I had a fun time the first time I visited Stanford (and the Bay Area more generally). I had read Paul Graham’s essays and Peter Thiel’s book as a teenager, and was chatting with a guy on the bus about the startup he was working at. Somehow the conversation got to a point where I was like “But you need a model of the world where you have a secret or some other key valuable insight that other people haven’t noticed / aren’t taking advantage of!” And he was like “Oh yeah, everyone round here has one of those.” I was so shocked that my important information had been goodharted on by such a broad network of people.
I had a fun time the first time I visited Stanford (and the Bay Area more generally). I had read Paul Graham’s essays and Peter Thiel’s book as a teenager, and was chatting with a guy on the bus about the startup he was working at. Somehow the conversation got to a point where I was like “But you need a model of the world where you have a secret or some other key valuable insight that other people haven’t noticed / aren’t taking advantage of!” And he was like “Oh yeah, everyone round here has one of those.” I was so shocked that my important information had been goodharted on by such a broad network of people.