I love watching an argument unfold across the Internet. Here's a thread that bounced from evangelist-loudmouth-romanticizer to startup engineer to VC where everyone's right and everyone's a bit wrong too.

• "You might be sad that you work long hours and that sometimes your boss yells at you when tensions run high. But you also know that there is nowhere on earth like Silicon Valley…. There’s so much money in Silicon Valley now that a lot of non-like minded people have rolled in. Looking for easy stock options at a hot startup. They start whining when they realize that they have to give so much to make it [...]

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From @TheStartupDaily, If you improve by just one percent each week, your business will be 50% better after a year. http://t.co/n7UVUS6Wed Aug 03 14:29:28 via Twitter for MacMike Karnjanaprakornmikekarnj

I hope all these people who are glomming onto The Startup Daily's hideous daily koans aren't doing the accounting at their oh-so-hot startups. I mean, say my startup was 51% good already, then I made it 52% good? So at the end of the year it's not going to be 101% good, because, COMPOUND INTEREST, [...]

The Awl: Mark Armstrong, you had a perfectly nice job as the Director of Content at Bundle, and presumably before that you had other real jobs, and then you went and quit your job to really focus on developing Longreads, which, duh, draws attention to longform writing. Why did you do that?

Mark Armstrong: So, here's the thing: I've worked in the Internet coal mine for more than ten years now. I moved from Los Angeles to New York in 2001, and in that time I worked for both giant companies and tiny startups. During this time I noticed that the stuff that works best is [...]