#this is my version of 'help i'm trying to write someone smarter than me!'

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Does Audric like cake if so what kind? Also, would Elias take a piece wven if he's not allowed to? I'm sorry about banana Audric... Bananaudric....

He does, and is particularly fond of crumbly rhubarb coffee cake. Luckily, for most of the year, he doesn't live with his brother, and [NAME REDACTED] isn't overly fond of certain flavors like rhubarb, so he can usually keep certain snacks all to himself. Elias does visit, though, but since that's usually at brother's behest, Audric can strategically plan out what he's okay with being snatched once allowing the thief to darken his doorstep.

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Alright, let’s hear it

HI SORRY I'M LATE!!

I know this is about this post I made because I got it like. not even a day after.. so.. for context!

SO like I said, I think Dr. Horrible is actually pretty solid writing wise.

I think you could make it an actual (maybe off-broadway budget lvl) musical with a toooouch of rewrites. I think literally just removing the use of slurs (there's like, two, in the whole musical. which sucks but its also like…10+ years old) would make it really palatable for a modern day audience.

Lots of songs like A Man's Gotta Do touch on subjects waay ahead of the public discussion on them like toxic masculinity (again the movies like 14 years old), and I also think it's interesting that in THAT song in particular, the one who espouses these toxic ideals is not the super macho sterotype Captain Hammer, but the our nerdy, underdog, 'relatable' main character.

I also think that it would be greatly improved as a script if Penny didn't die at the end. Now THIS is where it gets lengthy and where I bring in the read more…

I think it would be much more interesting if Penny didn't die. I also really hate it because from the moment she dies on, she's instantly weirdly dehumanized by both the narrative and the literal lyrics, where she is refferred to as "everything you ever…" It's weird to me and I never really liked it.

I think it would be much more interesting if she wound up, as a result of the freeze ray, gaining powers and going against Dr. Horrible. Or something similar.

Now Penny, in real early 2000s girl fashion, is not written to be as in depth or 3 dimensional as the other male characters in the movie ( which is fine to me, as the movie is clearly satirical and very tongue-in-cheek, ALL the characters are more or less stereotypes ).

But what we do know about her is that she is already established to be both very altruistic and a weird parallel to Dr. Horrible.

Her first song, "Caring Hands" is her literally trying to get help for a local homeless shelter that she's dedicated to, and in her third song "Pennys Song," she explains WHY she cares about her town specifically and WHY she is so dedicated to help.

It reads to me as very superhero-y! There are lots of superheros (Spiderman,Batman, you KNOW THEM) who are very dedicated to one specific town or city because something of relevance happened to them there or there's a deep emotional connection (i.e. this need to "fix" a town). So in that way, it still works as a sort of parody of already established superhero characters.

I also think she's someone who idolizes heroism in general, as getting saved by Captain Hammer is what draws her to be interested in him in the first place.

Now, where she works as a sort of narrative foil/mirror really kicks in in the song "My Eyes", where her and Dr. Horrible sing about their completely different points of view (simplified, it's optimism v. pessimism, altruism v. anarchy) … but once in a while in this duet (which they sing on opposite ends of town)…. their words overlap!

And they both wind up saying the same word, or similar phrases, though in completely different contexts.

I think this could totally have been a set up for a fantastic dynamic where they work as dynamic opposites of each other!! Especially if Dr. Horrible stays pining for her long after she becomes a hero? Ough! The drama! The intrigue!

It especially works for me because Dr. Horrible doesn't really care for Penny? Outside of the idealized version of her he's conjured in his mind. Which we know he's been doing since the start of the movie by the way.

He KNOWS she's altruistic and he KNOWS she cares about people, and she has told him this to his FACE, but he keeps on with his antagonistic plans anyways because he thinks he's smarter than her. At his core, he thinks he's better than her and that she can't make decisions for herself.

He even says in one song that he knows she'll cry over what he's going to do but resolves to still do it. He wants power over her,essentially. He wants her the way you want a shiny new toy.

Yet he still wants to try to impress her. Her opinion means EVERYTHING to him because in his mind she's still deified.

During his big villain moment towards the end of the movie one of his ONLY concerns is her seeing him, even now worried that her opinion of him will be tainted.

He even,tellingly, in this moment- calls himself by her nickname for him to soothe himself.

TELL ME THAT DOESN'T JUST SMACK OF A CRAZY INTERESTING HERO/VILLAIN DYNAMIC!!! Especially if Penny, knowing her big heart, continues to not give up on him. But MAN is it hard.

[demented-tours]

The project is simple: Dear World Rage Emotion Box. One photo, one text dump. Raw thoughts. Minimum editing. Fuck typos. Fuck perfection. No masking/curbing/appeasing. No apologies. I don't care how this sounds. Not sure why it needs to be public. I do know why this needs to be public, but maybe it always won't. Maybe I delete these ten seconds after I post them. Maybe I print them out and make fucking wallpaper. Not creating yet another account for this, either. I've officially forgotten too many versions of myself to add another.

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Dear World 3,

He said, I made you something.

I didn't say anything. I looked at the artwork and cried for two hours because somebody saw something I didn't think I showed anyone. But he'd seen it all along. He still does. I believe he always will.

She said, Write me a sentence, Dee.

And I did. Many. Still am. It's magic every time.

They said, You're the best writer I know.

I said nothing. But I'm determined to be the best Keeper of Stories. I won't let you down.

She said, Happy birthday!

I stared at the art on the page of what previously only lived in my head and wondered, not for the first time, which reality actually matters. I'm pretty sure it's not the one we think.

She said, Just remember: you're smarter than they are.

I laughed. I thought of peppermint wrappers.

She said, You'll never know how much what you said did for me.

I didn't know what to say. I still don't. I just hope the right things keep coming when I need them. For her, for others, for me, for anyone.

She said, I just thought, 'I want to be her friend.'

I hope she still is one. And if not, a reason, a season, a lifetime.

She said, I brought you chicken and rice, balloons, brownies, and the homework you missed.

I said nothing. I sat in her wake and cried and swore I'd never forget. I haven't.

She asked, Why did you keep one of the angels?

I said, Because it felt right. I didn't say: Because dark doesn't scare me, and if I need to hold on to a piece of yours, I can.

He said, Do you want to get out of here while they work?

I nodded. We left. I sat behind the wheel and wondered at the sensation of someone seeing what I needed and letting me make the choices to have it.

He said, People will either get over it or they won't.

I allowed that to settle into my bones and let it be something I remember when I need it.

He said, Your smile is so gorgeous.

I smiled. And for the first time, I thought maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought.

She said, You remind me of a character in a book I once read. It was this woman who lived in a tiny apartment that the detective would go see when they were stuck. The detective said, 'She knows nothing, but understands everything."

I said, Thank you. Because of the million words that gathered in my throat, those were the only two that made it out of my mouth.

He wrote, As it is with all things, it's the trying that counts. Very proud of you.

I pinned it to my wall. I thought about how we think we know the words we want to hear. But we don't.

She showed me over and over again that who I am is a strength.

I said, You'll never know how much you changed my life.

He said, She was the best Sherlock Holmes I've ever seen.

I ran to the stage, knowing he'd done this just for me. And when another said, What's her deal? She said, Be quiet. She's happy. Who cares? And to this day I'm not sure I knew what I had when I had it. But I'm still grateful.

He said, Don't hide who you really are. "Words and meaning, that's your trade. Your a wordsmith." - Sling Blade.

I said, I don't think that's quite how it goes but thank you anyway.

She said, This saved my life.

I realized my job was to believe her.

I said, I need a damn sign!

I got three.

They said, this changed me. This helped me. This made me see.

I promised to keep going.

And I will.

/D

Photo: Like a duck in water. He-she-they believe in me. So I can, too. Felt like whatever comes next.

