You don’t need backups until you have customers.

I don’t have a problem with those questions. I do have a problem with getting bored at social events by boring boilerplate conversation, and I shared my strategy for having interesting conversations.

I’m happy to debate you if you clearly state a viewpoint.

If I run out of interesting conversation starters, I default to weather/work/family and carry on.

I simply prefer to start with unique/contextual topics first.

If you play the rule like a game, it's kind of fun.

After starting with a personal trainer, I made it 10 sessions (10 hours) of small talk before he finally asked me something that led to a conversation about work.

It's a lot more challenging (but way more rewarding I find) to initiate conversation topics relevant to the context you're meeting the person in, and waiting for the other person to bring up the boilerplate conversation topics if it's important to them.

It feels like they actually believe it, rather than just “marketing” and I don’t know which is worse.

At least to me, he is very predictable. He has an MO, and he never deviates very far from it. And he publishes his stream of consciousness on social media, which exposes a lot about what he's thinking at any given moment.

I don’t love it either, but these are Google’s published best practices / recommendations

In my experience Google Workspave support is very good. I’ve always been able to get a knowledgeable person on a call to debug issues without much difficulty.

But yea, if you’re locked out of your admin account, that’s another story. Very sjmilar to if you get locked out of your AWS root account. It’s a nightmare to recover.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36408604

It's incredibly easy to get SOC 2 audited and still have terrible security.

> forces you to go through a very useful exercise of risk modeling

Have you actually done this in Vanta, though? You would have to go out of your way to do it in a manner that actually adds significant value to your security posture.

(I don't think SOC/ISO are a waste of time. We do it at our company, but for reasons that have nothing to do with security)

It won’t exclude from regular indexes, but it will exclude from the direct indexing. I’ve been using it to exclude NVDA ever since it peaked (or at least reached the peak valuation I’m comfortable with)

Wealthfront’s portfolio minimum used to be $100k, but I think they have a new direct indexing product with a $5k minimum.

The thing that isn't normal is the degree of experimentation relative to company valuation. Normally once a company reaches $700 B+ valuation, they've figured out their product and monetization strategy. ChatGPT is clearly still iterating heavily on that - not normal for a company that size.

But I also think Buffet wouldn't characterize the current environment as particularly fearful. We haven't seen a whole lot of panic aside from a couple 1-2% daily swings, which is nothing.

Be greedy when others are fearful, or something like that?

I think more people need to be talking about the fact that the S&P 500 has extreme concentration risks that didn't exist 15+ years ago (and the Chart of the Day demonstrates that). We're in uncharted territories re: market cap concentration.

Pro tip: sign up for the business/enterprise version when reasonable in price.

I do this with Google Workspace. You can also do it with GitHub.

(Google doesn’t train on Workspace, Github doesn’t train on business customers, etc)

Wouldn't they be barred based on using banned substances?