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by wjossey 8y ago
I appreciate your defense of these folks. It’s a kind gesture with great intent behind it. My response in no way takes away from the spirit of your post. I think the core of why people are responding how they are is that there’s not a big m
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by wjossey 8y ago
Part of why I love living in LA. Everyone else is in entertainment which makes all conversations far more entertaining for me :)
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For full disclosure, OP has an indigogo project they are trying to raise money on. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-pill-diet#/
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Hit y'all up on intercom but leaving my feedback here as well. I built this out internally for my app, and it took me a little over a day to do it. Had this existed when I built it out, I absolutely would have just paid a buck per 100
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by wjossey 8y ago
Narrowing your focus and creating some "specific" landing pages might help if that's how you envision your market. Your homepage can be more broad, with subdomains or namespaces specific to a cohort. Also, some more examples
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by wjossey 8y ago
Really depends. If it’s a B2B product, just keep talking to everyone you know who is a buyer and try to get them to take a shot on you. If the product is far enough along to add value, make sure to charge. If it’s not, and you’re just looki
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by wjossey 8y ago
Hi there! I’m two years in as a cofounder. We have one full time employee beyond me and my business partner. We raised under a million in a pre seed round. Prepare for what will feel like whiplash when it comes to the product. At this stage
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by wjossey 8y ago
Sure! Happy to chat.
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Boy survives tetanus. 57 days in hospital. Parents refuse further vaccinations(nytimes.com)
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Too Big to Fail While not a story of fraud, it is a story of how close the country / world came to the brink, how people were guessing, and how companies in the financial industry got us there.
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All good thoughts on managing up for sure, which is definitely a component of becoming a good leader. How you’re able to influence those “above” you can drastically impact your team and their effectiveness. This is one of those traits that
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by wjossey 8y ago
Absolutely! I’d recommend “Winning” as a great place to start. It’s a good and quick book on tape too that you can listen to over a week. https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Ultimate-Business-How-Book-eb... Ben Horowitz also tou
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by wjossey 8y ago
I run a free mentoring program as a form of community service, specifically for managers and leaders. Happy to talk live if you prefer: https://freemanagermentors.com I’m a fan of Jack Welch when it comes to leadership, and I’d
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by wjossey 8y ago
Welcome to LA! I’d recommend joining Learn Teach Code on slack and chatting with people. Might have openings and it’s a supportive community for junior engineers. https://learnteachcode.org I’m not actively hiring for my startup
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On Death Row (mini series) and Into the Abyss. Both focus on death row inmates and their crimes, not perceived innocence or “wrongfully accuses” sort of situations. Herzog is an absolute master and leaves the viewer thinking, not with a pre
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by wjossey 8y ago
Not sure what you’re referencing. Tech isn’t a big constituency in Los Angeles, so hard to blame that. And I don’t even see how tech regulation has anything to do with homelessness management in Los Angeles.
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Dr Drew Pinsky (yes, not just a “loveline doctor”) was calling this out over a year ago. One of his children contracted typhus prior to the big outbreak last year, which led him to talk more about the issue. https://drdrew.com&#x
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by wjossey 8y ago
As someone who lives in LA, I have to agree. Really poor local government structure. Our city council just 10-2 voted to authorize the city attorney to settle a lawsuit which will now restrict the city’s ability to cleanup homeless encampme
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L.A. settles homeless rights case, likely limiting ability to clear skid row(latimes.com)
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If you can, maybe do some intensive talk therapy for the first month with a therapist, and then work from there. I had extreme burnout from my previous company while on the job, and my therapist was instrumental in helping me through that p
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There's something super amusing about some of the stuff they describe in the article, along with the diagram of the public transportation options. What they don't mention is that everyone who lives in that building almost certainl
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Plenty of people still need to get around at 8PM at night. So, I'd say a bodega worker in Brentwood going home to their less expensive apartment in Long Beach would prefer to be able to commute home at 10PM without it taking 3 hours :)
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by wjossey 8y ago
I'm not an engineer of that sort, but I'd imagine if we can build subways in earthquake-prone zones like SF, LA, and Tokyo, we can build safe tunnels under mountains in an earthquake zone.
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by wjossey 8y ago
-- Edit -- Sorry, I see now the above comments are more a refutation than a statement of, "Look how good the transportation system is." I'll leave these though just to make my general point about how horrible the options are.
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Induced demand doesn’t say that nothing happened. It says that demand just fills up the new supply. There are no alternatives to a road system in LA for most residents. If the roads were choked and there was an underutilized subway that I c
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And to your point, they absolutely could solve the chokepoint issues with eminent domain, and adding additional arteries, but they choose not to. For people who think a congestion tax will improve traffic, it won't. Congestion taxes wo
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by wjossey 8y ago
Really excited to share this with the HN community at large. Snagged a few of the FAQs in case people are curious: Q: What is this? A: If you’re currently in a management position and are looking for coaching, guidance, troubleshooting, o
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Show HN: Free Manager Mentoring(freemanagermentors.com)
4 points by wjossey 8y ago|1 comments
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In the Wettest Place on Earth, Locals Build Bridges from Tree Roots (2014)(theatlantic.com)
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by wjossey 8y ago
Sorry to tell you it won’t be. For context, I worked in the ad tech industry for almost five years, and my wife is a marketer. The article’s author wants it to be true, so the content is bent to try to paint a picture of how success can hap

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