I applied to Y Combinator at least 10 times over the course of many years as I tried to find myself as a founder.
A Stanford MBA, with a side of $250k student loan please 🙈🙉🙊
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The marriage with my ex-wife working out.
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Mostly material things... on the top of my head right now, a car.
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gov ID, passport, birth certificate - are useless things that you are forced to accept them. When you are young or a baby you have no idea what is all about. Only later you realized that are totally useless and represent your total slavery.
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As kids we are more free because government normally does not require us to have those when we go out to have fun.
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There are quite a few start-up companies in my line of work that I have been tempted to work for, but later turned out to be complete shitshows.
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Ive found that out the hard way before
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Absolutely.
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Success and fame as a young person in my twenties.
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105 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 8 Oct 2023
I applied to SAP for a "dual curriculum" before I enrolled for a normal bachelor's degree at a university. We call it "Duales Studium" and it's when you go to university for 3 months and then work in the company for 3 months and so on. You basically are able to get a university degree while getting paid.
I got rejected because I didn't seem interested enough during my 2 days internship a few weeks before. We were mostly just shown around and had some small workshops about social skills and ABAP programming.
I guess I didn't ask enough questions or stand out enough. I also wasn't aware that doing an internship for 2 days at a place can actually be used against you, lol. Kinda obvious in hindsight though.
Very happy that I didn't go down this path. I think I mostly applied because of the status / CV aspect (and I didn't know any better). Being able to get into SAP is similar to how some people want to get into FAANG - so they can mention it in their CVs, lol. And now I know that I don't like big companies. The company I worked for before was already too big for me even though it was still a quite small company. It grew a lot during the 3 years I was there.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 Oct 2023
I hope I never have to send an CV ever again
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Having FOMO for many shitcoins I never acquired
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Going through my twenties without any children
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I applied to Y Combinator at least 10 times over the course of many years ...
At least in US there's such thing like YComb. In Brazil the best you can find are those shitty accelerators that offer 5k for 60% of your startup IF you're profitable already, what totally dismisses the point of being "accelerated", which means nothing in practice once you need the business skills to get help at, business skills.
But yeah, I wanted that too, at some extent =)
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All but a few accelerators offer real acceleration. The next best class of accelerators don't accelerate but appear to give what mostly amounts to money at an artificially low cap and emotional support. Then the remaining are outright scams. 60% is criminal!
There's an "accelerator" in Austin that takes 1% in return for $0, a hot desk, classes, and a mentor network. They also have a "partner vc fund" which solicits investment from retail that has a 50% management fee and a 50% performance fee when the industry standard is 2% and 20% respectively.
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It's really interesting to hear about these scams in other places. They're a bit different, but the core is much the same. Not to say that if you read a little about some mentors, there's no sign that any of them were entrepreneurs before, not in the strict sense of the word.
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if you read a little about some mentors, there's no sign that any of them were entrepreneurs before, not in the strict sense of the word.
You're right this is a huge red flag imo
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 8 Oct 2023
Running professionally
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Why you're happy that you didn't pursue it? Not because it would have been bad, but because your current life is probably more interesting?
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Life outside running is definitely more interesting, and positive-sum too!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 8 Oct 2023
To make it as a professional athlete use to want it so bad but where I'm at now in life I wouldn't change Any of it
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @fred 8 Oct 2023
There was a girl I wanted to date, glad I didn't go down that rabbit hole
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I dated a girl once, later her dad was convicted of murder. Glad I didn't go down that rabbit hole.
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A windows netbook. I'm glad I waited for when tablets came out.
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become a civil servant
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I used to want to hodl more Ethereum but I'm I prefer Bitcoin
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An academic career as university professor, glad it never happened academia is so political and rotten to the core
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Why are you glad it never happened?
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I'm sure there's some cognitive bias at play (lol is there a "seeking gratitude" bias?) - and I certainly wasn't glad it never happened when I wanted it to happen - but it forced me to be resourceful and learn some things a harder way.
The hard way of learning things tends to have side lessons that aren't easily taught. You get ahead slower but you can end up with more tools.
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Of the named biases, maybe it is a form of a status quo or loss aversion bias. I'm surprised there isn't a named bias for often faulty reappraisals.
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There was a time when working at google was a huge status thing (a pretty reliable marker for being good and paid well) ... still is but vanishing.
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I saw the original. Our deletes are truly permanent. We do not store what has been deleted or what something was before it was edited.
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one day I must verify this though, still on my todo to clone your repo and poke around, but fml too much other stuff to deal with at the moment, lol :)
Relevant lines where you can see we overwrite the item content. But don't trust us, verify for yourself. I actually prefer when people don't trust us. :)
But sometimes I wonder if being OSS is actually enough. How can we proof that this is actually the code that is running in the backend?
To be honest, it's one NFT I saw on Twitter, each time there's giveaway on that NFT but never won at all. It's very painful.
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