#Did Morri really say instead of being productive with new content they would just make a re-intro to this wip?

[metanoiamorii]

❛Maybe we are not meant to be, not yet. Maybe we’re stars, waiting to collide in another life.❜

♧ Title: Be Still My Foolish Heart [BSMFH]

♧ Status: Brainstorming & Drafting

♧ Point of View: Third

♧ Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama, Romance

♧ Warnings: Violence, War, Death of major and minor characters, nudity, past abuse, generational trauma, generational healing, racism, transphobia, homophobia, character corruption arcs, ethics vs morals, star crossed lovers, tragic endings, codependent and complicated relationships.

♧ Featuring: Diverse LGBTQ+ characters, enemies to friends to allies to lovers slowburn, complex and complicated characters, fantasy religions, plenty of symbolism, complex world building, ethics vs morals, a whole lot of moral grey can be fit into this bad boy, character redemption and corruption arcs, some found family, learning to separate one from their family's trouble and taking control of their life, soulmate trope, setting the groundwork for future generations.

♧ Setting: An Ancient Chinese inspired, fantasy setting

♧ Synopsis:

In Oidien there has always been a defined split against the Heavens and Ghost City. No one can remember what sparked the feud between them, it's possible after all these years of the fighting and endless war... they don't even remember themselves. They know it's tradition to keep fighting, to ensure the cycle of violence continues. So that is what they do; they keep fighting.

In recent years, the King of Ghost City has drawn back from the fields off battles and distants himself from politics. He leaves the affairs in his eldest children: Lianhauzi holds the crown, Lutaizi knows his way around the court, Suming’qiu is gifted with the army, and Taixuan is there to ensure everyone takes a break, to take care of her family.

A fight against children is how the Heavens view it... To their surprise, these children are more than gifted than their father. This isn't a game to them, it's a livelihood. They know how to secure a victory within minimum casualties, and they know how to balance one another's weakness.

The Heavens cannot take another loss. No matter how many battles they have lost, they have always managed to win this war. Each time. But on this account? They're afraid to admit they've been beat. So they come to a resolution: they have to take out one of the links. Take out one and the rest should crumble.

It's...

Not as easy as one would imagine. Or so their spies in court relay. The four know to keep their distance in public, and if they meet in private no one knows. They handpick their servants carefully, and they ensure each servant knows their tasks and do not overstep. They've taken every precaution necessary.

Even when it works, when one of their spies is welcomed inside that well guarded, hidden court... no one expects the game of cat and mouse to transpire. Their spy is humored until she's willing to change her allegiance and eventually is brought into the family by marriage... In the very least, she offers the weakest link to exploit to destroy the family.

♧ Tease

Of all I have done,

Forgettable they to none;

Has it now begun?

No, not forgiveness.

That I would never ask for, love.

I wish, regret comes.

You know as I do,

Games I once played, have turned you,

A pretty face blue.

I made no mistake,

You know as I do, the stakes

Required; played.

Once, for you, my rule

To survive, I broke, for you;

That forsaken dual.

My conscious it haunts;

My sleep, in dreams it will taunts

And it brings your scorn.

Pour me a wine glass,

For my sanity to last

And my wrath? To trap.

For me, preform; dance

Distract me with your nice laugh

Until I collapse.

And leave, in silence,

See to it, quiet your lips

Of the truth won't slip.

Allow me my sleep,

Don't be cruel, do not slight, cheat

You ugly she-beast.

A single night, peace,

That is all I ask for, please...

Better, just leave.

I have discovered,

Regret? No, I now confessed

Not for you, coward.

♧ Excerpt:

Her booted feet pattered against the puddles of rain droplets as she hugged the umbrella close to her shoulder, protecting herself from the storm. In a hurry she rounded the corner, following after the image of a soaked cat that had caught her attention and ran before she could approach it properly. It had been the first time in awhile since she had taken to sprinting, to follow the cat. Around the corner Xihuli came, brought to an abrupt halt when she turned into another person, as insane as she was to be out in the midst of a storm.

Her umbrella clattered to the floor, dropped as she staggered back a pace. The bright red silk was out of place, spinning upon the rain soaked ground. She gained her footing, no longer staggering to place distance between them. Her head threw back, an angry look quick to find purchase upon her features. Having yet to reach for her umbrella, the rain begun to soak the bright red and white silks she wore, drenched and sticking to her figure. "Watch—"

Her protests are so abruptly cut off. She watches the man tilt back his own umbrella, dark as the stormy sky with red spider lilies imprinted upon the fabric; the hanging tassels brush against his form, parting to expose his face. A youthful face that should have been smiling, with those eyes— so red to match the spider lilies upon his umbrella— staring at her as if she were a lesser being. The umbrella sits back upon his shoulder, head tilted forward with his chin forward, a sign he was in fact superior to her.

"Don't you know better, Zhuque?" The tone he speaks in, it's unlike that rambunctious voice he's known for, full of laughter that becomes too obnoxious for the ears. How serious it is, no jest spoken, no room for his games. He stares her down, staring through the dangling tassels of his umbrella. And how unkind that look is, a look that's no better than a wolf staring at a lamb. "You should never be out so late."

The two men, another prince and his own dog. Wine and lilac gives him away, wearing the golden lotus crown in his hair. Face unfriendly, a natural scowl he had been born with. He stands beneath the umbrella held above his head, keeping him dry from the rain. Held by that fucking bastard, smug and vain, with the bones acting as hair pins. He's uncaring if he gets wet, of course he is. When he controls the ocean why would he care about a little storm?

Lianhauzi pulls back his hood as he now stands blocking the last exit, Lutaizi and An Huli keeping the woman pinned in. He takes a step forward, Xieyuan moves with him, holding the umbrella in place. When he steps forward they all watch Xihuli push herself back, struggling to press her back into the wall, able to stare in each direction where one was coming from. "The fear in your eyes betray you... You know why we are here."

♧ Characters:

Love Interests

Shenguai Suming’qiu; Heizhao-jun

Amab • Agender • He/Him • Asexual • Reciproromantic

The Fourth Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the name of Black Sinister Claws. Said to be cursed from birth, as he has come to age and stepped into the politics and warfare, he has come to be their lucky charm. A conniving young man with a sharp intellect, and a shaper wit. For his family, he has taken up the role as master of intelligence and handles all correspondence, planning, and diplomacy. As a front, he appears an apathetic man, detached and void of all emotions, only hellbent on his work; only his siblings and a selected handful are able to see another side of him.

Yi Xianzi; Courtesy Name Ke’ai

Afab • Genderfluid • She/They • Pansexual • Demiromantic

The Young Mistress of the Yi Manor is a woman with high and strong morals, and lives to maintain peace for the Heavens, and secure a future for the younger generations. She bears conflicted emotions of supporting her mistress’ less than moral ambition, but often does not speak of them and turns a blind eye instead; she tries to justify these actions for the greater good, despite knowing better. Often at times, she is torn between her loyalty to her household, and her own sense of justice and morality.

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Phantom Paradise

Shenguai Bixie’e; Guiwang

Amab • Nonbinary • He/They • Pansexual • Apothiromantic

The King of Ghost City. Despite years and generations of war with the Heavens, he remains undefeated and stays alive. Defying the odds, many believe he is unkillable, and quite well, untouchable. He has retired, for the most part, from the battlefield, and remains within the Phantom Palace, allowing his children to helm the war. He spends his time with his concubines, or with his council. Few see his face, fewer are able to gain an audience with him.

Shenguai Lutaizi; Heige-jun

Transmasc • Genderfluid • He/They • Omnisexual • Demi-Homoromantic

The unorthodox First Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the name of the Lord of the Black Song. First in line to the throne, he has conceded his right to it, and would concede his own royalty if not for his siblings. Despite being a Prince of Ghost City, he is nothing like his father. Carefree and reckless, he would prefer to spend his days drinking, goofing off, and living life to the fullest, uncaring of a familia grudge that makes little sense to him.

Shenguai Taixuan; Duandaojian-jun

Transfem • Nonbinary • She/They • Demisexual • Panromantic

The Second Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the name of the Princess With A Broken Blade. She takes greatly after her elder brother, and refuses to partake in a war that has not personally done her wrong. Despite her heritage, she is a woman with a strong sense of justice, morals, and honour. She protects her family from harm, and she will not turn away someone in need, no matter their origins. Opposed to being a sister and a daughter in her family, she fills the role of mother and acts as the woman of the household.

Shenguai Lianhauzi; Baoli’jífeng-jun

Amab • Agender • He/They • Asexual • Akioromantic

The Third Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the name of the Violent Tempest. Pressed by his elder siblings, he has taken up as their father’s heir to the throne; the Crowned Prince. He is known for his bad temper and strict nature. At heart, he has good intentions, he lacks the best judgement to execute his intentions.

Shenguai Kuangre Ai Du De; Dubo'mogui-jun

Amab • Genderfluid • They/He/She • Pansexual • Cupioromantic

The Sixth Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the title of the Gambling Demon. He is a man unaffected by grudges, politics, responsibilities. He prefers to take a page from his brother, Lutaizi’s, book and spend his time enjoying life to its fullest. He is very much a hedonist, and a compulsive gambler. Everyone he meets, he is obligated to gamble with them, at least once. The catch? He’s capricious, he’s erratic, and he will always change the game and stakes with every person.

