[michaelochurch]

About EIRs. The most boring feature of a VC firm. [...] If I'd been offered an EIR position at a VC firm, I'd worry about what I'd done wrong

See, you're doing the right thing here. You're ridiculing the welfare-for-rich-people system out there, just as I am. That's a first step. First, you use ridicule and attack prestige; after prestige falls (and mild embarrassment does that job) you hammer away at legitimacy underneath. Then, the corrupt edifice falls away and you can build something new.

High real estate prices and low occupational autonomy are the surest sign of congestion. It means the wrong people are winning and it's up to the rising generation to fix the world.

[tptacek]

Michael, the other thing I do right is not bothering to tell myself stories about the injustices of EIR positions. I'm not simply "mocking" them. I'm right about how irrelevant they are, too. Not in some grand-scheme-of-things way, but in their irrelevance to getting companies funded in 2013.