By Larry Chiang
My bad! I made fun of Paul Graham’s Lec 3; #cs183b. The title was “Do things that don’t scale”. The class was HTSAS. If you’re not familiar with that stanford engineering class on entrepreneurship, you should probably leave.
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In hi lecture he never says anything about Do things that don’t scale.
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Paul Graham (@paulg) |
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“Some of the most useful things I’ve learned about startups are also things I’d never share publicly.” foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-s…
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Paul Graham (@paulg) |
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Jessica told me this was the 4th post she’s written about why she’s reluctant to speak out online. The first 3 she didn’t publish.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Believe PG! Dishing #cs183creditScore unfiltered advice has left me with hoards of remorse twitter.com/paulg/status/8…
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I’m Chinese. I know what “sound of silence” is all about. A lot of advice has a risk. So when PG skips out advice centered around Do things that don’t scale, I get it.
So when I am about to get great advice, I mitigate all my potential mentor’s risk by
1/ reading what my potential mentor wrote
2/ guessing at their advice based on extrapolations of interviews
3/ pulling out feedback
4/ doing time distortion NLP trick to get a potential mentor to risk “knowledge transfer”
So maybe read PG’s essay Do things that don’t scale and then email him for a meeting about Doing things that don’t scale
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