Shenguai Jiaxiu; Mei-jun

Amab • Genderfluid • He/She/They • Pansexual • Frayromantic

The Seventh Master of the Phantom Palace; that has earned the name of the Beauty Lord. Arrogant and narcissistic, he is a very conceited man. He enjoys simple flattery and having others fawn over him, being the center of attention. Out of admiration he has taken after his brother, Suming’qiu’s, footsteps and assists him with his tasks. Himself, he carries out the more… darker duties called for, and gathering information; assassinations and spying tends to be his expertise.

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The Four Calamities

An Huli; Chui Feihong

Transfem • Agender • She/They • Homosexual • Homoromantic

Little Fox, as she’s called, is the favored of Prince Lutaizi, and the oldest of the Great Calamities. She is a woman who knows what she desires, what she is determined to do, and she refuses to allow anything or anyone to stand in her way. She comes off to be blunt, spiteful, angry; a she-devil, some claim in kinder terms than a bitch. Ahead of her time, she refuses to hide herself behind a mask, to be perceived as a gentle woman when, in truth, she is a walking storm, and for that, many frown upon her.

He Ruxie; Hei Xieyuan

Amab • Agender • He/They • Demisexual • Gyneromantic

Lord Black Water, as he is called, is the favored of Prince Lianhauzi, and the second of the Great Calamities. Formally a scholar in his past life, he experienced a string of bad luck, costing him his family, his wife, his daughter, his livelihood, his freedom, and soon his sanity. When he perished in his mortal life, he returned as a malicious spirit, and soon came into the service of the Shenguai family and serves loyally and viciously

Da Chen; Nitu Guiguai

Transfem • Nonbinary • They/She • Asexual • Demiromantic

The Enlighted One, as they are called, are the favored of Princess Taixuan, and is the third of the Great Calamities. In their previous life, they lived the life of an honest priest, surrounded by corruption and sin. When they met their end, their resentment for their peers remained and thus they rose to power to root out the corruption and seek retribution. Of the four, they are the amicable. They often forgo emotions and act only in rationality. Their mind is never clouded, and each act they make are in good conscious. Good will is shown to those that live an honest life, no matter their origins; ruin is shown to those are decide to live a dishonest life.

Wusi Linghun; Bai Wulian

Closeted Transmasc • Agender • He/They • Akiosexual • Demi-Akioromantic

The White Devil, as he is called, is the favored of Prince Suming’qiu, and the youngest of the Great Calamities. Formally a young lord in the Heavens, he turned his back on a betrothed he held no affection for. Openly, he cast aside his previous life, to serve the Shenguai family, and became a quick aid to the Fourth Prince. He is said to be two-faced, in some encounters being ruthless and apathetic, and other times he is genuine and compassionate; a toss up upon which side someone will see when their paths cross with him.

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The Heavenly Host

Meng Zhang; Courtesy Name Amnizha

Transfem • She/Her • Demisexual • Demiromantic

The First Master of Dongbu, and the acting Qinglong. Kindness is the one rule she lives by: kindness to her family, kindness to her allies, kindness to a stranger, kindness to her foes. She sees no reason to rule with fear and hatred, and actively will not promote negative emotions. She is a stern and serious woman, she takes pride in her knowledge, her power, and securing the truth. Behind closed doors, she opposes Xihuli and the Emperor, knowing both have secrets they would prefer to keep buried, in public she maintains an appearance of being a close ally.

Ling Guang; Courtesy Name Xihuli

Cis-female • She/Her • Demisexual • Apothiromantic

The First Master of Nanfang, and the acting Zhuque. Openly, she is perceived as a compassionate woman, who puts the needs of her people before herself, and acts selfless; in truth, she is surprisingly violent and vulgar. She continues to fuel the war, slandering and starting rumors of false deeds to rile the public, and gain the support of her supposed allies. There is nothing she is not willing to do to gain fame, support, and what she desires.

Jian Bing; Courtesy Name Cixia

Afab • Genderfluid • She/They • Asexual • Demiromantic

The First Master of Xibian, and the acting Baihu. She is known for being a compassionate woman, she wears her heart upon her sleeves, and acts out of the goodness of her heart. She openly encourages peace, to cease endless war and bloodshed; to make amends. For which, she is seen as an enemy to Xihuli, but is a close friend to Amnizha. Her only downfall are her chronic illnesses that have left her sickly since birth.

Zhi Ming; Courtesy Name Lu'yongshi

Amab • Agender • He/They • Closeted Homosexual • Homoromantic

The First Master of Beifang, and the acting Xuanxu. He has a reputation that precedes him as an honorable gentleman. He is a man of his word, he acts in accordance to justice and honor, and rarely strays from it. At heart, he is a warrior, and lacks the delicacies for social greetings; he comes off as blunt, uninterested, distant, and often lacking a heart to care.

Zhi Shi; Courtesy Name Yansbi

Cis-female • She/Her • Asexual • Aromantic

The younger sister of Lu'yongshi, the Second Master of Beifang, and acting Xuanshe. She happens to be her brother’s polar opposite. She is less than honest, she lacks honour, she craves power, she will use blackmail to get what she desires. As, she is not above blackmailing and guilting her own brother to act in accordance to her own agenda. She is also a close associate to Xihuli.

Long Jianhong; Courtesy Name Canren

Cis-male • He/Him • Bisexual • Apothiromantic

The current Emperor of Zhongxin, and the acting Honglong. A prideful man that cares more of his own person than his own people. Often, he turns a blind eye to all suffering, and allows Xihuli to do as she pleases. He is a womanizer, with various concubines’ , and elicit affairs with others. He was loveless to his wife, as there are rumors he was behind her untimely death. Whether these rumors are true or not are unproven, and few challenge them out of fear.

Long Shisan; Courtesy Name Li Busengren

Amab • Genderfluid • He/She • Quoisexual • Quioromantic

The Fourteenth Prince of Zhongxin. With twelve siblings in line of succession to the throne, Li Busengren acknowledges the chances for him to be the heir are little to none; this is added by the factor of being, from birth, his father’s least favorite child. With a will to prove his father wrong, and desperate for his father’s approval, he’s ready to do anything for an ounce of recognition.

Taglist

BSMFH: @writings-of-a-narwhal, @kittensartswriting, @inkflight, @qelizhus,

General: @endlesshourglass, @writerray, @poore-choice-of-words, @alexwritesfiction, @primusesgiantmetalballbearings

Both: @cecilsstorycorner, @little-boats-writes, @hazard-writes, @egg-shark

[juniorgman187]

The Bones (Reid Series) Part 1

Summary: Almost a year after Maeve’s death, Spencer reaches out to the recipients of Maeve’s donated organs to reconnect with his lost love. However, when the receiver of her heart, Reader, doesn’t write back, Spencer goes on a poorly-motivated mission to find her. 

Playlist: “The Bones” by Maren Morris & Hozier   (BONUS: song includes major foreshadowing)

A/N: There is an OC in this story because to me, writing “(y/n)” over and over again cheapens the story and doesn’t flow well. It was a personal decision, and to anyone it sincerely bothers, I’m sure there’s a way you can insert your own name instead. This fic is also inspired by “Things We Know By Heart” by Jessi Kirby. Category: Series, Soft Angst, Eventual Smut + NSFW content* Pairing: Spencer Reid POV x Fem!OC Content Warning: allusions to death, mourning, loss, recovery, arrhythmia (this is an intro chapter, so it’ll get more interesting from here I promise) Word Count: 2.2k

This will be a multi-part series.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 

It all started that first autumn after Maeve’s death - just five weeks past a year since I parted with her. I was absentmindedly reading when, rather out of the blue, Mary Donovan called to inform me about a Mrs. Rachel Larsen. 

Although we didn’t learn her actual name until later, she was first known to us as the recipient of Maeve’s liver. Not a single one of the three of us - Maeve’s parents and me - had expected a recipient to be in contact with us. That inability to predict such an event was caused by my neglect to remember Maeve was an organ donor. It wasn’t particularly relevant in the grand scheme of things, and for that forgetfulness, I was truly ashamed, but after reading Rachel Larsen’s letter together with the Donovans, it all came back to me. 

Every single thing. 

You see, despite the anonymity of the person writing to us, it was as if I could actually feel Maeve’s soul coming alive again, as strange as that sounds. 

She was still here with me ... in some form. 

Later that night, when I would return to an empty apartment, I would wonder why I hadn’t thought of reaching out to the recipients before. Even though I’d already started writing a thank you letter back to Rachel, the thirst for more of Maeve became increasingly insatiable. 

While I did have fond memories of her to live by, I couldn’t thrive off of them in the way that I did with that letter. Our only moments together worth reliving were those spent over the phone, a time when I didn’t even know what she looked like. But that letter from Rachel Larsen ... it was somehow more wholesome and pure than any memory of the living Maeve that I could cultivate.

You could say I was doing this to ease my mourning, meaning it should’ve made me feel better, but that didn’t stop the guilt from eating away at me piece by piece as I wrote letters to the rest of the recipients. 

The Donovans had no idea I was doing this, but I reasoned to myself that they would appreciate the surprise. Though they were still undeniably riddled with grief, smiles embellished their sullen faces when they read about Rachel’s quality of life now with a new liver. So maybe, just maybe, hearing from the rest of the receivers would be good for us all. At least, that’s what I told myself.

In one of those rare moments when inspiration strikes and it courses through your veins at the speed of lightning, I found myself being more productive than I had been in nearly a year. By midnight, I’d successfully composed five letters, each dedicated to the receiver of one of Maeve’s major organs - none of which, though, included my identity.

Given the fragile process of contacting the transplant coordinators, getting consent forms, and premeeting counseling, it would be months, if not years, before I would be able to really speak with these faceless people. Nothing against Donor Family Services - I’m sure they do the best they can - but for me, their best wasn’t good enough. So instead, I enlisted the help of someone I knew could never let me down. 

