Brad Feld was the only mentor (out of ~100 we met) during our TechStars Chicago ‘15 program who had sessions with the CEOs of the cohort and told us to take a break each day to call our significant others.

He gave us perspective when all of us were focused on hustling for demo day and raising our seed round. He reminded us that amid the hustle, there’s more to life than your startup. Thank you.

Even just asking that question implies self-judgment and a need to “do the right thing”. Perhaps just be, and that is enough.

> Perhaps just be, and that is enough.

Don't be evil tho

There has never been a better and easier time to be a startup founder. Follow your passions, build a ton of side projects, with or without friends, and who knows, some stuff might stick and generate some revenue in the four years you’re at it.

Job markets are inherently uncertain, even in good economies. Holding a job is also uncertain; Your future is in the hands of the executives and their decisions. Being a founder allows you to have control over your career, and yes, bear full responsibility over it all. Get ramen profitable and you are immune to layoffs.

Even if you graduate and decide you don’t want to go down the (very tough) path of a founder, you will be much more employable.

You know what, I seriously considered selling this on the blockchain, but cut it out of scope on the end :) if you are serious, we can always do a manual transaction

That’s funny, I launched a startup novel three days ago [1] where I also referenced emacs in one of the scenes

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447484

For me the flow state has always come from a sensation of creative juices spawning ideas, a vision for an end result, and the deep focus that ensues in working towards that.

Such a cycle previously could take hours or days, resulting in long, deep flow states. But now I go through dozens such cycles a day.

So less of a single flow state, more so many short flow states. As for waiting, that’s when you can explore another idea in parallel. Double the flow states for me :)

Are you trying to read the sample chapters? What browser are you on? And did you try toggling dark/light mode?

Thank you! I did also submit this to IngramSparks, which is a platform for bookstores and libraries. From what I've read, the process would be to enable the book for distribution, and libraries would have a way in their systems to review and place orders for new books that are released.

One thing to consider is that pre-AI homegrown software is a house of cards, whereas post-AI vice coded software can be better than what most average engineer can craft.

They’re also getting quite good at fixing 500 errors at the speed of a prompt, which is faster than humans

That’s the big question on my mind. Several years ago we migrated from an in house Ruby on Rails solution to Salesforce. Will vibe coding bring us back to a custom solution? When?

The core route optimization algorithm of Routific is also written in Common Lisp :)

That's awesome, thank you. How do you know it, is there a reference on the net somewhere?

I wrote it :) there’s also an open source version here: https://github.com/mck-/Open-VRP

excellent, thanks!