The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85

Q when, when I could have gotten an apartment for 500 dollars a month, Instead of 4000 dollars a month in San Francisco, or when all my friends, you know, when I started a company thought I was crazy. Um, I don't know. I felt like being from a place where there's less success stories, you just feel a bit more fearless because you think that made you kind of invincible?

A It's like Adam, Greg, uh, we have a lawyer that we collectively have shared in the past name, his name, I'll just say his first name. Adam is the name of the lawyer. And he, I brought breather to him by the way, like literally nobody thought that this was a good idea. Like I, and I mean it like literally no one, maybe Greg, like I was like, here, you should like, which does this. And, and maybe he was the closest thing to maybe accepting that this could be a company. Right. And so, and so, uh, We, I bring the lawyer to breakfast, and Westmount, some of you care about this, most of you will not, and he, and, and the lawyer, the lawyer brings a, um, a sort of real estate, like, management firm dude, and both of them were like, you should not, like, you have, you have a successful thing going, you, like, you got a New York Times bestselling book, like, you're doing speaking gigs, like, don't do this, was the general attitude of, like, don't fuck up your life, right? And so, It's, it, we, and that's one of the hardworking ones. In general, it's like, you know, I always think about this, this Paul Graham thing about like a city is telling you something. The city itself is not telling you something, but the ethos of that city is saying things to you. And, and where we come from, the city is just like, yeah, hang out. Like everything's cool. You're going to be all right. You don't nee…

AI assessment note: “it makes the cost of failure low because nobody cares anyway”

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