allred

      I feel like people consistently overestimate how widely distributed individual technologies are, even where those technologies are clearly better than alternatives, easy to implement, and have minimal downside risk or cost to reverse adoption. Also the "Go to the gym" factor.https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1011323277640228865 …

      Patrick McKenzie added,

      Austen Allred @Austen
      Everyone talks about the network that comes with YC and completely discounts the advice. I think that's because it sounds like bullshit that advice could be so valuable, but for us it was incredibly important - the only reason we're not wandering strange paths, dead.
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

      You should go to the gym. I should go to the gym. Almost everyone should go to the gym. I do not go to the gym, as of this exact moment in time, despite knowing that it is the correct thing to do. Anyone who successfully modified behavior could justly claim fairly major benefits

      11:28 PM - 25 Jun 2018
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          I think that that might be a little too metaphorical, even though it is my semi-informed understanding that you will, factually, be told to go to the gym by YC if they think you aren't going to the gym. Here's another go-to-the-gym bit of advice: don't run out of money.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          A very uncharitable person might roll their eyes about a putatively intelligent individual needing to be told "Don't run out of money", but that is *such* an important piece of advice that substantially every business hires a class of professionals to avoid exactly that failure.

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          You can customize "Don't run out of money", too. A fairly common example: Y"ou are floundering right now and, without major changes, will run out of money in 18 weeks. You have told me your six week plan. No outcome of it buys you 6 more weeks. Don't run out of money."

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          "You are floundering right now and, without major changes, will run out of money in 18 weeks. You have expressed confidence that you will raise investment. Your confidence is misplaced because your business is, presently, dying. Don't run out of money."

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        6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          But I don't think obvious advice is the only valuable kind of advice! And this should be very, very self-evident to technologists. "Ah, you are running a website with load issues. If I say the words "3 tier architecture" do you not know what those words mean? OK, issue solved."

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        7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          (The experts in the room at this can come up with a long list of counterfactuals as to what particular permutations of websites would be in the 0.4% which are not going to have absolutely no load issues after single-digit hours of pedestrian sysadmin work implied by n-tier arch.)

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        8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Jun 2018

          There's a lot of advice which is basically the n-tier architecture of marketing/sales/HR/etc. Rather little of it comes up in the education of well-credentialed people. (Who should appreciate that, in the grand scheme of things, they know almost nothing.)

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        1. Alexey Guzey‏ @alexeyguzey 8 Sep 2018
          Replying to @patio11

          Alexey Guzey Retweeted gwern

          https://twitter.com/gwern/status/968232794798387200 …

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          gwern @gwern
          Modest proposal: replace college w/gym. Equal signaling value Conscientiousness/conformity/discounting; cheaper; objective; health benefits; progressive not regressive; real RCT transfer to IQ, not hollow; positive externality for looks; increasingly useful in newer environments.
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        1. John Loeber  🎢‏ @johnloeber 25 Jun 2018
          Replying to @patio11

          “80% of success is just showing up”

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