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They can respond by not caring about glassdoor scores.

How do I sign-up? What is the cost?

Glad to see ancient Iranian culture featured here. People in the west have a lot of misconceptions about Iran. Persian culture is thousands of years old.

I bought into Bari Weiss' theory and the narrative she is making a lot of money from the substack and alternate journalism. I started consuming a lot of substack content; after a few months, I realized most of the substack content I got recommended were people ranting about social change happening in America. It is interesting to read for a few weeks. After a while, you will get tired of that narrative.

Today I saw a substack article on HN's top list from Jonathan Haidt, another guy in the same political spectrum complaining about social media and societal change.

My impression of substack is that, it is the platform of the disgruntled. Substack is a niche player, and never will be mainstream.

I know in Twitter everyone is inflammatory, however a CEO should exercise restraint and show leadership, and hold judgement until facts are clear, in this case he clearly failed.

I concur! He should apologize.

I am not saying PG is Shakespeare, PG is good in his field of writing, i.e. giving random(but useful) advice to wannabe founders who listen.

I didn't go to YC. My impression of YC is from news articles and hacker news. I believe that YC is good only if it helps you raise money.

Their advice is not worth it because advice is free on YouTube. Let's take PG; he often gives a lot of general and specific advice; he is a great writer and a fascinating mind. I enjoy reading his articles; they are outstanding, but they aren't any different from the many YouTubers giving advice. Unless you get personal time with YC staff, their services are not unique.

Do you need to be Peter Mckinnon’s apprentice to learn photography? No, likewise you don’t need YC.

yes, they want people to be in office during the core hours.

The article is too long. Is the headline a clickbait or is Stanford doing something against its own students?

Maybe his ego got hurt at Meta. Why would you publicly bash your previous employer. Isn’t staying quiet the right thing to do?

Startup probably worked on Carmack’s request because they were afraid he will post a negative review or give negative review about the startup to his friends. A startup can’t afford to piss off a person like John Carmack, they might go out of business, because it might impact their ability to get new customers and raise capital.

Meta on other hand could care less about John Carmack’s opinion as it has no impact to their business. In short John Carmack’s opinion was ignored it had no impact for a large company.

The mistake John Carmack is making is that he thinks his views are special, they are not.