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by wjossey 7y ago
My cofounder is someone I had work with for six years prior to starting our company together. During that time, he was my boss for all but one year of that time. We both happened to leave our prior place of employment one month apart, then
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by wjossey 7y ago
It really depends on the person, but you're right. On average, we tend to find that most people have about seven colleagues that can provide really actionable feedback to individual contributors. Managers are larger, as they have a tea
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by wjossey 7y ago
Hey there! Happy to talk live about this if you'd like. My email is in my profile, and I can speak more in depth[0]. Sorry to hear that your company is ditching 360s in favor of NPS. I've facilitated dozens of 360s across a wide r
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by wjossey 8y ago
Can you elaborate on this for me? I’m not sure what you mean by it coming down to personal values. Would love to understand.
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by wjossey 8y ago
While I don’t directly make money from it, my free mentoring program has actually generated some side income as a nice benefit. I help mentor managers, leaders, and founders, totally for free. I’ve worked with dozens so far and I’m always t
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by wjossey 8y ago
I recently had a mentoring session with a person going for a lead position, but they haven’t been an “on paper lead” before. I had to talk them through it but I think they understood at the end how to position themselves. I do not find most
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by wjossey 8y ago
I’m interested in trying to solve this problem by helping people express how they have relatable skills, rather than direct experience. In particular, I believe that the opportunity is to highlight during person to person conversations duri
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How the NYTimes Print Paper Comes Together(nytimes.com)
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How to Make Friends While Traveling Solo(nytimes.com)
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150 Prisoners Were Releases in 2018 Due to Experts Overstating Evidence(nytimes.com)
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by wjossey 8y ago
Yep, completely agree. You'd also have to convince me that this doesn't have unintended consequences as well if HR suddenly reaches out to you with a message around them being concerned you'd leave, but you have no idea why.
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by wjossey 8y ago
Thanks for sharing. Hadn’t ever read those novels (just sometimes see BBC remakes of the books). While I don’t try to make people happy, I feel like I should put that on my business card :)
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by wjossey 8y ago
I’ve spent the past two years building a non AI, non ML, human based approach to talent development and retention, so I can safely call BS on IBMs approach. People leave for a multitude of reasons, and while some are more common than others
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by wjossey 8y ago
Non paywall version: https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/the-new-way-your-b...
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by wjossey 8y ago
Yes. Technically speaking, it does what the Mozilla author proposed. You’ll end up getting a lot of ads for apps and services you potentially already own, which is the “downside”. FWIW: Worked in mobile ad tech for five years so I know this
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by wjossey 8y ago
Can HN be toxic? Absolutely. Was it toxic in the situation the author was describing? I think reasonable people can have a discussion about this, but for arguments sake let’s say yes. Is HN generally a positive non toxic environment? Yep! H
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How Does Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Allow Us to Image a Black Hole?(forbes.com)
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by wjossey 8y ago
I run a free mentoring service for managers as a form of community service. I'm happy to talk this through live if you think it'd be valuable. https://freemanagermentors.com With that being said, let me take a crack at
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Affordable Housing Crisis Spreads Throughout World(wsj.com)
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Ask HN: Interest for a Remote Cohort Program to Grow as a Manager
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by wjossey 8y ago
Hey there! Spent five years in game ad tech, so here’s my rapid take on your top questions. Be patient. If you only have tens of thousands of dollars to work with, I wouldn’t be concerned that you’re hitting your CPI but not hitting daily s
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I Did 20 Mentoring Sessions with Managers from HN: Here's What I've Observed(medium.com)
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by wjossey 8y ago
YMMV. A lot of the startups in my circle now offer sabbaticals. I get it’s not even remotely common in non tech related jobs, but in tech jobs in the US it’s absolutely on the rise. I wouldn’t call it rare anymore. I get that’s a very heavy
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by wjossey 8y ago
I run a free mentoring service for managers & leaders. No strings attached. Not a coaching service. Not trying to pitch you anything. Just me being a service to our community. https://freemanagermentors.com I've met wit
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by wjossey 8y ago
Reached out on LinkedIn. Happy to chat.
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by wjossey 8y ago
I wanted to share my experience as a startup co-founder that uses Drift as both a sales tool and a help desk tool. We started using drift on day one of our product launch. Creating a user experience that is intuitive and "makes sense&q
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by wjossey 8y ago
Try the cactus to clouds hike.
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by wjossey 8y ago
How dare you not know what pro rata means! :) Happy to help. Be well!
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by wjossey 8y ago
They have an option to buy to maintain their stake. They are not locked in and get diluted like everyone else.
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by wjossey 8y ago
I’m not a YC company founder but that’s not how I understand their terms to work. They can follow in subsequent rounds to maintain their percentages but they aren’t “locked in” at 7%. —-Edit—— Yeah. They have pro rata rights to follow in th

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