Startups are shockingly diverse too. And despite the super-high failure rates I hear about, the group of friends I've been tracking the past 5 years or so seem to be doing pretty darn well, despite some of them having failures indeed.
I strongly suspect the degree of failure in startups correlates inversely with rationality skills (as it should) so rationalists should not be placing themselves on the same reference category as everyone else. Execution skills matter a lot too, but doing a startup has worked miracles for my motivation too.
Startups are shockingly diverse too.
Not from the expected-income point of view (we're not considering car dealerships and franchise eateries startups, right?).
rationalists should not be placing themselves on the same reference category as everyone else.
Oh, dear. "I'm so smart that normal rules don't apply to me". What could possibly go wrong..?
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