Starting a small company doing a niche product, while easier said than done, provides significant benefits in recapturing your own time.
When the baby won’t let you sleep you can have productive time without it feeling forced, you can take days off when needed, take naps in the middle of the day, etc.
It’s a different kind of stress that can feel healthier.
I have set extremely clear boundaries on my time and enforced them religiously. This has caused massive problems, including potentially destroying my company. I have simply accepted those problems as the cost of reading my son bedtime stories.
The overtime culture in startups is toxic, because efficient output is u-shaped over time: if you work too hard your productivity goes down. It requires very mature self reflection to know that slowing down will actually speed up the work.
Cory Doctorow has pointed out [0] that binding arbitration clauses leave companies open to legal DDOS “mass arbitration” attacks that end up being very pro-customer.
We were W22. It was a HUGE batch and we were raising at a large valuation, during the boom, so the YC standard deal didn't make financial sense for us.
IIRC as soon as we signed the deal they would have 10x'd.
Overall, I think not signing was a mistake. But YC is very expensive.
Yesterday the NYSE had a technical issue in its price bounds checking system that caused it to revert approx. 4,341 trades in 251 symbols. The root cause was determined to be a manual error involving the Exchange’s Disaster Recovery configuration at system start of day.
Bigger problem is the thousands of companies altering atmospheric chemistry with greenhouse gasses, not one tiny company trying to counteract them with sulfur.
Christmas is celebrated as Christ’s birthday because 8 days later is New Year’s. This was set so that each year starts with a spiritual circumcision to consecrate it in Jewish law, and to “embrace and extend” existing pagan festivals. Source: Butler’s Lives of Saints, summarizing the commentaries of the Church Fathers.
RTFA - it's about using tokens to research saving tokens.