Short Read: Don’t Eat Before Reading This

Anthony Bourdain | 14 minutes

The fact is that most good kitchens are far less septic than your kitchen at home. I run a scrupulously clean, orderly restaurant kitchen, where food is rotated and handled and stored very conscientiously. But if the city’s Department of Health or the E.P.A. decided to enforce every aspect of its codes, most of us would be out on the street.

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I got out of bed and saw my name on the TV. 
Come on, man. Be serious. I’m 18 years old. Living in the favela. How can you say that I was not touched by God? My story, it does not make any logical sense, even to me.

- Adriano, Adriano Has A Story to Tell

If we send them an email asking what's up, and they don't reply, that's a really bad sign.
So far that is a 100% accurate predictor of death.

Whereas if a startup regularly does new deals and releases and either sends us mail or shows up at YC events, they're probably going to live.

- Paul Graham, How Not to Die