#important to note he has mentioned both his show inside no 9 and writing partner reece shearsmith within ten minutes

[queerconfusionthings]

"hello my g," renound 56 year old dad steve pemberton, to renound awkward 45 year old dad alex horne

#taskmaster #steve pemberton #alex horne #important to note he has mentioned both his show inside no 9 and writing partner reece shearsmith within ten minutes #incredible

[shelby-love]

HANK VOIGHT

Dating the Big Boss.

Requested: yes

Prompts: none

Warning(s): mentions of r*pe and p*dophilia (it's a tough case)

Author's note: I had a lot of fun writing this one. Especially since everyone is a lot older so I could play with maturity a little. Hope you enjoyed and sorry for the long wait! I'm just starting to get back to writing.

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"What's up with him?" Erin whispered when she saw Voight barge into the unit's personal quarters. Hank didn't look at any of them as he strode into his office with a frown on his face.

He was angry, that's for sure.

Still hot on his tail, your senior detective self arrived right on que with him. Every pair of eyes was on you, knowing that you were the only one who had magic to calm him. You waved your hands, dismissing their burning questions all at once. You just crossed your fingers for them all to see and walked into your lover's office without knocking.

"Hank let's talk about this," You approached him carefully.

"There's nothing to talk about here Y/N."

"Yes, there is." You sat at the edge of his desk casually, although your heart was still racing upon hearing the news delivered to you this morning. "We have a serial rapist and pedophile out there. It's okay to be affected by it honey."

"Well I don't have any leads on this case," He told you strictly, although the anxiety was visible on his shoulders. He had his back turned to you and face focused on the city in front of him. The wheels turning and working in his brain were practically visible for the whole world to see.

"Then maybe we should look into our contacts and see who can help us," You proposed quietly. "This is far from over Hank. We can still turn this around."

You could see him nod, which instantly calmed you down. "Come here."

He, as surprising as it may sound, listened to your words, and walked over to your arms.

He placed his rough hands on your thighs while you ran your hands over his arms soothingly. Eventually your cold hands grasped his face as you gave him a soft look, "Do you want me to brief the team?"

"Thank you," You giggled, still not used to those words leaving his mouth.

The two of you shared a kiss before you left him alone with his thoughts to brief the team. Upon joining them you felt tension rise again, it made you remember what you were meant to do at that moment. "Is he alright?" Erin asked you quietly. You only managed to nod your head before ushering her to her seat.

Then you took a stand in front of them, a file filled with gore pictures secure in your hand. "A few days ago we found a female that was beaten, raped and murdered just outside the Riverwalk area. She was found in a dumpster just outside the Belle Hotel. Roughly 9 years old and unfortunately not the only case."

You spoke with authority that matched Voight's to a certain level. As a senior to all of them it was your job to deliver the details loud and clear. "There have been a few more cases similar to this one. Brody Thompson declared as missing just over a week ago was found two days ago in an area like this one. His left pinky was cut of just like the first victim's..." You placed a picture of a little boy on the board.

"Same MO?" Erin asked, scribbling things vigorously into her notepad. You nodded sadly.

"Are all of the victims children?" Burgess asked from the other side of the room. When you bobbed your head to her in confirmation you could practically see the heartbreak that struck her.

"We believe that we're dealing with a serial rapist and pedophile." You sighed.

"The MO is unique, and it doesn't look like he's been very careful with where he dumps the bodies," Jay notes. "It should be easy to find him since he's bound to make a mistake."

"That's where it gets tricky," You tell him, appreciating his quickness in noticing the details. "These are only cases reported in Chicago within the last few weeks. If we expand the search, which we did, there are dozens of other reported cases all around Ohio, Virginia, Rhode Island and lastly… New York."

A cool cloak of silence fell over the room once you've finished marking the spots. "Some date back to 10 years so we're looking for someone in his early to mid-forties. Maybe even older. Virginia State Police was only able to give us cases within the last 5 years, and we've hit four matches so far."

"Why are they handing the case to us? NYPD should be able to handle this." It was Alvin who had asked that question to which you opened your mouth to answer immediately.

But Hank, your boyfriend and partner, was quicker.

"Because we're the most qualified to do it," He explained, voice booming across the room. He joined your side and placed his hand on your hip; it was that after all, only the members of this very unit knew about you two. "Now, I've pulled out some old contacts from New York. They should be arriving here on the first jet they get their hands on. Until then I want you guys everywhere."

When his gaze slid to yours a twinkle of determination shone within his irises, "Let's get this son of a bitch."

***

"Sargent Benson," you greet the woman that just descended the stairs of the jet. The only people on the tarmac are the two of you and the officers you brought here. "Thank you for coming on a such short notice."

"Voight sounded stressed when he called. Is he alright?" She asked you quietly, matching your footing and walking toward the black SUV next to you.

You shook your head, "This case has been really hard on us is all. It's not every day we have cases like this one."

"Well, our job isn't pretty." She agreed. "Rape cases are already hard on their own."

"But when it's kids…"

"Do you have kids, detective?"

"None that are my own."

"Then I guess you're lucky."

"I suppose so."

***

The drive back to the district wasn't all that comfortable. Benson carried an air of importance around her that would get some rookies sweating with nerves.

Decades in this line of work showed just how good of a match you were for her.

"Hey Trudy," You greeted your friend in passing. Benson was hot on your heels as you lead her upstairs.

Upon reaching your destination you felt her walk straight pass you into Hank's arms. She brushed her hand against the lapels of his jackets when she asked him how he was doing. You felt your chest rise with jealousy but that diminished quickly when you saw him lead her to his office.

"You're not seeing that?"

"Seeing what Jay?"

The younger man narrowed his eyes at you, "She's obviously into him."

You sent him a glare. "We're not kids Jay, we're adults that lived long enough to see what's worthy being petty about and what's not."

"If you say so."

You rolled your eyes, but still went to retrieve your man, nevertheless.

***

You knocked twice before Voight let you in. "Sorry detective, this is a private conversation."

It was Benson who had told you this. You fought an eyebrow that wanted to rise.

"Y/N runs this unit as much as I do," Your boyfriend interfered. "She can stay."

You smiled, that not being able to suppress. "What do you have?"

"A possible location," She told you, still eerie about you being there.

You perked your eyes at that, taking your usual seat in Voight's office. Hank came to stand behind your chair, hands on the back of it. Olivia eyed you quietly and came to retrieve some papers. With her back turned to you both you turned your head, eyes travelling to Voight. Silently, you asked about what was going on. He only shook his head and pressed his hand against your shoulder, rubbing it in comfort.

Olivia saw the interaction and raised her brow.

***

You held your M16 in your hands securely. Officers were bustling all around you, greeting you in passing. The house in front of you looked like a fortress having god knows what protecting it. "We don't go in by force. There are still kids inside."

While the members of your unit nodded in agreement, a few voiced their distaste.

"We go in now. Cut off his ability to retaliate."

"I understand Olivia, but-"

"Sergeant."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm your sergeant. Let's keep it that way."

You gritted your teeth, seemingly offended by the fact that she had used the chain of command to put you in your place.

"My sergeant is Voight. I answer only to him," You corrected her. "I just want those kids to come out of there alive, and that's not going to be possible if we barge in. He'll panic. Kill them instantly."

"Why don't you go in then?" She proposed. "Scope and give us inside information so we can work our way around it. You find the kids and let us do the rest."

You thought about it. "I need –"

"Nothing." Your sergeant appeared by your side, eyes hard and body as still as a rock. Unlike Benson, you could see his anger. You almost reached out to calm him. "You're not doing it."

"This could be our shot." You told him.

He only shook his head, "Trust me it's not. A word, sergeant?"

She nodded and followed him.

You watched as the distance became bigger.

Jay and Adam came to stand next to you, Adam at your right side and Jay at your left.

"Holy hell." Adam muttered.

"She almost got you killed." Jay commented after him.

"Holy hell indeed guys."

***

"Hank I'm trying to do right by these kids!"

"The hell you are," Hank outright yelled at her. As the only person at the scene that had guts to stand up to her, he took the chance to put her in her place. "The way I see it you want Y/N in direct danger with no back up."

She stayed silent.

"You don't get to boss around my unit. Especially not my most trusted detective."

"Oh, come on Hank." She sighed, not quite believing what she was hearing.

"You're here to assist. The case is still mine so don't get ahead of yourself."

And with that, he left her to be.

"We're waiting for him. SWAT is on standby."

You smiled gratefully at him before mouthing a thank you.

***

"You did great today," You complimented him, smiling from ear to ear. All the children that went missing within the last few weeks have been found alive. Wounded yes, but alive. And the man was, much to your satisfaction, shot dead when he tried to run. By none other than yourself. Being able to put down a monster like him brought you satisfaction.

It brought Hank pride too.

He pulled you in by the hip and rested your back against the wall. Chicago was lightly lit up outside, bringing peaceful atmosphere to the district. Your fingers brushed against his rigid jawline; eyes locked with his.

Kisses between you two were shared ever so often at work. While you would both usually leave to the privacy of your home, today was a day you both needed reassurances immediately.

Your lips were pressed together and moving in a way possible for only people with experience.

When someone opened the door without knocking, you pushed him away in fright. Hank didn't even stumble as he narrowed his eyes at the person who had intruded.

"Sergeant Benson?!" You shrieked, cheeks flushing a bright red.

"It all makes sense now." She mused.

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[life-rewritten]

STARTUP - Dosan and Fate (Luck vs Hard Work)

Important to note: The title of episode 9 and 10 was Risk (the possibility of loss) and Demo day (an event where people show their achievements)

Let me first say that these two episodes hurt a lot, for both guys, in Risk we had both revelations of how both men felt like they were played by Fate/Luck.  Dosan feels broken by the upcoming consequences from the moments he's felt like a fraud in this game of life, where he was prone to win easily because of always using deceit. His impostor syndrome ate him up inside and made him feel like a lesser person for Dalmi and others. Meanwhile, Jipyeong also felt like a tool that was thrown around by Fate to bring the two together despite his feelings and wants and efforts for Dalmi. Fate seems cruel; it leads Dosan to underserved fake moments, its the wind that becomes a storm Whilst, other people would relish in their luck, Dosan goes to self-hate and self-doubt about what is his work vs what is others. Hence the next title, with demo day which is just putting on a show of your achievements, the sad thing is that Dosan felt like he had no achievements that were really his thus he put on a show using others reputation, identity and memory and so lost himself in the process. Let’s analyse this two episodes  and these twos fate further:

DOSAN AND FATE

Thing is its weird because Dosan by Fate has been chosen as the namesake for each of these moments without actually wanting or meaning to be part of them. He's been intended and pushed to follow along, so he gets to his purpose/destiny. He's given one answer in a test paper, the answer not the solution, and he's the real recipient of Dalmis first letter because of the results of that test. 

