If you want someone on your team, give them what they’re worth. Don’t base it on what you think you’re worth, but rather on what you think they are worth to you
If you think he’s overvaluing himself, showing him the door is the best way to communicate that
To be honest, I don't need a co-founder (I feel). I can bootstrap the 2nd launch, the main reason is incubators and VC's don't take solo founders, and so to be able to strategically make use of that, I wanted a cofounder.
Oh no! I’d been noticing an unusual amount of em dash discussion recently, but hadn’t investigated why. In college my professors would accuse me of plagiarizing my essays because I wrote so much more competently than I spoke. Now I’m going to be accused of employing AI for one of the few practices I find too enjoyable ever to source to an LLM. Oh well.
I had a similar experience here on HN. One of my blog posts recently made it to the front page, and I ended up getting brigaded. I had to add a dozen AI-use disclaimers around the blog, not even the piece itself. It was surreal.
I get the anxiety about authenticity, but sometimes the witch-hunt feels more automaton-like than the tools themselves. For what it's worth, I've written publicly about my process ––how I use AI as scaffolding, not ghostwriting–– in my standing note on AI use.
The discomfort around augmented intelligence is fascinating + telling. I sometimes wonder if the same people browse HN on typewriters or pray for the next X-class solar flare so we can all return to rock carving.
The article mentions that Apple paused the show due to geopolitical tensions and its own interests in the region (selling phones to middle eastern customers). Similar reasons to why they cancelled Jon Stewart’s show (which is also mentioned by the article). Slow horses doesn’t really have the same sensitivity - it’s a comedy, which gives it some cover.
Slow Horses is a comedy?! It has some humorous dialogue at times, but ultimately it’s a (rather violent and tense) political drama. Lighthearted and silly, it is not.
If children are sponges when it comes to learning why do we wait until high school to let them learn eg calculus? And why censor anything from them? Seems like MORE exposure to ideas is better than less. The kids’ll sort out the truth for themselves when they inherit the earth.
I never had strong feelings between microservice architecture and monoliths. It was always monorepos that bothered me, and their tendency towards brittle, highly-coupled, incestuous code.
Just the opposite. The good dates I’ve had are treasured memories, but the bad dates taught me about who I am. I wish I’d dated less selectively while I was in the dating pool, to achieve more self awareness.
If you think he’s overvaluing himself, showing him the door is the best way to communicate that
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