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by awillen 7y ago
If you're paying 65k for insurance, the pieces are valuable. They could well be behind glass or protected in other ways.
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by awillen 7y ago
That does sound like a pretty insane recurring cost. Doesn't seem like there's any need for really valuable art that requires insurance when murals, photos and reproductions of the same nice art would do it. Hopefully they just re
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by awillen 7y ago
Ever since phones started having pedometers, I've made it a habit to walk around the room while watching TV. During football season, I was often sedentary all day Sunday and am now instead walking for miles. One of the simplest things
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by awillen 7y ago
The wisdom of crowds is a truly fascinating thing... the fact that people don't really need to know what they're talking about as long as there's enough of them really blows my mind.
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by awillen 7y ago
We should accept it in cases where the employees are easily able to leave (e.g. software developers). For people who have less mobility (e.g. minimum-wage factory workers), we have more of a responsibility as a society to ensure that they&#
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by awillen 7y ago
This is correct. You can apply your highly-valued skills to something you don't find as interesting and make a lot of money, or you can apply them to something you're passionate about and make less money.
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by awillen 7y ago
Why not tell him to stop? Why wait until years later? The problem is that their actions make it clear that they didn't have issues with his conduct. Rather, they decided to cut costs and as a result decided to retroactively reexamine b
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by awillen 7y ago
This sounds ridiculous, but it's a really simple solution that really does work.
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by awillen 7y ago
It really helps if someone is actively managing the meeting. As a PM, I've often done this in meetings with my engineering team. It works well because I don't know enough to contribute much to the technical discussions, but I know
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by awillen 7y ago
It's not about buying an office dog, it's about people bringing their own pets to work. I'm not denying that it affects a portion of the population - like I said, there's a tradeoff that companies have to make. The anaph
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by awillen 7y ago
The reality is that a hypoallergenic-pet-only policy isn't all that useful. It's unfortunate for allergic people when dogs are allowed, but it's also potentially a boon to the company. Aside from the benefits of lowering stre
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by awillen 7y ago
There is, without doubt, a lot of garbage out there in these games for purchase. There are also a lot of issues with the way they get people to spend money. That said, if your kid steals your credit card and spends a bunch of money on it, t
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by awillen 7y ago
I definitely understand the desire to be served by people you don't have any kind of a personal relationship with, but I don't think it's inherently terrible. I like to keep my business/transactional and personal relatio
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by awillen 7y ago
This is one of those things that takes a very abstract concept and tries to boil it down a bit too far with a mathematical model. Also, the 5 number in the headline is just misleading, since he clearly points out that the real number is 15.
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by awillen 7y ago
I just try to start doing a simple example of whatever I want to learn, and after I realize all the things I don't have/know that I need, I start to build out a more organized framework. For example, a few years ago I had the vagu
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by awillen 7y ago
I think this is a great way of looking at it. Coming from the product side of things, I see developers who are vastly more productive than their peers because they have amazing organizational and communication skills. They help keep timelin
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by awillen 7y ago
Reminds me of Twitter back in the day, with their terrible and inconsistent developer policies. It took them quite a while to recover from the impact those had, despite the fact that they're an enormous platform that can provide a ton
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by awillen 7y ago
Just so incredibly disturbing. For all of Facebook's fault, it's very easy to opt out of using it. When a service that the government forces you to use loses your data, heads should roll.
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by awillen 7y ago
Business Insider used to be a reasonably intelligent publication, and it's just degenerated into nothing but clickbait garbage. To be fair, they're probably just doing what they have to in order to get enough clicks to keep the li
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by awillen 7y ago
This is all very reasonable, but I'd love to see more detail. I certainly agree a T-shaped profile is ideal for PMs, but I'd love to know in which of the listed skills a PM needs to show depth of expertise. Presumably product sens
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by awillen 7y ago
Yeah, you're the collateral damage - a good buyer but one whose profile looks like a bad buyer. If you know of any good ways to screen for folks like yourself while still keeping out the chaff, let me know :)
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by awillen 7y ago
Yep - on a related note, those experiences have also led more than one company I've worked at to require that you sign a services contract for implementation when you buy the product. When it's optional, the people who opt out of
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by awillen 7y ago
I've seen both. I've worked at early stage (seed/A) enterprise startups and have seen the pricing strategy evolve (including moving from publicly listed prices to making people talk to sales). In those cases, we were still re
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by awillen 7y ago
I've definitely heard this as a reason to not give pricing in enterprise SaaS, but I actually think it's not a very good one. At a couple places I worked, we had someone on the marketing team calling around to competitors and gett
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by awillen 7y ago
A few possible reasons for this: - You aren't their target audience. I come from enterprise SaaS, where we often force people to talk to someone, and working with sales is not a problem for the people we care about. I know that someone
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by awillen 8y ago
Every company I've worked at has shared board slides (usually slimmed down for time and to remove any personnel info, but with all the key financial info there). Transparency is a huge deal for me and tells me a lot about the value of
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by awillen 8y ago
I think the journalist rule is good for books that go deep into a topic, like many of the ones you've cited here. On the other hand, I would expand your caveat around biographies to say that journalists are generally very good when it
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by awillen 8y ago
You need a lawyer. Legalzoom is fine for basic legal tasks where you know exactly what you need (I've used it to form an LLC where I'm holding property), but this is more complex than that. You're soliciting advice on a legal
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by awillen 8y ago
A lot of good advice here - one thing I'd add is that if you're really having problems find a job at a very early stage startup, try something a little bigger but not a huge enterprise. Companies that have raised a B or C round an
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by awillen 9y ago
It's not quite as interesting as a lot of stuff here, nor is it something I can link to just yet, but I'm writing a book about interviewing for product management roles. I took a sabbatical recently and have just started interview

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