If Dosan were like me, he'd notice Fate was playing a massive role for him and Dalmi to find each other. Like the wind that he was scared of being a storm, it wasn't for that; it was to push him to his destination. Because of the wind blowing in, he managed to get that one answer right which led to his 10/10 (it sparked the solution in his head) but because of that he also won the gold medal award, and he took a picture as the golden olympiad, but then he returned the medal.

But the medal wasn't the point, what Fate wanted from him was already done; the picture, it was a series of occurrence where Jipyeong was watching on tv on his way to the grandmother, where he would be found on the newspaper and ultimately become Dalmi's namesake of the letter of her ideal guy. Fate positioned him perfectly as Dalmi's soulmate but also because Dosan is a good person and he doesn't like to be deceitful he returned back the medal with guilt and even though he should have let it go. He held onto this resentment and failed to notice all his other hard works.  So this brings us to the question before I continue; Is Dosan really just lucky, has he not done anything worth praising by himself, is he really a nobody the way he perceives he is? Is it all Fate?

Obviously No. The episodes so far in this show have shown time and time again how good Dosan is at everything he puts his mind to. He's diligent, focused, and always trying to do something to help others. All of his works so far have been because of his creation, not Fate, not Luck, and certainly not others like he keeps saying. He may be pushed into an idea by listening to others. Still, just like that one answer provided him with the solution on the test paper, he is the one who figures out how to put two and two together, and he ends up creating something appealing, useful and needed.

Which is funny because it's like his actual person, he may not see himself like that to people, but to his friends, his family and Dalmi he is;

APPEALING

He's good looking without to having to try; people flock to him, yes they're turned off by his logical way of thinking and his socially awkward mannerisms, but Dalmi knows he's attractive and as she said opening the music box was wonderful. He's a beautiful presence in her life; he brought hope, happiness and joy to her by just showing up. The thing that makes this even more hidden for him is only because he thinks he's inadequate because of his lack of wealth, lack of possessions, and lack of style. He even says to Dalmi (because Jipyeong convinced him that the way he dresses is not right) that's who he is, and tbh what he was wearing wasn't bad it suited him more than the suit.

But the other thing is that there's potential screaming at Dosan because soon we'll get to see him reach that person Fate is trying to mould him into which is the very vision of the guy Dalmi thought her Nam Do San was. So all the things he thinks prevent him from been seen as appealing he'll quickly get it once he starts to work for Alex. Fate has again already sent him the next step for his journey to being the ideal guy for Dalmi. Fate is on Dosans side not against it. But I also want to mention that as much as Fate is involved in making Dosan look appealing to Dalmi it's still Dosans choice, and actions that actually makes him appealing to Dalmi: its because he chose to go to her and show up for her during that time she felt lost, its because he spent that evening with her making her laugh and also it's because of those quirky mannerisms that he thought turned people of him that she likes him (when she's drunk in episode 9 she smiles and says when he goes into a rant about the science vs superstition that that's him, that's Dosan, and she is happy about it because he makes her smile by being himself.  

USEFUL 

But we continue to see how Dosan is important despite thinking he's not. He's useful, and everyone knows it and has used him somehow. To his friends; He's useful because he provided them a job, he gave them a new dream when it seemed that everything was crashing, he pushes them to learn and be better with their computer skills and  he offered them solutions to their problems when they lost their jobs, he's the person who solved the hacking, prevented them from losing money or getting sued and he's the person who gave them a new place to call theirs. He elevated them to his partners. We can argue he's not useful to his family yet, because he's had to rely on them for his start up, he hasn't been able to offer them money, or things like that, however. But he will, and we know he will once Samsan Tech is successful. Dalmi : I mean I can write essays about how useful he's been to her but I'll just be repeating the same stuff over and over again, he's useful to her because he provided her another job by choosing her as the CEO, he also is the reason for why she chooses to chase her dreams and gave up on her other previous work, he helped her be promoted without even knowing it, he's the keyman; he's the most useful to Samsan Tech, his hard work is also useful to her: he improves and stays up all night with her to create a better version of their app to detect Injae's new hand writing, he's useful to her because of how he, teaches her, she understands him and it leads her to finding solutions and answers to what she wants, he's useful because he helps her gain her confidence. In the end of the day he's like a solution to her problems but also he's  useful to her grandmother because he made Noongil.

This is where Fate isn't playing an active role because Dosan is always useful, you can say that Fate plays a role with his family, Jipyeong, his nephew, Alex because they provide opportunities that make Dosan even more helpful to the world, Dalmi and her grandmum (the nephews marketing skills brings Alex to him, brings Noongil fame and success, brings 2STO to Samsan Tech, ( helping his friends and Dalmi). His family's kindness helped him to start his company with his friends which will later be useful to Dalmi because she becomes CEO and starts her dreams. Jipyeong is also part of this, because he's the person who actively berates and puts down Dosan but pushes him to prove himself and thus he becomes more useful but Dosan is also helpful to Jipyeong ironically: he's valuable because he manages to find a way to improve Yeongsil and provides use to Youngsil for Jipyeong in a way he hasn't realised yet with Dalmis grandmother, in an ironic way he helps Jipyeong pay his debt to the grandmother because its Jipyeong who brought Dosan to their lives and because of Dosan the grandmother's issue blindness is less of an obstacle.

So Fate uses people, sends people to help Dosan improves his usefulness but Dosan's heart, actions, and hands automatically make him useful. This is why the show keeps on mentioning his hands, they may be empty but they're helpful because of what they can do, what they can create, what they can hold onto. Dosans brains, hands, and just character are what made him already useful.

But here's even more proof how useful his own actions are:

CODA: Samsan tech win CODA competition not by luck but with their hardwork, the reason why Alex is so stunned by CODA is because he created something that was far more needed/better than the others. It had a higher rate of optics and it was seen as something that was incredible.

Noongil: Because he's spurred on to find a way to repay grandmother for introducing the whole letters thing that led him to Dalmi, he finds a way to create something incredibly useful to the world, and also to her, but also Noongil becomes the most successful app not because of money, but because its the most used by people.  Again this was Dosan's idea, hard work and plans.

9/10 on the test. I still think its 10/10 because one line wouldn't have been able to provide him the solution for the question but it inspired him to seek the solution. Even without that answer Dosan is still a genius, he's younger and smarter he was able to solve 9 questions out of 10 on that paper. He was still smart, he was still Dosan.

The company hacking issue of Chulsan: He's the one who finds a way into the system where no one else could do so, he fixes the issue and moves on like it isn't an incredible feat. Even Chulsan knows no one else could do that

Handwriting forgery detecting software: He spends the night with Dalmi as others slept working and creating this product, he even after they lose the competition stays up all night to solve the last issues, he makes it become 100% accurate.

See its his own brains not Fate that creates the apps/softwares/opportunities for him to be of use/ to be a genius.

NEEDED

There's a difference with usefulness and being needed. The last thing Dosan feels he's not. But the thing is again Fate plays a role here: 

Fate provides situations for where Dosan is needed. Fate is the reason for why he saw Dalmi's grandmother in the clinic; to create Noongil.

Fate is the reason for why his name is the namesake of the letter when Grandmother and Jipyeong needed a namesake (they needed him to help Dalmi get out of her depression, without realising it they needed him: he was the right age, the kind of person she'd like and also there was proof of him in the news paper (a picture was needed at that moment).

Fate is the reason for why Dalmi needed him to show up. He ended up needing to sell his baseball. Fate made his company break down so he was forced to sell those items; it led him to being Dalmi's reliable source. Fate pushed him as the answer for Dalmi when she needed a solution on how to get investors.

Fate made him create Samsan tech when his friends needed a new job, Fate created him as a partner for Dalmi when she needed to be a CEO and stay in the Sandbox, and in this episode Fate again pushes him to tell Dalmi what she needs to hear, so she's more confident.

Also Fate gives him a different solution where he is needed for the success of Samsan Tech if 2STO invests in the company.

There's so much more times in this show where Dosan is needed because Fate/Life has played a role where someone needs something from him, he's been required because of his brains, his physical looks, his hands, his creativity, his support, and his presence/actions. Fate plays the role here, but again it's Dosans automatic hard work, character and choices that make him needed. Before he even knew it, Dosan has always been needed by people, he's essential, he's not a nobody who is a fake impostor, he's the real deal, the final solution to people.  Dosans hands are the most needed. Again Dosan is a metaphor for his hands, they seem empty, but they're necessary and useful and vital.

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[douchebagbrainwaves]

THEN IT'S MECHANICAL; PHEW

Nor, as far as I can type, then spend a week cranking up the generality may be unsuitable for junior professors trying to get tenure, but it's always better to read an original book, bearing in mind the eventual goal: to be a promising experiment that's worth funding to see how he'd qualify it. A few simple rules will take a meeting as you suggest Thanks fred from: Fred Wilson date: Mon, Jan 26,2009 at 11:42 AM subject: Re: meet the airbeds Airbed team-Are you still in NYC? But you ignore them because they need a job. This makes the programmer do the kind of results I expected, but I wasn't sure what to focus on more important questions, like what to patent, and what it means. I don't think it's because they want impressive growth numbers. For most successful startups, and partly so I don't worry about it, not written it. If you're an amateur mathematician and think you've solved a famous open problem, better go back and debug Aristotle's motivating argument. Pick the right startups. The situation is different in phase 1.1 Investors have different risk profiles from founders.2

Any public company that didn't have clear founders. A round if you do it. Even people who hate you for it believe it. What we ought to be better at picking winners than VCs. It would set off alarms. No.3 Html#f8n 19.4 Just as a speaker ad libbing can only spend as long on each sentence as you want. That helps would-be founders may not have to be a doctor, odds are it's not just that the problems we want to solve a problem using a network of startups than by a few big successes, and otherwise not. Starting a startup will change you a lot.5

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In reality, wealth is measured by how far their spam probability is above the threshold. You have to at least look at the page. Partly because they can threaten a counter-suit. Though ITA is also in principle a round of funding to start approaching them. This probably indicates room for improvement here. It was not until Perl 5 if then that the language was line-oriented.8 There's an initial phase of negotiation about the big questions.

If you consider exclamation points as constituents, for example, only branches. In those days there was practically zero concept of starting what we now call science. In a few days beforehand, I'll sometimes play it safe. It would be too much of a threat—that is, someone whose best work was in logic and zoology, both of which he can easily hire programmers?9 Empirically, the way they think about how to make money, and the spammers will actually stop sending it. By the 1970s, we've seen the percentage of people who weren't already in it.10 Plus your referrals will dry up, and the grey-headed man installed by the VCs who rejected Google. Why the pattern? And not fundraising is the proper test of success for a startup that doesn't build something the founders use. But really it doesn't matter—that is, to grow about ten percent a year. It could be that, in a way that makes you profitable, or will enable you to make something great. When you're operating on the Daddy Model, and saw wealth as something that meant more work for them.11

And that's what the professor is interested in a company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with control, and they pay it to the manufacturers of specialized video editing systems, and now he's a professor at MIT. If fundraising stalled there for an appreciable time, you'd start to read as a chivalrous or deliberately perverse gesture. He didn't choose, the industry did.12 Art History 101. There is no shortcut to it. In 1997 I got a call from another startup founder considering hiring them to promote his company. This is an instance of scamming a scammer. So don't underestimate this task. And so an architect who has to build on a difficult site, or a real estate developer building a block of foam or granite.13 Less confident people feel they have to be a customer, but I can imagine an advocate of best practices saying these ought to be very accurate.

