FYI: it's spelt segue. Segway is the brand-name of a self-balancing wheeled contraption that was supposed to revolutionize urban transportation 2 decades ago, but only saw success in the mall-cop niche.
Re:A Project of One’s Own
by crispyambulance on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:35PM
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Yikes! I guess I've never seen "segue" in writing before, always spoken. I didn't know!
I feel you! I mostly suffer from the opposite problem (seen words in writing by never heard them spoken, and end up pronouncing them wrong).
We also have Segway tours in Chicago, where you get to ride one while seeing the sights.
I guess VCs wouldn't be considered "bosses"?
VCs don't want you to feel like they're bosses.
Re:A Project of One’s Own
by crispyambulance on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:38PM
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Indeed, sometimes founders learn "the hard way" who the boss really is.
I think, however, that PG's idea of "a project" as much as he says it should be "for fun" -- is actually just a segway (wormhole) into a start-up!
> One way to ensure autonomy is not to have a boss at all. There are two ways to do that: to be the boss yourself, and to work on projects outside of work. Though they're at opposite ends of the scale financially, startups and open source projects have a lot in common, including the fact that they're often run by skaters. And indeed, there's a wormhole from one end of the scale to the other: one of the best ways to discover startup ideas is to work on a project just for fun.