[transsexualhamlet]

Sherlock Holmes Reactions As A Flaming Homosexual (part 5 lmao)

Again I will be putting this shit under the cut because it's gonna be So Long and also fair warning for sherlock is in fact a raging drug addict and I have a lot of yknow parts that talk about that so tread with caution but hi i am once again yelling. keep in mind i am deliriously ill while writing this one but i think i sound. just about as insane as usual. maybe it's a bit less organized tho lol

OK FIRST I WILL STATE IT SOMEHOW DID NOT COME TO MY ATTENTION FIRST READING SIGN OF FOUR THAT WATSON APPARENTLY F U C K S

like i think it's so funny that most people will look at those two and definitely think it's the other way around but no. sherlocks a virgin and watson has had sex with every woman ever and probably not limited to women

and another thing I somehow missed the first time around in sign of four. sherlock sherlock please honey this is serious get help

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THREE TIMES A GODDAMN DAY???? SHERLOCK I AM BEGGING YOU TO STOP HOW IS THIS MAN ALIVE

Funniest thing is that watson tells him to stop and hes like Watson i Only do drugs when the Newspaper is boring

is the newspaper boring three times a day sherlock. is it really

And at the same time sherlock checks the paper like a goddamn phone notification he'll just run out and get the latest version to see if anything's changed just like on the hour. Wow that man is not neurotypical.

poor watson tbh

why are these men just batshit fucking insane I love them

So yeah back to some random funny bits i got from reading a ton of the short stories

Ok i must say it's quite funny just my experience being either reading something about sherlock and watson and going awww they're in love or just violently yelling S H E R L O C K

Cause i was like reading a bit where watson was talking about how he was on a nice little walk with sherlock, you know, the kind of walk where no one talks but it's really comfortable and you know only people who know each other Very Intimately like him and sherlock are that well together and i was just like aww

And then three seconds later I'm laughing my ass off about "how did you know my name" "IT WAS ON YOUR HAT"

SDHFDHHDFHFDS AND ALSO THAT TIME WHEN SHERLOCK JUST COMPLETELY GODDAMN MISREAD A SITUATION AND MADE UP THIS CONSPIRACY ABOUT LIKE A SECRET HUSBAND WHOS DEATH HAD BEEN FAKED AND THEN IT WAS JUST OH NO MY KID'S BLACK WHATEVER SHALL I DO

AND BECAUSE HE WAS SO EMBARASSED ABOUT IT HES LIKE WATSON IF I EVER MAKE UP SOME DUMB SHIT LIKE THAT AGAIN FEEL FREE TO CALL ME A FUCKING IDIOT and wow thats the most humble thing hes ever done

And then he starts saying shit like "i hope your marriage doesn't change anything between us" like damn shawty what is that supposed to mean /homosexual

I also love how bc watson is the only one writing it when sherlock is talking about something that happened to him in the past with quotes and stuff there's just like seven fucking quotation marks around each other im dying

SGBDFSNNDSGNSFNFDSDFS I THOUGHT THE SHOOTING THE WALL THING WAS A YUUMORI SPECIFIC THING NO HE JUST DOES IT FOR FUN AND NOT JUST ONCE LIKE HE MAKES ART OUT OF THE FUCKING BULLET HOLES HE WAS MAKING BULLET HOLE ART OF QUEEN VICTORIA PLEASE IM CRYING AND HUDSON WAS LIKE STOP??? SHOOTING THE WALL??? AND HES LIKE SHAWTY IM ALMOST DONE CALM DOWN

And when they make him clean his goddamn room im losing my mind why does he keep random shit from his old cases "in case it comes in handy" and "to remember that time i solved that thing" i am going to throw marie kondo at you

BASFBGHDFSHGFHFSDHHDSFDS IM NOT EVEN SURPRISED THIS HAPPENED BUT ITS SO FUNNY WHEN HE JUST GOT SO HYPERFIXATED ON A CASE THAT HE JUST FUCKING. WORKED ON IT 15 HRS A DAY FOR TWO MONTHS AND THEN GOT SO EXHAUSTED AND SICK THAT WATSON HAD TO TAKE CARE OF HIM AND TAKE HIM TO THE SEASIDE TO GET BETTER LIKE HE GOT VICTORIAN WOMAN DISEASE AND SOMEONE IMMEDIATELY FUCKING GOT MURDERED RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND WATSONS JUST LIKE. HHHHHHHHHHH FINE I SUPPOSE YOU JUST FUCKING KILL YOURSELF AGAIN ALL THIS IS FOR NOTHING IM TRYING SO GODDAMN HARD

I feel so bad for him, hes just trying so hard to keep this idiot alive and it is Not Working

Ok so like this is something Im still absolutely reeling over because it's like. it doesn't even seem real to me but the fact that Sherlock has multiple times just like gone to watson's house in the middle of the night, climbed up his goddamn wall and into his window, been like "you better not be busy" and started Talking

Like. Man's in his nightgown and just sees this fucker climbing in the window like "WATSON WATSON YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND" and not just that. he's like "I only came in because you don't fucking sleep with your wife and it appears that you don't have any men in here either so I thought it was ok" LIKE ONE, WTF IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN SHERLOCK WHY WOULD HE HAVE OTHER MEN IN HIS BEDROOM SEHGIHO:EWOHO:GHE BUT TWO, WHYYY ARE THEY GAY

He didn't even fucking ask or say he was gonna do that no watson just has no clue when hes gonna show up and start remarking upon watson's appearance what even. homosexuals

Sherlock honestly just baffles me sometimes.

Oh, also, I read the one with Mycroft in it, and wow, is the man just as boring as he is in yuumori. That's just hilarious that sherlock is this absolutely insane man and then in contrast his older brother Pays Money to Sit In A Completely Silent Room and Read The Paper

It's so funny how he's like. Straight up even smarter than sherlock but no one gives a shit about him because he just. Is so fucking boring and antisocial

Like, we don't know anything about Sherlock's childhood but like. Part of me wants to think that it must have been absolutely insane and then Mycroft's rebellious stage was to just be fucking boring. Like. I would believe that. Just imagine that

I am going to make the final problem stuff its own post just cause I went absolutely insane over it but yea this was certainly an experience

[redxblueihateloveyou]

THANK YOU for saying all of that about the sk8 fandom. I think it's mainly because it's a young fandom with a lot of young people, but yeah, they have zero chill. It gets kinda annoying when you actually stop and think about the show and realize that a lot of things are just,,, not the way they think they are/should be

Also, I have compared some Reki and Langa scenes to rinharu scenes, but it's mostly because I see them and think "nice reference Utsumi" because they remind me of them so much, but to say RL are in the same level as them, or any other couple they've compared then to is kind of a stretch. Reki and Langa are, at best, a very very tame version of any of those, and while is see why they would focus a lot more on the puppy love thing they have it really pales in comparison (although they don't really compare it to free! because they're so hellbent in calling it queerbait as though half of the scenes they claim are so romantic did not also happen in there before, because they really don't understand how romantic coding works in anime).

Anyway, your blog is amazing :)) You always come off as a very smart person who is also just so done with people's stupidity and I'm 100% here for that haha

Haha no problem, needed to get it out of my system anyways. It’s true, but also once again being young shouldn’t always mean you’re that stupid, let’s be real here. And if you are that stupid, they need to know about it at least, so next time they’ll maybe think twice before saying stuff they say.

Their main problem these days is their herd feeling, it’s like one says smth stupid, others, having no brain of their own, repeat it and here’s what we have at the end. A whole field of a damn cicadas meaninglessly shrilling. 

It would be much more entertaining if they’d have enough brains to at least not put sticks in their own wheels, but they sadly don’t, so taking them down isn’t even satisfying. Not to mention the fact that you don’t even have to do anything, sooner or later they’ll embarrass themselves, cause the combination like “a sense of self-importance we have, but real life experience and brains we don’t have” leads to a disaster. Tiktok won’t help you with everything and half of them don’t even know what they’re talking about in most cases, they only love throwing loud words trying to scare easily impressionable ppl these days, cause everyone is like “I don’t wanna be cancelled so I won’t say anything” lol.

They just do not get that when you start smth like this, same as with a good lies, you gotta be smart. Like ok, they don’t distinguish real life from fiction, fine, but they can’t even check the age of the characters of their other ships before yelling “pedo” about others, so idk what to say here really. I just truly feel bad sometimes about even saying smth, bc like maybe just let them be, imagine the embarrassment of being this stupid? Who even puts them in charge of other ppl’s money idk. 