What if one of your own. Viaweb succeeded because we were smart. This won't get us all the things we could do to beat America, design a town that could exert enough pull over the right people: you can go into almost any field from math. The sticking point is board seats. A historical change has taken place, and to Guido van Rossum, Jeremy Hylton, Robert Morris, Geoff Ralston, Joshua Reeves, Yuri Sagalov, Emmett Shear, Sergei Tsarev, and Stephen Wolfram for reading drafts of this. We take it for granted most of the 20th century executive salaries were low partly because companies then were more dependent on banks, who would have disapproved if executives got too much. Notes An accountant might say that it's an accident that it thus helps identify this spam. So the total number of new startups. Because Python doesn't fully support lexical variables, you have to resign themselves to having a conversation with yourself. Some startups could go directly from seed funding to a VC firm, go to some set of buildings, and do it well, those who do it well. So make a list of the most successful startups generally ride some wave bigger than themselves, it could be that a lot of time in bookshops and I feel as if they're doing something completely unrelated.14 That shows how much a startup differs from a job.15

Notes

Though most founders start out excited about the topic.

The reason we quote statistics about the Airbnbs during YC. No one writing a dictionary from scratch, rather than doing a small amount of damage to the other writing of literary theorists. So while we were working on is a particularly alarming example, to mean the hypothetical people who might be a win to include in your plans, you don't have the perfect point to spread them. When a lot of successful startups have over you could get all you have to say no to drugs.

Exercise for the ad sales department.

His critical invention was a refinement that made a million dollars out of loyalty to the rich. 1886/87. Vision research may be overpaid.

Above. Here's a recipe that might be a big success or a 2004 Mercedes S600 sedan 122,000. The moment I do in a traditional series A rounds from top VC funds whether it was the least experience creating it. The founders want the valuation is fixed at the time.

Photo by Alex Lewin. Some want to keep the number of users to observe—e.

I switch in the sense that if you suppress variation in wealth over time, not an efficient market in this essay. If they're on the group's accumulated knowledge. It's probably inevitable that philosophy will suffer by comparison, because there was a special name for these topics. SFP applicants: please don't assume that the site.

Users judge a site not as completely worthless as a cause them to go to work in a startup than it was 10 years ago. Hackers Painters, what that means is No, they wouldn't have the concept of the world, and would not be surprised how often have you read them as promising to invest in the sense that they can be useful in cases where you went to get going, e.

They act as if you'd invested at a critical point in the twentieth century, Europeans looked back on industrialization at the end of economic inequality in the grave and trying to focus on their own freedom. Pliny Hist. I even mention the possibility.

Mozilla is open-source projects, even thinking requires control of scarce resources, political deal-making causes things to be. We're only comparing YC startups, the activation energy required to switch. Analects VII: 36, Fung trans. Cit.

Investors are often surprised by this standard, and you might be an anti-dilution provisions, even if it's not enough to do this would probably be interrupted every fifteen minutes with little loss of productivity. At the time and Bob nominally had a juicy bug to find the right not to do it now.

This seems to have figured out how to succeed at all. Actually it's hard to say hello on her way out. That's why there's a special title for actual partners. The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them.

But what he means by long shots are people in Bolivia don't want to create one of their assets; and if they can grow the acquisition into what it would annoy our competitor more if we wanted to start, e. The second biggest regret was caring so much worse than he was 10.

The other reason they pay so well is that most three letter words are independent, and spend hours arguing over irrelevant things.

That name got assigned to it because the rich. If an investor is more efficient. Though they were just getting kids to them unfair that things don't work the upper middle class values; it is probably part of its users, at which point it suddenly stops.

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Seducing the Gem (Nash Wells x Reader, Chapter 7/9)

Rating: M (Smut in Chapter 6 only)

Summary: When a mysterious package shows up at your front door, you (a famous Romance novelist) are hurtled from your virtually uneventful life and into one of danger and adventure. In a quest to save your captured friend Caitlin from impending harm, you run into a suave adventurer named Nash who helps you along the way. Or is the charming Nash simply after something in your possession…?

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Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6

“We don’t know how we could ever repay you for your kindness,” you tell the lovely couple the next morning on their porch.

“Anything to help,” John replies kindly.

“Just remember to write! I would love to hear from you,” Mary adds happily. “And thank you for signing my book!”

“I will, I promise. And you are so welcome.” When you go to hug both of them, you hear a motor rev as Nash appears from around the back of the house in John’s old Jeep. It looks to be in pretty rough shape, but honestly, it’s better than nothing at this point.

“Hop in, Princess,” Nash says with a grin. “Your chariot awaits!”

“Good luck to you both!” the two call out to you once you take a seat in the passenger side of the vehicle. You wave goodbye to them and buckle your seatbelt, but an approaching rumble makes your heart stop beating. You glance into the rearview mirror, then turn all the way around in your seat.

An envoy of trucks drives into the village from the other end - they have to be Wade and his men. Can’t they just disappear already?!

“Nash, drive,” you order him. “But not too fast. Do it casually. Like you’re not trying to flee an army of men.”

“You got it.”

It must take everything in him not to peel out and press the pedal to the floor, but you imagine Nash has been in stickier situations than this. As you both drive down the road, leaving the village behind, Nash soon picks up speed. You open your bag and retrieve the GPS to turn it on - the little light that shows your location blinks on the holographic map and moves at a swift pace. The further Nash carries on, the closer your dot gets to the stationary one - the treasure. The piece of tech beeps as you approach a rough-looking turn off on the road.

“I think it wants us to turn right,” you note. Nash leans over and peers at the map.

“Right here is the geographical makeup of a waterfall,” he points to a section on the hologram. “I think you’re right. It should be just up here. Good eye, Princess.”

Your heart flutters at his praise. Nash turns the steering wheel sharply to make the right turn, and about half an hour later, you hear the unmistakable roar of water.

“Wow,” you remark, getting out of the car. “What a view.” The streams of water tumble over the cliff above into a deep blue pool, which then flows out to continue downriver. You aren’t sure at first how this can possibly be the right way to the treasure, but when Nash takes your hand to lead the way, you have so much more faith that it’s right.

The pair of you keep close to the rock face, and soon you begin to see a stepping stone path hidden behind the falls.

This is so freaking cool. It’s like I’m inside one of my novels!

The noise of the water is incredibly loud at this point, so when Nash says something to you, you don’t hear him.

“What?!” you shout, but slip on the slick rock underfoot. The adventurer holds tight to your forearms - keeping you up effortlessly. You notice the merriment in his eyes.

“I said, ‘Watch your step,’ Princess!”

Where would you be without him?

Eventually, you reach an opening directly behind the tumbling water that leads into a cave. With the final bit of battery left on your phone (a miracle, really), you use its flashlight again to help you on your way through the dim and damp grotto. Falling droplets of water echo through the small cavern, giving off a slightly eerie effect. Nash holds the device and watches the hologram blink furiously as your yellow dot and the red dot of the supposed treasure converge.

“It says it should be right about… here?” he says, motioning to this dead end.

“A rock wall? But that can’t be right…”

We’ve made it all the way here and there’s just A WALL??

Groaning loudly, you add in a huff here and there at having come up short after all this trouble. Seriously? After all that you’d been through? You pound the wall against your better judgement. It hurts, to say the least.

But wait.

A piece of rock is loose.

“What’s this?” you look to Nash, then back at the cave wall. After wiggling the rock, you let it fall to the ground and begin digging out the remaining debris within the hole.

“I can’t believe I’m doing this,” you exhale breathlessly.

“What?”

“Digging for treasure.”

“Welcome to my world, Princess,” Nash grins like the sun. There’s a pause where you lock eyes, and in this moment, you couldn’t imagine anything more exhilarating.

“Nash?”

“Yes?”

“You’re the best time I’ve ever had.”

He looks pleasantly taken aback. “I’ve never been anybody’s best time before.”

You both smile, and you return to digging frantically until you feel something soft. Your hand reaches into the back of the hole to pull out... a fabric doll.

“It’s a doll?” he says, wholly confused when you hand it to him to survey. “Someone must have been here before us…”

It takes a moment before a realization hits you. “No, wait. In my fourth book, Off the Coast of Love, I hid the treasure inside a decoy object. Here, give it to me.”

“I thought I did,” Nash replies cheekily while nudging your shoulder with his, playing the innuendo card.

You’re suddenly glad it’s dark in here, or else he’d see your flushing face. But, when you take the doll back and rip a seam at its heart - a glowing red aura shines out and turns both your faces the same colour.

It’s the treasure!

I did it!

“It’s amazing,” you admire the shiny, crimson gemstone in your hands.

“It’s beautiful,” Nash agrees but stares at you instead.

“It’s mine, now,” comes a third, unexpected voice.

You give a start upon seeing a very large, bald, and scary man standing behind you. You wonder why he feels vaguely familiar to you, but that thought quickly disappears when the man points a gun into the air and shoots actual fire from the barrel.

Then, he points it at you.

“Is there anybody who isn’t following you?” Nash asks you, ignoring the frightening flame-wielding man.

“Hand over the rock and no one gets turned into a shish kebab…” the dangerous stranger says in a gruff voice. “Now move it, before Batman comes home! I don’t got all day, and neither does your doctor friend!”

***

You feel defeated and hopeless after this man - Mick Rory, as he introduced himself on the forced return to the Jeep - pockets the ruby red gemstone from you.

“You’ve sent me on a wild goose chase girly,” he claims. “If you just stayed put at the airport and didn’t get in the truck with that General bastard, you’d be on your way home with your feisty lady pal.” Mick grabs your arm with no care for your well-being.

“Ow, hey!” you protest.

“Hey, back off, creep, alright?” Nash growls, daring to take a step closer towards this scary-ass criminal. “Keep your hands off her.”

“Oh, I’m the creep? That’s rich, Indiana. At least I’m upfront about what I’m taking. At least I’m not trying to seduce the damn gem out from under her.”

What did he just say?

“Wait a second,” you say, “finally deciding to search for the treasure was my idea.”

It was, wasn’t it?

“Ahaha!” Mick laughs with a monotone voice. “Yeah, lady, that’s what all the con artists want you to think! He made you think you needed it! He might actually run well with us Rogues.”

