🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · benkuhn

Be less scared of overconfidence

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When I was deciding whether to work for Wave, I got very hung up on the fact that my “total compensation” would be “lower.”
The scare quotes are there because Wave and my previous employer, Theorem, were both early-stage startups that were paying me mostly in fake startup bucks equity. To figure out the total compensation, I tried to guess how much money the equity in each company was worth, with a thought process something like:

Both of these companies have been invested in by reputable, top-t

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