Author Archives: daveatrice

Startupland has time dilation. Each week feels like a month. Therefore, startups move at 0.97c.

Often when you are under stress and an obvious action or answer surfaces, pause a moment to consider the consequences of doing the exact opposite. Sometimes, but not always, the latter is the better move.

Staggering forward along the crimson path,Mind empty, with neither avarice nor wrath.Sword in hand, the only one that’s left,Body exposed with armor sundered cleft. Your flesh has long been numbed to the pain,And you press on, through inch by inch gain.You refuse to remember all that was lost;All know that the crimson path demands itsContinue reading “The Crimson Path (poem)”

Hash tables and suffix trees always win if enough search problems need to be solved, but the investment needed to solve a single search problem is enormous. Likewise, know when to invest in yourself vs. when to just execute.

Mortals love prosperous times, heroes beg for chaotic times.凡人爱盛世，英雄求乱世

Often, you can’t find what you’re looking for. You and what you’re looking for have to find each other.

Be Panglossian. Your sanity and your destiny depend on it. But you also have to be the one that charts the course to the best of all possible worlds, regardless of where you are now.

Set your thinking and horizon to the ultra-long term. It is better to live with a purpose than to die without regrets.

Be the drop of white in the sea of darkness. You will sleep better at night and you will eventually build a fanatical team.

Every successful leader benefits immensely from a small number of serendipitous factors. The ubiquitous challenge is to recognize which factors can be replicated and scaled, and which are unique and irreproducible.