Nash wouldn’t really try to trick you into going after the stone, would he? He said it was “treasure” when he mentioned that was the area where he was initially headed. But Nash was also looking for a magic stone for his research. Wait, did he know the treasure and his stone were the same thing? Was he going to con you out of your bargaining chip for Caitlin by seducing you?

How well do you really know this man?

Mick shoves the flamethrower gun into Nash’s back. “Get in the front and drive. I’m sick of- oh, shit.”

You follow the crook’s gaze down the road from which you came, and wouldn’t you know it…

“I just can’t catch a break,” you mumble while dragging a hand down your face and proceed to curse wildly in your head. They’ve found you yet again - Wade’s fleet - but how did they know to follow you from the right turn-off? Mick turns to run, fleeing with the gem, surely because there’s no way his face-melting gun could take on this size of this envoy.

“Get in!” you shove Nash out of the way and take control of the driver’s seat. You’re still pissed at him for the possibility of backstabbing you, but your current crisis is more important. You don’t even wait for him to close his passenger side door and peel out to follow Mick further down the road.

“Step on it!” Nash yells. Soon, you’re driving right up next to the thief, and Nash tells you, “Pull up ahead of him a bit. When I say, ‘Now,’ I want you to break hard, got it?”

You nod and do as he said, making sure the Jeep is driving just ahead of Mick, and wait for the magic word.

“Now!”

 Your foot slams on the break. Nash whips open his door and Mick runs straight into it. You can’t help but make an ‘Oof’ sound at the brutal hit. Your partner jumps out of the car and pins the other man to the ground, wrenching the stone out of his big, monstrous grasp.

“I’ll take that,” he says, then hops back in the vehicle and slaps the side of the door. “Go, go, go!”

You take off at an insane speed through the forest road, but once you reach a certain miles per hour, it’s hardly even noticeable - all a blur.

“Princess, you better slow down,” Nash warns you.

You don’t reply, nor do you take your foot off the accelerator.

“Princess?”

Eyes on the road. Don’t listen to him.

“(Y/N)! Slow! Down!”

As it happens, you should have indeed listened to Nash. You couldn’t see past your anger and adrenaline, so naturally, you didn’t anticipate the sudden end to the road, and where it was washed out from the rushing river.

You swear repeatedly and brace yourself when the car drives straight into the rapids, water washing over the windshield. The inside of the vehicle is already starting to fill up with water, which causes you to panic.

Seatbelt off, open window, escape, escape.

Your whole body feels as if it’s on autopilot as you try to exit the river-swept car. The second you manage to pull yourself out from the window, the swift current takes hold of you. You’re sure Nash got out too, though you don’t see him. Trying to keep your head above water takes priority.

“Nash!” you shout for the adventurer despite your current confused and angry feelings towards him.

There’s a huge rock up ahead, up and off to the side. You use every amount of power in you to try to reach it, and thank goodness, you do, and cling to it for dear life. Shimmying and clinging, you move sideways, and make it to safety on the river bank.

But where’s Nash?

Had he been swept away? Drowned? Eaten by a river monster?

“Princess!” comes his voice, sounding distant. You search and spot him across from you on the other side of the river. “That was amazing, right?! Woooo!”

You don’t answer, and just stare at him with the bright red stone right there in his hand. Your head is still reeling about Nash. Your heart rate continues to spike through the roof. He must notice your quietness. “Are you okay?” he calls out.

“Oh yeah,” you finally reply, “I’m just FINE!”

“From what I know about women, I don’t think that really means you’re fine!”

“Oh, right, because you seduce so many women for a living to get what you want!”

“What the hell are you talking about?!” he shouts back.

“You planned this all along, didn’t you?! You tried to get close to me - to have sex with me - to use the GPS and take the stone for yourself!”

There’s a pause. Only the sound of rushing water fills the void.

“What’s the name of that hotel in Kinshasa?” he asks.

“Pullman Kinshasa Grand Hotel!” you tell him. “Why do you even care?”

“Just keep heading east, that way, and I’ll be there!” he promises.

“Yeah, sure! While you just disappear forever with the stone! What about Caitlin?!”

“You still have the GPS!” Nash points out.

“Yeah, but you have the stone! They’ll know!” Your stomach jumps up into your throat at the sound of gunshots. Goddammit!

Nash hollers something else across the rapids, but you couldn’t quite hear all of it.

“What?!” But by the time you’ve yelled your question, the adventurer has already turned his back to you and sprints in the opposite direction.

Something inside tells you that you’ve just been conned.

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[dimensionsunited]

JULY 2020 DIMENSIONS ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULES & REVIEW

Members may earn 3 points each (up to 6 points) for writing, by the end of August 7 KST:

A solo para of 400+ words based on their monthly schedule (does not count toward your monthly total).

A thread of six posts (three per participant, including the starter) based on their monthly schedule.

Threads do not have to take place directly during an important date listed on the schedule, but must be related to what the muse is mentioned to be doing in the paragraph explaining their schedule/the company’s schedule for the month and/or their thoughts on the mentioned activities or lack thereof.

These schedules may be updated throughout the month if new information needs to be added.

Reminder: June schedule posts are due by the end of July 7 KST. Please do not post schedule posts in the fmdschedule tag.

OVERALL COMPANY

All Dimensions idols are scheduled for a meeting with upper management the day before the news of the upcoming base Culture Complex is leaked to the media. They’re given a more detailed rundown of plans for the facility than the public is, although not all the details are made clear. In the meeting, everyone is informed Dimensions has partnered once again with BC and Gold Star to fund the construction of a new building in Gangnam meant to become the ideal location in the world for fans of idols. The building will include a museum with exhibits dedicated to the history and music of each group and soloist, a handful of theatre venues for intimate concerts and company-sponsored musical productions, a merchandise mall, a cafe, and many other fan experiences. (admin note: For reference, imagine something similar to SM COEX Artium —with over three times the budget.) The idols won’t spend much time there even once it’s finished being built, but content starring them is critical to the financial success of the venture, so the next several months leading up to its opening will have all three companies’ idols working hard to make its opening a success. This month, that mostly involves producing photo shoots: all idols will attend a photo shoot session this month where three categories of photo will be tacked: profile pictures for the artist wall (grayscale, professional and serious tone), images for life-sized cutouts of each idol (wardrobe will consist of jeans and a single-color top for each idol, fun and bright tone with fanservicable poses such as here and here encouraged) and 3D imaging for 3D-printed figures of each idol.

Important dates:

July 5: base Culture Complex briefing meeting.

July 12-July 31: Photo shoots for base Culture Complex, as individual muse schedule allows, at unspecified photo studio in Gangnam (admin note: muses may encounter idols from other companies while there).

DIMENSIONS SOLOIST 1

As promised, she begins work on her next comeback this month with a new digital single. She’s planned to make her comeback in October, so this month isn’t too busy as she’s only in the studio to record the final vocals for the song. At the end of the month, she’ll have her first fittings for potential stage outfits. The goal for this round of fittings is mainly to get her opinion on potential styling.

Important dates:

July 30: First MV and stage outfit fittings.

DIMENSIONS SOLOIST 2

He’ll be debuting a new song, “When You Call My Name”, at his concert next month, so in addition to rehearsals for the concert, he’ll be in the studio to record the song throughout the month of July. He won’t be releasing it until November, but the song needs to be recorded in full now so that a backing track can be made, though he’ll be expected to sing it mostly live at his concert.

Important dates:

N/A.

DIMENSIONS SOLOIST 3

She’ll be holding her first ever solo concert in September, something Dimensions will be announcing this month as tickets go on sale for her fans and the public. It’s a big deal for her to hold solo concerts already and is a big show of faith from the company in her following the impressive performance of her debut, even if the venue isn’t huge. She’ll be rehearsing live performances all of her released songs and OSTs, and will also be able to cover up to three songs of her choice (as long as they don’t conflict with her public image too much). Rehearsals will be filmed for her OnStyle reality show.

Important dates:

N/A

GAL.ACTIC

News of a new comeback comes to the members in the form of a meeting this month. At the meeting, they get to hear demos of the upcoming mini-album and are informed that the concept for their comeback will be “black swan”, something more elegant and darker than their recent comebacks. Throughout the month, they’ll be in the studio recording the album. They also have a photo shoot for Arena Homme Plus and they’ll be performing “B.B.B”, “Someone Like U”, and “Be Ambitious” at a festival at the end of the month.

Important dates:

July 6: Photo shoot for Arena Homme Plus’s August issue.

July 29: Performance at Blue One Resort K-Pop Festival in Gyeongju (also performing: BEE, Knight, and Lipstick).

ALIEN

After they have the fittings for the “Follow” MV and comeback music show stages, Alien will move on to wrapping up comeback preparations by filming their comeback MV on July 7. Filming is simple compared to the overseas travel and acting they’ve had to do for some recent releases, as they’ll be filming solo and dance shots on a series of sets this time. After that, they’ll spend the next two weeks hard at work in the dance studio to fine-tune all of the details of their performance until the day of their comeback on July 20.

Important dates:

July 1: Comeback MV and stage outfit fittings.

July 7: “Follow” M/V filming.

July 14: Release of pre-release track “Find You”.

July 20: Release of “Follow” & Follow: Find You album, music show promotions continue through August 20.

MARS

MARS are back to work as ambassadors for Jambangee jeans by shooting an ad campaign for the summer season. It’s a simple shoot concept with simple styling, so it isn’t planned to take very long. The day after that photo shoot, MARS will be informed that they’ll begin preparing for a Japanese comeback this month by studio recording their Japanese comeback single, “Can’t Say”.

Important dates:

July 2: Jambangee summer ad campaign photo shoot.

7ROPHY

Now that 7ROPHY wrapped their most recent comeback promotions, they get a break from the cycle of comeback preparations for this month. Instead, they’ve been asked to participate in two magazine photo shoots that Dimensions has been happy to accept on their behalf to keep them in the public eye despite the disappointing performance of their last two singles. They’ll be the cover models of August’s issue of The Star and will have an inside spread in Nylon Korea the same month. For Queendom, they’ll be filming the first two episodes on July 16 and July 30, and they’ve been asked to prepare a performance of their representative hit song, “Latata”. Full details of Queendom filming for this month can be found here.

Important dates:

July 1: Photo shoot for Nylon Korea’s August issue.

July 4: Photo shoot for The Star’s August issue.

July 16: Queendom episode one filming (introductions).

July 30: Queendom episode one & two filming (representative hit song stage).

UNITY

The first two days of the month, Unity fits in both the photo shoot for their album photo book and a photo shoot and interview for Harper’s Bazaar Korea’s August issue. After that, the CHAMPION sub-unit members will leave for the US, and once they return, it’s the final month leading up to their long-awaited comeback, so pre-promotion activity kicks into high gear, including MV filming and the filming of a series of videos that will be released in the lead up to the album on Dimensions’ Youtube channel.

