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by wkirby 2y ago
Even if that’s what they mean (and I agree, that’s plausible, though not obvious) it’s still an asinine statement in the context of their broader thesis: advancements in generative AI are going to power the rise of the solopreneur. In absol
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by wkirby 2y ago
Depends on if you think AI is more like a shovel or an excavator. The article to me implies a shovel: a tool used by one person to increase individual productivity. An excavator is not run by a single worker — it’s run by a team. If AI assi
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by wkirby 2y ago
> An engineer with AI tool can now outbuild a 100-person engineering team. What an insane statement. If the tooling improves that much the team of 100 will also improve. A worker with a shovel only outperforms the other workers if they’r
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by wkirby 2y ago
This is fun, but there's an amusing oxymoron embedded in needing an app on my phone to verify that I'm... not using my phone
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by wkirby 2y ago
They are within 1 inch of each other, which is fine with me. I haven’t measured in over a year, I know there’s still a strength imbalance but that’s not what feels limiting to me anymore.
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by wkirby 2y ago
For sure! Not to mention all the tendons and nerves. My recovery continues, as I’m sure yours does too — I’m back to my pre-injury PRs for most weight lifting, and my goal for this year is to match my pre-injury mile time. All things consid
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by wkirby 2y ago
I asked to have them removed because my physical therapist believed they were impinging on a nerve, preventing me from regaining mobility in my toes. They didn’t want to but I kept insisting.
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by wkirby 2y ago
I suffered a very similar break playing soccer. ER surgeon asked if I fell off a roof. 3 metal plates and 15 screws later I was non-weight bearing for 14 weeks. I lost almost 5 inches in circumference from my left thigh while waiting to put
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by wkirby 2y ago
Pod racing.
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by wkirby 2y ago
I don't enjoy basketball and I think the Vision Pro is a crazy stupid product --- but this does look cool as hell. Let me know when they make it work with a real sport.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Sublime is still great. I wish it had a tighter LSP integration — the plugin is decent, but individual language implementations are hit or miss. I sincerely appreciate that it has an old school fallback for languages that don’t have robust
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by wkirby 2y ago
Exactly. Replacing search with chatbots removes any opportunity to apply the media literacy I’ve spent decades learning. It gives every source the same sheen of correctness, making all information it gives essentially worthless.
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by wkirby 2y ago
I’m 36 and my new daughter (8 months) has helped me come out of my shell. It’s given me something to connect with other people about.
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by wkirby 2y ago
I made my first new friend in years simply by… asking. Struck up a conversation with a guy in line for coffee, on my way out of the cafe went up, gave him my number, said I was looking to make new friends. The world is more like the playgro
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by wkirby 2y ago
Best of luck to you. We spent the last 18 months trying to build and sell a contract management and esign tool for freelancers and agencies and we got almost universal feedback that it wasn’t needed. Hope your outcome is different than ours
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by wkirby 2y ago
I actually really appreciate this comment; our mistake, even after 10 years in business, was to assume "it'll be ok" instead of doing real, proper due diligence on client-provided terms. An easy mistake for small agencies whe
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by wkirby 2y ago
I think your underestimating the slowdown that will happen if we have to involve the client's legal team in addition to the accounts payable team.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Let me answer: * Invoices were delivered semi-monthly on NET60 terms. The unpaid invoices (many of our invoices prior to these were paid) run from March to June. The first invoices lapsed into unpaid status in May, when we first raised the
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by wkirby 2y ago
The project was for a fixed term which has ended. All deliverables are delivered and accepted. "Enforcing the contract" would mean termination, which is meaningless in this context. In theory we could sue for our money, but the im
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by wkirby 2y ago
The power imbalance between us — a 7-person agency — and them — a multinational publicly traded company — is immense. The dollar amount in question is outside the realm of small claims court, which means that we'd end up in actual co
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by wkirby 2y ago
The escalation without specific terms is to terminate the contract — which has already ended.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Solid advice, and one of the many unfruitful avenues we've already followed. Thanks for reading!
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One of our clients hasn't paid us $130k – or "Why Every Contract Clause Matters"(apsis.io)
36 points by wkirby 2y ago|43 comments
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by wkirby 2y ago
Thanks, appreciate it!
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by wkirby 2y ago
Hi HN. We said goodbye to a great client recently, and I decided to write up some of our thoughts on how to say goodbye, and our ethos of being easy to fire. Feedback is always welcome!
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Be Easy to Fire(apsis.io)
6 points by wkirby 2y ago|3 comments
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by wkirby 2y ago
Cosmic crisp is the truth.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Thank you for a real answer.
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by wkirby 2y ago
I have a bike, I love it. I also have a 7-month old daughter and live in small-town New England — a car is non-negotiable because of a century of choices about the built environment.
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by wkirby 2y ago
This is a fair point except I live in small-town New England. You think there’s transit? There’s not even a sidewalk.

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