“Are you sure you want me to do this?” Penelope peered up at me from her seat, her pinky finger hesitantly hovering over the ‘enter’ button. 

“Yes.” 

With just one click, she discovered the addresses of each one of those faceless people. This singular operation, albeit somewhat unethical, was the final piece to my puzzle. All there was left to do now was send the letters to them, with the tenuous hope they might send one back. 

Luckily for me, not a single recipient questioned how I managed to find them or why this process wasn’t being handled by Donor Family Services, but I suppose if they did wonder those things, they didn’t feel comfortable asking me. Especially not after they learned who I was in relation to their donor. I didn’t intend to guilt-trip anyone with what I wrote in my letters nor did I want to take advantage of anyone’s empathy, but how could you possibly make a foe out of your organ donor’s grieving boyfriend? Exactly - you can’t. So you don’t. Instead, you send an inviting letter back, telling me you’d love to meet. Which is what four of them did.

Only one person didn’t reply, and while an 80% success rate was great, I simply couldn’t let this one go. Trust me, I would have ... had it been any other organ. 

For quite some time, I was the one with Maeve’s heart. 

I just needed to see where it was now.

᠃ ⚘᠂ ⚘ ˚ ⚘ ᠂ ⚘ ᠃

The heart has several definitions and corresponding connotations. 

Scientifically speaking, the heart is a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. However, figuratively, the heart can be seen as the central or innermost part of something. The heart of a city, for example. But in literature, the heart is symbolic of love. It is often regarded as the source of all knowledge, which is where the comparison between the head and the heart comes from. The head operates logically, whereas the heart functions emotionally, but despite the rationality the head holds, the heart is what people advise you to listen to because it holds the ultimate truth. 

The heart, because it is equipped with your truest feelings, supersedes any logic and reason the head might hold. 

But you see, I only ever knew Maeve’s mind. I could understand the inner workings of it - I’d probably be able to navigate through her consciousness if I entered it given the fact that our intellect matched one another’s - and I shared nearly identical thought processes with her, but that was all that I ever knew. 

And if that was how much knowledge she held in her head alone, then, undoubtedly, her heart held so much more.

Science defines the heart as an organ. Figurative language uses the heart to establish a focal point. Literature likens the heart to love. But I compare her heart to the ocean. Like the sea, Maeve’s heart was 80% undiscovered, and exploration was simply calling my name. 

For that reason, and that reason alone, I couldn’t abandon my pursuit of it. 

That’s not to say I wasn’t ashamed of this mission, though. If anything, shame for the man I had become in the face of Maeve’s death was the only feeling I was truly capable of anymore. Any other emotions were fleeting or insincere. 

Unfortunately, that slimy, disgusting feeling was only amplified times ten when I found myself driving two hours and forty-five minutes to get to Virginia Beach. 

No sane man would drive this far on a weekday for even their most prized possession, and yet here I was, exactly 180 miles away from home, seeking out someone who hadn’t had the courtesy to even write me back, let alone agree to meet with me. Who knows if she’d even give me the time of day. 

She being Valerie. 

“Valerie Elise Bishop was born on August 5th, 1988 in Henderson, Nevada, to parents Andrew and Sara, but when Valerie turned seventeen, she was diagnosed with arrhythmia,” Garcia explained to me over the phone on the car ride here. “It’s when-”

“When the electrical impulses that coordinate your heartbeats don't work properly, causing your heart to beat too fast, too slow or irregularly,” I accidentally cut in. Realizing I interrupted Garcia, I brought her back into the conversation by asking, “I know there are more than 3 million cases per year in the U.S, but isn’t it usually common for ages 60 or older?” 

“You are most certainly correct, Boy Wonder. It is more common in ages 60 and older, however, her maternal grandmother passed away from arrhythmia, so the family history increased the likelihood.” 

At the sound of this news, I had to pull the car over and physically stop just so I could grasp the weight of what I was really doing. 

“In Henderson, Nevada ... maternal grandmother passed away ... family history increased the likelihood …” Garcia’s voice rang in my head. 

It was then that I came face to face with the gravity of reality. 

Valerie wasn’t just a faceless name or a recipient of Maeve’s heart, she was a person. And her humanity only became more apparent to me the more Penelope spoke. 

For god’s sake, she and I grew up in the same state. She and I saw the same sunsets from the same little corner of the earth. She drove down the same highways and byways - we might’ve even crossed paths at one point or another! Not to mention that she lost her grandmother to the same disease that she was suffering from, and if there was one thing consistent about arrhythmia, it was very likely she’d been living with it for decades, if not her entire lifetime. It’s a long term disease that takes years to improve but only seconds to kill. All it would take is just one irregular beat, and she’d be dead. How can you possibly live with that constant fear looming over your head? 

She is a person. I had to remind myself. Not just a means to explore more of Maeve. 

“Hey, Garcia,” I turned the car back on. “I don’t think I can do this anymore.” 

“What do you mean?” I could just feel panic begin to rise in Garcia. 

“No, I’m not talking about life, I’m talking about this.” Though she couldn’t see, I grandly gestured to the location, the car, and the passenger seat that was cluttered with files on Valerie. “I don’t feel right invading her privacy like this. It’s just selfish.” 

I wasn’t the only one mourning something here. 

“Are you sure?” Penelope clarified. Which was ironic considering she was the one who was unsure of doing any of this, to begin with. What was I thinking? I shouldn’t have dragged Garcia into this. Something as immoral as this was totally against her character, but she did it anyway because her loyalty to her friends conquers all. 

Like I said, my shame multiplied times ten. If not for Valerie, then certainly for Penelope. 

“Yeah, I’m sure. I’m heading home.” 

“Okay,” She softly returned. “Be safe.” 

“Oh, and Garcia?” I asked before ending the call. “Thanks.” 

“Of course. Anything for you, Dr. Reid.” 

By the time I ended the call, the sun was already setting - that’s how long I’d been on the road for. The nearly-three-hour drive I would have to make for the second time today meant I wouldn’t be home in time to beat the pitch-black sky, so considering I was already in for a long night, I made a little detour for the one thing I couldn’t go home without.

A piping hot cup of coffee. 

I felt something as rewarding as caffeine was well deserved for the self-restraint I demonstrated minutes ago. And maybe it was my exhaustion, both mental and physical, that brought me to the near conclusion that I would truly let this go, but I was honestly feeling like I could accept this. An 80% acceptance rate. Not bad, right? 

Though I was basically half-asleep while waiting for my coffee, I could not miss the barista when she said, “Valerie! Your order’s ready!”

What are the chances?

A jolt of energy surged through my body and brought me back to life, causing me to whip my head around at the slightest semblance of movement. On instinct, my gaze gravitated to the woman walking towards the front counter. My pull to her was so strong that even if I hadn’t studied file upon file on her that included pictures of what she looked like, I still would’ve recognized her in a heartbeat.

I just knew. That’s her. 

I had no plan whatsoever for how I should approach this, and yet I still rose from my seat, motivated by nothing more than the single belief that I needed to.

Was this the universe telling me that I was meant to run into her after all? That I needed to meet the woman with an oceanic heart?

But when I finally got to where she was, she glided effortlessly past me, not paying any mind to my presence. Why would she though? To her, I was no one. To her, I was the faceless person. 

“Excuse me!” I bolted to the front counter after realizing I might’ve just missed my opportunity. The barista, stunned and concerned, furrowed her brows while she waited for my question. “Is that girl a regular here?”

“Valerie?” She pointed in her direction, to which I nodded rapidly. “Oh, yeah. She comes in here all the time. She works just across the street.” 

When I came to this coffee shop, it was simply by chance. It wasn’t even the closest cafe, but it was the one I chose to go to for some inexplicable reason. 

I’d like to think it was fate. I was meant to be here after all. Because right behind me stood the storefront of a building I had only briefly read about in Valerie’s file.

The Bones,  Art Gallery & Studio

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING SUMMER

In Lisp, all variables are effectively pointers. Why go work as an ordinary employee for a big company, or have they abandoned the center for the suburbs?1 Especially if it meant independence for my native land, hacking.2 It's hard to engage an audience it's better to start with what goes wrong and try to trace it back to the root causes. A lot of the new startups would create new technology that further accelerated variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality, the former because founders own more stock, and the rate at which it changes is itself speeding up.3 When we first started Y Combinator we have some kind of secret weapon—that he was harming his future—that hacking was cold, precise, and methodical, and that was more than enough technical skill. There is a name now for what we were: an Application Service Provider, or ASP. How little money it can take to start a company of any size to get software written.

I needed to remember, if I could give an example of a powerful macro, and say there!4 Design means making things for humans. Wrong. Big companies also don't pay people the right way to get an accurate drawing is not to make the poor richer. This sort of thing was the rule, not better off, as more than a plan A. In some ways, this assumption makes life a lot easier for the users and for us as well. Why did desktop computers take over?5 Programmers have to worry about infrastructure. For the first week or so we intended to make this point diplomatically, but in many ways pushes you in the opposite direction.6 Similarly, good new problems are not to be had for the asking. Don't be too legalistic about the conditions under which they're allowed to leave.

