stevenj

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by stevenj 9mo ago
>And the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, near where the MIT professor was killed, ended its contract with Flock earlier this month, following community privacy concerns. Found this bit particularly interesting.
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Tech firm that helped police find the Brown suspect sparks privacy concerns(cnn.com)
4 points by stevenj 9mo ago|2 comments
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by stevenj 2y ago
Your comment made me lol. And it’s very rare for that to happen to me via reading text. And I needed it today. So I just wanted to tell you thank you and I hope you have a good day.
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by stevenj 5y ago
Are you gonna buy a lambo?
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by stevenj 5y ago
I think it's still a fairly new phenomenon where white collar work often consists of sitting in front of a computer monitor all day. Not for leisure, but for work (something you possibly don't want to be doing to begin with). For
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Tony Hsieh bankrolled his followers, who enabled his risky lifestyle(wsj.com)
109 points by stevenj 5y ago|81 comments
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by stevenj 6y ago
Las Vegas Review-Journal says he “died Friday after being injured in a house fire.” https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tony-hsieh-key-figure...
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by stevenj 6y ago
I really appreciated this piece, Jessica. Primarily because of its focus. I've heard many of the points in it before, but the fact you narrowed it down to these three and then included practical and specific commentary (based on your d
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by stevenj 6y ago
I don't live in Whitefish (nor Montana), but I love it - it's such a cool town! What do you think about Bigfork as a place for future investment/growth?
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by stevenj 6y ago
Spend less time looking at a screen. Spend more time outside and/or around people I enjoy. (Note: I'm more extroverted than introverted.)
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A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients(seattletimes.com)
8 points by stevenj 6y ago|1 comments
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by stevenj 9y ago
Lol, thanks for the laugh. Merry Christmas.
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Interesting Comment by Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan
4 points by stevenj 9y ago|3 comments
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by stevenj 9y ago
I think the Winklevoss twins were rightly ridiculed for thinking they invented Facebook. However, they've made two prescient bets and deserve credit for those: (1) Getting Facebook stock instead of cash as part of their legal settlemen
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by stevenj 9y ago
I may get downvoted for saying this but, anecdotally, people today seem way more sensitive and emotional about other people's viewpoints and actions, especially when they disagree with them. Growing up, it was much easier to have conve
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Aristotle’s Timeless Advice on What Real Friendship Is and Why It Matters(medium.com)
11 points by stevenj 9y ago|0 comments
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by stevenj 9y ago
VC is a very tough business.
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by stevenj 9y ago
Same with Zuck.
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by stevenj 9y ago
I've long believed that you should be most critical of things you believe in the greatest.
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by stevenj 9y ago
I think you meant a "B" for the Lyft/Uber valuations. :)
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Jim Simons, the Numbers King(newyorker.com)
1 points by stevenj 9y ago|0 comments
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by stevenj 9y ago
If your goal is to build a company, I think you should focus on the following: 1. Find a problem that you (or someone you know very well) have. 2. Look at the existing solutions to the problem and evaluate not only if you can build a better
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by stevenj 9y ago
You have to pay taxes on any income you earn whether it's through trading bitcoin, selling drugs, or working at Google.
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by stevenj 9y ago
There are other options out there besides deciding between SV and the flyover states, such as Portland, Oregon or Austin, Texas.
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by stevenj 9y ago
I think angel investors are different than venture capitalists. The former typically make small investments, starting anywhere in the low five figures, up to seven figures, but more commonly capping out in the low to mid six figures and rec
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by stevenj 9y ago
I have a hard time believing that the majority of people making 400k+ at either Google or Facebook would consider their work/life situation a type of hell. I understand why some people don't want to work for those companies or in
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by stevenj 9y ago
>It's depressing that the majority of good programmers in the bay area are obsessed with the compensation package. I think many people across a lot of industries are primarily concerned with their compensation packages when evaluati
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by stevenj 9y ago
Everything I've ever learned about venture capital is centered around the notion that in order for the economics to work, you have to invest in big winners (companies that exit at valuations of hundreds of millions to billions of dolla
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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Sports-Betting Ban(wsj.com)
2 points by stevenj 9y ago|0 comments
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by stevenj 9y ago
Off-topic: a somewhat unknown fact about Stripe is that it started as /dev/payments. Its former CTO explained how /dev/payments became Stripe: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name

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