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I ask the fundamental question of rationality: why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy. In a startup, you’re not just trying to solve problems. You’re trying to solve problems that users care about. So I think you should make users the test, just as acquirers do. Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users. As anyone who has tried to optimize software knows, the key is measurement. When you try to guess where your program is slow, and what would make it faster, you almost always guess wrong.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
A formidable person is one who seems like they'll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. Formidable is close to confident, except that someone could be confident and mistaken. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident.
How to Convince Investors
Paul Graham
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