I think that's the point, you win some, you lose some, overall you approximate the market

Maybe going on trails on/around the mountain as opposed to heading to the top?

Could it also be because they looked at your profile?

I don't get the 49 joke, explain please?

It's a reference to a story about Ramanujan, who once (remarkably) told G. H. Hardy that 1729 wasn't a boring number because it was the smallest number that could be expressed as the sum of two cubes in more than one way. Sometimes trivial but always erudite in the best way, that was Wes.

It's like telling your only grandson he's your favorite grandson. 49 is the lowest and only number that can be expressed as the square of 7. But the phrasing makes you think there's a second (or more) number after it.

Technically "n^2+1" has no spaces.

And I guess one way to think about it is that terms in an expression can be viewed as letters, so the expression then becomes a word.

How do you pronounce that word?

"n squared plus one"

We also never in our long past lived past 60.

I should have put supplements in double quotes.

Source? That sounds intersting

found it, it was Collegiate basketball (Cardinals) not NBA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119836/

Still the same concept, although I'd guess the NBA players would have less variance in performance. Thanks!

Even if we go by the assumption that this is true, it's then not going to be exclusive to the technology industry.

> You work in the sales department of your own career.

That's a pretty good way of putting it.

Those places are pretty far from SF though. Not unbearable, but you're probably looking at >1hr door to door.

That's the point - you don't have to live in SF or rent office space in SF, you can avoid SF altogether while still having the benefits of the startup scene an hour away.