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Oct 29, 2020

A Simple Method to Prepare for an Interview at YCombinator — Updated 2020

I originally wrote this method out in 2017 while working with a small group of interviewees for the W2018 batch. Since then it’s been read thousands of times, and I personally know many teams who have been accepted after using these ideas in their preparation. The old version was starting…

Ycombinator

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A Simple Method to Prepare for an Interview at YCombinator — Updated 2020
A Simple Method to Prepare for an Interview at YCombinator — Updated 2020
Ycombinator

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Mar 2, 2020

This is not the Picard I wanted

Lots of people have said this already, but I think I wanted to summarize a bit. I was really excited when I heard there was a new Picard show coming out. I’ve been feeling for the past few years that the future just keeps looking more and more bleak, and…

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This is not the Picard I wanted
This is not the Picard I wanted

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Dec 17, 2019

A few things you didn’t know about the 2019 Canadian Election

I spent a few hours last week working with the riding-by-riding data from the last Canadian election. I found lots I could write about. In fact, for a relatively small dataset (essentially 338 rows of 5 numbers each), it seemed like almost every angle I took on this data told…

Politics

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A few things you didn’t know about the 2019 Canadian Election
A few things you didn’t know about the 2019 Canadian Election
Politics

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Oct 19, 2019

5 Reasons Why Mike Morrice is the Best Choice in Kitchener Centre

We’re two days from the 43rd Canadian Federal Election and everyone is starting to make their final decisions. I’ve thought a lot about this over the last three months, talked directly with two candidates, and volunteered with one, so I thought I’d write down some of my own thinking in…

Politics

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5 Reasons Why Mike Morrice is the Best Choice in Kitchener Centre
5 Reasons Why Mike Morrice is the Best Choice in Kitchener Centre
Politics

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Aug 26, 2019

How we survived 5 years in the most dangerous market in the world.

In a past life I ran Tinker, the top cryptocurrency trading company of the mid-2010s. We traded billions of dollars worth of bitcoin and other currencies, and frequently topped 20% of all trading in the markets. …

Blockchain

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How we survived 5 years in the most dangerous market in the world.
How we survived 5 years in the most dangerous market in the world.
Blockchain

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Nov 3, 2017

A simple method to prepare for an interview at YCombinator

My startup was accepted to YC in April 2014, on our third application and third interview in two years. We followed a simple-but-rigorous method to prepare each time we had an interview, and I think it is a good one. …

Startup

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Startup

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