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by wjossey 7y ago
Maybe! I’m biased because I run free sessions on this sort of stuff, and I like to think I don’t do too many platitudes or brag. Hard to say :) The advantage of talking live with a human on this stuff is context. There are dozens of framewo
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by wjossey 7y ago
Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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by wjossey 7y ago
Also not a blog, but I run a free mentoring service for managers. Mostly meet with folks from HN and Twitter, and I do daily sessions. https://freemanagermentors.com While there are tons of great resources out there, one thing t
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by wjossey 7y ago
I’d go check out the content that the folks at profitwell put out. They do a ton of analysis on how to price products.
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I love this too. I actually wrote a simple web-app that I use to "pause" my emails throughout the day for this very purpose. Starting at 8AM, my emails batch until 11AM, then again until 4PM. I found the notifications hitting my p
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by wjossey 7y ago
I do mentoring for managers and primarily get all of my signups from here or twitter when I mention the program in response to a specific thread / topic. At this point, I wouldn’t likely “list” myself because I’m able to fill up my cal
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Why Do You Grab Your Bag When Running Off a Burning Plane?(nytimes.com)
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by wjossey 7y ago
I mentor a lot of people looking to find new jobs, and one of the things I encourage them to do is related to this phrasing. When someone asks you, "Have you ever programmed in X language", or "Have you ever used Y technology
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by wjossey 7y ago
Ditto. Even with America’s subpar train travel, I still love to take trains when I can. I’ve done Chicago to New Orleans. New Orleans to New York. SF to LA. Each time I wrap up loving my experience. Train travel, especially in the USA where
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by wjossey 7y ago
My number one priority with support tickets and live chat requests is to have an initial response as quickly as possible. That initial response doesn’t need to be an answer to their question or a solution to their problem, but rather an ack
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One of their other books, "Thanks for the Feedback", is also reading I regularly recommend as a part of my mentoring program.
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by wjossey 7y ago
Great point on email being bad as well. I've been going back and forth with Google on an oauth consent screen approval for 2.5 months now, all over email, with multi-week gaps between each response from them. I'd give anything to
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by wjossey 7y ago
I'm a big fan of the team at Drift, as the product itself is very good- They just make it really easy to have their product be annoying which is why so many of us complain about that. I will also say we use live chat extensively in o
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by wjossey 7y ago
Indeed! You may find your co-founders say, "We have a good runway. Let's increase your salary temporarily / issue you a bonus to help offset the increased expenditures. Is there a way for us to adjust our hours to better acco
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by wjossey 7y ago
> so why single out scooters? Because I've lived in major cities (Boston & LA) for the past nine years, and have never had any concerns about my safety on sidewalks until scooters came around (and to a lesser extent dockless bik
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Some of the data they’re citing is clearly going to be misleading. I was clipped, buzzed, and hit by numerous escooters while living in central LA last year. In each of those situations, I didn’t report it because they have no discernible l
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by wjossey 7y ago
Without knowing a lot more giving, you concrete advice is really challenging. I’d need to pull on your experience for a while to feel like any advice I give won’t be counter productive. I run a free mentoring service and I’d be happy to tal
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Why ‘find your passion’ is such terrible advice(nytimes.com)
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I spend a huge amount of time coding as a startup founder, but also a huge amount of time doing 10 other things too. Owning your own business tends to mean doing a lot of everything, with coding just being one of those things.
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by wjossey 7y ago
Nah. You can advocate for change! Someone has to be the catalyst, why not you?
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At my prior position, that was the term as well. I ran said team. That being said, it wasn’t codified in our career mapping. It was sort of a “one off” experiment.
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by wjossey 7y ago
If you ever decide to try the manager route again, look me up. My email is in my profile. I do free one on one mentoring for managers, and my business also has a manager training program we run twice a year that really helps people perform
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by wjossey 7y ago
I’d highly recommend you start laying the ground work for this to become your reality. It may take six to twelve months, but some simple repetition around proposing this as an option may turn out well for you! When I work with managers who
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by wjossey 7y ago
Not in my book. Don’t let yourself be peter principled if you know you’re exactly where you want to be. Not everyone is that self aware, but there’s no shame in choosing your own path. Counter to my own point, I have had conversations with
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by wjossey 7y ago
I’ve been reviewing a lot of career path documents recently for different engineering orgs, and every one is fairly uniform in that you either progress into management, team leadership, or architecture (or some blend of the three). If not,
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by wjossey 7y ago
I don’t have an answer that is better than anyone else here, but I have a related ask. If anyone here feels passionately about this area and is a remote manager, I’d love to talk to you 1:1. My email is in my profile. I’m part of a team lau
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by wjossey 7y ago
Hey there! I’m really interested in this idea, as I hold daily office hours for my free manager mentoring program (shameless plug, link is in my profile). I have daily sessions and currently use Calendly to handle coordination. It allows me
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by wjossey 7y ago
Will second the recommendation to attend reforge. I know Brian personally and the program is legit. Highly recommend.
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I do think about this from time to time, and while I don’t think today I’d make a good solo founder for a “hyper growth” company, I could probably solo found a small business decently well. So, as an example, people become consultants, whic
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Measles Concerns: 200 students and staff at L.A. universities are quarantined(latimes.com)
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