What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old

Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by tenbino on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:52AM (#24373781)

>> No one knows the right answer

Hmmmm. Be careful about this. Lots of people do know the right answer.

Youth energy and enthusiasm count for a lot, especially backin the earliest days of computing like when bill gates got started. That was because adults knew very little.

> Experience is only loosely correlated with age

These days age and experience count for a lot. Lots of older people have incredibly valuable answers to common challenges in competing and business.

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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by parasubvert on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:12AM (#24375074)

There is a pretty good book called “the Death or Expertise” that discusses the broad trend towards people with little specialized knowledge feeling they can learn a domain quickly and know more than experts.

So many problems we have in society seem to be caused by this mass weaponized Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by derivagral on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:42AM (#24375947)

I personally view this as less DK and more just removing fences[1] until the externalizations blow up. By then you've probably moved on or can divert some profit to putting the fences back.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

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