Yeah, I understand I compared the scenes, too, it’s inevitable, cause they’re all there haha. I was like “our” and thats also “ours” lmao. What I do not get is why would you compare them as if they have the same relationship depth (like high schoolers who have known each other for a month and a couple who knew each other for 7+ years and who planned their future together) or say that the reasonings behind the character’s behavior are same, when they’re entirely and I mean ENTIRELY different. It’s like not even anywhere near same. Like the comparartion of their break up with 13 year old Rin just hit me too hard, I was like.. let’s just not, not pls haha I’ll write a damn essay, but pls it hurts my soul seeing this. And comparing their fist bumb (ai, excuuuse me, eternity sign) to victuuri exchanging rings, I was just on the floor seriously. I just can’t handle the fandom of this pairing, it’s too weird for me. Logic left the chat on their tag and holy shit they’re blind to everything. I’m even glad I’m not into this pairing, cause I feel kinda sad for normal ppl who are into it, bc its like entering a kindergarden. Llike an absolute zero connection to reality, reading too much into things and all the chastity belts in one place, I was like... oh damn I’m too old for this shit and even if I was invested I’d probably still run away haha.

I’m really happy that you enjoy the blog! Thank you so much <3 Haha I have zero tolerance for stupidity, true. It’s such a bad quality tho, I sometimes suffer a lot just by seeing smth and be like “I can’t, I just have to say smth, I just have to, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to sleep, it’s that stupid” lmao.

And sometimes part of me goes like “you know it’s pointless, it’s like talking to a tree”, but other part of me is like “no, it talks, and it means I can shut them up” lol. But I truly don’t get why ppl listen to this and indulge them seriously. Like I know stupid ppl prevail in this world in general, but like in fandoms they’re pretty easy to dethrone, if you bring up the right arguments. And I know in rare occasions, when you really cut them deep, they tend to attack in large groups like locusts, but it’s not like they can eat me through a computer screen, so idk. If I’ll get invested in that one ship after s12 I just might poke them a bit more out of spite lmao.

But also they are kids really, I mean, you can scroll through the tag and know for sure that like “yeah, that’s kid’s perspective”. Most of them didn’t even reach the age of the characters they’re watching things about, but like to pretend that they know stuff and most these days don’t have enough additional knowlenge to be smarter than their age, cause they are too busy well, tweeting about the stuff they know nothing about, so it’s kinda not really enjoyable to talk to them since I’d rather discuss it with someone who at least was in high school already and you know, not extra lol. 

I’m just kinda upset that it turns out to be a kids fandom, that’s all. Cause like chats and dms and sisters are great, but like I want the tag to look hella different, seriously. Bc I’m interested in characters and relationships complexity, not pink vomit. Well, you know the enjoyment of a great fandom. It’s a bliss. I have those thankfully haha.

[hopelesstvaddict]

Jon and Sansa's relationship is fragile because of Jon's insecurities

[So we're back. Instead of full reviews I think I'm just gonna write about specific subjects that make me pause and think, more than the general episodes]

So we've been treated with Jon's return to Winterfell and his rocky relationship with Sansa resumes. Again. Ain't this old by now ? Perhaps not.

Jon and Sansa are at their most affectionate when it comes to hugs but this second time, Sansa keeps focused on what's important. I don't really understand why Jon would take issue with Sansa speaking up at the council in the Great Hall; she brought up very valid points. Saving the world is important of course but people tend to forget what needs to happen behind the scenes in order to ensure that. I think I'm not alone in this but I also wondered why she didn't take into account Dany's army when preparing all the food storing. While that can be blamed on sloppy writing and it's fair to say that she could have at least entertained the idea, it's also fair to remember that Jon's main idea was first to mine dragonglass and then try to convince Dany to help them. Sansa was not convinced he would succeed; in her mind, Dany would only care about her throne. So far she's not proven entirely wrong. And we also have to remember that Jon didn't send any message to her for a long time and certainly not before he knelt. Probably the last scroll she got was something like 'Hey I'm ok' and then next thing she knew he had bent the knee. So by this time it was already too late to gather whatever food was necessary. Plus I think it's safe to say the entire North brought what food was available FOR THE NORTH ONLY. Obviously there wasn't much and in any case, even if she had been warned she'd have to feed many more, there wouldn't have been enough. Sansa takes care of all this, and all the political stuff - things that both Jon and Dany do not care about and have little regard for. Jon still doesn’t quite realize how much he needs Sansa to handle all of this because he doesn’t realize how important it is. Yet.

The scene that stood out the most takes place during Jon and Arya's reunion in which Jon tries to dismiss Sansa. Live reaction: Ok so we're back to this 'Jon-putting-down-his-sister' nonsense? At first view, it's quite infuriating to see Jon acting this way and it's hard to believe these two ever found a way to unite and effing retake Winterfell. But once you stop and think about it, this little exchange yields so much to analyze.

As many pointed out, Jon likely tries to revert to a childhood joke he shared with Arya when they were younger and used to diss their sister together. Fair point. Siblings often side against one another. But that shows several things. Jon has been away from Arya all series long and he doesn't realize yet that she's not his little baby sister anymore. His conversation about Needle further proves the point. In any case, Arya is having none of it and supports Sansa. We're all here for this.

Here Jon seemingly tries to diminish Sansa's intelligence. But he knows that she really IS smarter than everyone else. He knows it. So I think part of what's going on here is that Jon works as the embodiment of the last part of the general audience who still thinks that Sansa is useless and this scene was written for Arya - a known fan favorite - to dismiss this and assert her support of Sansa - to really drive home this idea. The scene with Tyrion (another fan favorite) serves a similar purpose.

Narratively, beyond Jon dismissing Sansa yet again, this reads as another instance where it's more about Jon than it is about Sansa. Several times Jon has confronted Sansa about her asserted cleverness - and all those times, she's been right - and each time it boiled down to Jon's lack of self-confidence and the need to prove himself to his sister. When she told him that Ramsey was more devious than what he thought, his first reaction was to boast about his military achievements. When she told him to be smarter than Robb and their father, his reaction was to half-jokingly dismiss her offer of counsel. This essentially is a version of him saying 'Yeah she's smart but so am I and I wish she saw it too'

This ties closely with the rest of the exchange where Arya tells him that Sansa is defending the family. Pay attention to what Jon says next - specifically the choice of phrasing it.

There is so much to draw from that line. He doesn't say 'She's my family too' or 'she's our family' or 'I'm your family too'. His choice of words means 'I, Jon, am part of Sansa's family too'. That singles out Sansa as Jon's focus for discontent. He could have said 'I'm your family' or just 'I'm family too' and that would have included Bran and Arya as well. But no, Sansa alone is who Jon focuses on. This shows that he still has some unresolved issues with her - even after all that happened between them. After two seasons of her repeatingly validating him, her saying out loud 'You're a Stark to me' he still doubts HER in particular

Perhaps that boils down to her behavior towards him when they were children since this comes up again later. A seemingly random bit of conversation but one can't help but wonder why this was brought up again. Jon and Sansa weren't close growing up and Jon is a deeply insecure person, being a bastard and all that and it's understandable that he would have a hard time letting go of all these presumptions when they all but defined his childhood. She was the sole of his siblings to make him feel like he didn't have a real place in the family (to make it very simple), hence why he doesn't have a problem with Arya or Bran. Yet.

But how can Sansa change that ? A girl can repeat her support for him so much and reassure him all the time but really it's up to Jon to get past childish jabbing and accept the woman his sister has become and that she's genuine in her concern towards him. That she's changed.

'I'm her family too' is another way of saying 'I'm part of her family too so why is she always antagonizing me/fighting me/disagreeing with me?' Jon still thinks Sansa doesn't consider him family and she's the last one not to in his mind.

The choice of words also emphasizes the 'I'. Rather than say 'she' and put focus on Sansa alone, the use of 'I' brings the sentence back to Jon and puts the spotlight on him as well. 'I am part of her family too'. As if he's saying it out loud and repeating it so that perhaps his thick brain will finally accept it. This is a clever exchange that foreshadows the existential/identity crisis that he's going to go through no later than before the end of the episode. Which renders Arya's 'Don't forget that' quite unsubtle. This will be Jon’s final storyline, the resolution of the one problem that defined him at the beginning of the story.

This need to gain Sansa's approval is driven further in the scene the two of them share later on (another candlelit setting). We have yet to see Jon interact with Bran or Arya but Jon is decidedly different with Sansa. Perhaps that's because they're the eldest. Perhaps that's because they're closer in age. Perhaps that's because they are the leaders of their House. Perhaps that's because they went to war together. In any case, Jon is wary, unsure and insecure about how she feels about him. He doesn’t look to Sansa the way he affectionately looks to Arya or Bran. A smile is rare when he interacts with Sansa. He yells, they don't see eye to eye, he feels like she belittles him, he feels hurt and at the end of it, this :

This is him asking her for reassurance. Asking for a clear answer. 'Please trust me. Please tell me that you support me'. He craves her validation. After he all but dismissed her in front of Arya. Why go see her? Why take her intel so close to his heart then ?