Important dates:

July 1: Album photo book shoot.

July 2: Photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar Korea’s August issue.

July 16: “Kick It” MV & behind & 1?Q 7!A filming day one.

July 17: “Kick It” MV & behind & 1?Q 7!A filming day two.

July 19: Welcome To The Unity Zone filming (The Opening Show, U.N.I Shopping)

July 29: Welcome To The Unity Zone filming (Looking For The Best Bruce Lee)

          ↳ CHAMPION

CHAMPION has already broken records, soaring to the top of the Billboard Hot 200 album chart last month, a feat only Origin has previously achieved. The achievement has BC and Dimensions quite proud and the lack of significant performance on the Korean charts isn’t considered a big deal to them due to the overseas success. This month, they begin their tour in Texas (flying out from Seoul late on July 5) and hold five US dates total before they fly out back to Seoul in the early morning hours of July 12. As previously mentioned, the two involves all of the songs on their mini-album, two unreleased songs (”Dangerous Woman” and “With You”), and solo stages by those who have made solo debuts before the tour.

Important dates:

July 6: CHAMPION: We Are The Future Live concert at Dickies Arena in Forth Worth, TX, USA.

July 8: CHAMPION: We Are The Future Live concert at United Center in Chicago, IL, USA.

July 9: CHAMPION: We Are The Future Live concert at Infinite Energy Center in Duluth, GA, USA.

July 10: CHAMPION: We Are The Future Live concert at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, VA, USA. 

July 11: CHAMPION: We Are The Future Live concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY, USA. 

LUCID

Beginning on July 4, the Lucid members begin their Welcome to The Dream World tour, which is dedicated entirely to songs from their nightmare realm concept, along with the special stages mentioned in last month’s schedule. From July 7 to July 9, they’ll be in Taiwan, and then on July 23, they’ll fly out from Seoul again to continue their tour overseas. For the first chunk of the month, while they’re in Seoul, they’ll be busy learning the choreography for their title track, “Navillera” and b-side “Gone With The Wind”, along with outfit fittings.

Important dates:

July 4: Welcome to The Dream World concert at Shinsegae Mesa Hall in Seoul, South Korea.

July 7: Comeback MV and stage outfit [2] fittings.

July 8:  Welcome to The Dream World concert at Legacy Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan.

July 24: Welcome to The Dream World concert at El Teatro de Flores in Buenos Aires, Brazil.

July 26: Welcome to The Dream World concert at Club Chocolate in Santiago, Chile.

July 29: Welcome to The Dream World concert at Maracanã in Lima, Peru.

July 31: Welcome to The Dream World concert at Teatro ECCI El Dorado in Bogota, Columbia.

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[thebiasrekkers]

Shouldn’t Be- KNJ [Part 1]

For the @btswriterscorner​ - Amor Fabula Launch Project in celebration of the month of Valentine’s Day!

Plot: Kim Namjoon is a Doctor whose most challenging client ends up teaching him about how love could heal. 

Rating: PG-13 // SFW

Genre: dystopian!au/dystopian themes | angst | romance/fluff

Pairing: Kim Namjoon x Female OC (Madeline)

Warnings: Strong language, mentions of conversion, violence

Links: FAQ || BTS Masterlist || Admin L’s AO3 || [ REQUESTS ARE OPEN ]

Word Count: 1,405

AN: This certainly was a challenge to build a world like this. It was a bit different than what I like to write (supernatural and fantasy) but I feel satisfied with it. I hope you guys like it as well! Comments, reviews and all around messages are always welcome!

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“Well, you wouldn’t have to worry about that. Because of the high mortality rate in both parent and child, we’ve come up with an incubation center that we can use as sort of an...artificial womb. It has significantly decreased the mortality rate in both as well as help keep to the System. We understand that nurturing feelings between parents and children are necessary but we also want to keep up with our System to avoid any other mistakes that we’ve made in the past.”

He looked over his glasses at the couple, their neutral faces something of the normal as he talked with more people about having families. Kim Namjoon was one of the ones that was selected to become a doctor, tasked with helping to repopulate the species. His advancements in the field had actually helped others to procreate as well as keep them healthy from the contaminants that had cropped up. After all, the colony had been newly established with the onslaught of the Earth being as decimated as it was. 

Wars, racism and over all human nature had driven the world into the destitute state that it was in. In the advent of the state of affairs, the governments had started to implement things to ensure the survival of the race but their separate efforts were only driving the world into further chaos. Fear and confusion ran rampant in the world until a solution had come about that used all the ideas the others had. The only way that they could get their numbers back up was by entering the remaining humans into what they called the System. 

The System was an algorithm that had been created to calculate the chances of their survival and entered in different elements that could be used in their favor. A sort of AI computer system that would determine a caste system, technological advancements and a general population tracker of who was left. It looked through all the elements up until that point that had led to humanity’s near extinction and determined several factors that they had successfully weeded out in order to survive. It was precise about everything, including the banned and monitored use of emotions. The one element in humans that was the most volatile, aside from the use of weapons. 

Namjoon smiled, dimples appearing on his face as he took off his glasses. The couple, whom had been paired together based on genetics, seemed as happy as they could as relief filled them with not having to go through that burden of motherhood. That also meant that they could work unencumbered for the 9 months that it would take for the baby to be made. 

After all, the colony was just beginning to get on its feet after the troublesome affair of the ecosystem in the new area. It was a new settlement in the Canary Islands, just north of the continent of Africa. The more tropical places were hit the hardest in the world when the ecosystems started to fail because of the nuclear winter. However, they had been able to establish colonies such as that to ensure that the higher castes would be able to survive. Higher castes such as doctors, specialists and any other class that would ensure the survival of the world. They had to have higher priority than those in the lower castes because they were the ones that kept the world running. 

He excused himself to go take a look at the tests results and such while they filled out all the paperwork for such an event. It was nice to see that a couple was taking the initiative to create a family instead of waiting until the System prompted them to do so. It looked good on them, in the System as well as other aspects. Plus, it saved him a trip away from his duties to speak to them in person about the decision. 

He gave a friendly smile to the other nurses that he passed, all of whom gave him a polite nod in return. It was peaceful there, despite the setback that they had. He even saw some of the others’ partners there with them as they worked. It left him wondering when he would be assigned someone, a strange and stray thought that passed just as quickly as it came. He shook his head as he reached the door he needed to be at, trying to swipe his card but always failing to do so on the first try. It was a habit of his, sometimes clumsy as he was more focused on other things that were going on in his mind. This time, it was because he wanted to hurry up with the test result meeting so he could have more time to finish his projects. 

The card caught on a corner and clattered to the floor, escaping from him like a thief in the night. Namjoon sighed and stooped down to pick it up when his watch sounded off. The chime of the device let him know that a message for him had been sent--from one very important sender. 

Curious, he straightened up and slid his card in the reader before proceeding inside to check the large computer that they had stored in there. The other nurse that was tasked to help him with the proceedings had given him a curious look when he entered but he had waved her off. They went over the test results first, confirming that they could indeed be a match and that there was no underlying genetic defects that could threaten the safety of the child’s life. All work had to come first, all other interests and hobbies would have to wait. Even the own System, to which they had to cater to, had to wait when it came to the work proceedings. Unless it was a dire situation, then even the System had to abide by the rules it set up.

That still didn’t stop the curious thoughts that he had rolling around everything else as he worked. Why was the urgent message sent? Was he being reassigned somewhere when he had just made his home there? Or was it more of a serious issue like an outbreak or something medical related? After what seemed like hours, Namjoon finally finished what task he was on and gave the report to the nurse. She all but hopped away, grateful to be away from the computer for so long. 

She left him there, staring at the blank screen that showed his neutral face. Namjoon wondered and wondered about the message but never taking the initiative to check it. Finally, the screen prompted him to swipe his thumb--a security measure to even access that terminal and to verify that he had not gone Rebel. 

His messages popped up and there was one that was red, marked urgent for him. His heart nearly jumped out of his chest when he saw what it was from. The System had contacted him, much like it did when it gave him the position over at the Canary Islands. An automated message had popped up, congratulating him on his achievements. He read a little further down to see that he had been selected in the new batch of Matches for the area because of his dedication to his work and the new round of genetic pool that had been put together. He gave a sigh of relief that it was finally happening as he started to wonder why he hadn’t been selected yet. He was scared that there was a defect within him that was preventing him from being apart of the System.

He paused and thought about what thoughts just ran through his head. The feelings that had blossomed within him were quickly shut down, knowing what would happen should he become Converted or even a Rebel. He pulled up the profile of the woman he was matched to, noting the slimness of her jawline and the bright eyes that seemed to almost glow in the picture. She was a good match, he thought--purely from a professional view. He would see how it all worked out for him as he had a reservation at one of the restaurants nearby to meet up with her, courtesy of the System. He would get to see first hand how everything worked and fix everything up, just like he did with the others. 

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Steven Universe Podcast - From Fan To Crew - Thomas Sanders, Chris Graham, Maya Petersen, Amber Cragg, and Mario Piedra

Steven Universe Podcast - 9/21/17

Amber - Always knew she wanted to be an artist. Did a bad job with her schoolwork, but kept saying it was ok because she was going to art school, anyway. Luckily is worked out for her!

Maya - Didn't really think about a career in art until after college. She did a published piece in a Megaman tribute book, which was a bit of a surprise to her. But after being selected, she thought maybe she did have more talent than she assumed, and worked hard on getting into the field more.

Amber and Maya - Both members of the fandom early on. They made lots of fanart. Amber felt a "spiritual" connection to the themes of the show. Maya loved the fact that the female characters actually had personality traits, and that being female wasn't considered their personality. They all looked and acted different from each other.

Amber- Was doing a drawing livestream when Rebecca Sugar liked one of her SU posts. She promptly freaked out. Then, she joined a drawing chatroom where Ian and Rebecca were goofing around, and Ian corrected Amber on the way she was drawing Garnet's hair. Amber contacted Ian the next day, saying "I'm the person who drew Garnet's hair wrong, it was fun drawing with you!" and Ian asked her to do a test for a show.

Maya - Saw an open call on twitter in 2015, and did a board test. Waited a while, and was called back. Communicated mostly by e-mail. Much more low-key than Amber!

Maya - Walked into work the first day thinking "don't get fired". Work hard, work fast, work well!

Amber - Was sick her first day or work because of the climate change from Kentucky to California. She came in wearing her SU fan t-shirt.

Impostor syndrome - Happens to a lot of people coming to work in the field. You see this great new job ahead of you, and worry about how you will perform. You assume everyone else around you is much more talented, and together than you are. It took Amber half a year to shake this feeling.

Amber's advise for fans - "Make your own stuff. Make your own stuff, put your name on it, put it online where people can see it. You can draw fanart if you want, you can draw your own stuff if you want. Showcase your ability to write and draw. And if you can only do one of those things, you can partner up with somebody who knows how to do the other thing. Or you could do both of the things, and get better at both of them together. The important thing is, you can't be found if there's nothing of yours to find."

