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The only reason to accept the negatives of working at a startup (stress, below market remuneration, workload) is the potential upside (rapid growth and an eventual liquidity event).

If the startup is contracting, it sounds like the only potential upside has disappeared. I’ve been in a similar situation before and made the mistake of sticking around, to the detriment of my physical, mental and financial health. Obviously businesses pivot and turn around, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. Most startups fail, and if your startup is starting to falter, I’d say it’s about to prove the rule.

I’ll give you the advice I wish I had:

Run. Start interviewing like crazy and get another job. Good luck.

Ha! Too perfect

This reply is cringe

I think it's the right strategy for Apple.

They're not a model company. The risks of deploying something half-baked to their users is unacceptable. They're taking it slow and trying to do it in a way that doesn't damage/erode their brand.

Wait it out, let the best model(s) rise to the surface (and the hallucination problems to get sufficiently mitigated), and then either partner with a proprietary provider or deploy one of the open source models. Makes more sense than burning billions of dollars training a new foundation model

All legal docs pages seem broken (at least on mobile).

I’m your target customer but would never use this because it inspires no confidence that when the shit hits the fan (ie: contract dispute) your signing tool will stand up to legal scrutiny. The sales page is all about being cheap and mobile responsive, but it doesn’t mention anything about the legality of document signatures processed through the tool, or the data security/privacy standards you uphold.

I had similar RSI issues a couple years ago and explored text to speech as an option, but the solutions at the time were clunky and inaccurate. I gave up and went with more practical solutions (yoga, working less, using a split keyboard). I’m sure with the recent developments in LLMs and speech models the situation is much different now. I’ll have to check this out

DOTS is effective for TB because it’s a time-limited treatment (usually 4 months for drug susceptible strains of TB) and is only relevant for treating infected individuals

DOTS wouldn’t be feasible for a prophylactic treatment like this as the number of participants would be huge and the treatment period is indefinite (ie: the patient’s lifespan)

I've been surprised by the number of companies adopting nextjs as their defacto framework without concern for the uncomfortable reality that the framework is built to be hosted on vercel with self hosting largely supported as an afterthought. It's great that opennext exists, but it really shouldn't _have_ to exist (as I believe some of the maintainers have publicly stated)

The basic outline of this post isn’t bad, the problem is that’s all there is - a basic outline. If you haven’t dealt with these problems before the checklists are meaningless. If you HAVE dealt with these problems before the checklists are redundant