tylertringas

Actually the question was about broadly how to learn things quickly.

Always appreciate these thoughtful critiques on HN :)

> I would have included a sauté pan

Yep. It's the first recommendation on the list! Though I typo'd (fixed now) as sauce pan.

> Follow the recipe, then don't follow it. Yes! At first I found it super helpful be ultra-precise: read the recipe twice, use a digital thermometer exactly, measure everything, etc. Then you learn what "good" is by tasting, then you can start improvising and substituting. True of how to learn a lot of things I think

Agree that's the true minimum viable set, and you can cook a lot of things with just that. But I think if a novice cook was trying to work through the cookbooks I recommended, they would find it frustrating not to have some of the other stuff I recommend. My "minimum viable" is sort of "your lack of X won't be a substantially annoying obstacle from completing most of the recipes in these essential books"

Agreed! But, I think very novice cooks should rigorously follow recipes, learn what a good result is across a wide variety of dishes, then learn how to substitute things or change up recipes. Or rather that's what worked for me.

Good catch! I just typo'd and used convection twice.

Hi folks, Tyler here from Earnest Capital. I'll be leading one of these Mastermind Sprints and happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions here.

Basically like a lot of folks we've been looking for ways to increase our motivation and stay productive during gestures at everything

Mastermind are great for collective accountability and learning from peers, but my experience has been that they are often too unstructured and open-ended. So we've created a more structured, focused, time-boxed, and mentor-facilitated version. We beta tested it over the Summer and founders loved it so we're opening it up to broader applications.

Focused on bootstrapper type founders/businesses though we're open-minded about that.

the untold secret of bootstrapping to date is that is has often been done from positions of privilege: family money, savings from a very high paying career, spouse's salary, inheritance. Very hard to make broad generalizations since the companies are often privately held and under the radar (so no statistically significant data) but my experience is that the case far more often than you would think.

On the other side, I see many many founders essentially twist their business plan into something VCs want to see because accelerators/VCs are the only source of capital for early stage tech companies.

Funds like Earnest trying to change that.