.
@jimydotorg
and I launched HOTorNOT 20 years ago this October ๐ฎ
@Mashable
wrote a great retrospective about it. Realistically it is probably the last time anyone will ever want to write about HOTorNOT. I'm happy with this article as its final chapter.
You just don't understand, Silicon Valley is not representative of normal society. No normal persom is ever going to use computers / the internet / touch screen phones / apps / EVs (YOU ARE HERE) / crypto / self driving cars / VR / AR / home robots / brain machine interfaces
Notable that
@ericsyuan
was around 40 when he started Zoom. All the VCs must be clamoring to find Asian founders in their 40s to fund now, right? Suddenly I am fundable again! ๐คฃ
12 years ago these guys worked out of a dumpy student apartment in Beijing and failed to raise $2 million in seed funding. 2 startups later, many of them just IPO'd their latest company Meituan which closed ~$50 Billion. Success requires persistence/pain tolerance.
Crypto and particularly NFT land feels a lot like the Internet felt 27 years ago when a few people had visions of it being huge someday, but 99% of it looked like garbage to most people and they thought it was a joke and ultimately useless.. shoulda bought AMZN in '97.
@sama
It is so mindbogglingly significant that it ups the chances in my mind we are living in a simulation. Like why am I alive just as this is happening, seems almost too coincidental.
Call me old fashioned but the Palo Alto area is what I still consider Silicon Valley and it is a pretty nice (albeit pricey) place to live. You don't have to move to Miami to escape SF. The boredom down here is actually a feature for startup productivity lol.
@TurnerNovak
In the early days of HOTorNOT, to ensure liquidity in our dating site, Jim and I had to personally take out to dinner every woman with a score above a 9.5.
Do things that don't scale.
I took an FSD ride today for the first time with my friend Georges. I held off buying the upgrade even when they gave a grace period before raising the price from $3k to $6k because as a rule, I never buy vaporware.. I'd rather pay more once I feel it works.
I'm buying today.
@blader
Great to see an update on the quality they are able to decode given processing power today. This research was originally done by Nishimoto out of Jack Gallant's lab at Berkeley.
That is 8 days from now. HOTorNOT went from idea to profitable website in eight days. Within another eight days we broke 1 million pageviews per day. We named the company "Eight Days, Inc." to communicate things can be achieved quickly. This is a reasonable demand from
@elonmusk
Sources: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue into a $19.99 subscription that verifies users; staff are told they will be fired if they don't build it by Nov. 7 (
@alexeheath
/ The Verge)
What does this tell us? That whatever
@sama
did, at least one insider stands by him. Which probably means it is a lot less likely he did anything unethical, and it's probably more a disagreement with the board. My guess is about positioning wrt safety / regulation issues.
@paulg
That's what I use it for too. It's like having a teacher that knows absolutely everything, is great at teaching, and is not annoyed by my 1,000 follow up questions that it might think are stupid.
@sudha_lakshmi
@garrytan
Because most VCs are actually bad at picking really huge winners at seed stage. The *best companies" that people fight over are rarely the big winners. People thought Google was a crazy deal to do. FB too. YouTube. Airbnb. Twitter. Amazon. People did not fight over these deals.
I don't think people who weren't in tech in the late 90s fully appreciate how amazing the early Google team was and how much their radical-at-the-time ideas are now the norm.
Was just chatting with someone about Tony and started to write a sad emoji. Smiling emoji with cowboy hat popped up as a suggestion on my keyboard. Im interpreting that as Tony telling us all to cheer up. ๐ค It just needs a mohawk ๐
Do people who think Twitter is horrible for having bedrooms for employees also think hospitals are horrible for having on-call rooms for doctors to sleep in?
@MikeIsaac
His answer is the right one, tbh. Admitting you don't know something when you actually don't know is a strength, not a weakness. A lot of entrepreneurs fail at things because they can't do that.
@paulg
One thing I love to do is ask it to explain the same thing to me like I am 5, 15, an undergrad, and a PhD. It is particularly good at moderating complexity of answer and it's useful to learn something first in a simple manner.
I can't tweet about Tony anymore, it's cathartic but also too painful at the same time. Tony, you were brilliant and just the best human being. You were and will always be loved and remembered by all of us. I will miss you dearly. </tony>
My math teachers in high school hated me because I was disruptive in class, talking to others and goofing around. It's because I was good at math and bored. If I hadn't been in the accelerated track I would have been even more bored and even more disruptive for sure.
In the name of โequityโ, California DOEโs 2021 Mathematics Framework attacks the idea of gifted students and eliminates opportunities for accelerated math.
- no grouping students by ability
- no Algebra for 8th graders
- no Calculus for high schoolers
@arampell
@Suhail
Most western exercise routines are optimized for strength/speed/endurance, not for longevity. The societies that live the longest don't actually weight train or run marathons, they mostly just walk a lot. And eat healthy foods (but not too much of it)
@garrytan
Correction: "every record has been adjusted..".