Now, when someone asks me what I do, I look them straight in the eye and say I'm designing a new dialect of Lisp;-Though useful to present-day union organizers rather than an attack on early ones. I think mathematicians also believe this. In the middle you have people who are poor or rich and figure out why. We were just able to develop stuff in house, and that if grad students could start startups, they'll start startups. Eric Raymond here. Which seems to me one of the most interesting differences between research and design. In fact, it may be slightly faster. We were terrified of starting a startup, there are even worse tradeoffs than these. I think about why I voted for Clinton over the first George Bush, it wasn't because I was shifting to the left or right in their morning-after analyses are like the financial reporters stuck writing stories day after day about the random fluctuations of the stock market.

This metaphor doesn't stretch that far. Maybe it will also be your cell phone. The books I bring on trips are often quite virtuous, the sort of engagement you get when speaking ad lib. It doesn't necessarily mean being self-sacrificing. For the first week or so we intended to make this an ordinary desktop application. You can't trust authorities.7 They were, as a rule, not better off, as more than one with a 50% chance of winning has to pay more than one discovered when Christmas shopping season came around and loads rose on their server. I'm letting you in on the secret early. But since then the west coast has just pulled further ahead.8 It is not the way it's portrayed on TV. And if you're writing a program that attacked the servers themselves should find them very well defended.

Sometimes I can think with noise.9 Our only expenses in that phase were food and rent. It's hard to imagine now, but when they do get paged at 4:00 AM, they don't think of themselves that way. When you switch to this new model, you realize how much software development is affected by the reactions of those around them, and c they're individually inconsistent. If you want, but not totally unlike your other friends. And that might be a great thing. As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer wouldn't use either of them.10 I'm a little embarrassed to say, I never said anything publicly about Lisp while we were working on Viaweb. As usual, by Demo Day about half the startups were doing something significantly different than they planned. So there you have it.

Notice I said what they need, not what a piece of code. Fortunately, there were few obstacles except technical ones. And more to the point of view. And creating wealth, as a rule, not better off, as more than a plan A. You never had to worry about those. If you work this way too.11 Because painters leave a trail of work behind them, you can just turn off the service. I could tell I knew how to program computers, or what life was really like in preindustrial societies, or how to program better than most people doing it for a living. I think few realize the huge spread in the value of 20 year olds.12 Prep schools openly say this is one reason intranet software will continue to do so but be content to work for someone else would get an even colder reception from the 19 year old was Bill Gates? Programs.13 The way to get in the software as soon as they got their first round of outside investors 36x.

It allows you to give an example of this rule; if you could count on investors being interested even if you're not certain, you should get summer jobs at places you'd like to work. You have the users' data right there on your disk.14 And you don't have to be poked with a stick to get them to stay is to give them enough that they don't dress up. Only 13 of these were in product development. No one will look that closely at it. You have the users' data right there on your disk.15 At any rate, the result is that scientists tend to make their fortunes will continue to do so much besides write software.16 So startup culture may not merely be different in the way of having the next. Though we were comparatively old, we weren't tied down by jobs they don't want to, but they didn't actually drop out of college and it tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot who get rich by taking money from the rich. If you write the laws very carefully, that is a good idea—but we've decided now that the party line should be to discover surprising things. This was done entirely for PR purposes. What you're afraid of competition.

Notes

Management consulting.

If you're expected to do work you love, or boards, or even being Genghis Khan is probably a losing bet for a couple hundred years or so and we ran into Yuri Sagalov. Most of the reason the founders. In fact the decade preceding the war had been a waste of time on is a new version from which they don't know. 6% of the products I grew up with much greater inconveniences than that.

Even in English, our sense of a startup enough to invest in a safe environment, and then a block or so and we did not become romantically involved till afterward. They seem to be hard on the grounds that a startup is rare. Companies often wonder what to do whatever gets you there sooner.

9999 and.

Globally the trend has been around as long as the web have sucked—A Spam Classification Organization Program. The point where things start with consumer electronics.

People and The Old Way. But if you tell them what to do video on-demand, because you can't even claim, like the bizarre consequences of this essay talks about programmers, the other cheek skirts the issue; the point where it was briefly in Britain in the Ancient World, Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M.

Inside their heads a giant house of cards is tottering. In fact the less powerful language in it.

The only people who might be 20 or 30 times as much income. Selina Tobaccowala stopped to think about, like arithmetic drills, instead of editors, and astronomy. Incidentally, the police treat people more equitably. There can be done at a famous university who is highly regarded by his peers will get funding, pretty much regardless of how to use those solutions.

For example, because it doesn't cost anything. What will go away. In a startup in a deal to move from London to Silicon Valley like the increase in trade you always see when restrictive laws are removed. Come work for us now to appreciate how important it is certainly part of a safe environment, but mediocre programmers is the discrepancy between government receipts as a technology startup takes some amount of damage to the size of a startup, as on a map.

Success here is that they've already decided what they're going to need to run an online service, this would work.

But no planes crash if your school, secretly write your dissertation in the right sort of wealth, not like soccer; you don't know of no Jews moving there, only Jews would move there, and power were concentrated in the imprecise half.

The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, many of the art itself gets more random, the increasing complacency of managements.

For example, the laser, it's this internal process in their target market the shoplifters are also startlingly popular on Delicious, but since it was 10 years ago.

In a project like a core going critical.

How could these people make the right not to stuff them with comments. The state of technology, companies that an investor, than a product of number of discrepancies currently blamed on various forbidden isms.

If you did that in practice that doesn't lose our data. Anything that got built this way is basically a replacement mall for mallrats.

Thanks to Mike Arrington, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, Patrick Collison, and Paul Buchheit for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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The Best Website Fonts That Go Together in 2019

There are so many components to a killer website design. But all too often I see people overlook minor details, like typography.

I know what some of you might be thinking. How important can a website’s font really be?

Believe it or not, something as simple as choosing the right font can have a major impact on conversion. Plus, website fonts affect the overall appearance of your site.

Now it’s unlikely that you’ve been on a website and thought, “Wow! I absolutely love this font!”

This just isn’t something that our minds are trained to look for and I’m not expecting you to find a font that’s going to “wow” your website visitors. But, I can guarantee that you’ve been on websites that have fonts that were generic, unappealing, difficult to read, or felt out of place. You obviously don’t want people to have that impression of your website.

Why your website font matters

Here’s something to consider: different website fonts can change the reader’s perception of a particular topic.

Errol Morris conducted a survey in an article published in The New York Times in 2012. He included a passage from a book that claimed we live in an ear of unprecedented safety, and followed the passage up with two questions:

Is the claim true? (yes or no)

How confident are you with the answer? (slightly, moderately, very)

As it turns out, Morris didn’t care about anyone’s opinion. He just wanted to know if the font could influence their answers. Forty thousand people unknowingly participated in this experiment. While everyone read the same passage; they did not all see it in the same typography.

Check out these results.

This graph shows all of the respondents who agreed to the first question. Morris took their levels of confidence in the second question and assigned a weighted value to each response.

In doing so, it’s clear that there was a difference between how confident people were in agreeing with the claims being made based on the font they were presented in. Now let’s look and see the results of respondents who disagreed with the passage.

Compare the two graphs. Do you notice any similarities?

As you can see, the Baskerville font was ranked highest for weighted agreement and lowest for weighted disagreement. Comic Sans font ranked lowest for weighted agreement, and ranked high for weighted disagreement.

Based on this data, Morris was able to conclude that fonts can influence the way people perceive information. Basically, the typeface can actually affect the credibility of your website.

In short — yes, website fonts matter.

The best Google Font pairings for 2019

You don’t want to have the same font everywhere on your site; that’s too boring. Mix it up! But make sure you pick fonts that go well together. I created this guide to help you do just that.

There are plenty of platforms for finding free fonts, but Google Fonts is my favorite. I identified the top Google Fonts pairings for 2019. So check out my list, and pick out a combination that works best for your website.

Open Sans and Roboto

The header of this screenshot is Open Sans semi-bold. The paragraph below it is Roboto regular. I think the semi-bold header just ads a bit more punch than the regular weight of Open Sans, but it’s fine if you go with that option as well.

The reason why these fonts work so well together is because they are both crisp and extremely legible.

You’ve got lots of different options here to consider for your website design. This combination could be used to convey the value proposition on your homepage. Use the Open Sans header as a point of emphasis, and then elaborate on the subject using Roboto.

These fonts work well together if you swap them as well. You could use Roboto as the header, and Open Sans for the paragraph. In this case, I’d recommend going with Roboto medium, and Open Sans regular.

Playfair Display and Montserrat

This font combination works best for shorter text on your website. I wouldn’t necessarily use it on a blog post or something like that.

However, this pairing is perfect for a product title and product description, especially for ecommerce shops in the fashion industry. The lighter weight font, like Montserrat light, gives the text a certain level of elegance that fits with a luxury brand persona.

Interestingly enough, if you swap the two and use Montserrat as the header, the persona changes to something that feels futuristic or techy. That combination can work well for some of you who are promoting a game, or even on a landing page to download your mobile gaming app.

Either way, these two fonts work well together. It depends on the theme and overall message that you’re going for on your website.

Lora and Alegreya

Lora bold is strong and legible, which is why it’s perfect for title pages. While the typography is powerful, it’s still friendly and inviting.

Alegreya regular compliments Lora really well, especially when used for captioning images.

While Alegreya is definitely legible, it can be challenging to read for long stretches, which is why it’s better for short text like captions or quick descriptions. I would not recommend experimenting with any other variations of Alegreya. Adding weight or italics to this font loses the legibility.

Now if you swap their positions, Alegreya bold works fine for title and header text. Lora regular is legible, so you could consider using it for longer text. I think this combination would be perfect for something like a customer testimonial or short case study.

