Start-up life = hard won insights. Here are my top 10 for this year.
1. Doing well at a start-up is not simply about skill, it is about mentality.
A start-up mentality values action over correctness, results over process. It suits those that value autonomy over clarity.
It seems that no one understands the PE shop playbook on display with @elonmusk and Twitter. This is all pretty standard, minus the public nature of it all and the fact that he got locked in to a high purchase price.
But the rest, the rest is textbook if you strip away the weird
@benblumenrose I have extensive experience doing exactly that – acting as a tactical, temp product designer for clients who need to execute on a specific vision, without bringing someone on full time. Way faster and more economical for everyone involved. Would love to connect.
Update: we now have 951 donors to the Data Science Curriculum pledge drive.🚀
One donor today left a note: "Last year was rough. I lost my job due to the pandemic. But I just started a new developer job last week. Thank you to the community."
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Indiana is the most polluted state in America. This isn’t hyperbole – just look at the US Toxic Release Inventory. *We’re number one, we’re number one!* A thread to vent some of my frustration at the Republican supermajority in the Indiana General Assembly. <rant>(1/16)
@Shindawg_ As one of those “true taxpayers” of Carmel, I’m happy to confirm it’s not just the “transient apartment dwellers” who are “diluting your voice”, James... and I’m glad I live in a country where people can vote, whether they own property or not.
To be clear, that’s not a hyperbole. I have elderly relatives who were told they didn’t qualify for a bed yet, got sent home on oxygen tanks, and told they’d only be admitted if they were incapacitated. Our hospitals are overrun. Stay home.
The nation's largest, longest surge of Covid-19 hospitalizations set another record Wednesday, as the number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals surpassed 100,000 https://t.co/ULPMQG5NBk