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MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?

I will humbly give my POV on this. I also never understood the VC verbiage until after I “launched”. Now here is what I understand after coming forward with a business idea: the formula for “success” is being able to “uncover” a market request for a product/service and SELL that product/service to them. In this regard idea = market_need = make_something_people_want. Therefore, to me ideas AND execution are EVERYTHING. I think what people mean is that “talking” about an idea is not sufficient. I strongly disagree that ideas are cheap, as I disagree that execution is a given. I believe ideas are oxygen, execution is hydrogen, what you want is water…

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?

So from the looks of it you are in a negative mind frame. Use a professional mental coach (therapist, of course, not one of those "gurus") to help you reframe. It is never too late nor you are never not good enough. But you have to get to a point where you really believe it, not just superficially. A well structured mental coaching development path will help you reframe. Use the right tool, get into therapy.

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?

I feel you. As many here I failed to recognize burnout early enough to prevent total exhaustion. My experience (not a doc) is medication won’t help and ADHD seems to be a stereotypical American fixation almost like tomato sauce for us Italians. Call it for what it is and don’t blame yourself. The cure for burnout is change. Distance yourself from the source of discomfort, lay bricks or bag groceries for at least three months and it will go away. I am saying this because you said you cannot afford a vacation (not slouching on the couch, rather travel). Not sure my experience will help, but that’s my 2 cents.

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Test scores are not irrelevant

It'a sunken cost effect at paly, little more than that. Oh, and parents pressure, least we forget the role of family. You can test my claim empirically by asking yourself: "are all college graduates I met more intelligent than me?". Admission test measure how well you can prepare for admission tests, nothing more. There are too many confounding factors and co-factors that play in the career of a relatively fresh semi-adult aged 17-18, that reducing it to a single number is just moronic or bad-faith utilitaristic escape route. Universities only care that you graduate so they can make money, therefore they use the simplest KPI to measure that. Let's not forget Universities are staffed with people and are a business.

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Coaching for “Normals”?

I’d trade coaching budget for company car any day. But as the old saying goes: “what if they leave after we train them”? Pls post here if you find a channel. I am also interested in that. I have (www.adplist.org)[www.adplist.org] but it’s more technical mentoring than anything else

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: All the stupid startup/app ideas I've had so far

Yeah, that's a valid business. I also looked into that. wWould not mind to colaesce with others who think it could be worth to go to sanctuaries/worship palces and try to establish the service. think St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. St. Francis in Assisi, etc. (I am from Italy, but I guess every country has some sort of shrine where everyone goes, turists included)

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?

I myself went for what I enjoy / makes me happy / balanced / serene. I am not “good” at anything myself either, but I realized that being “good” is heterodirectional criteria i.e. it’s judgment from the outside and I don’t think I want to let the “outside” chose for me. Not claiming social influence is not important, just that it should be 2nd-3rd in importance. Try to do what makes you happy, whatever it is, and try to surround yourself with good relationships. I use this criteria and it works on my machine… :D

MarcoSanto | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

Define interesting. Once you have that, look for companies that do that. Apply, rinse repeat. In a short while you will be in a network of like minded peers. After that you should be good. Mind you, the secret it’s people

MarcoSanto | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?

Become the poorest in your social circle and the problem will solve itself. You are hanging out with the wrong people, that’s all. We are social animals, we don’t understand absolute values, only relative. Become poor again by changing your surroundings. Meditation and therapy won’t help. New friends will.

MarcoSanto | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to work on real business data from companies

I have to complete a DS/ML project to graduate a course. I would like to work on a real business case and not a made-up one. I am not sure where one takes real business cases to work on to train models. I don't think there is place where companies ask for freelancers data scientists.

I thought maybe if there is a company interested in having me work for them for about a month, I will gladly work on their data instead of try to come up with some realistic sounding dataset.

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