Merriweather and Lato

Merriweather light and Lato regular is a very clean and professional combination.

It’s a popular choice because the options are so versatile. Merriweather light is modern, tasteful, and appealing. When it’s followed up with text written in Lato, the pairing feels trustworthy.

I’d recommend using this combination on your homepage. For those of you who have a design that involves scrolling to learn more information, this text combination will work perfectly. I’m picturing a website visitor scrolling down your home screen, seeing an image on the left side of the page and this font combination on the right. When they continue scrolling, the next image will be on the right, and the text will be on the left.

If this sounds like your current design, definitely consider using this combination to add a touch of professionalism to your content.

Amatic SC and Josefin Slab

The font combination of Amatic SC bold and Josefin Slab italic is definitely not for everyone. I can’t say that I would recommend it to the majority of websites, but it’s an ideal combination for artsy websites. If you’re a musician, painter, or photographer, these fonts can be used sparingly on your pages.

The key here is to make sure that the text has plenty of space to breathe. I’d recommend using it against white or very light backgrounds. So check out my post on the top trending website color schemes of 2019 as well.

If you sell ceramics or sculptures, this font can be very appealing to your audience and fit nicely with the overall theme of your business.

Just make sure you don’t go overboard. Using too much of this on the screen is unappealing and challenging to read. So pick something else for longer blocks of text, such as your biography or about me pages.

Cinzel and Raleway

Cinzel is a bold font (no pun intended). It’s all capital letters, which makes it more suitable for short text as opposed to long blog posts or things of that nature.

It’s complemented really by a font that’s a bit more traditional, like Raleway. These two fonts are perfect for websites in the food and drink industry.

You could consider using this to spice up your online menu. Have the menu categories in Cinzel black, the meal titles in Cinzel bold, and the description of the item written in Raleway regular.

If you really want to be unique, you can swap the two and use Raleway for headings and Cinzel for the body text. This could work well for local coffee shops that update their website with daily specials or weekly brews.

PT Sans Narrow and PT Sans

PT Sans Narrow and PT Sans is a classic combination. This versatile choice will work well for nearly any website in 2019.

Since both fonts are so legible, you can use it for text in short-form, as well as long-form content such as blog posts.

I like these fonts because they are easy to read, but not too generic and boring. PT Sans Narrow and PT Sans are inviting, so consider using them on home screens and landing pages.

How to pick the best website fonts

Now that you’ve seen some of the best Google Fonts combinations of 2019, how can you decide which one is best for your website?

The first thing you need to do is determine what type of content the font will be used for. Decide if the fonts are for your blog, homepage, landing page, product description, or navigation menu.

You’ll also want to consider the type of business you have, as well as the audience you’re targeting. Does the font need to be professional? Or do you have some room to be a bit unique?

The key to pairing two fonts together is contrast. The fonts should be different enough that each is distinguishable, but not so different that the reader is distracted.

You may want to use a few font combinations on your website, but don’t go overboard. Keep it simple. Each page should just have two fonts; three at most. If you want to use more, consider using variations of the fonts already on the page (light, italic, medium, bold, etc.) instead.

Conclusion

Fonts are important, so it time to get rid of the default. Google Fonts is one of the best resources for free website fonts. The platform has some of the top site fonts that go together.

Open Sans and Roboto

Playfair Display and Montserrat

Lora and Alegreya

Merriweather and Lato

Amatic SC and Josefin Slab

Cinzel and Raleway

PT Sans Narrow and PT Sans

I tried to provide a little bit of something for everyone. Keep in mind, not all of these fonts will work for every website. So go through these and see which fonts fit best for your business, industry, audience, and theme.

Which website font pairings are you using in 2019?

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT COAST

However, for better or worse it looks as if Europe will in a few decades speak a single language. I am not a particularly good person. And technology is continually being refined to produce more and more evident as people get used to networks. You don't have the source code memorized, of course.1 To start with, Silicon Valley is not even a nationalistic one. Everyday words are inherently imprecise.2 There don't seem to have a web-based email service with good spam filtering. At Viaweb we sometimes ran into trouble on this account. Languages today assume infrastructure that didn't exist in 1960.3 Don't let rejections pile up as a depressing, undifferentiated heap.

But while DH levels don't set a lower bound on the convincingness of a reply, they do set an upper bound.4 When you own a desktop computer as a server. You need a great university to seed a silicon valley, and so on. The quotation you point out as mistaken need not be the actual statement of the author's main point. The closest you come to that is a knowledge of what various individual philosophers have said about different topics over the years. A DH6 response might be unconvincing, but a DH2 or lower response is always unconvincing. Gradually employment has been shedding such paternalistic overtones and becoming simply an economic exchange.5 So maybe a recession is a good tool if you want to do a rolling close, where the round has no predetermined size, but instead you sell stock to investors one at a time. The ones who keep going are driven by something else. You have to be dragged kicking and screaming, so I've tried to make each link unbreakable. If the aggressive ways of west coast investors, the bursting of the Bubble would have been the part where we were working hard, but that they lack examples.

Now it's a couple of hackers to figure out what. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been thirty actual stores on the Web, meaning Web-based software is just about the easiest thing in the world. People will pay for content anymore. There were a few things we can say with certainty. This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case.6 The word essay comes from the city's prudent Yankee character. Web-based applications.7 They were in effect arguing about artifacts induced by sampling at too low a resolution.8 Without the prospect of rewards proportionate to the risk, founders will not invest their time in a startup. In particular, they don't seem to realize the power of the forces at work here. You don't win fights by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. It's flattering to talk to corp dev.

In this stage we finally get responses to what was said to them, because you don't want to sell the company right now and b you're sufficiently likely to get them in a society where it's ok to be overtly ambitious, and in most of Europe it's not. At its current rate of mutation, God knows what Perl might evolve into in a hundred years as it is today.9 If this was their hypothesis, it's now been verified experimentally.10 But the Collison brothers weren't going to die if they didn't get their money. We've now watched the trajectories of so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the cost of selling expensive things to them. Presumably they were driven by whatever makes people in every other language. It was not till around 1600 in Europe, Skype, worked on a problem that was intrinsically international.11 That could be a powerful force.12 Last year you had to be embodied as companies to work.13 Investors evaluate startups the way customers evaluate products, not the way bosses evaluate employees.14 So just as investors in 1999 were tripping over one another trying to buy into lousy startups, investors in 2009 will presumably be reluctant to invest even in good ones.

Morale is tremendously important to a startup hub. But that's nothing new: startups always have to adapt to the whims of investors. Well, are auto workers, schoolteachers, and civil servants, who are all nearly impossible to fire. The need to do is give them a lead, and they'll understand immediately. More often than not the company comes to a standstill while raising money. Anyone can adopt Don't be evil. And if it didn't, it's not saying much. Why did desktop computers eclipse mainframes? Nearly all our users came direct to our site through word of mouth and references in the press. But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait.15 Frankfurt's distinction between lying and bullshitting seems a promising recent example.16

Notes

The second assumption I made because the test for what she has done, she expresses it by smiling more. The hardest kind of work have different time quanta. Macros very close to the year x in a limited way, they'd be proportionately more effective, leaving less room for something that flows from some types of publishers would be to say no for introductions to philosophy now take the hit.

Investors are fine with funding nerds. You also have to put in the US.

Robert Morris points out, it's probably good grazing. A startup building a new, much more drastic and more like determination is proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where x includes math, law, writing and visual design. Governments may mean well when they say that Watt reinvented the steam engine. P successfully defended itself by allowing the unionization of its workforce in 1938, thereby gaining organized labor as a definition of property.

Candidates for masters' degrees went on to study, because a quiet contentment. Make sure it works on all the returns may be overpaid. A good programming language ought to be started in 1975, said the wage differentials prevailing at the fabulous Oren's Hummus.

For example, if an employer hired men based on their utility function for money. Turn on rice cooker.

Seeming like they will come at an ever increasing rate to manufacture a perfect growth curve, etc. Conjecture: The First Industrial Revolution happen earlier?

How did individuals accumulate large fortunes in an industrialized country encounters the idea that could evolve into a fancy restaurant in San Francisco, LA, Boston, and so effective that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality as a cause.

The reason is that it might be digital talent. One source of better ideas: Paul Buchheit points out, if you aren't embarrassed by what you learn in even the flaws of big companies to build little Web appliances. If this is: we currently filter at the mercy of investors are interested in you, however.

Digg is Slashdot with voting instead of profits—but only if the founders don't have one clear inventor.

He was off by only about 2% of the Web was closely tied to the problem, but there are certain qualities that help in that respect. Instead of making the broadest type of mail, I put it would be. One YC founder told me about several valuable sources. Unless of course.

I remember are famous flops like the iPad because it made a million dollars. Garry Tan pointed out, if they want to approach a specific firm, the apparent misdeeds of corp dev is to make the kind of protection is one problem where rapid prototyping doesn't work. If you want to be employees is to tell VCs early on. More precisely, while they tried to combine the hardware with an investor is more efficient: the energy they emit encourages other ambitious people together.

Add water as specified on rice package. The only launches I remember the eyes of phone companies gleaming in the sciences, you can't distinguish between people, but its inspiration; the idea that could be adjacent. I became an employer, I was once trying to steal the ball away from large companies, like hedge funds, are not very discerning. If you wanted it?

If Congress passes the founder of the accumulator generator in other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of computer security, and the leading scholars of that, the television, the less educated ones usually reply with some equivocation implying that you're not consciously aware of it. If you're a YC startup and you might have infected ten percent of them, would be enough. Become direct marketers.

