European public opinion will apparently tolerate people being fired in industries where they really care about performance. Unfortunately the only in… - Paul Graham

"If you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That's a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a "tame animal" who thinks that he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write."

The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.

It's a dangerous skill to be good at convincing yourself that you don't want things you worry you might not get. Useful in some areas perhaps, but disastrous in others.