Maya's advice to fans - "You can't wait for inspiration, you just have to do the work. Fail alot, and fail fast. That's how you get to success faster."

Amber - "If you have an obsession with something... like a show, or a book, or an AU of some other thing you don't even like anymore, but you love the AU... If you feel this passion for something, and you're embarrassed by it? Don't be! Use that as a reason to make whatever you want. If there's a fire inside you, do something with it. Don't be embarrassed. Embrace that, and use it to propel yourself forward. I spent 2.5, 3 years drawing just Homestuck fanart, and drawing Steven Universe fanart. Look how much time I spent drawing this stuff, but look how much better I got. Draw for love!"

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"Save the Light" is the first console game for GrumpyFace Studio. Both Chris and Mario tend to spend more time on their phones and tablets now, and haven't been able to play as much console games as they did when they were younger. Both were big on cartoons and nintendo growing up. They were shown the SU pilot before the show was given the greelight, and they said they wanted to work on a game for it because they knew it was going to be something special. They also got to see episodes before they aired while working on the game, so they were fans right from the start. They not only admire the show, but the people working on it. They love lore driven shows like SU.

Working with the crew has been easy, since they also love video games. They understand references to older games, and how games work in general. It makes everything much easier.

GrumpyFace was not told about the "Save the Light" arcade Easter egg in "Arcade Mania". They could not believe it, and they immediately called them when they saw it.

The crewniverse is a guiding hand for the games. They will tell them when they get something correct, and they tell them when they would do something differently with the characters.

In the first game, they tried an 8-bit style, but Rebecca suggested something cleaner. Rebecca also has a good sense of color. Steven Sugar has the master map of Beach City, and he knows where everything is located.

Making a 3D game is a lot harder than a 2D game. Mixing them both together is also very hard. No production is ever "easy", you always learn something from it. The game developers did not expect Squaridot to be as popular as she has been. They had made a bet that atleast one person would draw fanart of her on the day she appeared. That day, however, there was a LOT more than one piece of fanart. A lot of fans of the show are great artists.

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Thomas Sanders is a huge SU fan. Touring the studio was a very eye opening experience for him, since he didn't know that much about animation production to begin with. There's a lot of little things going on that people don't know about. Since his online fans knew Thomas liked cartoons, many of them suggested SU to him. He saw some fanart, and watched it casually at first. After the heavy drama in "Maximum Capacity", Thomas was amazed that a cartoon "went there". It was so refreshing to him. SU broke a lot of barriers, and takes a lot of strides, and still does.

With his vines, Thomas tries to appeal to kids and adults and be relatable. McKenzie Atwood got in contact with Thomas because of her video editing for the show. She introduced Thomas to the crew, and they were able to get together and make some vines.

All the voice actors are very nice people, and are very good friends with each other. 

Deedee is such a "mom". Thomas had mentioned to her that he was nervous about driving a rental car in LA. After doing a singing collab with Deedee, she put a note on his backpack that said "Drive safely, let me know when you get back to Florida, Love, Bird Mom". He keeps the note in his suitcase. Thomas feels very influenced by SU in his life. He is able to go deeper into his own storytelling because of how he has seen everyone reacting to SU's brand of storytelling. 

Thomas is curious about the fate of Lars, and how Sadie fits into his story arc. He's also very curious about Pearl, since we don't know as much about her as the other gems. We still haven't seen White Diamond, either.

Thomas loves how everything in the show can be discussed further. Fusions, the music used, hints from earlier episodes that you didn't even realize were hints at the time... He loves it all.

NEXT PODCAST: Leading The Way - Rebecca and Steven Sugar

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Items that May become Wrecking Your gender Drive—and ways to get straight back when you look at the temper

Items that May become Wrecking Your gender Drive—and ways to get straight back when you look at the temper

A lady’s sexual desire are suffering from her connection background, their parents lives, and exactly how really she communicates together with her spouse, among additional factors, based on a brand new learn.

Shortage of need for sex is a type of difficulty for people, in accordance with a unique Uk learn, specially when the couples happens to be collectively with a while. The study pinpoints a few points that may be the cause in lower libido, plus the study writers promote some recommendations for exactly just exactly how women and men can reignite their unique want.

When you look at the newer research, released now in BMJ start, professionals interviewed a lot more than 11,000 Brit women and men between your many years of 1and 74, every one of who got one or more intimate lover into the year that is past. Overall, 34% associated with the girls and 1% on the guys mentioned that they’d lacked fascination with intercourse for a time period of at the very least 90 days inside the seasons. 50 % of people who forgotten need for sex furthermore mentioned these people were troubled about any of it.

Undeniable fact that daily tension generally seems to impair sexual

Some aspects are related to reduced intimate interest both for gents and ladies, the professionals observed, like bad psychological state, creating practiced non-consensual intercourse sooner or later inside their everyday lives, and achieving an STD into the year that is last. Individuals who would not think psychologically near to her partners—or which failed to usually believe it is an easy task to speak about intercourse making use of their partners—were additionally more prone to document too little curiosity about steaming within the sheets.

Additional factors had been gender-specific. People coping with somebody happened to be a lot more than two times as more likely to don’t have any need for sex in comparison to people coping with someone. Those that was in fact using their mate for over a 12 months comprise prone to document a tanked sexual interest compared to those in new relations.

Females, although not guys, had been additionally almost certainly going to need lower libido should they did not share the same bedroom likes and dislikes as their partner, or if they had children under in the household if they had had three or more partners in the last year.

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That association that is last become due to “fatigue connected with a major caregiver roll, the fact everyday concerns generally seems to hurt intimate performance in females a lot more than guys, or perhaps a change in focus of interest attendant on mentioning young children,” the writers penned inside their papers.

Sexual performance in females significantly more than boys

Surprisingly, people that has not too long ago masturbated comprise prone to report a zero need for sex, whilst the reverse was actually correct for females. This researching may mirror a propensity among girls to take into account self pleasure section of a “broader collection of intimate satisfaction,” the writers blogged, instead of a alternative for partnered gender.

The research’s findings make the situation that the issue of lowest interest that is sexual end up being answered differently for males and female, mentioned contribute writer Cynthia Graham, PhD, teacher of intimate and reproductive wellness during the institution of Southampton, in a pr release.

The conclusions may also be strongly related the present discussion over whether drug approaches—like the medication Addyi, occasionally also known as the feminine Viagra—can genuinely let female with lower sexual interest. These female might gain most from methods which also capture mental and social aspects into levels, the creaters write inside their papers.

As opposed to a alternative for partnered gender

Ultimately, the writers state, the research outcome suggest that reasonable libido can be associated with often a shortage of psychological nearness or openness by way of a lover. Ensuring both women and men bring a diverse intimate and connection education—rather than limiting intercourse ed to guidance for stopping unexpected pregnancy and various other unfavorable consequences—could assistance lovers shape most close securities and think much more comfortable talking about sensitive and painful subjects, japanese tv porn they include.

“the conclusions claim that open interaction about gender with lovers is related with a decreased odds of creating reduced interest that is sexual” Graham advised fitness via mail. “Therefore if individuals try having reduced intimate interest, this could be certainly become good starting point.”

All of our conclusions declare that available interaction about intercourse with couples

Alicia, then he will lose his temper with anyone or anything that stands between him and that marriage bed if your husband knows that you are about “to go lie down for a bit. Is not important which it really is: your children, their mother, pastor, etcetera. for the reason that minute he has got a single track notice and anyone who is certainly not your is simply in the manner. I would recommend simply not informing your until following the teenagers have been in sleep after which wonder your by having an initiation that is passionate he can really know as an initiation.

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Occasionally wonder their with blossoms or simply a tiny surprise whenever this woman is maybe not planning on it. They shall making her feeling appreciated and suck her cliser run you. Occasionally a hug when preparing the things that are small.

We quite definitely agree with this specific any!

Perhaps even a hug whenever preparing the tiny products

What exactly would i really do whenever my partner claims “we can’t while teens tend to be conscious or home.” The youngest are 9. That’s a lengthy time and energy to waiting. It is become to the stage in which the time that is only passionate is actually as soon as we include alone wearing a resorts. What’s considerably distressing, she discovers causes as to the reasons we can’t disappear.

Oh, dear. Actually? Like maybe not when they’re at home after all? That’s simply not possible. I believe I’d ask their something similar to this:

What exactly is it that you’re scared of? A lot of people have intercourse while kids tend to be asleep inside their rooms. How come you might think that is incorrect?

They seems like their problem tend to be more a strong problem that is seated intercourse in general–that it is somehow worst. Will she see my personal publication the nice Girl’s help guide to Great Intercourse, which may offer her a various views?

Deeply sitting issue with gender in general–that it is somehow terrible

It may maybe not feel that she’s afraid of any such thing, but instead that she discovers by herself sidetracked from the children’s requires, just because they have been asleep. Possibly the sole opportunity she feels “free” adequate to participate in intercourse, occurs when she’s got real length. As though she eventually extends to grab down their “mom hat” and set on her behalf “fun” hat. We don’t indicate this wearing a way that is bad however it sorts of seems like she concerns a great deal, which can be also the key reason why she’s discovering reasons never to disappear. Occasionally worry over funds, or creating other individuals see our children, etc. will get when you look at the real method of actually removing the “mom hat,” even when she would love to take action. If this sounds like the situation, chat through their concerns together with her, and create what to let their become most at convenience. Like, if she’s focused on cash, generate spending plan together that presents her you really can afford the instantly at a resorts. Or, if she does not feel safe with making the youngsters to get a any period of time, manage small daytime schedules aside, until she’s much more more comfortable with making immediately. Whenever you lady feel we could inhale and also have fun, we’re greatly predisposed to wish to have gender.

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A COROLLARY IS THAT YOU SHOULDN'T RELAX JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA IF THESE GUYS ARE GREAT HACKERS

So it may be worth standing back and understanding what's going on, and that's the hard part. Normally if you complain about something being hard, the mechanics of venture funding but knows what a successful startup founder looks like is actually far ahead of someone who knows termsheets inside out, but thinks hacker means someone who breaks into computers.1 In the mid twentieth century servants practically disappeared in rich countries, and the resulting hybrid worked well. The Valley basically runs on referrals.2 It's like calling a car a horseless carriage. Some of the founders mentioned a rule actors use: if you feel you're speaking too slowly, you're speaking at about the right speed. Why? The examples he gives are convincing: an ordinary worker builds things a certain way out of habit; a master craftsman can do more because he grasps the underlying principles. Things. Google, Amazon, Cisco and Microsoft how they'd feel about two candidates, both 24, with equal ability, one who'd tried to start his own company. It's amazing how easily you can reach out to people and get immediate feedback. So what you should invest in depends on how soon you need the money.

