Paul Bakhmut

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Vancouver is wild because

you could open up a crack booth on street corner and sell drugs

but the cops will evict you from the beach the EXACT minute the sun disappears over the horizon

because the stairs are too dark.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@sridharfyi

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

A @ycombinator startup built an MRI machine in 101 days. In Canada, it can take longer than that just to get an MRI.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There's a startup in the current YC batch that built an MRI machine in 101 days.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@Robert_JR__ @sweetdizzydee so people aren’t free to watch sunset because the beach was started by the hippies from the 60s? not sure I’m following the logic here

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@PhilipJohnston lmao

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@SolaTheAnalyst In Ukraine it’s 3 years.

[Arjun @neuralunlock]

Increasingly convinced the main reason startup talent gets worse over time is founders getting further and further from the hiring process. 

Initially, founders are spending a majority of their time hiring, and meeting every single person that comes through the door. They set the culture and have the highest bar for quality.

Eventually, this becomes a sign-off before a hire. But the worst is when the founder doesn’t even know who is entering the company. 

Imo the founder should be signing off on every hire until 500+ employees, even if they don’t meet them directly.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@Robert_JR__ @sweetdizzydee What’s so special about it?

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@itootill @jasonjamesbnn Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to watch the sunset though? 😅

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@tiawewee @jasonjamesbnn I was in Vancouver last month. I noticed that every beach had a curfew. Are they all considered dangerous and isolated? 🤔

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Providing one's pronouns is extremely, universally dumb and will be seen by future generations as a uniquely dumb marker of a very dumb age. But the dumbest permutation by far is the triplet "she/her/hers," where it's specified that the person has the same gender for both possessive determiners and possessive pronouns.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@TonyWar77 @jasonjamesbnn Canadians are afraid of the dark

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@ElviraHaycraft what’s the reason?

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@jasonjamesbnn The norm in Vancouver:

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@Tablesalt13 The Canadian Rule Paradox:

The less a rule matters, the more seriously it will be enforced.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

The Canadian Rule Paradox:

The less a rule matters, the more seriously it will be enforced.

[David Icke @davidicke]

The level of control is getting insane. 8 billion people controlled down to fine detail by a relative handful because they allow themselves to be divided and thus ruled. Tragic.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@tatarianempire @RWApodcast because it is

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

Most ultra successful people have a very low need for social approval, although society tends to label this incorrectly as a red flag.

The average person is terrified of looking like a fool or bothering people. I’ve met CEOs that will send ten follow-up emails to a dream hire or pitch their idea to a stranger in an elevator without a second thought. This personality type means they can bypass the politeness instinct that slows down everyone else’s career.

Hesitation to ask for help or feedback is a common bottleneck in most professions; someone who isn't slowed by the fear of being annoying can squeeze a year’s worth of progress into a week.

There are very few things in life that shameless persistence won’t give you.

[Paul Bakhmut @PBakhmut]

@pierreeliottlal And what did you need YC for? 😅