[e40]

> I realize this will sound naive, but maybe the linkage works in both directions. Maybe if you can arrange that we keep hearing from you, you won't die.

Or, maybe they stop communicating because they know they're going to die.

I love it when people take a statistic and try and "cheat" it.

For example: a report came out last year that statistically speaking most people that have dogs and cats have children that don't have allergies to dogs and cats. It may be that having dogs and cats around makes children not have the allergy. Or, since allergies to dogs and cats are hereditary, maybe only people that don't have the allergy get dogs and cats, and those people would be more likely to have children without the allergy.

That's how I feel about the "communicate you won't die" comment.

[rms]

Agreed. It's a lot more embarrassing for a founder to email and say "Yeah, another week and we have no users or funding or motivation or new features or incremental improvements" than to just not respond.