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I love that they share product names between cycling and fishing (e.g. the mid-priced range of reels and cycling groupsets are 'Ultegra')

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.

* Take a low margin, fragmented industry littered with failed businesses

* Then take some cheap but kind of profitable behavior in that industry (take local delivery over phone, send your lowest paid kitchen staffer to run it)

* Then layer on some of the most expensive labor on the planet (devs, PMs, tech company workers) to build a replacement for that behavior

* Then treat your lowest paid workers poorly, attracting regulatory scrutiny

The person we saw was a master of science in physical therapy, and specialized in/had personal experience with concussion rehab. They were based near a ski mountain, and thus a stream of athletes getting concussed regularly.

If you aren't near any skiing, I'd seek out sports medicine/physical therapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes. Mountain bikers, cyclists, maybe football/rugby, etc.

Unfortunately I don't know anything online, but I would suggest seeking out sports medicine/physiotherapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes (snow sports, mountain biking, etc). Good luck!

My partner had a concussion many years ago, it was an eye-opening experience.

After months of mostly-useless conversations with doctors, neurologists, etc, we visited a sports medicine specialist who worked with snowboarders, skiers, etc, people who get concussions frequently.

The way the specialist described common concussion symptoms was really interesting: Effectively, your brain finds balance by using a combination of sight, touch (feet), and your inner ear. A concussion can impact the inner ear part of that equation, so your brain is overly reliant on sight and touch to compensate. This can cause all kinds of common concussion symptoms: Dizziness, sensitivity to screen time, etc.

Anyways, after giving us the rundown my partner was prompted to do a few simple exercises to test concussion symptoms. One of them was to stand on one leg and track a moving pen with her eyes. She'd done OK on some of the previous exercises but this one took her out, she lasted maybe 5 seconds and was completely exhausted and dizzy for the rest of the day because of it.

We ended up with a physical-therapy-like balance exercise plan that she stuck to regularly for a few months, and it ended up getting her to complete recovery.

Another one:

> He told me to go to the FTC home page and look up the main phone number. “Now hang up the phone, and I will call you from that number right now.” I did as he said. The FTC number flashed on my screen, and I picked up. “How do I know you’re not just spoofing this?” I asked.

> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”

Completely insane that we continue to allow caller ID and number spoofing, it's so effective for these fraud scenarios.

Don’t forget the kicker, that IAP at the time was unable to support more than a few thousand SKUs! And (iirc) that pricing, naming, etc for everything would’ve needed to be done through their atrocious web app.

Not exactly doable for the ‘everything store’.