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Raising capital for my pre-incorporation startup. Seeking early-stage investors who back pre-MVP, pre-revenue ventures. DM me if you invest at day zero.

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One useful trick for judging different kinds of work is to look at who your colleagues will be. You'll become like whoever you work with. Do you want to become like these people?

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In a world where some people like to write enterprise software and others like to make studio pottery, economic inequality is the natural outcome.

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it's a mistake to assume that economic inequality must be evidence of some kind of brokenness or unfairness. It's obvious that different people have different interests, and that some interests yield far more money than others

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trying to express what you understand is not just a way to prove that you understand it, but a way to understand it better.

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Difficulty choosing between interests is a different matter. That's not always due to ignorance. It's often intrinsically difficult. I still have trouble doing it.

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The most impressive thing humans can do is to think. It may be the most impressive thing that can be done. And the best kind of thinking, or more precisely the best proof that one has thought well, is to make good new things.

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Archimedes knew that he was the first to prove that a sphere has 2/3 the volume of the smallest enclosing cylinder and was very pleased about it.

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The other reason I wouldn't want to define any thresholds is that we don't need them. The kind of people who make good new things don't need rules to keep them honest.

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people who are driven mainly by money will often claim to be more interested in their work than they actually are

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ideas are tree-shaped and essays are linear.

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Speed is a brand signal.

Slow replies = you don’t care.
Fast replies = you’re alive.

Slow shipping = dead.
Fast iterations = trusted.

In the brand age, responsiveness = respect.

Move fast.

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The Bretton Woods agreement didn't fix exchange rates between currencies directly. It fixed each relative to gold. Obviously this also fixed them relative to one another.

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You can deduct some state tax from your federal income taxes, but there's a cap on how much you can deduct, which means in the marginal case we simply add the two rates.

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"Entrepreneurship" simply means starting one's own business, and startups are a microscopically small subset of that world in which the rules are completely different. So conflating the two is asking for trouble.

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The best way to change the world is to start a startup company

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Would you use AI agent?

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Launch a startup company and the best way is to incorporate at Delaware as C-Corporation .

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Start a Startup company

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CS is an interesting subject in its own right and also a great way to understand problem solving in general. if you have AIs writing all your code for you, you're still in the position of an engineering manager, and engineering managers do the work of those working for them

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Should students still study computer science if AIs will write most code?