Sam_Odio
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Comment · 1 year ago
I thought the same (“corporate junk”) early in my career... then I had to start getting dozens/hundreds of people to execute in a coordinated fashion against a defensible plan...
Comment · 1 year ago
Interesting - these have exactly the design polish I'd expect from working at FB, Twitter, DBX, etc... From what I've seen most of the people I've worked with at those companies care more about the quality of my thinking than the polish of my docs.
Paul - great work. Was thinking of doing the same. I'd love to collaborate on some sort of shared resource/repo of docs like these (github?) and contribute a few of my own.
Comment · 1 year ago
Related:
Why Britain doesn’t build (worksinprogress.co) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477481
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Wonder if CRV is reacting to the same underlying trends causing Warren Buffet to sell stock (e.g., Cape / Shiller PE ratio is close to an all-time high)...
Comment · 2 years ago
> That particular right to flexible mistakes applies only to him.
Not true.
Source: worked for Zuck.
Comment · 3 years ago
Dropbox | Full-time | Remote North America
I work with Drew (the DBX CEO) on 0-1 bets at Dropbox. I'd love to chat with former founders/early employees passionate about project management, task management, calendaring, or the intersection of the above products with ML/AI. Send your LinkedIn to [email protected].
Comment · 4 years ago
This is an special problem for the uninsured that struggle with mental health.
A close friend struggled with bipolar. She was uninsured and making close to minimum wage…calls to suicide prevention hotlines resulted in thousands of dollars in new bills from ER visits and even involuntary psychiatric care.
She was struggling to pay rent. Being discharged in effectively the same condition as before but with new debt she wouldn’t be able to pay off for years…the medical bills for involuntary psychiatric care were their own special sort of crazy.
See https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.2...
Comment · 4 years ago
For those that believe Brad's take on Wikipedia's content isn't adding a fair amount of value...
Presumably, if Legiblenews takes off and doesn't add value, Wikimedia is free to compete with it. Wikimedia could form a for-profit company that donates more of user revenue to the foundation and feature that company on Wikipedia. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, Wikimedia effectively retains the option to copy & crush Brad's side-project. And if Legiblenews takes off Wikimedia does nothing at all...they will still almost certainly receive more $$$ than the current state of the world.
In that way, Wikimedia is outsourcing innovation to Brad, who Wikimedia is well-positioned to copy/compete with in the future, and being paid to do so. While Brad loses money.
I'm not 100% sure who is on which side of "fair," but ultimately if it complies with Wikimedia's license I'm good with it. And if you don't like it, why not start something better?
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