The Lightcone Principles — LessWrong
Every Sunday I write a mini-essay about an operating principle of Lightcone Infrastructure that I want to remind my team about. Here they are, edited and occasionally expanded upon in more canonical form. Context: Post #10 in my sequence of private Lightcone Infrastructure memos edited for public consumption. This one, more so than any other one in this sequence, is something I do not think is good advice for everyone, and I do not expect to generalize that well to broader populations. If I had been writing this with the broader LessWrong audience in mind I would have written something pretty different, but I feel like for the sake of transparency I should include all the memos on Lightcone principles I have written, and this one in particular would feel like a bad one to omit. In "What We Look for in Founders" Paul Graham says: 4. Naughtiness Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type