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Patrick McKenzie
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Tokyo could drown in tech dollars but teachers would continue living in cheap housing because Tokyo builds housing. If you stop building housing, you’re deciding someone doesn’t get to live there; market just tells you their names.
Most important part of the puzzle:
We having baying hordes who advocate for and get scarcity and then wonder why we have no abundance. Truly it is a mystery.
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Patrick McKenzie
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An interesting thread about "ugly food" (the theory that supermarkets largely don't stock cosmetically impaired perfectly good food, which is mostly true for some supermarkets, and therefore that this food gets wasted, which is not).

This has always been a curious theory for me, because it suggests that multi-billion dollar American companies would tolerate waste of (SWAG from someone who knows nothing about agricultural science) 60% of their raw inputs because they hate money or something.
(This is one of the many, many views on capitalism which views it as a superposition of people who evilly and rapaciously optimize everything which sparks joy out of life while simultaneously being nincompoops.)
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Patrick McKenzie
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When folks ask me a question about our codebase internally I try to

a) answer the question
b) say "If I were trying to find the answer to that question with our tools, here's my entry point, here's the search query, and here's my mental heuristic for why I'd click on result #3"
This is trying to thread the needle on always, always being happy to give responsive answers to questions while also increasing people's ability to self-serve on them in the future.
Since it's publicly available, let me mention that the most common tool I use for answering these questions is livegrep and that I intend to boot up a livegrep instance on the first day of every startup for the rest of my life.

It borders on miraculous.

github.com/livegrep/liveg…
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Patrick McKenzie
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Strong endorse. Also, virtually regardless of your circumstances, the number you perceive as your need is low relative to achievable options in our industry, so you can end up capping yourself for no reason whatsoever.
e.g. Want to pay for a parent’s retirement? Trivial on an AppAmaGooBookSoft salary at the bottom of their ranges, so given that they have just saved your parent, why (they ask themselves) would they need to sweeten the deal further?
But the real reason to avoid doing this is that professionals are not needy people and therefore if you trigger someone’s “I am clearly talking to a needy person” heuristic you risk getting treated as a charity case rather than as a professional.

(Reporting not endorsing.)
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Tech is a bubble world detached from normal life

So is high level politics

So is extreme wealth

The people within these spheres live in a hyperversion of reality that trickles down to “normal” living
Bubbles exist, levels are real

You can go your whole life and never interact with someone above or below you

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Someone asked for financial advice for artists and writers. OK. Here it goes: the biggest one—live somewhere cheap. I have lived in New York City, Vancouver, and San Francisco. THEY ARE ALL TOO EXPENSIVE. I now live in a town with a pop. of 8k. It's awesome and cheap.
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