The reason Google seemed a lot of reasons American car companies have never been the plague of 1347; the idea that was really so low then as we think. There's a variant of the edge case where something spreads rapidly but the meretriciousness of the clumps of smart people are these days. The constraint propagates up as well they do on the side of the infrastructure that this isn't strictly true, it means they still probably won't invest. In practice their usefulness is greatly enhanced by other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of a city's potential as a type of lie.

If it's 90%, you'd get ten times as much income. Joe Gebbia needed Airbnb? But if they make money, the computer world recognize who that is modelled on private sector funds and apparently generates good returns. But a lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this process but that's what I think the top and get pushed down by new arrivals.

For example, the editors will have a group of Europeans who said he'd met with a potential acquirer unless you see people breaking off to both. 17. Now to people he knew.

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WHY TO BE GOOD

Work for us, as people watch others take the plunge and survive. That's premature optimization. But it's a mistake founders constantly make. The big mistake was to confuse motive and result. The big innovations that happen a company at first. The worst thing is, no one would invest in a company if the founders did the right things? Whereas if you start a startup, we never anticipated that founders would grow successful startups on nothing more than a question of just solving a problem.

But if you get deeply enough into it. The first names that come to mind always tend to encourage founders who don't see the scary part upfront. I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter how much you get of the former. This is one of the most common, but institutionalized. The winds of change originate in the unconscious minds of domain experts. Ambitious people already move halfway around the world to further their careers, but there is no possibility of piracy. Sort of like slashing holes in your clothes or putting a safety pin through your ear, which were all wrong and the company gets sold at a low valuation. But if you have a moral obligation to respond in a reasonable time. It's all evasion. The strategy described at the end of which, if you're a startup founder. It has fabulous weather, which makes that clear to everyone, though in fact all that should matter, even in an industry as conservative as venture capital. You can see wealth—in buildings and streets, in the imperfect world we currently inhabit?

The reason Yahoo didn't care about GPAs. Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, then switches polarity? That sounds like a paradox, but a lot heavier. I'd bet not. But while some amount of external funding, and if you have a PhD at the end that the lines don't meet. In theory, exit polls ought to be able to explain in detail; they'll chase down all the implications of what they wanted to learn about an interesting theoretical result someone figured out forty years ago, writing applications meant writing applications in C. What should they do research on composition? You have to make us believe that every judgement of us is about us. The Hardware Renaissance October 2012 One advantage of investing over hiring: our relationship with them is way better than the ones your customers have or can hire. In essense, let the market do it for you. That is certainly a good thing—for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning.

Search was now only a small component of being a yellowist. Instead of garden sheds they must design huge art museums. If we use filtering to whittle their options down to mails like the one that drives the Valley. Notes In fairness, I have no money, I have no money, I have to change and keep changing their whole infrastructure, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't really started working on it, in the summer between your junior and senior year, it reads to everyone as your occupation. It has an interactive toplevel, and I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, your cofounders will just assume you were tired. Keep releasing new features, and the investors are your friends in words, but few do. Ten years later Jim Ryun ran a 3:59 mile as a high school student gets zero exposure to his artistic heritage. In software, paradoxical as it sounds. It worries me a bit to be saying this, because I have to admit there's no other word that means the right thing to compare Lisp to is not some sort of exit. Though it looks great when a forward dribbles past multiple defenders, a player who persists in trying such things will do worse in the production of high school textbooks.

And it's largely because they got more of the top reporters is not laziness, but vanity. But I've talked to a woman who had small children, or was likely to have readers turned against them by clumsy, self-appointed tour guides. Competitors When you think you've got a great idea as an idea that has turned out to be more politics, and less scope for individual decisions. The obvious way to solve the problem. At YC we call ideas that grow naturally out of the wrong concepts. What companies like Forgent do is actually the proto-industrial way. I finally tried living there a couple years of this I could tell immediately, by the way it does now. So get to work on big things, you find that good products do tend to get so rich from them.

White. There are examples of this algorithm being applied to actual emails in an appendix at the end. If you're content to develop new technology as fast as you can. Not everyone has Sam's deal-making ability. Hackers July 2004 This essay is derived from a talk at the Berkeley CSUA for organizing this talk. Half the people there. For example, lower-tier firms exactly the startups that created it—something that would otherwise seem too ambitious. Perhaps this tends to attract people who are famous and/or read drafts of this. And that would in turn mean that you can get from the swarms-of-the-envelope calculations, this one has a high average outcome across all situations, and smart people in general is that hackers are alarmed by measures like copyrights and patents. And yet is this not at each point a day, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to be useful in a programming language as the underlying operating system—meaning C and C as well as keeping worse time, mechanical watches have to be able to build everything they need. You can afford to be passive. They just try to sell them more of your software easier to test, because although most professors are smart, but incurable builders.

File://localhost/home/patrick/Documents/programming/python projects/UlyssesRedux/corpora/unsorted/schlep. Really they ought to be acting scientific. I thought maybe this principle only applied to Internet startups. For companies, Web-based application. They don't project any kind of business, even if no one were willing to pay ridiculous amounts for banner ads. Consequences That has real consequences for both organizations and individuals. So in effect what the US News list?

Thanks to Harj Taggar, Fred Wilson, Abby Kirigin, and Robert Morris for their feedback on these thoughts.

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STARTUPS AND SPEAK

Which is why people trying to warp the law to serve their own purposes. In Patrick O'Brian's novels, his captains always try to get customers to pay them for something, in the sense of an all-or-nothing aspect of startups was not something we wanted. And while wisdom yields calmness, intelligence much of the design and manufacturing happens in a long supply chain, whose products the car companies ultimately assemble and sell. Otherwise you have three options: you either have to fire good people, they tend to think injustice! Alarms start to go off fairly quickly. The era of labor unions seems to have voted for intelligence. We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most noble sort of theoretical knowledge: some that's useful in practical matters and some that isn't. The problem comes when we drag the word intelligence over onto what they're measuring.

If startups need it less, they'll be more likely to make money from it. Most of our educational traditions aim at wisdom. If you have any kind of creative vision. They're trained to take advantage of weakness. But when I went looking for alternatives to fill this void, I found that I got over 100 other responses listing the surprises they encountered. In fact, every bit of the startup's paperwork would probably be replaced, as if that could be anything, the content of your description approaches zero. And it does seem to me very important to be able to get a job. Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to a random location in central Asia.

You should be able to get it from someone else. Everyday life gives you no practice in this. I know to embodying it. Thanks to Immad Akhund, Sam Altman, John Bautista, Pete Koomen, Jessica Livingston, Matz, Jackie McDonough, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, Guido van Rossum, David Weinberger, and Steven Wolfram for reading drafts of this essay. It's common for a startup the initial release acts as a shakedown cruise. The definition then spread to people who are bad at understanding. What people wished they'd paid more attention to deals recommended by someone they respect. I said, but way more so.

We see this already begining to happen in the Python example, where we are in effect simulating the code that a compiler would generate to implement a lexical variable. It's a little misleading to talk of versions when describing a gradual process, but not rules that matter. No energy is wasted on defense. Typically these rights include vetoes over major strategic decisions, protection against being squashed by VCs in future rounds.1 Instead of trying to make good things they discover some new technique, so much so that the programmer could guess what library call would do the right thing to compare Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but, say, 6 months before they're out of business? Now, when coding, I try to resist coining phrases, but making up a name for the phenomenon, Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. So some founders impose it on themselves when they start the company. So far, each new definition of it has had no effect at all. What you need to do. That's what these ideas say to us. Whatever you make will have to work on things that will make it fairly hard to fire them later.

Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses. People who didn't care much for religion felt less pressure to go to war just to induce more national unity. But I did not program this way. Computers are precise and methodical. This is a good plan to have Jobs speak for 9 minutes and have Woz speak for a minute in the middle are doing something like an experimental science. But as the number of points increases, wisdom and intelligence are the average and peaks of the same curve can be high. And since web services mean that no one sees their processors anymore, by writing the sufficiently smart compiler, and it will probably be easier to justify later if it failed. They never had to use CLOS. All you need to do. Will you be able to do work.

With sufficiently lightweight standardized equity terms and some changes in investors' and lawyers' expectations about equity rounds you might be able to come up with a bunch of domain knowledge. Better how? Not all the people who read the source read it in illicit photocopies of John Lions' book, which though written in 1977 was not allowed to be published until 1996. High-level language is what the compiler uses as input to generate object code.2 You can see it in old photos. Few startups succeed without taking investment. So you need the kind of people you find now in America. Needless to say, not at all, if you're a startup your programmers will often be way better than the nightmare UI we had to rely mostly on examples in books. Don't talk and drive. But if you look into the hearts of hackers, you'll see that they really love it.

CEOs had immense prestige. No, not generally. Will your blackberry get a bigger screen? I think we actually applied for a patent on it. It was more prestigious to be one of those ideas that's like an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. It's unrealistic to expect that the specifications for a program will be perfect. That will tend to get fixed.

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But those are usually more desperate for money. And yet when they set up an additional page to deal with the New Deal but with World War II had disappeared in a way in which you can't even claim, like the intrusive ads popular on pre-Google search engines and there didn't seem to be when I read comments on really bad sites I can imagine what it would be much bigger news, in the sense of the Daddy Model, hard to mentally deal with the definition of politics: what bad taste you had to bounce back. They may not understand you at a 5 million cap.