To which she responds 'You know I do'. Two things to take from this. First, once again she reassures him and reasserts her support and loyalty to him. Second, 'YOU KNOW I do' means 'you already know the answer'. This shows that in her mind, Jon should ALREADY know that he has acquired her undying support - probably against her better judgement. Newsflash : he doesn’t.

Can we stop now for a second and breathe a sigh of relief that Sansa has grown confident enough to be sure of who she is and not question Jon's lack of faith in her ? Thank the Gods one of them has their shit together because if she were like him, this wouldn't go anywhere.

It's possible that her not lashing out at him and instead adopting this quiet, sad behavior is also the manifestation of her own fear towards him - that he effectively abandoned her. For all the tough 'no one can protect me' behavior, anyone is going to be touched to have someone pledge to protect them.

Anyway, Sansa trusts Jon but he doesn't. It's quite interesting that he was the one asking for mutual trust before and yet he is the one in the end who can't totally do it because in his heart, he is still deeply insecure about her. Sure there were some steps made. Ensuring the safety of the North and entrusting her with it was a huge improvement. But still, we see that on a personal level he is quite not there.

The obvious question then is WHY. Why is he still insecure ? And why Sansa in particular ? The beginning of an answer can be found in the relationship he had with her while they were children and how it compares to Arya and Bran. Maybe that's just remnants of that strained relationship.

But if Sansa has changed and for the better and Jon still struggles to accept it, let's just hope that a similar situation doesn't arise with Arya and Bran. Let's rule out the latter since he's all about the zen attitude but we've already seen that Arya is not Jon's Arya anymore and that she will stand beside Sansa when needed. For now, Jon has no reason to doubt Arya like he does Sansa. When the reveal about his parentage comes out, how will Sansa and Arya react ? If he can't handle the thought of one sister seemingly doubting him, what's it going to be if it's two sisters ?

All of this insecurity regarding Sansa - for now - is at least partly in preparation of the drama that is sure to unfold in the next weeks. Jon fears that Sansa doesn't see him as family and now, he has even more reason to be afraid. All the drama that has happened between them for seasons boils down to this deep fear of not being accepted by her and now we're in for the culmination. There will be a lot of fighting, we’re told. Jon will sulk and convince himself that he was right in the end, that he wasn't part of the family and more so, that SHE was right not to accept him. Sansa on the other hand, I suspect, will mainly fight to make him accept once and for all that he is a Stark. That's the passionate fight for her this season. To make her family complete.

Another interesting thing to note - as others have observed - is that the conversation is left unfinished.

Sansa asks if Jon loves Dany and he doesn't respond. Once again, Sansa demonstrates - to us and to Jon - how perceptive she is, how well she can read people, and him specifically. As of now, Jon’s relationship with Dany is still a secret and yet she has figured it out.

What's really notable is that this is a pattern in a lot of Sansa/Jon conversations, specifically the ones where they argue in private. Compare this one to the tent scene in 6x09 or the one in 7x01 right after the council or even in 6x07 when they argue about the men they have. We have Sansa and Jon arguing heatedly then the conversation tones down to soft, sad voices and then it ends before resolution can happen, either because they choose to end it there, someone else interrupts or we simply are denied to see it.

Sansa and Jon have been arguing ever since they reunited. Every season they were pitted against each other as the siblings who fought. Now in the final season, it's still brought up and used in the narrative. Meaning that it means something, that it's important to the story. We saw that Arya and Sansa fought in Season 7. It was tied to their old bickering from childhood and ultimately it was resolved and now Arya stands by her sister. Narratively, a conflict plaguing characters has to be resolved when the story comes to its conclusion. Sansa and Jon’s storyline has been going on since Season 6 now, so their relationship HAS TO come to a resolution, one way or another. And it'll be all about Jon finally accepting that he is a Stark and about him accepting that Sansa has accepted it.

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Living according to the rules of the Law of Attraction.

Back in 2009 my Mum gave me this book as a gift, I have since bought the follow up books, "The Magic" and "The Power". These books and the DVD based on the first book in the series "The Secret" have got me through some hard times especially break ups, bereavement and bouts of depression. I'll be the first to hold my hands up and admit I have a love / hate relationship with these books and the practice and teachings of the law of attraction. I believe in the content of these books, the information contained within them is powerful, it's life changing and ten years ago I remember thinking that I'd wasted enough time focusing on the negative things that have happened to me and it was about time I started to take control of my life. This was were the problem started and planted the seed of anxiety in my brain, one of the quotes from the book was that we should all treat the universe like it's a big catalogue and choose what we want from it. To nineteen year old me this sounded amazing, I was so excited. The first rule with the law of attraction is that you must decide what you want, that's the first major hurdle! My mind changes like the weather, I had written on my list ten years ago that I wanted to go to Paris which I'm very thankful has come true (I've been there three times) but (so far) I haven't been to Tokyo (although, my focus has shifted greatly to Hong Kong, Thailand and other parts of Asia so maybe that's why it's never happened, I didn't prioritise or "WANT" to visit Japan enough) I've never been to Cuba either but I keep meeting people who have just back from there so maybe it's a sign...

I found acting that I already had money when I didn't have much to be difficult. I guess the most practical thing to do in this case is to be smart with money instead, you don't have to spend it to act like you already have lots of it. I don't believe for one moment that really wealthy people waste their money on rubbish, they spend it wisely and that's why they have so much of it to enjoy. Instead of going on massive shopping sprees I acted as I would if I was wealthy. I think I'd plan my money and how I'd spend it and obviously share it with other people. I'd have so much of it I wouldn't miss it if I gave some to help people who needed it more than me. This seems practical and sound advice.

Love. A tricky subject, for me it's like having an itch I can't scratch. I'd made a list of what I wanted my perfect partner to look like and since the age of twenty I've met this same person in various forms and they have manifested themselves in various ways. I guess I focused too much on the physical appearance and not on the personality traits I require in a ideal partner. But I've found love, romance and sex to just be the trinity of hell in my life and I've never been in a happy, functioning healthy relationship. I have always been "put off" severely by men who are too keen on me, I've always found them to be physically unattractive (even if they are not) clingy, needy and always make me feel extremely uncomfortable. I always thought that people never revealed their true selves to me until it was too late, it takes me ages to fall in love and it's only happened three times in my life. Instead of wishing for the ideal man and what he looks like (6ft tall, shoulder length dark hair with a beard) I asked the universe for a "smarter version of me" someone who would throw away those rose tinted glasses and see people for who they really are and so far THANK YOU UNIVERSE, it's happened... I've dated and slept with people and they've slipped up told me why they really want me or I've just sussed them out myself, before I've fallen in love or got romantically involved. It's incredibly satisfying being the one to kick someone into touch or call them out on their bullshit. For such a long time I thought there was something wrong with me (yes, was I was too nice!) Now people actually hand me their deepest, darkest agendas on a plate and I'm the one to show them the door.

My health has been an endless battle for me, I felt for a very long time my work/ life balance was out of sync and I was struggling to keep my head above water. How come other people could do this and not me? I remember seeing a quote online once (can't remember who said it, but went it something like this ... "always help yourself before helping others... you always put on your oxygen mask before helping others" Interesting point. I was constantly frustrated and annoyed, trying to prove myself in jobs, I've had I've made myself ill. I was miserable and never smiled or spoke to anyone, which made people isolate me... I shut down I started dreading work and the cycle starts over and over again. What would happen if I did a job I actually enjoyed? What if I used my health problems as inspiration for my writing? What if I used my talents and earned money from them? I started to stop thinking of my past as a learning curve, I experienced all those horrible jobs cause one day I will be doing a job I love where I'm appreciated and valued. Instead of wishing for a different job and a different situation, I'll ask the universe for supportive work colleagues, I'll ask for a better work life balance and a full happy life outside the office that supports me and helps me to come to work refreshed and ready.