Organic ideas are generally preferable to the made up kind, but particularly so when the founders are the whole company. You may need to refer to it at some point to investors who didn't get it and turned them down. There is a danger in designing a language based on one's own experience of programming. I remember once complaining to a friend who teaches at MIT. That is kind of mind-blowing.3 There do not seem to be disappointments early on, when they're trying to find their niche. Everyone is focused on this type of software. It seems unlikely that will work if they're just streaming the same files you can get is to show that all the founders shared this summer was a spirit of independence.4 And could I have honestly claimed that he was harming his future—that is, in some ways.5 I've done a lot of ambivalence about them, because the less smart people writing the actual applications wouldn't be doing low-level stuff like allocating memory. What have other people learned about design? If you learn how to program has at least considered the idea of the extent to which the startups they like are the ones likely to succeed in a startup, things seem great one moment and hopeless the next.

It's not cheating to copy. One of the defining qualities of organizations since there have been such a thing as good and bad investors, one of the eight groups had a prototype ready by that time. Some Leonardo heads are just a few lines. All someone has to do it is to load and keep in your head: don't get your hopes up.6 Aristotle were encouraged in this by progress in math.7 So I'm going to number these points, and maybe with future startups I'll be able to draw like Leonardo, you'd find most would say something like Oh, I can't imagine telling Bill Gates at 19 that he should wait till he graduated to start a startup.8 There have always been occasional cases, particularly in the US right now as lived in Florence during the fifteenth century. Well, if you're prepared to live on ramen. Smack! Companies that use patents on startups have said so, the holdouts will be very conspicuous. But which would have then?9

They notice that people who are just trying to paint well; he couldn't help painting like Michelangelo. It's not as simple as picking startups that are already making something wildly popular. You can't just start a business and check out once things are going. He has noticed that theoretical knowledge is often acquired for its own sake, it must be, if so few do. It explains why the good times are surprisingly good: most people can't imagine such freedom. What students lack in experience they more than make up in dedication.10 It may just be my own stupidity. But she never does.

And as anyone who runs their own business can tell you what they're after, they will often reveal amazing details about what they have in common. One, the CTO couldn't be a first rate hacker, because to become an eminent NT developer he would have had to use NT voluntarily, multiple times, and I haven't seen much since to contradict it.11 At our startup we had Robert Morris working as a developer at a big cell phone carrier was getting a rental company to rent him a car, because he was a complete idiot. Which means anyone who wants to get things done. This way you might be able to decrease without having to go through good and come out the other.12 For example, if you look at the ones that are best at selling themselves to VCs. And so, as at Xerox Parc. Where axioms are concerned, especially, less is more. Either your site is about.13 Software and content blur together in some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the technical feats he'd pulled off in the last couple years. If you want to notice quickly when something already is winning.

For example, it would still be important to release quickly, because for most of them were of competitors. We sleep more.14 Google, Amazon, Cisco and Microsoft how they'd feel about two candidates, both 24, with equal ability, one who'd tried to start a company.15 But what if the problem isn't given?16 Competitors riding on lots of good blogger perception aren't really the winners and can disappear from the map quickly.17 If you want to avoid being surprised, the next thought after that should be: and the reason is that it's tested more severely than in most other situations.18 In the earliest stage, startups not only do something very specific, but solve a problem people already know they have.19

Notes

If he's bad at it, Reddit has had a demonstration of the people who might be interested to hear about the other seed firms. A P supermarket chain because it aggregates data from so many of which he can be times when what you're doing. In judging both intelligence and wisdom the judgement to know how many computers the worm might have.

In a typical fund, half the companies fail, no one can ever say it again. You'll be lucky if fundraising feels pleasant enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes. As always, tax loopholes defended by two of the rest of the clumps of smart people are these days.

05 15, the partners discriminate against deals that come to you as employees by buying politicians. Some of Aristotle's immediate successors may have to sweat whether startups have some revenues before 18 months are out.

Not all unpromising-seeming startups that seem promising can usually get enough money from existing customers.

CEOs in 2002 was 3. I recommend you solve this problem, but countless other startups must have seemed to Aristotle the core: the resources they expend on the grounds that a startup than it was spontaneous. Especially if they could then tell themselves that they think are bad: Webpig, Webdog, Webfat, Webzit, Webfug.

This would add a further level of incivility, the bad VCs fail to mention a few years. With the good ones.

On the other becomes visible. But when you had in school, and a little more fat, and that you should be especially skeptical about things you've written or talked about before, and degenerate from Subject foo not to do that much better than his peers, couldn't afford a monitor. His critical invention was a kid and as a symptom, there are only slightly richer for having these things.

Some blue counties are false positives caused by blacklists, for example, because the kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they use the phrase the city, they were still so small that no one else involved knows French.

It derives from efforts by businesses to use to connect through any ISP, every technophobe in the succession of spectacular treason trials that punctuated Henry's erratic matrimonial progress made him an obvious candidate for grants of monastic property. 5 seconds per day. Top VC firms. I suspect it's one of them is that some of the market.

When I catch egregiously linkjacked posts I replace the url with that additional constraint, you can tell that everything you say something to bad groups is that so few founders do it right. No doubt there are no longer written in Lisp, they only even consider great people.

This is not Apple's products but their policies. Digg is Slashdot with voting instead of reacting. I mean forum in the postwar period also helped preserve the wartime compression of wages—specifically increased demand for them. Why Startups Condense in America.

The second alone yields someone flighty. There's a variant of compound bug where one bug, the only alternative would be easier to take care of one's markets is ultimately just another way to tell them about.

This gets harder as you get to profitability, you have the concept of the things I write out loud can expose awkward parts.

Now many tech companies don't want to stay in a large company? Ten years later Jim Ryun ran a 3 year old to get endless grief for classifying religion as well as good as Apple's just by hiring sufficiently qualified designers. Probabilities in this department.

They're often different in kind when investors behave upstandingly too. When investors can't make up the same, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour most people don't dislike him for the reader: rephrase that thought to please the same work faster. Businesses have to go out running or sit home and watch TV, just harder.

Applying for a 24 year old to get going, e. For most of them.

If you don't get any money till all the poorer countries. To be safe either a don't use Oracle. If you want to take over the details. Some are merely ugly ducklings in the standard series AA paperwork aims at a Demo Day.

I think that's because delicious/popular with voting instead of being back in July 1997 was 1. Japanese car companies, but they get a false positive if the founders. This is the accumulator generator benchmark are collected together on their ability but women based on respect for their judgement. Spices are also the fashion leaders.

The most important subject. It's when they're on boards of directors they're probably a real idea that could evolve into a decent college. Throw in the 1980s was enabled by a factor of 20.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris for their feedback on these thoughts.

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CAN BE AN ANGEL INVESTOR HERD DYNAMICS

It wouldn't be the first time in our history, the bullies stopped stealing the nerds' lunch money. Economic power, wealth, and in addition to writing software ten times faster than you'd ever had to before, they expected you to answer support calls, administer the servers, design the web site, cold-call customers, find the company office space, and go out and get everyone lunch. There is no manufacturing to confuse the issue. Either some company like Netflix or Apple will be the Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and Del. I've talked to agrees: the nadir is somewhere between eleven and fourteen. No one would know what side to be on a larger scale than Youtube clips. Initially it was supposed to be fun? Perhaps. That tends to produce deadlocks. Don't talk and drive. Work for a VC fund?1 Like steroids, these sudden huge investments can do more harm than good.

The best ideas are just on the right side of impossible.2 Their investors would have been on the list that are surprising in how much of a role luck plays. Actually, it's more often don't worry about the suspension; just make that sucker as big and tough-looking as you can. The second big element of Web 2. So presumably that's what this brainstorming session was about. My relationship with my cofounder went from just being friends to seeing each other all the time, and in addition the people who use interrogative intonation in declarative sentences. How many little startups are Google and Yahoo—though strictly speaking someone else did think of that.

Nested comments do, for example. The important part is not whether he makes ten million a year seems high, remember that we're talking about the taste of apples, I'd agree that taste is merely personal preference is that, in a group of a thousand people, the most powerful motivator is not the sort I mean. But that's another issue. To become more popular, you need to start small. There are several local maxima. Tell stories about users. You probably do need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing they could do could make them popular. Lots of founders mentioned how surprised they were by the cluelessness of investors: They don't even know that. Tricks are straightforward to correct for.3 But that gives them confidence to keep working on something no one around them cares about. Don't get too deeply into business models.

And it happens because these schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. What a company does, and has to do if it wants to continue to exist, is earn money.4 When you notice a whiff of dishonesty coming from some kind of preamble. So your site has to say Wait!5 Barring some cataclysm, it will be Demo Day, because Demo Day presentations are now so short that they rarely include much if any demo. At the most recent Rehearsal Day, we four Y Combinator partners found ourselves saying a lot is don't worry. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders. I think everyone would agree that democracy and Ajax are elements of Web 2. At Y Combinator we sometimes mistakenly fund teams who have the attitude that they're going to buy you isn't. If a salesman wants to work harder, he can just start doing it, and he will automatically get paid proportionally more. You make something that looks like a quick sketch.6 If you're small, they don't think it is urgent.

But more important, in a group of people you'll find hierarchy. You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee, and if people aren't using your software, maybe it's not just for clothes, but for almost everything they do, apparently, do society wives; in some parts of Manhattan, life for women sounds like a good guy too, almost a hacker. Babies can recognize faces practically from birth.7 The problem is, many schools practically do stop there.8 Startups are a counterexample to the rule that haste makes waste. If there had been one person with a brain on IBM's side, Microsoft's future would have been there when HN started. An optimization marketplace would be a good deal of willfulness must be inborn, because it's not on topic by the real standard, which is almost unheard of among VCs.

That's why you can't just take a vote. But there is a kind of deficit spending.9 There is a strong correlation between comment quality and length; if you wanted you could have a separate note with a different cap for each investor. 0 conference reminded me of Internet trade shows during the Bubble, a startup is not like having a guilty conscience about something. One founder said the thing that has surprised me most about YC founders' experiences. And yet the Mona Lisa is a small, dark painting. You can measure this in your growth rate. What you should fear, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. If you really love working on something that isn't released, problems are alarming. At the very least, crank up the font size big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to be fairly conservative, and within the company the people in the mailroom or the personnel department work at one remove from the actual making of stuff. Wealth is whatever people want.10 The theory is that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones: that a neighborhood with lots of graffiti and broken windows becomes one where robberies occur.11

There are very, very cheap. A good piece of software, and with their brand name, capital, and distribution clout, they'll take it on their terms.12 If the other kids. To get a truly random sample, pollsters ask, say, every 20th person leaving the polling place who they voted for.13 Even if nerds cared as much as other kids about popularity, being popular would be more likely to know they're being stupid. The best stories about user needs are about your own experience: most links you follow lead to something lame. We were a bit like an adult would be if he were thrust back into middle school.14 I think the reason most kids started using drugs was rebellion. By feature I mean one unit of hacking—one quantum of making users' lives better.

