Just to steel man your statement: You should strive for excellence in deployment with all providers (dabble) but have your initial core setup on one cloud (YAGNI principle) until when multicloud capacity is needed (at scale)
In a non-tech context, majority of people get very emotional about held beliefs or ideas based on their stories and personal truth. A challenge to these beliefs, even indirectly, is generally perceived as an attack on the individual. Listening to opinions diametrically opposite to your own without harboring any resentment takes a lot of mental training.
Not really: some niches get competed out as a side-effect of addressing a large market.
VC almost exclusively invests in businesses that have a large TAM (Total Addressable Market) and a VC is not invested in a business that has a small, niche market. The VC model is invest x millions, aim for one win in the billions that gets all the return to the fund, and then cut the losses for all the other fund’s investments that didn’t win big (wind-up or sell - recover the VCs preferential money and don’t give a shit if common share holders like founders get $0).
Apparently Twitter subpoenaed Musk's friends and colleagues who were actively tweeting about the deal with what is believed to be an attempt to prove he encouraged his posse tweet negatively to force a lower price.
My heart bleeds for him. He’s achieved tremendous success in a remarkably successfully economy based on dynamism and the rule of law, and now he’s asked to do his part, under oath, to maintain that system. Doesn’t he know that part is for chimps?*
*Tried to write “chumps,” but liked the typo better.
>"I'll be able to find a few people that are like me" - consider that you don't necessarily need or even want to find people like you.
I've started listening to 90s and early 2000s punk and screamo and all I want is people that have that same appreciation for the music. Sometimes you really want to meet like-minded people who grok the unique elements of life that you do.
Most territories back then consisted of people of similar race. An empire attempting to eliminate another could technically be seen as perpetrating genocide. Esp because the treatment of surrendering opponents could go either way.