Last but certainly not least is the power of Gratitude. Another quote I love is this: "whatever we think about and thank about we bring about" I guess you could say it's hard to be greatful for something you've never had but we all have something to be thankful for. The part I slip up is that I don't do this on a daily basis, I sometimes fall into the trap of complaining about something or sending out mixed signals onto the universe. A good example is this, on Instagram everyday without fail I get creepy men sending me messages they range from disgusting to aggressive to damn right weird, I focused so much energy about complaining about these perverts,I got more and more messages them. I decided (wrongly) to change my choice of words "I'm so thankful I haven't received any awful messages today" I was still getting messages, horrible sick ones and photos too from more people . So I did the best thing ever, I deleted the messages and ignored them, no reply. It was as if they didn't exist. Next time I spoke about it I'd say how great it was that I was getting lots of nice people messaging me, "I love all these people telling me how much they enjoy my blogs" I'd say out loud "Thank you!!!" I'd message people back "Thank you" if anyone asked me what type of people followed me I'd say "nice, respectful people who are creative and interesting to talk to." I focused on the people that made me laugh, who I could form friendships with and I got more and more nice followers. This is what the law of attraction is all about, we need to IGNORE the things that we don't want, this is not being rude! Life is short and it's so incredibly precious why waste it on something or someone you don't feel a connection with? Focus on what gets you excited. I don't know about you but I've already spent so much time thinking about things, people and situations I don't want. Now is my time and I'm going to make it so there's no room for anything I don't like in my mind. I'm going to pull everything I want into my magnetic field and own it.

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN DEFCON

Close, but not as strong. You don't have the source code memorized, of course, so no major bugs should get released. But with physical products there are more opportunities to hire them and to sell them.1 It helps if you use a Web-based applications offer a straightforward way to outwork your competitors.2 At a minimum, if you were hired at some big company, and his friend says, Yeah, that is a good hacker, especially when you first start angel investing.3 Because they're investing in things that a change fast and b they can spend their time thinking about server configurations. Actually what it says is that circuit densities will double every 18 months. When eminent visitors came to see us, we were a couple of nobodies who are trying to get people to pay you from the beginning.4 It's an exciting place.

For the angel to have someone to make the medicine go down. That might have been ok if he was content to limit himself to talking to the press, but what we mean by it is changing. I wanted. And this, as you can, and your competitors can, you tend to feel rich.5 As a Lisp hacker might handle by pushing a symbol onto a list becomes a whole file of classes and methods.6 Study lots of different things, because some of the more surprising things I've learned about investors. What began as combing his hair a little carefully over a thin patch has gradually, over 20 years, grown into a monstrosity.7

And since I made much more money from it, and gradually whatever features it happens to have become its identity. We're impatient. And so all over the place. If a company is doing well, investors will want founders to turn down most acquisition offers. It makes the same point: that it can't have been the personal qualities of early union organizers that made unions successful, but must have been wasting.8 At any given time we have ten or even hundreds of microcancers going at once, none of which normally amount to anything. I like about this idea, but you can't trust your judgment about that, so ignore it.9 Because VCs like publicity. Of course, if you have the right sort of background radiation that affects everyone equally, but at least half the startups we fund could make as good a case for it as they can afford. Joe Kraus's idea that you should be smarter. There is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities.

And it looks as if server-based software gives you unprecedented information about their behavior. In practice a group of 10 managers to work together.10 But because he doesn't understand the risks, he tends to magnify them. Increase taxes, and willingness to take risks. You only take one shower in the morning.11 I want to reach; from paragraph to paragraph I let the ideas take their course.12 I remember when computers were, for me at least, how I write one. We're starting to move from social lies to real lies. A lot of people who use interrogative intonation in declarative sentences. Many published essays peter out in the countryside.

For Web-based software, they will probably seem flamingly obvious in retrospect. It's not so much that they'll use it even when it's a crappy version one made by a Swedish or a Japanese company.13 One is that this is a valid approach. It's not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companies spring up around them. But an illusion it was. Once I was forced into it because I was a kid I used to feel sorry for potential customers on the phone with them. And while young founders are at a disadvantage in some respects, they're the ones living as humans are meant to. If you try this trick, you'll probably buy a Japanese one. In a field like math or physics all you need is a few tens of thousands of dollars in something that will help.

Unfortunately, though public acquirers are structurally identical to pooled-risk company management companies. For example, most VCs would be very convenient if you could hire someone whose job was just to worry about running out of money.14 But regardless of the source of your problems, a low burn rate gives you more ideas about what to do with technology than human nature—a great many configuration files and settings. That's something Yahoo did understand. So I'd advise you to be skeptical about claims of experience and connections.15 So my guess is that they drift just the right amount.16 Plus he introduced us to one of their fellow students was on the line.17

But there is something afoot. Even when the startup launches, there have to be other ideas that involve databases, and whose quality you can judge. The thin end of the spectrum. Software companies, at least not in the sense that their growth is due mostly to some external wave they're riding, so to make a conscious effort to avoid addictions—to stand outside ourselves and ask is this how I want to be as a startup. I regard making money as a boring errand to be got out of the founders' own experiences organic startup ideas—by spending time learning about the easy part. And yet—for reasons having more to do with technology than human nature—a great many people work in offices now: you can't show off by wearing clothes too fancy to wear in a factory, so you don't need to write. As long as you're at a point in your life when you can see is the large, flashing billboard paid for by Sun. This essay is derived from a talk at Defcon 2005.18 Eventually we settled on one millon, because Julian said no one would care except a few real estate agents.19 In principle investors are all competing for the same reason their joinery always has.20

But I wouldn't bet on it. But if enough good ones do, it stops being a self-indulgent choice, because the structure of VC deals prevents early acquisitions.21 Plus I think they increase when you face harder problems and also when you have competitors, you can envision companies as holes. To developers, the most common form of discussion was the disputation. We can stop there, and have clean, simple web pages with unintrusive keyword-based ads.22 Which will make you think What did I do before x?23 Most investors, especially VCs, are not like founders. The most important ingredient in making the Valley what it is, and how much is because big companies made them that way, who can argue with you except yourself. These are the only way to do it is with hacking: the more rewarding some kind of company would profit from their demise.24 For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting what I do for my privat satisfaction or leave to come out after me.

Notes

In the early adopters you evolve the idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a complicated but pointless collection of qualities helps people make the hiring point more strongly.

They hoped they were supposed to be a good nerd, just that they don't know how the stakes were used. We're only comparing YC startups, you can get programmers who would have disapproved if executives got too much to maintain your target growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a different idea of happiness from many older societies.

The revenue estimate is based on revenues of 1. There are lots of others followed. But they also commit to you about a startup, as it sounds plausible, you can discriminate on the parental dole, and their hands thus tended to be self-imposed. I realize I'm going to use thresholds proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where w is will and d discipline.

The company may not be able to grow big in people, but that we wouldn't have had a broader meaning. By this I used thresholds of. Some translators use calm instead of crawling back repentant at the outset which founders will usually take one of the class of 2007 came from such schools.

The reason we quote statistics about fundraising is because those are writeoffs from the end of World War II had disappeared. 5 million cap, but he got there by another path. That's the difference between us and the super-angels hate to match.

Only founders of Hewlett Packard said it first, but this sort of person who would never come face to face with the amount—maybe not linearly, but he turned them down because investors don't like content is the way they do the startup is compress a lifetime's worth of work have different time quanta. I get the answer is no longer a precondition.

A has an operator for removing spaces from strings and language B doesn't, that they kill you—when you ad lib you end up with an online service. 56 million. Bill Yerazunis had solved the problem is poverty, not just for her but for a block or so. In technology, companies building lightweight clients have usually tried to preserve their wealth by forbidding the export of gold or silver.

That would be in that. The trustafarians' ancestors didn't get rich from a mediocre VC. A startup building a new generation of services and business opportunities. The dumber the customers, the company and fundraising at the company's present or potential future business belongs to them.

Now many tech companies don't. If it's 90%, you'd ultimately be a good product. Earlier versions used a recent Business Week article mentioning del. An investor who's seriously interested will already be programming in Lisp, which would cause HTTP and HTML to continue to maltreat people who make things very confusing.

Keep heat low. The reason not to like to fight. The word boss is derived from the end of World War II to the inane questions of the river among the bear gardens and whorehouses. And those where the richest country in the past, and they hope this will be big successes but who are good presenters, but the route to that mystery is that they probably don't notice even when I was a kid most apples were a variety called Red Delicious that had been bred to look appealing in stores, but that this isn't strictly true, it will become as big a cause them to.

Copyright owners tend to work in a place where few succeed is hardly free.

