We have two open spots in the founding team for a B2C edtech startup founded by Oxford and IIT Delhi grads going after a $200B market.
Our mission is to enable a billion+ people to learn, teach, and connect better.
We are post-MVP, pre-launch. We are fundraising starting April and expecting to close the round before July. As the founders shift focus towards fundraising, we are opening up two positions for founding engineers to take over the product.
What we are looking for
Essential Skills
- You have experience in building apps based on React.js, Node.js and Postgres.
- You have a bias towards shipping fast and an an eye for design
- You are obsessive about documentation and writing readable code
- You take full ownership of the work
Good To Have Skills
- Experience with cloud deployment with services like AWS
- Prototyping and Design skills
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Hey thunkle. Sounds like a tough spot to be in, but as you said, there's always a bright side, and who knows what lies ahead. What would be a good way to contact you?
The comment is mocking part of another culture (eating with one's hands). That's the racism.
Living under fear of being shot over an argument or your children being shot in school shootings or living where paedophiles or sex abuse runs amok in top institutions (Larry Nassar, Sandusky/Sports, Epstein/Hollywood, Clinton/Trump/Politics are just some high profile examples) or being screwed by inflated healthcare costs is also not most people's ideas of a good life, but no one here seems to be mocking American culture.
And hundreds of millions of Indians are perfectly happy with their lives in India, so it can be "most" people's ideas of a good life.
Hey. Same - I have recurring dreams (across years) on the themes you mention + a few more (inventing "flying", cosmic apocalpypse). Shall we connect to see if we can solve this mystery? - see its connected to personality or life experiences?
Hi. As someone new to frontend, could anyone tell me how frontend for lightweight-but-very-functional sites like these (also hackernews) built? Do they use something like Next.js for server-side-rendering? Which frameworks would you recommend to build a social network, if one wanted to avoid Single Page frameworks like React and Vue?
That's probably because the content in this post is more about "soft skills" or what many would consider fluff.
"habits of mind", "tools of thought", "force multiplier", "superpowers" "embrace fear" etc. reads straight out from a Tim Ferris-like self-help book targetting millennials than anything a senior engineer would write.
I read your last year's post - that one was much more useful and insightful. So +1 (upvote) to more of those.
If one gets rid of those assumptions, the whole concept of orthodox privilege would be purely rhetorical.
Here is how this essay would change if you replace "truth" (which does not really exist in the political sphere) by "morally unacceptable to certain groups of people"
"They literally can't imagine a true statement that would get them in trouble." would be replaced by "They literally cannot image a statement which is morally acceptable to certain groups of people (to which they belong) would get them in trouble with those groups of people". Which is completely fair and reasonable.
It is pretty clear, if you read Paul Graham's twitter feed, what is it that he wants to say but feels he cannot say. I see where his point of view completely, but having not seen the the other side of privilege: the very real and lived experiences and feelings where cancel culture stems from, I feel this is an issue where he is totally blindsighted. The problem in the US currently, I feel, is not cancel culture per se, but widespread and ever growing narcissism which makes one less questioning about their fundamental worldview than one should be.
Paul Graham is somewhat a victim of this himself.
For example, the assumption behind this very essay is that there is such a thing as a rigid, singular concept of "truth" in the moral, cultural and political sphere, that there is a "fact of the matter" whether a belief (say one PG holds) is correct or not. Or that that we live in a static world where such truths can even exist, and not, in a fluid, dynamic, politically messy world where contrasting viewpoints interact and produce something not something ever lasting, but something which is fragile and must always be fought for, this fight being a necessary feature for a functioning democracy.
I've realised the simple things: good diet, restful sleep, ample sunlight, a little exercise, and nourishing friends make a TON of difference, more than any of the things listed.