This Week at YC

December 5, 2022
 

🗣 Actually talking to users is surprisingly tricky
In his talk for Startup School, YC Group Partner Gustaf Alströmer gives non-obvious advice on how to talk to both current and potential users, how to run a great user interview, and how to interpret the feedback in these conversations.
 

🍹 YC Happy Hour at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference — Jan 10
Attending the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco? Join us for a happy hour during the event! If you’re a YC alum, an investor, industry leader, or are interested in starting a bio or healthcare company, we’d love to see you there. Space is limited, so sign up by December 29.
 

🔑 Startup Equity: What to do when joining or leaving a startup — Dec 14
Equity is a compelling part of startup compensation, so it’s important to understand how to handle your equity when joining - or leaving - a startup. If you’re a startup employee or are looking to join a startup, join us and Compound for a startup equity masterclass.  

• Everything I wish I knew when learning C  (tmewett.com)
• Intentionally making close friends  (neelnanda.io)
• The Casino-Chip Society  (brettscott.substack.com)
• Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds  (github.com/jgosar)
• CT scan shows there's still lots of toner left in an “empty” cartridge  (lumafield.com)
• Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia  (sapiens.org)
• Tales of the M1 GPU  (asahilinux.org)
• Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time  (marvinh.dev)
• Goodbye, data science  (ryxcommar.com)
• Company, Team, Self  (lethain.com)