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rl12345 | 5 years ago | on: Facebook leases 730k-square-foot office space in New York City

"With the 730,000-square-foot lease, Facebook has acquired more than 2.2 million square feet of office space in the city for thousands of employees in less than a year, all of it on Manhattan’s West Side between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River."

"The timing of the deal’s announcement was somewhat of a surprise because Facebook, which had expressed interest in the Farley Building for months, has given most of its employees the option of working from home during the pandemic. Even after the pandemic subsides, Facebook has said that within the next 10 years up to half of its roughly 52,200 employees across the country would work from home."

rl12345 | 8 years ago | on: Y Combinator's Founding Principles

I think that sentence is good, it's just a matter of changing the 'to' to 'and'.

"Y Combinator represents the union of two ideas that had not previously been combined: the application of mass production techniques [and] startup funding."

rl12345 | 8 years ago | on: ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator [video]

Beautifully made and well-structured video. In just 120 seconds, they effectively:

I. Set the stage by showing a trend.

II. Describe two premises and derive a logical conclusion from them.

III. Show a product that not only is the objective answer to the conclusion above but also fits perfectly into the initial narrative.

rl12345 | 8 years ago | on: Twitter, no.

Maybe something that could easily be interpreted as social mockery and making fun of people = crossing the line.

It's not a fair treatment for someone who has made an enormous contribution for startups and is already paying a big price for past mistakes. It can also harm/dilute the cause women are rightfully fighting for.

rl12345 | 8 years ago | on: Gambiarra: repair culture (2015)

Where I come from, "Gambiarra" sometimes has a bad connotation -- in the sense that it was not well thought. So, maybe, a lazy hack?

rl12345 | 8 years ago | on: Gambiarra: repair culture (2015)

Ha, when I read the post title I knew it would come from a (Brazilian) Portuguese author.

The way I would explain "Gambiarra": it's a quick fix that relies heavily on an ad hoc solution instead of following the generally accepted principles for solving a problem.

rl12345 | 9 years ago | on: Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

That's why I started the sentence with "if you care about maximizing the quality of your product" -- it's a trade off. If you are ok with getting the average stuff, it's absolutely not necessary to customize your own MRP. The problem is, in the supplement industry, "average" often times means bad, so at least do a little research on any off-the-shelf supplement you're about to buy.

rl12345 | 9 years ago | on: Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Soylent’s product itself has zero novelty in it. Meal Replacement Powders (MRPs) have been around for decades and are popular among the bodybuilding crowd. The only “innovation” Soylent has brought to the table was being the first company to market MRPs to geeks and hipsters -- and that's it. Personally, I've never tried their product because the ingredients they use seemed average/fudged at best (and I tend to avoid brands that pop out of nowhere with a lot of hype). Tip: if you care about maximizing the quality of your dietary supplement, research and buy each ingredient individually, and then mix it all up yourself.

rl12345 | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is not worth $33B (2010)

It is easy to be a critic of private venture backed companies valuations as these investments are done considering where the world could be in the future vs where it is now. These kind of bets requires not only financial models but also unique vision and a lot of guts -- traits hard to train but present in most of mankind's big achievements. So it's no wonder those bets pays really well when they succeed.

Of course, if you're not a fan of how the private venture backed companies game works, you can always do a traditional business and use profits as the only source of growth. That's the beauty of our current system: it's not perfect but it still allows you to choose whatever path you want to and still have a good chance to make it work.

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