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Another nice thing about operating with an indeterminate horizon is that once a core basal metabolic rate has been established, it can absorb the vagaries of individual availability a lot better.
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If you have someone full-time for 4-6w and they fall ill, your project is probably screwed. If you have someone for 1h/wk indefinitely, you can absorb illness, travel, spikes on other fronts, etc.
We’ve had people drop out/productively re-engage on YC stuff with gaps of *months*
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It’s paradoxical, but even though young people have a lot more total time left in life they seem to have a far stronger sense of time-scarcity, like they must fulfill all ambitions by 30 because 30 is death or something.
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If you have time-scarcity mindset, it’s far easier to commit 4-6w full-time than 1h/wk for an indefinite period. Some weird discounting thing going on.
Also, fear of habit formation. 1h/wk forms new habits. 4-6w full-time harvests existing habits. Learning vs doing commitment.
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This is kinda interesting. It’s easier to learn/form new habits when young, but your “habit bandwidth” is kinda limited by personality and it makes sense to be wary of how you allocate it. Because your habits define who you are by mid-30s or so.
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35+ people seem mildly surprised by themselves if they learn anything new at all. They’ve been so conditioned to think they can’t learn past 35 or so, any learning/new good habits feels like an unexpected habit-bandwidth bonus.
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A danger though is that a community built around “regulars” has less use for legible processes and explicit structure. People get to know each other and internalize norms and new people can’t easily read the group and learn how to participate. So you get bounce rates creeping up.
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Like most discord-based communities we have a high pass-through rate. 90% of people come by, introduce themselves, and vanish. I’d guess 70% were just curious, 20% have misaligned “intense participation” expectations. The 10% who get it instinctively operate in “show up” mode
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do you mean that for the discord in general or for the weekly monday/friday meetups in particular?
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hm then im probably part of the 70%
this resonated tho, maybe i'm the type that can only "operate in show up mode" if I feel like part of "the founders" (not necessarily creating the platform, but at least being there early, not good @ reading norms)
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A danger though is that a community built around “regulars” has less use for legible processes and explicit structure. People get to know each other and internalize norms and new people can’t easily read the group and learn how to participate. So you get bounce rates creeping up.
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