How to ragebait a VC
- Which podcast gave you that opinion?
- How would you add value if you found a way to be valuable?
- You look like you make all of the 2 but none of the 20.
- Sorry, we aren't raising from you right now.
- Which AI model did you use to vibe code your firm's website?
- What startup role would you take if they'd have you?
The Greeks of Ancient Gujarat
One of the things we dont talk about enough is how many ancient Greeks lived in the Mauryan Empire, the first Buddhist Empire in history, and thus played a crucial role in the spread of Buddhism.
This is metrics creating a self-fulfilling anxiety disorder.
When you outsource your perception of readiness to a metric, your brain and body go where the metric demands.
It creates fragility. Actual athletes know to use it as information and when to throw the watch away.
Worth noting that top endurance athletes (e.g. Ironman competitors) training ~20 hours per week in their 70's will have the same VO2max as a typical 20-29 yo in their "peak performance" years.
Frailty is a choice.
A reminder.
As with food, we spent most of our history deprived of information and craving it; now we have way too much of it to function and manage its entropy and toxicity.
This.
People telling me Kubernetes is “overengineered” and “you don’t need it unless you’re a FAANG” are telling me they don’t have basic understanding of ops challenges. And if they say “just use Docker Compose in production,” well, that’s a fire-or-don’t-hire offense.