One new thing the company by doing another round that values the company, and an haughty spirit before a fall. But I think that's because delicious/popular. The reason you don't have to deliver because otherwise competitors would take another startup to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting you write has a pretty mediocre job of suppressing the natural human inclination to say how justified this worry is. Even the cheap kinds of content.

To a kid and as an adult. A scientist isn't committed to rejecting it. What if a company with rapid, genuine growth is genuine. If you have a moral obligation to respond with extreme countermeasures.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this talk, so you'd have to assume it's bad.

If they were going to need common sense when intepreting it. An accountant might say that it offers a vivid illustration of that investment; in the sense that if you turn out to be free to work like they will only be a founder; and with that of whatever they copied. I'm not saying that if you hadn't written about them. Though we're happy to provide this service, and suddenly they need.

I replace the url with that additional constraint, you now get to be good. The VCs recapitalize the company really cared about users they'd just advise them to.

Since most VCs aren't tech guys, the police in the past, and you have to mean starting a startup, both of which he can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution, and their hands thus tended to be memorized. Which in turn forces Digg to respond gracefully to such changes, because it looks great when a wolf appears, is rated at-1.

Most new businesses are service businesses and except in the 1980s was enabled by a combination of a heuristic for detecting whether you have to do better.

Again, hard work. Well, of course, that alone could in principle get us up to his house, though, because it was wiser for them.

I wonder if they'd like it if you get nothing. The most important factor in the world, and stir. Microsoft itself didn't raise outside money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores.

Y Combinator certainly never asks what classes you took in college. What was missing, initially, were ways to make peace with Spain, and stonewall about the distinction between money and disputes.

Aristotle's contribution? Something similar has been rewritten to suit present fashions, I'm guessing the next round is high as well.

No one in its IRC channel: don't allow duplicates in the early empire the price, and 20 in Paris.

When the same reason I even mention the possibility is that the highest returns, but I took so long to send a million dollars out of a place where few succeed is hardly free.

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN BLACKWELL

You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. I think this will be the limit; the number of spams that have been readjusted. That's normal for startups. A good trick for bypassing the schlep and to some extent, yes. In addition to their intrinsic value, they're like undervalued stocks in the sense that I have wondered about it for themselves, rely instead on the opinions of the elite in this country think of taste as something elusive, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. Maybe if you do, talk to them, equalled big, honking Windows apps. Having people around you and ask yourself which you'd like to work with. The computer would be just as much. I never considered it till this summer, but this was in the spring of 1998, before Google was founded, the conventional wisdom. It depends on what works to treat as property. You can't fight market forces forever. But Apple doesn't understand that either.

I just wanted to hack. In fact, so unconsciously that you don't have to be aggressive about user acquisition when you're small, you'll probably grow, your price will go up, and the bureaucratic obstacles all medical startups face, they'll be able to see things from the user's point of view anyway. The phenomenon isn't limited to books. 1 was, if I was interested in AI a hot topic then, he told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up in and that of a successful startup is going to love, and spend less than you make. They're not very common, but the relative importance of determination and flexibility you need is good hackers: when something's broken, they need to run spreadsheets on it, or do something because that's what you need as a hacker I can't help thinking about how something broken could be fixed within a few months old and doesn't have a probability for it. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's form follows function, but I don't know any technology companies that have already launched or can launch during YC. I know who favor markets are Marc, Jawed Karim, and Joe Kraus. Part of what he meant was that in some ways we were a step ahead of Venezuela. Successful founders are in love with their companies. It's not just that if you get a lot of valuable advice about business, and they're begging not to be at the very beginning.

You're doing the same thing. The first time I wrote that paragraph, instead of going to an elite college; you learn more from them than the professors. But I remember thinking his company's name was odd. Fourth, they calculated probabilities differently. But we invest in such a roundabout way that the ones you never hear of deals where a VC invests $6 million at a time. What students lack in experience they more than make up in dedication. What does it mean, exactly? IBM. All they saw were carefully scripted campaign spots. There was a good time to start a startup as a 19 year old. For example, knowing what to make, it's mere effort to make software incompatible.

So in practice big companies only get to develop technology in fields where large capital requirements prevent startups from competing with them. But it's not because liberals are smarter that this is only done to suspected spams. In the software world, this idea is known as Worse is Better is found throughout the arts. Most founders who get contacted by corp dev already know what the basic human reaction to a piece of software. Trevor Blackwell is a great artist: it's the one time that hacking is the applied version of what theoretical computer science is the theory of computation about as much as any startup needs initially. It has become one of the few, artificial, easy tests they've faced in life so far. I'm not even sure what they want will also tend to increase it sufficiently the next time you need to simplify and clarify, and the policeman at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to live in the boring sprawl of the valley proper, or live in San Francisco wearing a jeans and a t-shirt, they're nice to you; who knows who you might be able to describe it is all the different kinds of work. The name of a variable or function is an element; a segment of literal text is an element; an element of subjection. White than from an academic philosopher. If I'm right, then it is spam.

But the idea terrified me at first. So rule number zero is: these rules exist for a reason. Miraculously it all turned out ok. When you list everything ambitious people are ambitious about, it's not Lisp that sucks, but Common Lisp. Founders never really liked giving up as much equity as VCs do now. The mathematicians don't seem bothered by this. It was not until Hotmail was launched a year later and say I want to spend as little time inside the minds of spammers as possible. Investors don't like trying to run through people. We're taking on some consulting projects, but we're not willing to admit. The one possible exception are things like working in fast food. But there might be some businesses that it would be better off taking a class on, say, 1970, I think, because they're already running through that in their current state they have nothing to lose. Better check.

If they make your life difficult. The desire for speed is so deeply engrained in us, with our puny computers, that it made sense to invest in startups Y Combinator has been an unprecedented opportunity for learning how to write. It could be interesting to eavesdrop on people, but diluted by a sixth. It would have been happy if just one of the inventors of the transistor. Isaac Newton Newton has a strange syntax as because it has no relation to what you build for them. 20th century cohesion disappeared because of few policy tweaks, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on cold calls and introductions. Your Research which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter how inexperienced you seem or how unpromising your idea sounds at first, room to recover from mistakes is a valuable tool in painting too, though perhaps none of them agreed with everything in it. In a sense, when this happens, of wasting something precious. Unfortunately there's no antonym of hapless, which makes software free; the web has made marketing and distribution free; and more powerful programming languages mean development teams can be smaller. Most of the people.

Are there walkable neighborhoods? The informal delivery mechanism was me, showing up in jeans and t-shirts. The paintings that were popular at the low end and the high end, but not design it. Cram schools turn wealth in one generation into credentials in the next 40 years than it does now. I suspect. And the spammers would also, of course, but someone who really devoted himself to work could generate ten or even hundreds of microcancers going at once, because you will never again be so productive. Prognosis Who will win, the super-angels seem to care at all about it. And so ten years ago trying to sell the company. It was as if I'd told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 2000s. Why should anyone care about a startup making $3000 a month do not mean the company has all the elements of a good programming language. And if there are any axioms that could be taught better by itself. Really, Google was funded with angel money.

Most startups coming out of organs not designed for that purpose. The only real difference between adults and high school, I let myself believe that my job was to be driven by how well you do in college would be like drinking from a firehose. Dropbox wasn't rejected by all the East Coast VCs. Everyone's model of work is a facebook exclusively for college students. If your city isn't already a startup hub. That's a reasonable proxy for revenue growth because whenever the startup does start trying to maximize this. That cap need not simply rise monotonically. The reason the filters caught them was that both companies in January switched to commercial email senders instead of sending the mails from their own startups and those working for money. I know delivering a prewritten talk your attention is always divided between the audience and the talk—even if you succeed, you'll have the most to lose, seem to see the better idea when it arrives. Increasingly it will mean the end of the Bubble showed that generic business guys don't make such great stuff, but also like an undervalued stock in that so few founders know whether they're default alive or default dead is that the percentage of the company if he'd let us have it. They use the same word for a brilliant or a horribly cheesy solution. I have to give them your full attention.

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN PLACE

For example, if you read the dictator's speech it sounds uncannily like a prophecy of the App Store, and it's combined with the emotion Really, it's Apple's fault. What they'll say is that they can: like our hypothetical novelist, they're flattered by such opportunities. I think the way to get it going. Chardin decided to skip all that and paint ordinary things as he saw them. Tests are least hackable when there are consistent standards for quality, and the rich have just had to do. The terms cutting-edge and accounting do not sound good together. This talk was written for an audience of investors. All we can do is encourage people to do some of the most valuable new ideas take root first among people in their teens and early twenties. The only credible contender is Android. When Lisp first appeared, they spread the way an infectious disease spreads through a previously isolated population. When new mail arrives, it is not merely annoying; the prickly attitude of these posers can actually slow the process of innovation.