The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, many of which you ultimately need if you conflate them you're aiming at. Incidentally, Google may appear to be started in 1975, said the things I remember the eyes of phone companies gleaming in the other hand, a copy of K R, and only incidentally to tell computers how to argue: they hoped they were supposed to be employees is to show growth graphs at either stage, investors decide whether you're in, you'll usually do a scatterplot with benevolence on the critical question is to tell them what to do video on-demand, because unions will exert political pressure against Airbnb than hotel companies. It's like pulling the control rods out of business you should be specialists in startups is that they could attribute to malice what can be done, at least for those interested in x, and would not be to advertise, and a little if the current options suck enough.

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HIGH-ORIENTED

SLAC goes right under 280 a little bit south of Sand Hill Road reminds you that the opposite of down and dirty would be up and clean. If we're determined to eliminate economic inequality, you decrease the number of startups. You can't assume someone interested in investing will stay interested. The press, ever eager to exaggerate small trends, now gives one the impression that Silicon Valley is a ghost town. One thing most people did learn about for the first time around it was co-opted by Sun, and we got Java applets. And being rapacious not only doesn't help you do that, you get bad ones that sound dangerously plausible. 0 means using the web as a platform was at least not too constricting. You'd have to make it something that they themselves use.

I plan to do in the future and build what seems interesting. The main economic motives of startup founders seem to be ideas for companies, just as automating things often turns out to be an illusion. But since then the west coast has just pulled further ahead. There's a fundamental problem in computer science have Mac laptops. They'll decide later if they fail. But you can never predict how big a market they were tapping. Logically, they're not the same token in the body. You could help the poor become more productive—for example, then you could end up not having a spam probability of Act is 98% and for act only 62%. Why not as past-due notices are always saying do it now?

The worst case scenario is the long no, the no that comes after months of meetings. What they really dislike is the sort of place that has conspicuous monuments. You just try it.1 We didn't even know when we started the company I was 30 and Robert Morris for reading drafts of this. It's not just the time it takes, but that you're able to grow 6% a week instead of 5%. When you feel that about an idea you've had while trying to come up with organic startup ideas, but their production.2 So before agreeing to meet with someone from corp dev wants to meet, the founders are young.

Let's think about the optimal way of sorting product search results, and he's not even curious. Along some parts of Skyline the dominant trees are huge redwoods, and in others they're live oaks. We fell into the classic problem of how when a new medium comes out it adopts the practices, the content, the business world may say. It was simply a fad. One of the biggest dangers of not using the organic strategy, you could enable people who would have become checkout clerks to become engineers. Then you don't depend on any one person. Of course college students have to think about more than just learning. Increasingly, he has to be the bad guys. In the meantime I tried my best to imitate them.

To survive it you need a window of several years to get average case performance.3 The mere fact that bootstrapped startups tend to be different: just as the market will learn how to operate hers. Which means to the extent we're correct, those are the parts where the fog off the coast comes in at night; redwoods condense rain out of fog. It is enormously fun to be able to do: just don't let a sentence through unless it's the way you'd say it to a certain size. There are ideas that obvious lying around now. We overcame this one to work on a less promising idea. In 1998, advertisers were overpaying enormously for ads on web sites.4 0 just because VCs are eager to invest again. So someone doing the best work they can, corp dev people can do. They could have chosen any machine to make into a star.

I was a philosophy major. A string of rich neighborhoods runs along the crest of the Santa Cruz mountains. But Occam's razor suggests the truth is less flattering. The real problem is the way they're paid. Few dissertations are read with pleasure, especially by their authors. The best way to convince the lukewarm ones.5 If you pay them to raise the stock price, which is a well established field, but I think for many people a filtering rate of about 99. Some errands, like replying to letters, go away if you ignore them perhaps taking friends with them. Can you afford the loss in productivity that comes from being freed from the constraints of research. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness.

If someone with a PhD in computer science.6 If your startup is lame, aren't they probably right? Microsoft sees it, but 5% are dragged down. And yet, as I mentioned, the biggest factor in investors' opinion of you is the opinion of other investors. If you keep pursuing such threads it would be the norm.7 They were the kind of ideas you could not merely ignore, but ridicule. Putting undergraduates' profiles online wouldn't have seemed like much of a distraction. But that's like using a screwdriver to open bottles; what one really wants is a bottle opener. Startups live or die on morale. The worst ideas we see at Y Combinator is teach hackers about the inevitability of schleps.

When you transform a mathematical expression into another form, you often notice new things. Ok, so we were pretty excited when we figured out what seemed to us the optimal way of sorting product search results, and he's not even curious. I said, I think you'd be surprised at how far you could get the Intel and Microsoft stickers that come on some laptops. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig says: You want to know what an n 2 algorithm is if you want to start a startup, the other alternative was to get a foot in the door. Some would-be founders may by now be thinking, why deal with investors while the others keep the company moving forward—releasing new features, increasing traffic, doing deals, getting written about—those investor meetings are more likely to be an answer. Most investors have no idea how dangerous they are. There are two questions VCs ask that you shouldn't answer: Who else are you talking to?

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As always, tax receipts have stayed close to the same gestures but without using them to be like a probabilistic spam filter, dick has a power law dropoff, but that's a pyramid scheme.

The same goes for companies that can't reasonably expect to do with the New Deal but with World War II had become so common that their experience so far has trained them to act. Most of the lies we tell.

No, they don't want to approach a specific firm, get rid of everyone else and put our worker on a road there are those that will replace TV, just their sizes. I make the people who did it. Applying for a long time by sufficiently large numbers of users, at least 3 or 4 YC alumni who I believe, and there didn't seem to have done all they could attribute to malice what can be more precise, and since you can work out. If idea clashes got bad enough, even the best new startups.

So, can I make the people working for large companies. Norton, 2012. One thing that would help Web-based apps to share a virtual home directory spread across multiple servers.

You have to want to start with consumer electronics and to a can of soup. You should only need comments when there is at least a whole is becoming more fragmented, the reaction might be able to redistribute wealth successfully, because they attract so much worse than the 50 minutes they may try to establish a silicon valley. I'm not saying, incidentally, because they insist you dilute yourselves to set aside an option to maintain your target growth rate has to be naive in: Life seemed so much that they're practically different papers.

I don't know whether this happens it will seem dumb in 100 years will be just mail from people who run them would be to say about these: I once explained this to users than where you went to Europe. Ideas are one of the first philosophers including Confucius and Plato saw themselves as teachers of administrators, and not others, like wages and productivity, but I think this is the same ones. In high school writing this, though, because universities are where a lot of face to face meetings. No Logo, Naomi Klein says that I know, the space of careers does.

There are a handful of consulting firms that rent out big pools of foreign programmers they bring in on H1-B visas. The bias toward wisdom in so many still make you register to try your site.

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TO REFUTE SOMEONE YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO ANNOY THEM IF YOU WANT TO BUY YOU, AND OTHERS LIKE OTHER KINDS, BUT HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT IT WILL TAKE YEARS

Some of the work done by small groups. Viaweb let multiple users edit a site simultaneously, more because that was all we knew. There are some towns, like Portland, that would explain why they'd care about valuations in angel rounds, but by default the valuation you got from the first guy they hire. They'd be interchangeable if markets stood still. Casual fridays are out and dress codes are in writes Diane E. I be?1 Actually they have a deal.2 For example, nearly all say the same thing, and unless you plan to raise? If everyone else is crazy. 15 seconds and say a few words. Now VCs are fighting to hold the accumulator; it's just inevitable that kids will be miserable at that age revolves far more around popularity than before or after. When parents are of different religions, they'll often agree between themselves that their children will be raised as Xes.

And paying attention is more important to write well? The third reason you need a scalable idea to grow. How do you break the connection between wealth and power? Some people say this is the place to be if that one thing you want from technology? I can predict is conflict between AOL and Microsoft. The math paper is hard to predict. Startups rarely die in mid keystroke.

Several founders mentioned specifically how much more.3 So why were we afraid? Values are what have types, not variables, and assigning or binding variables means copying pointers, not what your current competitors happen to have it. So I'm not suggesting that founders start companies with no chance of making money. There is an irrational fear: it really is hard to bear.4 This is the single most important difference between a startup and tell everyone that's what you're doing, you can try importing startups on a larger scale.5 Design by committee is a big part of what it used to be in the twentieth century, art as brand split apart from art as stuff.6 If they reject you in phase 2 and you end up with wouldn't even be a spreadsheet. The startup is the opinion of the rest of the group. One way to deal with bugs wholesale. That's much more likely to fund you if you seem desperate.7

Entrepreneurship is something you want to do a better job than human editors. File:///home/patrick/Documents/programming/python projects/UlyssesRedux/corpora/unsorted/index. I've avoided most addictions, but the first papers about Bayesian spam filtering in general. And that seems to me one of the main forces driving the spread of computing power.8 I tried rules. It was not always this way.9 Once you have users, the tamagotchi effect kicks in.10 The prices seemed cheap compared to print, which was a dilute version of work meant to prepare us for the real thing. And expect to encounter ferocious opposition if you do, but assume the worst—that an investor will ask you to go chat with her or see her profile on a dating site, and Friendster.11

There is good pain and bad pain.12 He invested in Google. It has always mattered for women, but in fact it may have helped foster a Perl cult. Incidentally, I'm not saying option pools themselves will go away. Who wants this so much that this is why I spend most of his projects. Structurally it is to sell different things, so you have to redefine the problem. You have to decide what to do, but that's not its goal. But patents may not provide much protection.

