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Name something you once wanted that you're happy to have never received?

2348 sats \ 45 comments \ @k00b 8 Oct 2023 meta

I applied to Y Combinator at least 10 times over the course of many years as I tried to find myself as a founder.

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328 sats \ 1 reply \ @tip_nz 8 Oct 2023

A Stanford MBA, with a side of $250k student loan please 🙈🙉🙊

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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233 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 8 Oct 2023

The marriage with my ex-wife working out.

140 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 8 Oct 2023

Mostly material things... on the top of my head right now, a car.

122 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8 Oct 2023

gov ID, passport, birth certificate - are useless things that you are forced to accept them. When you are young or a baby you have no idea what is all about. Only later you realized that are totally useless and represent your total slavery.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 8 Oct 2023

As kids we are more free because government normally does not require us to have those when we go out to have fun.

133 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 8 Oct 2023

There are quite a few start-up companies in my line of work that I have been tempted to work for, but later turned out to be complete shitshows.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 8 Oct 2023

Ive found that out the hard way before

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 8 Oct 2023

Absolutely.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @knorozov 8 Oct 2023

Success and fame as a young person in my twenties.

105 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 8 Oct 2023

I applied to SAP for a "dual curriculum" before I enrolled for a normal bachelor's degree at a university. We call it "Duales Studium" and it's when you go to university for 3 months and then work in the company for 3 months and so on. You basically are able to get a university degree while getting paid.

I got rejected because I didn't seem interested enough during my 2 days internship a few weeks before. We were mostly just shown around and had some small workshops about social skills and ABAP programming.

I guess I didn't ask enough questions or stand out enough. I also wasn't aware that doing an internship for 2 days at a place can actually be used against you, lol. Kinda obvious in hindsight though.

Very happy that I didn't go down this path. I think I mostly applied because of the status / CV aspect (and I didn't know any better). Being able to get into SAP is similar to how some people want to get into FAANG - so they can mention it in their CVs, lol. And now I know that I don't like big companies. The company I worked for before was already too big for me even though it was still a quite small company. It grew a lot during the 3 years I was there.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 Oct 2023

I hope I never have to send an CV ever again

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 8 Oct 2023

Having FOMO for many shitcoins I never acquired

101 sats \ 0 replies \ @Chep 8 Oct 2023

Going through my twenties without any children

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @tom335 8 Oct 2023

I applied to Y Combinator at least 10 times over the course of many years ...

At least in US there's such thing like YComb. In Brazil the best you can find are those shitty accelerators that offer 5k for 60% of your startup IF you're profitable already, what totally dismisses the point of being "accelerated", which means nothing in practice once you need the business skills to get help at, business skills.

But yeah, I wanted that too, at some extent =)

35 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

All but a few accelerators offer real acceleration. The next best class of accelerators don't accelerate but appear to give what mostly amounts to money at an artificially low cap and emotional support. Then the remaining are outright scams. 60% is criminal!

There's an "accelerator" in Austin that takes 1% in return for $0, a hot desk, classes, and a mentor network. They also have a "partner vc fund" which solicits investment from retail that has a 50% management fee and a 50% performance fee when the industry standard is 2% and 20% respectively.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @tom335 8 Oct 2023

It's really interesting to hear about these scams in other places. They're a bit different, but the core is much the same. Not to say that if you read a little about some mentors, there's no sign that any of them were entrepreneurs before, not in the strict sense of the word.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

if you read a little about some mentors, there's no sign that any of them were entrepreneurs before, not in the strict sense of the word.

You're right this is a huge red flag imo

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 8 Oct 2023

Running professionally

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 Oct 2023

Why you're happy that you didn't pursue it? Not because it would have been bad, but because your current life is probably more interesting?

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 8 Oct 2023

Life outside running is definitely more interesting, and positive-sum too!

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 8 Oct 2023

To make it as a professional athlete use to want it so bad but where I'm at now in life I wouldn't change Any of it

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @fred 8 Oct 2023

There was a girl I wanted to date, glad I didn't go down that rabbit hole

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TwoLargePizzas 9 Oct 2023

I dated a girl once, later her dad was convicted of murder. Glad I didn't go down that rabbit hole.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 8 Oct 2023

A windows netbook. I'm glad I waited for when tablets came out.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @02a3d5c0b6 8 Oct 2023

become a civil servant

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 8 Oct 2023

I used to want to hodl more Ethereum but I'm I prefer Bitcoin

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 8 Oct 2023

An academic career as university professor, glad it never happened academia is so political and rotten to the core

10 sats \ 10 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 8 Oct 2023

Why are you glad it never happened?

109 sats \ 9 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

I'm sure there's some cognitive bias at play (lol is there a "seeking gratitude" bias?) - and I certainly wasn't glad it never happened when I wanted it to happen - but it forced me to be resourceful and learn some things a harder way.

The hard way of learning things tends to have side lessons that aren't easily taught. You get ahead slower but you can end up with more tools.

10 sats \ 7 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

There was a time when working at google was a huge status thing (a pretty reliable marker for being good and paid well) ... still is but vanishing.

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

I saw the original. Our deletes are truly permanent. We do not store what has been deleted or what something was before it was edited.

224 sats \ 3 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 8 Oct 2023

one day I must verify this though, still on my todo to clone your repo and poke around, but fml too much other stuff to deal with at the moment, lol :)

Relevant lines where you can see we overwrite the item content. But don't trust us, verify for yourself. I actually prefer when people don't trust us. :)

But sometimes I wonder if being OSS is actually enough. How can we proof that this is actually the code that is running in the backend?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Oct 2023

Of the named biases, maybe it is a form of a status quo or loss aversion bias. I'm surprised there isn't a named bias for often faulty reappraisals.

34 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adexmakai4211 8 Oct 2023

To be honest, it's one NFT I saw on Twitter, each time there's giveaway on that NFT but never won at all. It's very painful.