katzgrau

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by katzgrau 7y ago
Exactly. Who's really the boss?
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> If someone approached me with this idea to help my startup, I would promptly move that email to my junk folder and stay focused on building a great product I'd advise you to let them give you a quick pitch by email and see if it s
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I don't usually cling to the status quo, but I do believe that the CEO must have the ability to set the vision and get the "right people in the right seats." Every management book in the last decade pays homage to this idea p
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I'm equally perplexed as to why people always seem to think a big downturn is right around the corner. Maybe there are always enough warning signs that someone with a sufficient penchant for confirmation bias will latch on to. Regardle
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Good post, two thoughts: * I'd imagine the website layer is frequently static (html/js) and could just be hosted on s3/cdn. One part of scaling avoided. > This is when we are going to want to start looking into partitionin
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I think that the real message is that a little political finesse (some call "social IQ") goes a long way, and the lack of it can hold you back. If you're thinking to yourself, "but I was never the most socially capable,&
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The only thing I found more interesting than all-you-can-eat buffets actually turning a profit is that there are business people who are apparently content running a business with such slim margins. This article quotes a 5% margin. I know f
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Not really, because many companies are owned by decent people who have a personal value system and their companies are reflections of that. Most business owners I've met are good and decent people. It's actually very hard to build
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A company's direction is going to be aligned with the owners/shareholders goal, which isn't always but in most cases is profit. At least we know that. Government? Who knows - whatever behavior emerges when you get a bunch of
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But there's no way for the interruptor to know the priority of their issue relative to the your priorities. This creates a major time management issue. If you have time blocked off for important, high value tasks, you can be easily dis
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Realizing it's too much and being brought to your knees are usually two different times. "Realizing it" happens gradually after an established pattern of behavior. Usually, years. You're like, I seem to drink a lot more
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I think about it all the time. Love my beagle, but I've concluded that the ownership of an animal is unethical. I'm not exactly doing anything about that because I simultaneously hold the usual line of thinking (despite the obviou
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> it will go viral with some eyeballs... Enough interest on Github and this thing will go to the moon in my opinion. I'm only offering this feedback as someone who has been down a similar path, and I sincerely hope for the success o
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I think the image and audio uploads are a good first attempt at differentiation, although it does open you up to competition from two other specialized giants (imgur, soundcloud), so now you've got a war on 3 fronts. I'd instead f
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Gratitude. Look around you and consider all of the things that are going well for your. Your nice remote gig, your fridge full of your favorite beer, the sunny day outside, your healthy family. Do that at the start of every day and really m
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TODO, aka I have the best of intentions but I'm probably not doing this in the near future or ever, for that matter. I'm guilty for quite a few
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Both of my parents were union tradespeople, one of them IBEW, working on telephone poles. I agree that the "trades" meme is merely a "grass is greener" perspective. The low capped pay and lack of personal autonomy (if no
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Wealth is a poor measure of success. In fact, I'd argue it's a side effect of success.
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Most millionaires are those who started their own businesses or are self employed. Certainly not SV unicorns, but they run businesses you've never heard of started by ordinary people. https://observer.com/2015/08&#
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This is the root of it, and something most on HN won't accept. Optimistic people generally see and seek opportunity (either knowingly or unknowingly) more frequently than pessimists.
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I run a pretty active community of about 650 in the local news publishing space. Start when you have a handful of smart people with a common agenda (we originally called it "the thinktank"). Then organize them using software that
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Ah, pretty clever. The REDHANDED phrase seems much more likely to convince a jury
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> AMP gives little guys, the ones starting blogs and trying to grow, a shot at freedom of speech. As long as the big guys aren't on AMP yet. But an overlooked tradeoff is that the little guys are forced to play by Google's rule
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Even the examples provided are kind of Math-heavy (for example, jumping right into the notation of the limit of x^5/25) - enough that a novice would probably feel overwhelmed. I find that people who are very familiar with a subject usu
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> For me lsd is about the thoughts that result from the general "high". 100%. It has a reputation as a thing that weirdos do to have fun or see cool things. If you "do it like an adult" I've found that it invokes
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> do not deserve to exist It's an easy position take take when you're a well paid developer and money problems aren't a concern. I used to feel the same way, until I started my own business. I couldn't attract venture
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> I don't know anyone who is looking for yet another generic social network. Right — people don't go actively seeking a generic alternative to something they already have. They do although, hear about new services that do some
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I'd disagree. Advertising exists in very subtle forms such as mere persuasion and even more subtly, plain information. The background radiation present in the cosmos advertises the big bang's existence.
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> Many things can go wrong (financial crisis, health problems). A developed (personal) definition of financial security should take that into account. You can't control all uncertainty but there are certainly things you can control
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Something I've thought about lately is that money in itself is rarely the end we really have in mind, despite our focus on it. Money is usually the means to achieve some end (like financial security). But more often than not I've

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