With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also the kernel of an important idea: how to balance experience, novel thinking, and limited time? Also stay tuned as they share a years old "ego con".Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Paul Graham Founder ModeBryan Reflecting on Founder ModeTim O'Reilly How I FailedCamille Fournier Founder Create ManagersBryan Chesky interview we mentionOxF: on Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big ThingSeagull ManagementHow to Castrate a Bull NOT AN ENDORSEMENT; DO NOT READThe ego con: Non-Stop HitzIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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Okay. So this is not a hot take. This is a little bit of a take in that we are talking about something that was very hot two weeks ago. That's right. We, we've been on a two week hiatus and you are our last episode was the RFD episode coming in from Italy, which is great. Or so the image that you generated said. I got confirmation on that one.
And then the internet kind of melted down that next weekend over this Paul Graham piece. Yeah. Founder mode. Yeah.
I can confess. I was a little glad we had a hiatus. That piece came out. You wrote a nice blog post. Other folks were chatting about it. I was glad. For a moment that we'd have to talk about it. Okay.
We're obviously in a safe space. I was glad. No way. I was glad. I was glad. I thought like I was glad because I'm just like, I need to get on with my life. This thing has like this piece hit just hits a lot of nerves. Yeah. And it gets a lot of people talking about it, tons of comments on Hacker News.
Normally, when you get that much comments, one of the things I like about Hacker News is when you get a lot of comments on things. When the comments exceed the upvotes, a story gets more or less automatically killed. It gets automatically removed from the front page, which I actually think is a great... A great, very simple algorithm. Yeah, indicator of hot-taken-ness or whatever. Hot-taken-ness.
An indicator of we've got a lot of discussion going, but people aren't actually reading the underlying article. I always thought that was super elegant. But in this case, it was getting a lot of comments, a lot of upvotes. And so this thing is just going and going. I mean, I read it. I'm like... Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Still thinking about it.
So I have to write a hacker news comment, write a hacker news comment. Like now I'm done. Don't think about it. Still thinking about it. Still thinking about it. Got to write a blog entry. And I've learned that it's just like, I can't fight that at that point. Like I got to go. It's, it's just gonna be faster for me to write the goddamn thing and be done with it. And, um, I, I,
Wrote the blog entry. Was kind of debating, is this on a personal blog or did I put this on the Oxide blog? But I'm like, you know, I need to get Steve's fingerprints on this and get it on the Oxide. Because obviously I want to. It actually was helpful getting the Oxide blog. It actually helped me. There's some things I probably. Dialed down a little bit. Dialed down a little bit.
Yeah, dialed down a little bit. Not, you know, not hugely, but I think dialed down. I mean, so you're abroad when you read the piece. Yes. And what is your take on, on the piece other than like, thank God we're not recording tomorrow.
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