darts

The landscape is no longer visible under the mass of the darts.

So where are the televisions that shoot tiny darts of cocaine into its viewers whenever someone is killed on-screen?

It's just a tongue-in-cheek joking reference as if this was a huge game of lawn-darts.

It doesn't matter to them if you end up as one of the darts on the floor, but it will matter greatly to you.

I have found it supremely important to understand what you are modifying because otherwise you are throwing darts at the wall blindfolded.

- A spacious new office complete with a living room couch, big screen TV, PS3 and darts.

YC has demonstrated they aren't just throwing darts here, so vague pessimism is not the best default.

> So where are the televisions that shoot tiny darts of cocaine into its viewers whenever someone is killed on-screen?

Professional VC's aren't throwing darts at a board.

But, there are so few experts and so many more amateurs that, on average, nearly all the darts in the center of the target come from lucky amateurs and not real experts.

Studies show that most money managers perform no better than buying the index or throwing darts, what makes you think VC's suddenly have improved odds?

But I am wise enough to know that no matter what I do in the privacy of my own home, once I take that on a television news broadcast, I am in effect representing anything and everything the viewing public can now associate me with, whether it be my cycling club, my church, my darts team, my family, or my employer.

Rather than direct chemical triggers that stimulate the brains reward system ("tiny darts of cocaine"), they typically use other triggers to the reward system, like music.

This is why when you only have one life that you should put all your efforts into what the VCs disparagingly call a "life-style" business rather than be one of their random darts.

Neither the landscape, the colors, nor the darts exist, so there's no way they could "really" have three colors or "really" be nasty fractals or "really" anything else.

It may be true that "startup" success is mostly random in the YC/modern Valley-VC culture of throwing a fistful of darts at the board and hoping that at least a few stick.

For every Rust and Elm, there are 10 Typescripts, Darts, and Gos.