Blakestr

No one has really mentioned mindfulness (the "muscle" or "skill" grown by the exercise of meditation)

It seems like the real question in this thread is "How do I avoid being distracted" more than anything else.

The best analogy I can give you is a good state of mindfulness is like a really strong windows task manager. You can actually see the processes of your mind, like thoughts popping up and begin to take up system resources. If you are mindful you can see this with much more clarity than if you don't have a meditation practice. With the clarity gives the side-effect of "control"

Basically alphabetical order, but if you don't say lexicographical, it doesn't sound as smart. (I am assuming it's a more comprehensive term, having to do with other characters, other than simple letters, so that if integers were used, it would appear as 1234, where saying "in alphabetical order"doesn't make sense. But yeah, I did a double take.

Interesting take. I'm also a huge carnivore, to me there's nothing better than a rare ribeye or filet. It's going to be interesting to see how the synthetic meat movement develops. If they could "print/grow" filet mignon's and at a "frozen burger price," I feel like I'd be happy to switch.

Here is the high-level break down I plan to provide. Again, high level makes me think it should be pretty brief, considering the amounts:

Salary 127,500 Hardware/demo equip 20000 Software Assets 7500 Consultants/Tech Support 10000 Conference Exhibits x 2 10000

Total Request Amount 175,000

*this lines up just fine in excel/email draft

People confuse the term meditation and mindfulness. Maybe like development vs programming.

Mindfulness is what has been spreading, but usually it is intoduced as meditation.

I didn't downvote but I can't imagine someone vomiting by simple guided mindfulness exercise. Telling someone to "focus on your breathing" or "if you find your distracted by thoughts, just be aware of those thoughts, and return to your breathing" doesn't strike me as very invasive.

Spending time trying to convince investors of what I already know and just building the damn thing without them.

Piggybacking on this (slight point on semantics but still important in terms of framing the discussion)

Don't tell them, SHOW them. The advice about displaying all of those things, almost like metrics or hitting a benchmarks is key.

There is some obvious psychology at play here - for some bosses it might be more effective to present everything in one fell swoop so you build an ironclad case with no room to argue. Another might be to either build up this proof over a course of a few weeks and mention another point and another project. With deeply held beliefs, it takes time to change one's mind and seems like a rare thing to convert someone instantly. (The question is here, how deeply does the boss believe OP does NOT deserve a promotion)

Another critical point is the company structure and finance. Is there bureaucracy the limiting fact and there simply isn't an open position? Or is the company small enough they can simply make one? To me this would be the biggest obstacle to find a way around/through.

My wife is an attorney at an appellate court and tells me she doesn't think a high majority of judges even know what a PDF is.

I'm guessing this patent is put there to give a big company like Facebook some basic legal framework to flex their muscles if ever needed; but I can't see this being enforced very easily. Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part though.

Webinars are a big thing and most users get invited to many of them, however, usually there is no interaction. If there is a chance to ask a question, it is usually confined to some VIP's who are involved in the webinars themselves.

I think Google just makes things just in case it magically goes viral. But in this case, you're going to have to make this grow by targeting the right customers.

You could also partner with a company that has PowerPoint libraries and offer this type of service to extend their functionality. (I guess they COULD copy some aspect of it as well but that's something else you'd need to plan for in any case) In the fire service we use target solutions (aka target slavery) , which is essentially a platform that lets users upload powerpoints as part of a training library. But there is NO interactivity, you are lucky to get survey monkey at the end.

40 hours has been historically used to determine full-time status (and full-time benefits) like health insurance. It's one of the reasons I think this schedule is so hard to get away from.