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Suffering with a very similar situation but from Facebook. This hyper growth companies don't give a shit about customer support. They let their AIs and Machine learning models do all the work, which inevitably flags healthy businesses.

Reminds me of collateral damage and kills in a war.

Gymnastic rings and Kettlebells, having so much fun working out with these two tools.

Gymnastic rings and kettlebells

I see you reject Shopify because of fees.

But if you take into account the engineers' salaries you'll have to pay, servers, having to be on call every time the site crashes, cost of not having a super optimized checkout, etc.

You'll realize that Shopify is an excellent candidate.

Let Shopify take care of the commerce part and focus on what really moves the needle: your product and marketing.

I made the original comment, and I think we see the world in a different way. This is how I see it:

Creating a business is a creative act. It involves logic and rationality as much as intuition and imagination.

I do think it's an expression of yourself, you're packing all you've learned into something that you think will be valuable to other people. Your personality is reflected in your product, so is your voice.

Ultimately it's up to the creator to treat their business however they seem best. If you want to be all about profits, good for you. If you want to explore ideas, try things and enjoy the creative process while slowly building revenue, also good.

I see a lot of comments criticizing your path and progress. Making remarks like "why didn't you stay at Google".

I applaud your decision, effort, and perseverance. I admire your risk taking and having skin in the game. Trying to make it out on your own.

People forget the journey is not just about the money. It's about learning, growing and bringing your ideas to life. Being an artist, and expressing yourself through products.

Keep on going my friend. There's no doubt you'll get there.

Very interesting that you point to a Meditation book (The Mind Illuminated) and a Stoic book (A Guide to the Good Life).

I've read both, and I like both philosophies. While they both share similarities (non attachment, living in the present), it seems that in Vipasana you wouldn't try to get rid of a bad thouhgt by using your rationality. You would just observe it.

While Stoicism demands engaging rationality to overcome the emotion or bad thought.

Have you thought on how to reconcile the two? This is something I've been pondering for a while.

The images are beautiful! I've always wanted to learn more about ray tracers. This is going to be an excellent resource!

I just installed it, it goes really well with my workflow. I love the fact that it looks like atom, awesome UI!!

Small business are on their knees. They are just surviving and living paycheck by paycheck. They sell whatever they get access too. Their profits are worth nothing in dollars (if they manage to have profits). An inflation projected to be 700% this year makes it extremely hard to survive, you need to adjust your prices every hour.

Nobody is doing well in Venezuela, except the corrupt people in the government who keep stealing money.