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Michael Seibel

@mwseibel

Partner Emeritus at YC

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It’s strange how quickly software companies go from making engineers accessible to customers to hiding them behind sales / marketing / evangelists /account management / customer support / customer success / executives / developer relations / lawyers / user research / etc. It’s

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Intellectuals provide the framework that informs politicians and activists (and through them the average voter). It would be interesting to track the intellectual sources for all the bad policies of the past 50 years. I would want to understand whether these people actually

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Some people want to look at the problems of society through a ā€œrightsā€ lens. Others like to look at the same problems through a ā€œmarketā€ lens. Should (pick your favorite issue) be guaranteed to all by the government as a right or be available to purchase in the free market?

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The more rich/famous/powerful you are, the harder it is to have a true understanding of yourself or the world around you. Few are incentivized to tell you the truth and many are incentivized to lie to your face. Without this important feedback mechanism it is much harder to

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Everyone needs at least one person in their life to tell them they just aren’t that special. Successful people could use more than one.

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Is the goal of public education to teach a specific list of academic skills or to help train a productive workforce. I think a lot of the debate on public education comes from a disagreement on this question.

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The people of this city have called on us to rebuild a thriving San Francisco. To do that, we must provide clean and safe streets, address the crisis of homelessness and addiction, and reinvigorate the spirit and strength of businesses and neighborhoods across this city. As we

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As I was reading about how Aluminum cracks a thought occurred to me, this sounds awfully similar to humans: ā€œWhen aluminum is bent, it undergoes a process known as work hardening (or strain hardening). This process occurs as the metal is plastically deformed, causing