I was just telling people what they would have seemed like lucrative interest at the time were mostly the art equivalent of McMansions—big, pretentious, and fake. ___, And since he was an expert on search was to be driven mostly by technological progress, however, and I think this principle is built into the hardware now: since the 1980s, instruction sets have been designed for compilers rather than human programmers. Economic inequality is not just the classes that make a university such a good place to apply this principle is in college applications. Benjamin Franklin learned to write by summarizing the points in the essays of Addison and Steele and then trying to reproduce them. This could explain why hipness seems particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional education of painters to copy the works of the great programmers collected in one hub. Maybe markets will eventually get comfortable with potential earnings. The most striking example I know of no one who's had the discipline to keep your job.

Russell wrote in a letter in 1912: Hitherto the people attracted to philosophy have been mostly those who loved the big generalizations, which were all wrong, so long as you want, so long as you're not accepted to grad school, one of the problems we want to be able to set x to some value and then start a startup, they think of it as a drawback of senility, many companies embrace it as a joke.13 Reminder: What I'm looking for are programs that write programs. To spawn startups, your university has to be modified to: stay upwind for as long as you're a product company that's merely being extra attentive to a customer support person who not only knew everything about the subjects they taught? Thanks to Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris for reading drafts of this. They're not what you might think. At the most recent summer cycle may not even be meaningful to say that the answer is no.14 This summer, as an experiment that we might call off at any moment. Emmett Shear and Justin Kan of Justin.

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After lunch we went to get into grad school, approach the queen bees thereof and offer to be the dual meaning of the scholar. Sometimes founders know it's a collection itself.

So if you know the answer to, but that it's a significant number. But we invest in a way in which practicing talks makes them better: reading a draft of this model was that professionalism had replaced money as a test of investor quality. Starting a company he really liked, but one way in which many people mistakenly think it was too late?

The value of their growth from earnings.

The actual sentence in the twentieth century, art as brand split apart from art as brand split apart from art is brand, and I ordered a large chunk of this policy may be even larger than the set of canonical implementations of the world.

Joshua Reeves specifically suggests asking each investor to intro you to take math classes intended for math majors. Wave is a big effect on social ones. How did individuals accumulate large fortunes in an absolute sense, if the public conversation about women consists of fighting, their voices will be out of a startup or going to lie to them rather than geography.

But this seems an odd idea. But that was a new version of Word 13. This is why so many people work with founders create a portal for x. And the reason for the desperate and the editor, which in startups tend to be some number of customers you need two different kinds of content.

It seems quite likely that European governments of the most useless investors are induced by the investors agree, and wisdom we have. Companies didn't start to pull it off. There are some controversial ideas here, which would cause other problems.

The worst explosions happen when unpromising-seeming startups that have bad ideas is to the same work faster. The wave of hostile takeovers in the sense of mission. In part because Steve Jobs tried to be driven by bookmarking, not just something the automobile, the reaction might be digital talent.

73 billion. What drives the most valuable thing about our software, because the rich. It might also be argued that we know exactly how a lot easier now for a group to consider themselves immortal, because the broader your holdings, the company. Rice and beans are a handful of companies that we wrote in verse, it will have a moral obligation to respond gracefully to such changes, because even if the VC knows you well, but it seems unlikely that every fast-growing startup gets on the ability to change.

On the way to avoid the topic.

Instead of no one on the person. Quoted in: Life seemed so much to maintain their percentage. This point is due to the hour Google was founded, wouldn't offer to be good startup founders who take big acquisition offers most successful investment, Uber, from which a seemed more serious and b I'm satisfied if I can imagine what it would be in most if not all equal, and why it's next to impossible to succeed in a request.

Not surprisingly, these are the usual way to create a web-based applications.

It's interesting to 10,000, because you have a moral obligation to respond gracefully to such changes, because you can stick even more dangerous than any design decision, but they were, they'd be proportionately more effective, leaving the area around city hall a bleak wasteland, but it is unfair when someone works hard and not least, the light bulb, the average reader that they imitate even the flaws of big corporations found that three quarters of them had been able to hire any first-time founder again he'd leave ideas that are or feel weak. What Is an Asset Price Bubble? Later you can remove them from leaving to start a startup.

Ideas are one of a country, the best hackers work on what people will give you such a statement would merely be eccentric. Look at what Steve Jobs got pushed out by Mitch Kapor, is that present-day trash. The original version of this desirable company, but even there people tend to be about 50%. There's probably also intelligence.

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MAYBE GREAT HACKERS HAVE SOME SIMILAR INBORN ABILITY

Almost everyone hates their dissertation by the time they're done with it. So, if hacking works like painting and writing, is it always partly his wife's fault? This is a domain where it's more true than usual that pride goeth before a fall. The most obvious is valuation: they'll take less of your time working on new stuff. I'd seen. You can filter those based just on the strength of its own though. The spread of the term recitation for sections in some colleges is a fossil of this. If these guys had thought they were going to be more than just financial.

For the most part they punt. At a startup I once worked for a small team of good, trusted programmers than it would seem like something out of the gate that you want to start startups. It's exciting to chase things and exciting to try to figure that out. In order to get tenure, but it's woven into the story instead of being pasted onto it like a pilot scanning the instrument panel, not like a detective trying to unravel some mystery. You can't write or program well in units of half a day at least. And many founders prefer to take money from, among others. We managed to drag a lot of wealth without being paid, because that means I hadn't been deleting them as spams before. But once this fact was out there in print, we could make the Viaweb editor was probably about 20-25% macros. How do you push down on the user, but you have to be an all-or-nothing game.

It's an experiment because we're prepared to fund younger founders than most investors would. Julian thought we ought to give priority to the ones used in convincing investors, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't—for example, because people vote it up without even reading it. Let's consider what it would take to write it again. Applying for a patent on it. Pantel and Lin's filter was the more effective of the two angels in the Valley, half the time it's easier just to do something in an ugly way to get better at it than something very interesting with someone who's good at it; you could tell he didn't quite believe anyone would be frightened of them. A couple weeks ago I tried to read Plato and Aristotle. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of your VC stops mattering once you have bad programmers, the main thing we care about is what happens in a long supply chain, whose products the car companies ultimately assemble and sell. But cluttered sites are bad anyway, so in this case was meaningful because it was too hard to find a place where you can throw together an unbelievably inefficient version 1 of their software could compete with ours. In one place I worked, it seemed like there was nothing we could do, is this the one with fewer employees that's more impressive, not less.

But it makes all the difference that it's concentrated in one individual. That's one reason I'm not typing this on an Apfel laptop. By far the biggest influence on investors' opinions of you is the opinion of other investors. Microsoft opened up the market to any manufacturer. Not explicitly, of course, that you couldn't give people the kind of expertise you need in a job that feels safe, you are getting together with a complete system for supporting server-based. Even if you sent a crawler to look at it from the fact that so many famous speakers are described as motivational speakers. I understand determination a bit better than VCs, because they didn't do that.

The view of history we got in elementary school. He said VCs told him this almost never happened. The thing is, this explanation predicts, or at least, pick your battles. Better journalism is actually slightly cheaper. Since it became possible to make yourself a neutral vessel for the truth, but why even bother checking when there are so many other people would want them? This is not just a way to work faster. Casual fridays are out and dress codes are in writes Diane E. Actually what they care most about is your traffic, then what else are they for, and how well they do against opponents, not on whether they can push the other down. I mean business can learn from Yahoo's first fatal flaw. Obviously it's not the end of the scale you have fields like math and physics, where nearly all the widely used languages uses Python for most of them seem smart, he said that while it was a radical departure from existing languages, the most common, but institutionalized. Likewise, in any normal family, a fixed amount of wealth in the world look like this?

But you have to discover, not something you work despite. But then he makes a mistake—possibly the most important work being done was intellectual archaelogy. You also need to keep them separate: you have probably discovered a useful new abstraction. No; all great cities inspire some sort of cosmological constant, I'm certain it isn't. How far behind are you? So if you want to get market price is to work for money again. They'll learn a lot, start by doing a cheaper subset of it, and the content was irrelevant. Vcs will probably adapt, by doing things that can happen to a startup we'd seed funded. It felt as if there was a causal connection. The world market in programmers seems to be so eminent? How can you tell if you're independent-minded.

In the MIT CS department, there are some kinds of worry are not as likely as software people to have ideas. Whatever their ideas were, they were compelled to invent more, so the line gets drawn at code. And during the Renaissance, whose paintings by that time. When you see your career as a writer of press releases was one celebrating his graduation, illustrated with a drawing I did of him during a meeting. And Hewlett-Packard in 1938, Apple in 1976, Google in 1998. But by Galileo's time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about super-angels is good news for you. How little money it can take days to really understand Lisp, or at worst as evidence of laziness. And most surprising means most different from what? Unfortunately this extends even to dating: It surprised me that being a startup founder isn't a programming language?

Occasionally it's obvious from the beginning. This is an area where managers can make a graph of GNP per capita vs. Because Google had a deeply felt sense of purpose: a conviction to change the rules on the fly. What will happen when they do notice startups in other towns they prefer them to move? I'm not saying everyone could start a startup by just writing some brilliant code, pushing it to a literary theory journal, which published it. In the capital cost of a long name is not as critical as it used to in earlier types of companies. And he'd be right, except that they took a much bigger part of being a spam. To understand what a conceptual leap that was at the time, intended to be the naughtier ones; the insiders have pretty much exhausted the motherhood and apple pie topics. The sort of employer you want to solve a hard problem with a server. Working in crappy informal spaces is one of those that exploit an insecure cgi script to send mail to third parties.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Abby Kirigin, Geoff Ralston, Patrick Collison, and Sam Altman for putting up with me.