CedarMills

I have no more sympathy left for drug users after my wife was attacked in daylight in downtown Portland on the way to work. Enablement is not compassion.

Sucks for those who were affected but when Brex pivoted from small businesses to well funded startups and shut down 10s of thousands of accounts, I think the market lost all trust. Ramp & Mercury provide way more value now. Absolutely no reason to use Brex anymore.

Ah yes, the slipper slope. Let's be honest, librarians and educators have a ton of power and no oversight in indoctrinating children into the views that they want. Now that parents are challenging them, all of sudden, PEN America believes that parents should have no say on the material their kids read.

Everybody is a fascist because I'm challenged about my personal opinions.

The fight is with the parents vs. educators. They can't stand that parents have ability to choose what books their kids should (or shouldn't) read.

A lot of climate tech is bs unfortunately.

Not sure if troll or not but as you might know, there are different levels to Christianity. I'm not the kind of person to say all paths leads to Rome but I do believe that there are variables to a Christian life and every single person's journey will be different.

I really like your demo.

A question that always comes up when I see these "Heroku-like" replacements on top of AWS/GCP/Azure is who is the target user?

A couple years ago, you would have platform teams helping developers launch their stuff. Since then, AWS has tried to make things easier through services like App Runner. Nowadays, if you don't want to manage the instances yourself, you just use a managed service. Platform teams are essentially dead.

It's not 2016 anymore and developers should know how their code runs. Trying to "protect" them from infrastructure only hinders their pace long term.

I was an early Clubhouse user. The initial conversations were very beneficial and very interesting. Over time, as more people got access, it started to turn into virtue signaling sessions on one end and super wack conversations about crypto on the other. It basically turned into an audio version of Twitter. After a couple of months, I ended up deleting the application.

My wife uses Marco Polo a lot with her family. It's a great way for them to maintain an async conversation. I think for group no larger than five people, it makes a lot of sense.

Is social audio dead? No. I do think that the market size is definitely a lot smaller.

I almost wish they were in italics or something.

It's a great post with realities of war. Being focused on work is a great distraction as well. My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain?

It's one thing to ask for support for humanitarian aid purposes (such as fundraising to distribute food, helping someone's family get out, etc.), it's another to exploit the war to grow your business.

When the war started, I had numerous cold emails from Ukrainian businesses offering services (primarily outsourced marketing, design, software engineering) with the first paragraph containing emotionally charged, guilt-tripping statements. Those emails started to cause me to have some resentment and I marked them as junk. I will not be pushed to support a business that's trying to guilt trip me, regardless of what's happening.

War is bad, majority of world supports the Ukrainian side. I pray for the conflict to be over soon.

Normally I'd agree but knowing the damage that propaganda does - RT and any other Russian-government owned channels should be shutdown/"canceled".

For the last eight years, they've been riling up the Russian population with portraying Ukrainians as Nazis, barbarians, etc. It's gotten to the point now where they would make up fake stories (e.g. crucified boy). Right now, during the war - you literally can't call it a "war" or you might face being sentenced. If you share anything opposing the official view - you could get 15 years behind bars. Russian government has also forced all "opposition" media to shutdown in the last couple of days. Soon, they will annex themselves from the internet and the population will only have one source for news - the propaganda channels.

I made the mistake of paying myself too much after fundraising round and then too little in order to extend runway. Nothing is more stressful when you have less than three months of runway left and you have absolutely no saving and have a family and mortgage.

For my next startup, I will try to bootstrap as much as I can first, and then pay myself a livable salary so that I'm not distracted by looking for others sources of income / radically downgrading my lifestyle.