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by awillen 7y ago
Funny you should ask - I actually wrote a short book about it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M09FA5X . I own two small apartment buildings in the Bay Area (seven apartments total). I honestly just saw interest rates were
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by awillen 7y ago
I had a ten year career mostly in product management at enterprise software startups, and I left last year to open a dog boarding business (which is a whole mess right now, but that's another story). For the most part I liked the compa
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by awillen 7y ago
Things are definitely looking bad, but given how optimistic the market has seemed over the past months even with lots of bad news coming out, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a pretty sharp recovery once Covid-19 is contained.
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by awillen 7y ago
Sure, but if this were a case where they offered just a generic form email with no real explanation, why wouldn't OP put it in the post? That would support the cause that this is Quora acting badly. Instead, there's just the vague
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by awillen 7y ago
This is kind of a baffling response to me... how many parents are involved enough to download an app or pay for problems with their kids? Really? People download apps for everything, but you think they'd be too lazy to do it for their
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by awillen 7y ago
Feels like there's a whole other side being left out - there's no correspondence with Quora posted, just "Long story short: they accused me of foul play and told me that they weren’t going to pay out my earnings. When I inqui
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by awillen 7y ago
This is the thing that works best for me, though I define a smaller task as much smaller than that... ideally something that takes <15 min and doesn't necessarily require a lot of brainpower. I'm in the midst of starting a busi
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by awillen 7y ago
I'd look at it the other way - when you have hundreds of millions of dollars, the utility of a million dollars is basically nothing, so almost certainly the utility of your children attending college where you want is higher.
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by awillen 7y ago
I don't know if I would say I'm a narcissist, but I have realized that I'm very prone to interrupting people mid-conversation, because it's just what my family does. When I'm with them (or other interrupters), it&#x
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by awillen 7y ago
I definitely think this is a useful perspective, but if you're creating something, it can be nice to turn your hobby into a hustle in order to increase the amount that you can create. If you're getting into glass blowing, you can
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by awillen 7y ago
Any change to this rule is welcome in my book. What really gets me is the people who fly with dogs that are obviously terrified. Putting an animal that isn't trained to handle airports and planes in that situation so you don't hav
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by awillen 7y ago
The last two books I read were Station 11 and Severance, and they make it tough not to be at least a little paranoid about this. Great books, though.
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by awillen 7y ago
The problem with this is that when you do it, you're actively looking for lookalike domains. The challenge is when an email or link otherwise seems very legitimate, so you have your guard down.
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by awillen 7y ago
I just don't get why this is such a throwaway line in the piece... I want to read a full interview with this person.
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by awillen 7y ago
I find that if you go to a high-end hotel and tell them you're not checking in until tomorrow but would like them to hang onto your luggage for the day until you meet a friend that you're staying with tonight, they'll do it f
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by awillen 7y ago
"a user who found out his campus only had 12 wheel boots to go around and bought and illegally parked 12 scrapyard cars that could be “sacrificed” so everyone else could park however they wanted." Not all heroes wear capes.
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by awillen 7y ago
I remember when CH was just a site where people uploaded funny pics, and once in a while they had a well-written article. How far they came - sad to see them shut down.
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by awillen 7y ago
Sounds like the original comment was referring to RSUs in public companies. If you sell those immediately upon receiving them, they're basically equivalent to cash.
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by awillen 7y ago
This is not true in most contracts - you can negotiate for it if you're high enough level or early enough, but otherwise it's rarely the case. Besides, if you get fired from a startup and it's not for cause, then it's pr
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by awillen 7y ago
Maybe he should have worn a stocking over his head...
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by awillen 7y ago
There are limitations on free speech, particularly speech that directly harms people - thus no shouting fire in a crowded theater. That's if you even consider this speech, which seems iffy at best.
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by awillen 7y ago
The problem is the programmer thing just isn't comparable - knowing a little bit about the law isn't like knowing a little bit about web development. No one who is not a lawyer has the ability to get qualified to handle legal issu
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by awillen 7y ago
That really depends on how you define "lawyering up" - I'm not saying he should hire a lawyer and run all communications with his company through the lawyer moving forward. I'm just saying have a conversation with someon
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by awillen 7y ago
Listen to this person. The people telling you to talk to your employer are giving you terrible advice. You can still do that after spending 30 minutes with a lawyer, but you can't take back anything you say before you talk to a lawyer.
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by awillen 7y ago
I see a lot of the same with PE firms buying companies - "<PE firm> buys <beloved company that was failing> and lays off half the workers! Evil, evil PE firm!" Now obviously there's a fair amount of the time when
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by awillen 7y ago
"But the site started to show signs of struggle earlier this year when the Atlantic laid off CityLab’s dedicated business staff. “The writing’s been on the wall for a long time,” one of the staffers said about CityLab’s future with the
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by awillen 7y ago
When someone in that industry tells me the machine is broken, I presume they're being dishonest because it benefits them (they avoid fees and presumably tax reporting to the income) and I've seen too many cabs have their machines
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by awillen 7y ago
Yeah, the drivers always tended to be a little off... I had one guy run up on the curb while he was looking at his phone, and he yelled when I told him to get off of it. That was the last one I took. I had another one where the driver got i
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by awillen 7y ago
More than once I had a SuperShuttle driver tell me their credit card machine wasn't working. When I told them I didn't have cash, they'd insist we stop at the ATM on the way home. When I pointed out that the website where I b
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by awillen 7y ago
What value does asking what value that comment adds add?

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