octopod12
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the cycle repeats, in every tech transition, there is a bandwagon, and herd mentality amongst VCs and young tech-bros. which involves FOMO and me-too cloning. in the sharing economy it was AirBnB for X, Uber for Y etc.…
A turing machine is fixed pipeline too. if you define the "pipeline" as its finite set of symbols and states. and I agree that a folksy sounding title usually hides fuzzy thinking. but the interesting point made is…
there is a culture of "gaming" that is in fact promoted by YC. one of the questions they had was to show an instance where the founders "hacked" or "gamed" a system. ie, game the test, game the admission, game…
Here is my theory. 1) management types who have never coded love the idea that coders can be replaced or minimized by said tooling. hence hey fund any and all projects. 2) coders excited by llms reach out to the nearest…
the founders were status-signaling on twitter. it is clear they are in it for the "status" of being YC. and they dont care a whit about solving anybody's problem. they do this for a while, get it on the resume and go…
The founders showed hustle, as every founder must. nothing wrong with that in my book. But they need adult-guidance on communication. You dont go around twitter boasting about your 270K job etc. They need to show grown…
wont your strategies incur short-term cap gains ? so, they will have to outperform the S&P 500 index to account for it. great start, and good luck.
premium brands like coach, rolex thrive on exclusivity. same with the premier institutions. they want to keep their brand allure so someone can boast that they are from stanford, or that they own a rolex. If every tom…
fair, but is there are too many such courses, the exclusivity of the brand dilutes.
The same can be said of Stanford which charges ridiculous amounts for "certification" courses. Basically cashing in on the institutions reputation and student's hunger to get the institution's stamp on their resumes.…
the title can be restated as "outcomes are produced by incentives" and applies to anything including: college admissions, climbing the corporate ladder etc. any system is gamed by its participants, and so, the system…