Disruptive_Dave

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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
First one just turned two. I waited until I was 40 to have a child for this reason. I wasn't ready. I didn't trust my relationships with my demons. I didn't want to burden her with my shit. Still got a whole lotta unbecoming
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
Sometimes you have to crawl through a river of shit to come out clean on the other side. I have suffered from overachiever syndrome / high functioning assholeness for most of my life. Constant doing, constant striving, constant movemen
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
That's not a sale. That's a question with absolutely zero investment or action asked of the participant. Take an actual payment. Even if it's for vaporware (that you can eventually deliver on and that's properly messaged
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
Full acceptance. Until someone shows me that I can actually halt/reverse it, all I can do is wake up and be a good person. Part of this is my belief system; there is no universal law that states human beings, or the earth for that matt
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
I kept wondering why they didn't go to LAX or somewhere that could handle the weight. But that's coming from someone who clearly has no insight into how air traffic works.
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
I flew enough as a child and then with my first job to be comfortable with flying. Never really considered fear. Then I took a flight back from Vegas to NYC and it ended up in an emergency state as both hydraulic systems were lost on takeof
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
We have many of these in the US. I've used two in daycare. One was amazing, the other is pretty good. Both fall short because of poor use by teachers and faculty.
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
Highly recommend HBO's new mini series (documentary) about big wave surfing [0]. Lots of heavy wave action in it and they delve into the very unscientific manner in which surfers and surfing orgs "measure" these monsters. [0]
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
Not OP, but I would hope the original comment was intended to imply that emotions should be _responded_ to (as you noted) and not _reacted_ to. Responding involves understanding, "naming your enemy," and contextual consideration.
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
It's also just a very un-nuanced way to think about anything. It reminds me of a scene in the show Scrubs where one friend is discussing the difficulties of being a child of divorce. The other comments how he always found it interestin
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
Potential for death is a very limited way to measure dangerous occupations/activities.
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
An element not mentioned much in this thread is the significant challenges in using actual photography/people: expensive and time-consuming for custom work, super choppy legal waters (can't tell you how many times the subject of a
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by Disruptive_Dave 5y ago
I took it seriously at first. Anecdotally, I see them being worn much less by my peers than 2-3 years ago. Cool/newness factor died, IMO. Then I looked at stats: > Apple shipped 7.6 million smartwatches worldwide in the first quarte
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
I get asked about meditation every now and then from friends and their friends. Here's what I tell them: - Meditation is not a spa treatment for the mind. Certainly not in the short-term. I'm sure there are many meditation-like ac
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
The same thing that would make me pass over a resume/cover letter for a job I'm hiring for: vagueness. The more specific and transparent a posting is, the more confidence I have in the buyer knowing what they need and who they nee
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
It's been years since I was on Upwork (started w/ Elance) and I felt similar frustrations. Then I signed up as a buyer, posted a job similar to the ones I was seeking, and analyzed the patterns of freelancer pitches and how the sy
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
Hugely important for me, hiring for marketing. I need to know you can write. I need to know you can tell a story. I need to know you can be creative and seek opportunity where others don't. It amazes how many applicants either don&#x27
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
I don't know if it's been reinvented. "Reality as-is" has always been the basic foundation of Buddhism, which is built on meditation, which flowers mindfulness.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
Death is perhaps the most rational concept I can think of.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
Landing pages that display links to multiple music streaming/purchase/play sites are extremely common nowadays. Pretty much every music distributor offers them. Example: https://distrokid.com/willsmith
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
What you're describing is attachment to the perceived self. Congrats, you are now enlightened.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
I just happened to reread about 7 of them that I haven't touched in 12+ years. My vote is Lullaby then Diary. Then consider Choke. Rant is excellent, but it's in a unique format in that it's written as an "oral biography
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
I would add several Palahniuk books and How I Became Stupid by Martin Page.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
*the challenge with poorly designed and poorly executed marketing.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
It's standard practice at good sushi spots. Omakase.
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
Ever read Zen In The Art of Archery[1]? In it, the author talks about how, when learning a brand new physical practice like archery, at first you just dive in and start doing it without knowing the fundamentals and, truly, how difficult it
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by Disruptive_Dave 6y ago
Oh man, I remember about 10 years I got so annoyed with my buys-ass gym and having to wait in line to use a machine that I came up with the idea to track real-time gym attendance and machine usage. It was going to be called WaitLift. It nev
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by Disruptive_Dave 7y ago
Bathymetry & swells, specifically for surfing. I've been a recreational surfer and getting back into it now, never took the time to learn how waves are formed and all the things that impact how then end up on our shores
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by Disruptive_Dave 7y ago
Bunch of reasons - never intended to do anything other than have fun with it, co-founded another startup that ended up catching a little fire, and finally, it was just me (marketer) and a designer doing this. Would love to see it work, thou
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by Disruptive_Dave 7y ago
Oh man, we did this (MVP style) about 6 years ago, called it Collabo. Tested it with a Facebook group, then we manually connected random people together and scheduled them video chats. We called it "the water cooler for solopreneurs.&q

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