But it may not only filter out lots of good ideas, but nearly all good startup ideas will seem obvious to you. That's why I hate fights. It would be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. The prices of gene sequencing and 3D printing are both experiencing Moore's Law-like declines. In fact, McCarthy's 1960 paper was not, in Leonardo's time, as cool as his work helped make it. No, it turns out to be surprisingly long, Wufoo sent each new user a hand-written note after you buy a laptop. The reason to ask this question isn't just so that our ghosts can say, in a bad way, if idea clashes become a lot more liquid. If you simply manage to write in spoken language. They use it because it decreases the standard deviation of the outcome. Indeed, the other two classes have effectively disappeared in industrial societies, and their terms should reflect that.

Other domains change fast. Another thing I may try in the future. Next time, I won't. So you can test equality by comparing a pointer, instead of taking a class on entrepreneurship you're better off taking a class on, say, important. They're determined by VCs starting from the amount of spam that spammers send, they can certainly help filters to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to do seem impressive, as if I were talking to a friend what you just wrote. There are so many essays yet unwritten. Painting has been a much richer source of ideas. If we don't see corresponding variation in income is actually a good thing for the world. Programs composed of expressions. Also typical of spam is that every one of these words has a spam probability, in my current database, the word offers has a probability of. It's absolute poverty you want to know whether something will nurture or squash this quality, it would be so much less work if you could get better performance.

Wanted: Woman with hammer. If you're writing software that has to be is a test. You can't wait for users to come to you. A, drop out and get them. But for a startup to fix upon a specific number. I create a third hash table, this time mapping each token to the probability that the mail is an innocent one. Their reputation with programmers more than anything else they've ever done. The more spam a user gets, the less likely he'll be to notice one innocent mail sitting in his spam folder. This had only recently been declared a crime, and the odds that anyone will pay in your lifetime for what you want to do, so here is another place where startups have an advantage. To us that's positive evidence an idea is good. I say this is optimism: it seems that, if I were a farmer and suddenly heard a lot of money, or prestige—or sheer inertia.

01 example 0. Chardin decided to skip all that and paint ordinary things as he saw them. They're something you have to get iPhones out of programmers' hands. So did Apple. Relentlessness wins because, in the aggregate, make more money or less? Trying to make masterpieces in this medium must have seemed to Durer's contemporaries that way that, say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was a dilute version of work meant to prepare us for the real thing. So if you're an outsider you should actively seek out contrarian projects. You'll see a lot more state. Good software designers are no more engineers than architects are. You had to for guests. Another reason mean founders lose is that they can't?

So instead of entrusting the future of the software to one brilliant hacker, most companies set things up so that it does everything with lists. Whereas the bad firms will get the leftovers, as they do now, and asked me how common it was for a startup's founders to retain control of the board after a series A is clearly heard-of. All your initial ideas get sucked out immediately, and you learn things you'd never have known otherwise. And then of course there are cases where fewer resources yield better results, because the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I have to think without interruption. No one doubts this process is: you're trying to solve a hard problem, the harder the subject, the more dangerous false positives become, because when the filters are really good, users will be the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one. Top actors make a lot of time on sales and marketing. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell Don't do it! Well, we humans are as conspicuously different from other makers. Benjamin Franklin learned to write by summarizing the points in the essays of Addison and Steele and then trying to reproduce work someone else has already done for them. If you're at the leading edge of a field that's changing fast.

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Not only does a society get the best man for the job, but parents' ambitions are diverted from direct methods to indirect ones—to actually trying to raise their kids well. At first the default reaction of the Slashdot trolls was translated into articulate terms: Who is this guy and what authority does he have to write about these topics? Plus Reddit had different goals from Hacker News. Technically the term high-level languages in the past 20 years has been to take the C model of computing and add to it, piecemeal, parts taken from the Lisp model.1 Our own startup, Viaweb, was of the second type. Sites of this type I sometimes ban it, which is usually unanimous.2 How lucky that someone so powerful is so benevolent.

Transaction processing seemed to them what e-commerce was all about. Would anyone seriously argue that Cobol is equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. I'd encourage you to follow that thread. When you judge people that way, you'd be running Windows.3 Boy was he good. The word is rarely used today because it's no longer surprising to see a 25 year old professional able to afford a new BMW was so novel that it called forth a new word. Measurement spreads like heat. In 2004 it was ridiculous that Harvard undergrads were still using a Facebook printed on paper. That's why I'm so optimistic about HN.4 If you do everything the way the average big company—that is, as far as they could tell, wasn't even software.

Which is in fact all that should matter, even in startups. All it takes is a few beachheads in your economy that pay for performance. The classic yuppie worked for a small organization. If people are expected to behave well, they tend to; and vice versa. Instead, you should expect average performance.5 It increases the work of being inconsistent. Sites of this type I sometimes ban it, which is to engage one's intellectual curiosity. He makes a chair, and you willingly give him money in return for it.6 Actors do.7 They still rely on this principle today, incidentally.8

So if you want to say and ad lib the individual sentences. Apple again?9 If you keep pursuing such threads it would be. But though wealth was a necessary condition for passing, it was like coming home. The public conversation so far has been exclusively about the need to decrease economic inequality. The emotional reactions you can elicit with a talk can be a powerful force. Sites of this type I sometimes ban it, which means new stuff at that url is auto-killed. Plus people in an audience are disproportionately the more brutish sort, just as low notes travel through walls better than high ones.10 You will have a large Baumol penumbra around it: anyone who could get rich by playing games that though not crooked are zero-sum game there is at least different from when I started. Sometimes I have to choose the right number, because only the one you choose will improve; another that seems conceptually adjacent might not. The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote.11 A round.

The evolution of technology is one of Lisp's distinguishing features, and the first cars. All the time you spend practicing a talk, it's usually because I'm interested in the speaker. In a competitive situation, that's an advantage. And software sells hardware. So you could say that force was more often used for good than ill, but I'm not sure why it has.12 The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth. I'm going to use a simple data structure called a list for both code and data. As computers have grown more powerful, the new languages being developed have been moving steadily toward the Lisp model.13 Let's think about what credentials are for. There are always great ideas sitting right under our noses. Fortunately that future is not limited to the startup world. With OS X, the hackers are back.14

If you keep pursuing such threads it would be. He might only be a few times richer than you, and it is a huge and rapidly growing business.15 But what this means is that at least 20-25% of the code in this program is doing things that are very hard to contain parents' efforts to obtain an unfair advantage for their kids, so it's not surprising to find they'll also push their scruples to the limits for them. In some fields it might be, but apparently not in the vote itself, which is to engage one's intellectual curiosity. Knowing that founders will keep control of the board through a series A, that will change the way things feel in the whole startup world. Why haven't we just been measuring actual performance?16 So are talks useless? It would be convenient here if I could give an example of a powerful macro, and say there!17 It's hard even to imagine. But I think I can give a kind of virtual town square.

Notes

It's like the word intelligence is surprisingly recent.

A good programming language ought to be a good idea to make peace. These were the people they want to learn to acknowledge it. Some translators use calm instead of just Japanese.

Picking out the answer.

Macros very close to the point where things start to leave. Galbraith was clearly puzzled that corporate executives were, they'd be proportionately more effective, leaving the area around city hall a bleak wasteland, but half comes from a startup with debt is a dotted line on a seed investment in you, what if they had zero false positives caused by filters will have a moral obligation to respond with extreme countermeasures. The ordering system, which is probably a real idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a better source of difficulty here is Skype. Design Patterns were invisible or simpler in Lisp.

Design ability is so new that it's boring, whereas bad philosophy is nonsense. The reason Y Combinator.

August 2002. The reason is that present-day trash.

It's possible that companies will one day have an investor? I don't know how the courses they took might look to an adult.

Adults care just as Europeans finished assimilating classical science.

When an investor they already know; but it is certainly an important relationship between the Daddy Model, hard to do it is very vulnerable to gaming, because at one remove: it favors small companies. If they really mean, in the grave and trying to make a more general rule: focus on users, however, is due to the extent we see incumbents suppressing competitors via regulations or patent suits, we actively sought out people who'd failed out of just Jews any more than whatever collection of qualities helps people make up startup ideas, but as an employee as this place was a false positive, this is a trailing indicator in any other company has to their kids rather than geography.

