Just having this on the desk has made me acutely sensitive to that number and how it moves. Not quite sure how anxiety versus medical effect of CO2 trades off, but an example:
"Close window and door to have quiet environment for therapy": +200 PPM.

You can quickly project that to what it looks like if I try to keep the office quiet for the entire workday.
Saying something I've said before: I would have had a *very* different house hunting experience if I had known that I was going to do multiple years of WFH from one of the rooms.

I wonder when the various industries start taking that into account?
e.g. Are we going to start seeing "off the shelf" options which have a "recording studio appropriate sound isolation" for one room? Because that seems like something a lot of people I know would happily buy.
(Both for just general quiet when doing focused work and for actually recording from the recording studio. Podcast audio quality in my WFH office is far below where I'd like it to be, for example.)
Hmm maybe I can use the fact that lots of geeks with this interest are reading this:

Is there a type of business where I can just call them up and they come and make something recording studio quiet then charge me an absurd amount of money b/c market segmentation?

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7 Jul
A natural extension for YC: Co-founder matching.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277502…
For the longest time the limiting factor on startup formation was likely interested proto-founders, which PG and YC intervened on directly by making starting a startup a higher status activity, creatively marketing it to geeks, and smoothing the path into it.
But it turns out that startups aren't started by founders they're started by *founders working together* and so creating medium-to-high trust ties between individuals in the community is the next limiting reagent, and so...
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The Bond villain compliance strategy:

1) You're literally anywhere you need to be at any time to advance the plot.

2) You pass through, without acknowledgement or any difficulty, any law/border/legal regime/etc which would impair your business of being a Bond villain.
And then you get terminated with extreme prejudice in Act 3.
They... seem to expect to get away with it, too?
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A random thing I learned while doing fundraising for VaccinateCA: the largest charitable funder in the U.S. isn’t a ginormous foundation or a billionaire.

It’s Fidelity Charitable. (Technically speaking.)

fidelitycharitable.org
Fidelity is a ginormous financial services business which has a loosely affiliated 501c3 charity. That charity takes donations, mostly from the middle class, and then bookkeeps them on a per-donor basis. The donor later makes a recommendation for Fidelity to fund another charity.
This is called a “donor advised fund” and they’re common in tax planning / wealth management for folks who both have enough money to get advice and think charity is a priority for them.

There are an awful lot of folks in that bucket.
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We've helped 20,000 companies form so far. Here's some of what we've learned:
An ongoing question for Atlas: are we serving the highest growth businesses in the world (like e.g. VCs), or do we want to enable unlikely businesses from unlikely people in unlikely places?

To which we answer simply: yes.
A lot of big things look very small in their early days, and they often arrive from the margins, from garages and hackathons and hobby projects that grow into something more.
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Most brilliant business model I’ve seen recently, and unfortunately I didn’t think to get the name:

Suppose you are out and around Tokyo and are running out of cell phone batteries.
As someone who has had this happen quite often, I know there are two remedies. One, go to your contracted cell chain and get a free charge, but then you’re waiting for an hour.

Two, buy a battery pack for $20 at a convenience store. This seems wasteful.
I have at least half a dozen at home and never remember to a) have a hot spare charged and b) have it with me on a day where I will be out and about.

Enter a new kiosk at extremely widely distributed convenience stores, which will rent you a charged battery pack for $2 a day.
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Yesterday’s Money Stuff has an interesting entry on the PPP, which is near and dear to my twin interests of SMB financing and pandemic rapid response software projects.

bloomberg.com/opinion/author…
My view on the program is that the United States in its considerable wisdom realized it could not set up both a) a web page and b) a customer acquisition engine in a year under the traditional RFP process, and instead outsourced it to any private entity that would take it on.
That cost a lot of money, because it was literally designed to cost a lot of money, but it substantially worked, and it may have worked better than any other part of the pandemic response.
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