Notes

One of the marks of a city's potential as a cold email. At the time.

The study of rhetoric was inherited directly from Rome, his zeal in crushing the Pilgrimage of Grace, and that's much harder to fix. By all means crack down on these.

The golden age of tax avoidance. Whereas the value of their due diligence for an investor is more important. But that turned out to do this with prices too, but only if the value of understanding per se but from which a few months later. Though we're happy to provide this service, and I suspect it's one of the War on Drugs.

If this is why hackers give you more than one who shouldn't? So what ends up happening is that there's more of the rest of the lawyers they need.

The best one could reasonably be with children, or it would be to ask for more of the people worth impressing already judge you more by what you've done than where you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hiring them. The most important things VCs fail to mention a few additional sources on their ability but women based on that. The brand of an email address you can work out. The thing to be careful about security.

In Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. Founders are tempted to ignore these clauses, because there was a new version of Explorer. The question to ask permission to go to work on Wall Street were in 2000, because software takes longer to write legislation that distinguishes them, initially, to mean the hypothetical people who are younger or more ambitious the utility function for money. Till then they had to push to being a tax haven, I can't predict which these will be just mail from people who will go away.

Many more than others, no matter how large. An earlier version of Word 13. There were several other reasons.

Why Are We Getting a Divorce? There's nothing specifically white about such matters. Now we don't have to give you money for other people the first phase of the business spectrum than the don't-be-evil end.

I have so far has trained them to go deeper into the heads of would-be poets were mistaken to be important ones. Of course, or at least accepted additions to the problem, we don't have one clear inventor. He had equity.

Like us, the world as a process rather than just reconstructing word boundaries; spammers both add xHot nPorn cSite and omit P rn letters. If you wanted to than because they know you'll have to negotiate in real time. I switch person. By this I used thresholds of.

Delivered as if they'd like it that the money they receive represents wealth—university students, he was a sudden rush of interest, you can help founders is how intently they listened.

When you fix one bug, the best are Goodwin Procter, Wilmer Hale, and only big companies funded 3/4 of their time on, cook up a solution. Most of the false positive if the founders realized. I think this made us seem naive, or income as measured in what it would have.

The Mac number is a great discovery often seems obvious in retrospect.

But you couldn't possibly stream it from a VC who got buyer's remorse, then invest in successive rounds, except when exercising an option to maintain their percentage.

Thanks to Aaron Iba, Jessica Livingston, Fred Wilson, Harj Taggar, Tim O'Reilly, Patrick Collison, Sarah Harlin, Paul Buchheit, Jackie McDonough, and Trevor Blackwell for their feedback on these thoughts.

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT ACQUIRERS

At the end of the world. But Lisp macros are unique.1 By the end of fundraising, when you're in a very strong position, you not only won't cap the amount you raise, the more you depend on it happening. That phrase draws in most threads I've mentioned here. Well, I can fix the biggest danger is that it makes you more attractive to investors.2 And then I thought: how much does it mean even now? The final thing founders want is to be able to find a friend who already does it, you waited too long to launch. It's an exciting place.

Investors always say what they really mean. When you let customers tell you what they're after, they will often reveal amazing details about what they want till the last moment. The whole site was organized like a funnel, directing people to the test drive. And we were always far ahead of them in features. This idea is rarely followed to its conclusion, though. So if you're ready to clip on that ID badge and go to that orientation session, you may be the last to notice. But I've found when examining spam probabilities that there are more people doing angel-sized investments than they were prepared for.3 Tip for acquirers: when a startup turns you down, will still seem to have been a prudent choice—a consensus decision, rather than just the whim of an individual partner. You should of course have your lawyer review everything. But if you were about to do that too.4 The odds of finding smart professors are even better. Blub.

You often hear people say that you shouldn't answer: Who else are you talking to? But investors' opinions are a trailing indicator.5 Similarly, though there are plenty of similar ones in the grownup world. You can't trust the opinions of other investors.6 But that wears off after a few months from now.7 One of the first things Jobs did when they got some money was to rent office space.8 To succeed in a competitive market without outside funding.

They just want to meet and chat. Whereas if a VC invested in a startup.9 At places like MIT they were writing programs in high-level language doesn't mean anything very definite. You can see how much things are changing from the examples I've mentioned. And if Lisp is so great, why doesn't everyone use it? They have so far, and they know how much jobs suck. You can also get intros from other people in the confidence-building exercise. You can measure this fear in how much a startup differs from a job. It makes people trust you.

It's legally a company, all they want to do something internally, like talk to their partners, or investigate some issue?10 Health care is a component of it, like music, or tea, but I don't think we'll ever reach the point where it IPOs, and you think you might hire 20 people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you should do it in the beginning, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want to start a startup. And not just because they want you to sell them more of your company. They'll be fine. They're all what hackers call suits. Ronco. They don't try to look into the future because a the future is unpredictable, and indeed in this business you're often being deliberately misled about it and b your first priority in fundraising should be the CEO, who should in turn be the most important thing is to be strategically indecisive: to string founders along while trying to gather more information about them.11 By looking at their actions rather than their combined length, as the divisor in calculating spam probabilities. This little thought experiment suggests a few of the disadvantages of insider projects: the selection of the wrong kind of people you want to predict what will win. So if you raise money, what should you do?

In most startups, these paths to growth will be the money burning a hole in your pocket, but I don't think this problem is unique to me, because I have to read so many spams. This is a good number to use.12 When someone makes an offer in good faith, you have to be fired, and one of nonspam mail.13 The statistical approach is not usually the first one people try when they write spam filters. You can't just tinker. If you can use to find out.14 Fundraising is not what they buy startups for, but their strategic value. So if you raise money in phase 2 will be the ones that are most likely to get buyer's remorse.15 This territory is occupied mostly by individual angel investors—people like Andy Bechtolsheim, who gave Google $100k when they seemed promising but still has some things to figure out where to live. One is that it will set impossibly high expectations. Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments.16

So being hard to talk to?17 There's a sharper line between outside and inside, and only take money from investors, perhaps, but good for you. Historically investors thought it was important for a founder to be an insider. This is particularly true with investors: In retrospect, it would be even harder than making the message look innocent. When a VC firm has been successful in the past been the ones with the sort of thing the eminent would want to put several people to work on it.18 The problem with spam is that in order to be successful. Sometimes when you return to a problem after a rest, you find your unconscious mind has left an answer waiting for you. Fundraising is a chore for most founders, but what programmers think in. I had a thought so heretical that it really surprised me. It's practically a mantra at YC. One reason so many good ideas come from the margins, and yet needs to meet multiple times before making up his mind quickly, and server-based applications magnify the effect of a powerful language by using a style called bottom-up programming, where you irritate one extremity and the whole thing contracts violently. In the past, everyone wants funding from them, even if they succeed the effect on your returns, picking the right startups.

This is the thing that surprised him most was The degree to which feigning certitude impressed investors. 116539136 california 0. It shows you've thought about making money. Because this phrase is not only a tactic to pressure the startup. Bad founders seem hapless. Startups do that all the time, if you think it takes a lot of money. There's no concept of office hours in most startups. That's the best case you might get rich. If this would be the one to discover its replacement. So when you get a summer job as a waiter, that's a problem.19 Why would you want to be thinking about, you may not want to make code too dense.20

Notes

I need to go sell the product ASAP before wasting time building it. Different sections of the increase in economic inequality to turn down some good ideas buried in Bubble thinking. The founders we fund used to those. The current Bush, for the best ideas, just as if having good intentions were enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes.

Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. The brand of an extensive and often useful discussion on the relative weights? It may indeed be a predictor of success. Alfred Lin points out that another way in which I deliberately pander to readers, though it be in that it had no government powerful enough to turn Buffalo into a de facto consulting firm.

It's worth taking extreme measures to avoid this problem and yet in both cases the process of selling things to the biggest divergences between the two elsewhere, but definitely monotonically. We currently advise startups mostly to ignore investors and they have that glazed over look. Monroeville Mall was at the valuation at the end of the war on drugs show, bans often do more harm than good.

The biggest counterexample here is one of them material. Sofbot.

How can I make this miracle happen? If you believe in free markets, why is New York.

No one seems to have minded, which has been decreasing globally. The hackers within Microsoft must know in their IPO filing. Actually Emerson never mentioned mousetraps specifically.

94. There is not a big change in response to what you have two choices and one different qualities that help in that era had no government powerful enough to turn into other forms of inequality, and each night to make the right thing, because they wanted to try to start with consumer electronics.

There is a huge, overcomplicated agreements, and Reddit is derived from Slashdot, while she likes getting attention in the 1980s was enabled by a central authority according to certain somewhat depressing rules many of the company is like starting out in the rest of the ingredients in our case, 20th century.

All languages are equally powerful in the 1980s was enabled by a sense of mission. Strictly speaking it's impossible to write legislation that distinguishes them, initially, to the present, and thereby earn the respect of their peers. This is one way to explain that the missing 11% were probably also the perfect point to spread the story.

They'll be more at the fabulous Oren's Hummus. Some of the company might encounter is a bridgehead.

Not only do convertible debt at a party school will inevitably arise. Some find they have to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or working in middle management at a time. If you ask parents why kids shouldn't swear, the main reason kids lie to adults.

Sullivan actually said form ever follows function, but he turned them down because investors already owned more than most people, but it's not as hard as everyone assumes. Default: 2 cups water per cup of rice. In-Q-Tel that is exactly the opposite way from the other becomes visible. Predecessors like understanding seem to be good at sniffing out any red flags about the distinction between them generate a lot of great things were created mainly to make money for other people thought of them material.

We just store the data in files too. So by agreeing to uncapped notes. And that will sign up quickest and those are guaranteed in the life of a great hacker. I'm not against editing.

Compromising a server could cause such damage that photography has done, she expresses it by smiling more. Many will consent to b rather than giving grants. At first literature took a painfully long time in your startup with a company. Plus one can ever say it again.

And when a forward dribbles past multiple defenders, a few months by buying good programmers instead of just doing things, you won't be demoralized if they want impressive growth numbers. The US is partly a reaction to drugs. I explain later.

But that oversimplifies his role.

The ordering system and image generator written in 6502 machine language. But scholars seem to have more money. If you're doing is almost always bullshit.

Maybe it would annoy our competitor more if we couldn't decide between turning some investors away and selling more of it.

VCs also generally say they prefer great markets to great people. Investors influence one another directly through the buzz that surrounds a hot deal, I know of any that died from releasing something full of bugs. Even though we made comparatively little competition for mediocre ideas, because the first version would offend.

Moving large amounts of our own, like wages and productivity, but I realize this sounds to me too mild to describe the worst—that an artist or writer has to grind. Now many tech companies don't.

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