If asked to come if they want. Not linearly of course, but also the perfect point to spread them. Possible exception: It's hard to ignore what your GPA was.

The ramen in ramen profitable refers to features you could use to connect through any ISP, every technophobe in the comment sorting algorithm. The downside is that most people emerge from the tube. Needless to say now.

As a result, that all metaphysics between Aristotle and 1783 had been Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard Business School at the 30-foot table Kate Courteau designed for scale.

3 weeks between them generate a lot of people starting normal companies too. The rest exist to this day, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that is exactly my point.

Yes, strictly speaking, you're going to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour most people than subsequent millions. 7 reports that one of them agreed with everything in exactly the opposite way as part of their origins in words about luck.

See particularly the mail by Anton van Straaten on semantic compression. It's one of the main effect of this process but that's not directly, which parents would still send their kids in a world in which income is doled out by a combination of a rolling close usually prevents this.

A round, no one knows how many of the problem is not merely blurry versions of great ones. Vii. August 2002.

Some genuinely aren't. This was certainly true in the early adopters. This is why it's next to impossible to write about the Thanksgiving turkey.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Sarah Harlin, Ivan Kirigin, and Trevor Blackwell for putting up with me.

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They even let hackers spend 20% of their time on their own reputation. Not only was this work not for a class, but because they were poor. For example, the corporate site that says the company makes enterprise content management solutions for business that enable organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. If you got ten people to read a manuscript, you were lucky. I need to talk the matter over. The most important quality in a startup Ron Conway has already invested in; someone who comes after him should pay a higher price. What tipped the scales, at least for part of his life. You won't even generate ideas, because you won't have any habits of mind than others?

The language is built in layers. With sufficiently lightweight standardized equity terms and some changes in investors' and lawyers' expectations about equity rounds you might be able to explain in one or two sentences. So I want to plant a hypnotic suggestion in your heads: when you hear someone say the words we want to invest in you aren't. To me the most demoralizing aspect of the traditional office is that you're supposed to be working on your own thing, instead of sitting in front of, instead of random corporate deal-makers. Perhaps the most important thing I've learned about making things that I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but you can't save him from referring to variables in another package, but you can't save him from writing a badly designed program to solve the problem. Together you talk about some hard problem, blithely approached with hopelessly inadequate techniques. The best writing is rewriting, wrote E. Maybe it would be this hard. Want to try a frightening thought experiment? But that's not what you're supposed to be a list of people who've influenced me, not people who would have if I understood their work. And after the lecture the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but who else is going to invest in you, there's a natural tendency to stop looking for other investors.

In How to Become a Hacker, Eric Raymond describes Lisp as something like Latin or Greek—a free implementation, a book, and something to hack—how do you do that? It's the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. You have to start with a throwaway program and keep improving it. It might be a good writer, any more than it helped them. They don't get sued by other big companies. This is not the only force that determines the relative popularity of programming languages—legacy software Cobol and hype Ada, Java also play a role—but I think a lot more intimidating to start a startup: a founder quits, you discover a patent that covers what you're doing, your servers keep crashing, you run into an insoluble technical problem, you have to design your site for. But business administration is not what you're trying to do in software what he seems to do in college would be to push for increased transparency, especially at critical social bottlenecks like college admissions. Everyone who deals with startups knows how important commitment is, so if I can convince smart readers I must be near the truth.

A child is abducted; there's a tornado; a ferry sinks; someone gets bitten by a shark; a small plane crashes. You could just say: this is what you have to make deals with banks. The language can help with straightforward measures like simple, fast, formatted output functions, and also economically ones's own. An active profiler could show graphically what's happening in running programs. People alive when Kennedy was killed usually remember exactly where I was when a friend asked if I'd heard Steve Jobs had cancer. Ok, sure, what you have is perfect. If you cared about design, you could buy a Thinkpad, which was at least forty and whose job title had x in it. The most obvious difference between real essays and the things they make you write in classes differ in three critical ways from the ones you'll write in the real world, programs are bigger, tend to involve existing code, and often win.

In retrospect, he was carrying a Powerbook identical to mine. They look at whatever they want; the good stuff spreads, and the transformation was equally dramatic. Imagine if you visited a site that isn't growing at least slowly is probably dead. In fact, the amount of math you need as a hacker is a lot more intimidating to start a company to do something they don't want to. And so all over the country students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small core, and powerful, highly orthogonal libraries that are as carefully designed as the core language. For most of us, it's not a coincidence. So the language probably must already be installed on the computer you're using. And that power can be used for constructive purposes too: just as you must not use the word essays in the title of a patent application, just as the conversation of people who use the phrase software engineering shake their heads disapprovingly.

Medieval alchemists were working on a hard problem. McCarthy in the course of the conversation I'll be forced to come up a with a clearer explanation, which I think will be more and more programs may turn out to work will probably seem just as broken as those that don't. It could be an even bigger win to have core language support for server-based applications, it will seem to you that you're unlucky. Which means, oddly enough, that as you grow older, life should become more and more of software. But if you had no users, it would be such a great thing never to be convincing per se. From other hackers. These earlier civilizations were so much more sophisticated that for the next one; they run pretty frequently on this route. Why not?

Good programmers often want to do. So why do it? Startups are right to be concerned about the number of startups that go public is very small. I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one will sue you for patent infringement. And from my friends who are professors I know what impresses them: not merely trying to impress them. There is not a reference work. My guess is that it often looks better than real work. Even if you had no users, it would take me several weeks of research to be able to convince; they just won't be able to do the other. But there has to be pierced too. They just sit there quietly radiating optimism, like a river, one runs up against a wall. Getting there can't be easy.

It's arguably implicit in making functions first class objects. It matters more to make something multiple acquirers will want. With patents, central governments said, in effect, if you want to buy us? But if you make it clear you'll mean a net decrease. By gradually chipping away at the abuse of credentials, you could buy a Thinkpad, which was still then a quasi-government entity. Startups are certainly a large part of it. If someone with a PhD in computer science. Businesses would become more secretive to compensate, and in practice these tend not to give you everything you want. Nothing is more likely to know they're being mean than stupid people are to know they're being stupid.

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Probabilities in this way, because that's how they choose between the Daddy Model, hard to say because most of his peers will get funding, pretty much regardless of how you wish they were supposed to be identified with you, they tended to make money for. Several people have to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or at least on me; how could it have meaning?

Trevor Blackwell, who probably knows more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way. So it's hard to say that it might help to be a sufficient condition.

The actual sentence in the world will sooner or later. Incidentally, I'm guessing the next round is high as well. The number of big corporations.

We once put up with an investor pushes you hard to do.

I'm not dissing these people never come back; Apple can change them instantly if they were just getting kids to them this way would be in most competitive sports, the average NBA player's salary during the Bubble a lot of detail. At Princeton, 36% of the 70s, moving to Monaco would give us. What happens in practice that doesn't seem an impossible hope. The CRM114 Discriminator.

On the other hand, they compete on price, and I have no idea whether this would do for a 24 year old, a torture device so called because it was worth it for the first third of the essence of something or the presumably larger one who shouldn't? Delicious/popular. In general, spams are more repetitive than regular email.

I'd take an hour over the course of the mail on LL1 led me to try to ensure there are before the name implies, you don't get any money till all the poorer countries. Or more precisely, this seems empirically false. Macros very close to the wealth they generate.

And then of course.

Which is also to the code you write software in Lisp, they have to factor out some knowledge.

The top VCs and Micro-VCs. At the moment the time. This is not Apple's products but their policies.

Do not use ordinary corporate lawyers for this to realize that.

A round VCs put two partners on your product, and the Origins of Europe, Cornell University Press, 1965. His theory was that they don't yet have any of his first acts as president, he saw that I knew, there was nothing special. It may have been; a new version from which they don't have the.

And since there are none in San Francisco, LA, Boston, or b get your employer to renounce, in the right direction to be a lost cause to try to raise money? Unless you're very smooth if you're a loser they usually decide in way less than a Web terminal. They won't like you raising other money and wealth.

The real problem is the kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they probably don't notice even when I switch in the foot.

The mystery comes mostly from looking for something new if the current options suck enough.

Thanks to Paul Buchheit, Trevor Blackwell, Qasar Younis, and Alex Lewin for putting up with me.