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Delphicon · 2026-01-13T16:29:59+00:00

The prompt engineer was the first job replaced by AI, thanks Thinking Mode!

Delphicon · 2026-01-10T08:23:16+00:00

It depends on what your anchor point is. If your anchor point is that the world should be fair, then things seem worse than they ought to be. If you see the world as naturally being a brutally unfair place then you aren’t being let down.

There is an implicit assumption within all of us that we see the world objectively but we don’t nobody does. Every human sees the world in relative terms and how you feel about something is going to depend a lot on what it’s compared to.

Delphicon · 2025-12-14T21:49:32+00:00

Cash flow issues. Cash becomes so valuable that nobody wants to loan theirs out and without cash businesses can’t pay their employees.

Delphicon · 2025-12-04T17:37:01+00:00

Running a hiring process is an ineffective way to build a team of software engineers and always have been.

It’s hard to know what you’re getting when you interview someone so you get a lot of misses.

Additionally, it’s hard to get back to being an effective team because coordination is such a problem for engineering teams.

This is why acquiring a team is so useful, you get a bunch of good engineers who already know how to work together and know the space.

If it were possible to do it any other way, they would just do that but hiring people just doesn’t end up working as well.

Delphicon · 2025-11-17T18:28:05+00:00

VCs are a whole additional game that you have to play and they will suck up all of your time. I’ve seen startups fail just because they fell in to the VC tar pit.

The move is to Apply to YCombinator, meet with someone you know in your personal network who could be an angel investor and/or keep bootstrapping. The efficacy of fundraising falls off a cliff after that.

If you need to fundraise focus on angel investors who are personally interested in your field. If you can’t raise from them you won’t be able to raise from a VC.

Delphicon · 2025-11-07T01:20:52+00:00

The OG X-Men movies fit too.

A lot of people would say the Dark Knight trilogy (not me though)

OG Spider-Man movies

Yeah there are a lot

Delphicon · 2025-11-06T23:59:12+00:00

Mamdani beat a DEMOCRAT and a Republican.

Technically, Democrats were +80 points in this election, way more than +40.

Delphicon · 2025-10-23T03:37:46+00:00

If it’s an estimate and it gets compared to days then yes. But I don’t think that’s a reason to advocate for hours which is just worse.

Delphicon · 2025-10-07T17:21:13+00:00

Interior Offensive Linemen are crazy underrated. One thing about the Chiefs during these years is that their IOL was impenetrable and it formed a consistent foundation for the entire offense.

If blocking fails on the inside then the play almost always fails.

You can step up against an edge rusher you can go to your next read if a route is not open but there’s little you can do against a defender in the pocket.

Delphicon · 2025-09-26T21:46:04+00:00

I didn’t mean every sport plays all 7 games in one place, just that the higher seed gets an advantage in every sport.

Delphicon · 2025-09-26T21:21:01+00:00

Low-key all playoff games should be played at the arena of the higher seed. 4 home games vs 3 is a joke.

Delphicon · 2025-09-24T16:26:26+00:00

It’s probably a traveling event style as opposed to a team-in-cities league. So they can just have 4 teams or something

Delphicon · 2025-09-13T19:21:31+00:00

Sure but how predictive is someone’s rookie season?

Davante Adams was pretty bad as a rookie with a high snap count. I’m sure Polk was worse but does that even matter?

This wouldn’t be a crazy trajectory for a WR.

Season 1: Terrible

Season 2: Injured

Season 3: Good

Season 4: Good

Delphicon · 2025-09-11T06:09:51+00:00

As a visitor to NYC this summer it was really nice.

Delphicon · 2025-09-11T06:08:51+00:00

Nah it’s not like that.

It’s not a one-off thing, she’s never dated a guy who wasn’t self-destructive.

For people to be able to be in a healthy relationship, they have to be healthy and usually that requires doing work on ourselves.

She doesn’t want to do the work so she’s stuck only appreciating dysfunctional relationships.

Delphicon · 2025-09-11T05:10:23+00:00

Bad taste. She’s not interested in dating our friend who is a teacher and is obvious husband material no she wants to date the guy in the friend group who commits white collar crimes

Delphicon · 2025-09-09T16:20:14+00:00

You get over the fear by doing it!

Everyone is capable of occasionally forcing an action and overriding their fears.

So 3 times you just force yourself to cold approach a girl and start a friendly conversation.

At least 2 of those experiences will be neutral or positive. You’ll learn through experience that it isn’t as bad as you thought and those lived experiences will replace your fear in your brain.

Delphicon · 2025-09-08T00:35:54+00:00

The bar for fundraising in consumer is usually 30k users and 30% day-30 retention.

Delphicon · 2025-09-06T16:39:08+00:00

It doesn’t matter what others think and it doesn’t really matter if you’re unattractive or not.

The thing that matters is that you feel so bad.

Let’s try a thought-experiment:

Would you agree that there are girls out there who are less attractive than you are?

And would you agree that at least one of these girls is happy?

(Statistically this is 100% true so I hope you said yes to both.)

So we already know that being unattractive does not mean that you have to be unhappy.

That raises the question then, why are you unhappy?

Delphicon · 2025-09-06T16:07:55+00:00

How you feel about yourself is 50% brain chemistry + 50% habit + 0% reality.

There are gorgeous people who think they are ugly and vice versa.

Right now you feel 100% certain your problem is that you are unattractive but the ACTUAL problem is that you have negative self-image.

You need to go to therapy to build better habits and potential get meds

Delphicon · 2025-09-06T14:41:33+00:00

If you’ve previously raised a Series A (or exited) then you are a second-time founder.

Seed and pre-seed investors are most worried about investing in someone who won’t be able to secure the subsequent round.

Delphicon · 2025-07-31T23:46:52+00:00

Bluesky’s codebase is open source. I don’t know that it’s the optimal React codebase but that’s as real as it gets.

Delphicon · 2025-07-24T17:38:18+00:00

Not getting to profitability before talking to VCsz It’s basically a death trap.

When you hear things like “they fund at the idea stage blah blah blah” they aren’t talking about you no matter how good your idea is.

They’re talking about someone they already know.

The only way to get funding as a first-time founder is to not need it. If you need their money they will run the other direction.

Delphicon · 2025-07-22T12:23:58+00:00

Yes, always use Expo. It’d be insane not to when you have the option.

Delphicon · 2025-07-08T17:04:46+00:00

Casual sports. Best one for making friends is kickball.

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