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  1. 15 hours ago
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    If you read and enjoy the talk, there's a full book of this stuff: . It is stellar.

  2. 15 hours ago
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    Reminded by (thanks!) of this Hamming anecdote from his spectacular You and Your Research:

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    16 hours ago
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    One of my working perspectives is that Silicon Valley is substantially an engine for generating positive tail outcomes.

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    16 hours ago
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    It does feel like a lot of questions in these debates come down in large part to optimizing for the median vs optimizing for tail outcomes.

  5. 16 hours ago
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    Maybe they're useful to disentangle. Latter feels like an empirical question; former is of course just about values and has no right answer.

  6. 16 hours ago
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    and, separately, to what degree intensity of application *causes* the latter.

  7. 16 hours ago
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    Feels to me disagreement is over two separate things: what it is that people *should* be optimizing for (quality of life vs tail outcomes)…

  8. 16 hours ago
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    (Much easier to endorse comfortable balance.)

  9. 16 hours ago
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    No snark meant -- it's an important question for all of us, and he's giving voice to a harder-to-argue perspective.

  10. 16 hours ago

    I've been enjoying reading 's debate with others over past day or two on the importance of hard work.

  11. May 29
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    And , which is very readable and quite unsettling.

  12. May 29
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    (By "a hack", I just mean something that sounds implausible at first blush. Without that, too likely it's already been attempted.)

  13. May 29
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    Enumerating those characteristics sounds mundane, but I've started to notice more such ideas since putting the traits together.

  14. May 29

    Interesting category of ideas: things that are cheap, leveraged/scalable, and some kind of hack. ("CLH".) YC being an obvious example.

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    May 25

    Connect is new and improved! Now with more supported fund flows, and faster setup with Express:

  18. May 21

    Back to running in SF.

  19. May 20

    Running in Brooklyn turns out to be great. Can't believe I was running in Manhattan all this time.

  20. May 20

    Internet of Things = things with fiddly wifi settings that you really should configure but continue to procrastinate on.

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