Destroy implies violence which is not ok. You should know this, didn't you learn anything at the Farm? ;)
I had no idea Tony won the ACM International programming contest world finals back in 1993 when he was a sophomore, along with Craig Silverstein of Google fame. I mean I knew he was super smart, but come on. ht
@jenny8lee
@Purswell14
@wesyang
There is no mathematically correct answer to this question, this question is about risk preference. Expected value presumes the utility of all dollars is the same, but for many it is not, $1,000 is worth a lot more to someone with $0 than to someone with $999,000
@justinkan
I pretty much did the same a long time ago, for similar reasons. The most bizarre thing is you will find a few people not happy about it that will try to get you to drink with them... I think because your quitting means they have to face their own alcoholism. It's weird.
@sudha_lakshmi
@garrytan
History is very different when you weren't there. Yes people generally thought all these deals were nuts. Google was the 20th search engine, Sean spotted fb not Peter and both are good pickers with zero venture cred at the time, and accel round seen as crazy price by everyone
@heychriscurtis
@DavidSacks
Definitely true, if we count the time she looked through the swag, went to the cafeteria for vegan panna cotta, and weny to the place to do a face mask as "working time" lol
@paulg
@Aazarshad
I don't think Paul is saying hire nobody. Just do it as smartly/efficiently as possible. Be cheap is just another way of saying don't waste money. Spend the money like it's your own. Don't spend it just because you have it.
@sama
Valuable lesson in life: you don't get credit for stuff you don't productize and ship. As a famous movie once said, "if you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook"
Despite experienced folks screaming armageddon from the rooftops, it feels like some people are in denial about being true. If you weren't in tech in the dotcom era, try to imagine the absolute worst scenario environment you can, and then trust us.. it can be 10x worse.
Startups with high growth & moderate burn will get funded through the downturn.
Startups with moderate growth & high burn will not get funded through the downturn.
I've been driving with FSD a lot lately in fact this past week I took it down the 17 to Santa Cruz and back. Let's say I personally drive with an error-free rate of 95% and FSD drives at 80%. You could let it drive and not pay attention, and yes it would be an 80% drive. But I
At least 50% of the business advice I give to people ends up with me making an analogy to sex and dating. Not sure if that is because it's true or because it's just more fun. The analogies are accurate though and it's definitely more fun.
@devahaz
@Duderichy
Different people have different goals especially as a function of age. I benched 305 as a teen but now I just workout to maintain a much lower level of core strength and I don't seek to progress upwards in weight. Going hard at my age is just begging for injury.
One of the things I have come to terms with over the last 20 years is the understanding that almost every huge missed opportunity I've had is my own fault. It's easy to blame circumstances/others, but ultimately the blame boils down to me. But also, it's ok to make mistakes.
@Basti
@paulg
@elonmusk
For a lot of people, it ends up basically being that 10 min window or never! Their email boxes are basically like twitter feeds, neverending and continuously fed new content
@elonmusk
@Tesmanian_com
I don't get the overreaction to the bankruptcy comment. "If we don't pull shit off then we might go bankrupt". That's literally every startup in the world taking meaningful risks. Sending a reminder to employees that they are still a startup is not a signal of anything new.
I'm not sure I am a believer it can happen, but just want to point out that if it is true tech entrepreneurship can expand outside the bay area at the level of success found in silicon valley, that is a fantastic thing to happen for the health of our nation. I'm rooting for it.
For people who don't get NFTs, ask yourself why some people pay $1000 for a $100 bottle of alcohol at a club, or why you might spend $300 on jeans instead of buying a pair from Costco made in the same factory just with a different label. Signaling is the product.
Piece of advice I just gave someone that I learned 20 years ago.. if you really want your immigrant parents to be proud of you, get press in their native country where their friends will see it. There's no higher parental currency than the friend brag that comes to them.
Downturns are the best time to start something if you can live on savings. Eat ramen and drive towards profits as hard you can. Less noise/competition, recruiting easier, costs way lower. You won't be told to scale in unnatural ways that create bloat. Now is the time.
@harjanbrand
Name something that got popular and sustained in silicon valley first that did not carry over to the general public. The point is not that all things get big, it's that silicon valley is not as weird as people think, it is just earlier adopter.
This practice isn't only useful to help engineering understand what problems their users (the drivers) have, it's useful to root out the people who think they are above understanding their users. They should pair this policy with Tony Hsieh's idea of bribing people to quit.
DoorDash, the food delivery app based out of San Francisco, is requiring all its nondelivery employees, including CEO Tony Xu, to do a โdashโ once a month โ and some employees are seemingly furious.
I have some really old embarrassing pics of
@mlevchin
that I've saved for occasions such as these, but I'm going to hold back. Today seems like a good day to put his pic up on though (those who know, know!). Really proud of you Max.
@xtinacomputes
Just do what you want to do with your time. Provided you will be able to afford a roof over your head and have food on the table no matter what path you pick, choosing how you spend your finite time is the only decision that matters.
@psyto
I think people underestimate Bram's motivation to just want to help build the future. Most people in crypto just want to pump their own positions, but I think bram is genuinely more motivated to contribute tech that he thinks helps move the world forward
Society totally undervalues the benefits of proper ventilation indoors. Not just for covid but also for general alertness and cognitive function. Companies and schools should be piping in fresh air, it's probably the cheapest way to get a healthy boost in productivity.