texasbigdata

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Tech enabled finance transformation.

Former investment banker, and small company CFO.

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Comment · 8 days ago
Politely, “$29,988” and its not clear what the value add is? Not poking in you the eye, maybe prompting you to showcase the product more.

This is kinda in my wheel house as both practitioner and buyer (CFO and now looking to OSS contribute to Ossie after many years of dbt cool aid).

Your prompt says you can connect. Cool, table stakes then what? Explore/model/your other claims, can you deliver that? A semantic / ontological layer you just do that for me after I click connect? What if I have a partial Fabric implementation do your port it over?

If yes, (sorry this tone is a bit harsh but trying to be helpful), how exactly do you understand my business to define these metrics?

On top for $20k, when I can reverse engineer your cost base (my cruelest analysis you YOLO into some SQL over parquet and cheap storage back there, how would I know?) what am I getting? Alternatively and this might be easier, dont justify the $20k, what spend does the $20k avoid! As CFO that would get interest. Do you replace a big league $150k stack of fancy vendors where their enterprise customer acquisition cost is your entire license and bc you can (it seems? Taking you at your word/marketing) basically self serve, youre wedging yourself in into this awesome cost driven product advantage. Now thats mega.

Not sure it that helps but you wanted an opinionated view, def provided you that. Good luck! :)

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Can’t read: paywall & scamwall. At least don’t bury the lead, is it 4 / 15, or 11/15?
Comment · 4 months ago
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Comment · 10 months ago
The clinical American definition is 14 servings per week for men and 7 for women.

Personally, I was what you call a dipsomaniac. Colloquially that is called a binge drinker. I drank 4 to 9 days at a time from morning to night (and night time) without a break. Luckily I only drank like this 7 times in 4 years but I almost died in my last binge.

We see alcoholics of all kind in AA: frequent and a lot, infrequent and a lot, and frequent and little. The frequent and little are the hardest to crack because they have the hardest time with step 1. Now step one is actually comprised of two components: realizing you have a problem (easy for me) and also admitting you were not in control of your own life anymore (hard for me). Its only through doing the 12 step work really arduously, going to meetings and having a great sponsor that I was able to change enough to where drinking no longer ran my life.

Comment · 10 months ago
Alcoholic here.

In my AA we say that alcoholism is a chronic disease. The same as (some forms) of diabetes, you don’t just get rid if it. Its something you can manage but not cure. It lies dormant inside of you the rest of your life.

My mentor (highly successful and 30 years sober) said it nicely: he has an angry tiger inside of him thats trapped inside a cage. One that will surely eat him if it gets out. His job is to keep the tiger in the cage.

Thats what it feels like. Every day. The cravings go down, the thoughts, etc. Self control improves. But the danger lies dormant for us.

Comment · 1 year ago
All caps gang loud and clear.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would consider myself borderline expert at this.

Are you rich?

If yes: https://exxentric.com/products/kbox/ + https://saga.fitness/products/the-bfr-cuffs

Are you budget conscious? Adjustable: (any brand is fine) https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/bowflex-selecttech-552-...

+

Find a way to deadlift and squat and bench: https://www.titan.fitness/ If you can splurge would _strongly_ recommend a belt squat that pulls you from underneath and does not create spinal tension.

Good luck!!!

Comment · 3 years ago
I BFR. It's fine.

We're bike shedding now. If you want to get big, easy enough to do.

Comment · 3 years ago
That’s literally how science works?

Hypertrophy has largely been settled and the main mechanisms and science underneath are well known by now. Call is post-2017.

Source: up 40lb of Dexa scan muscle from 2014-2023, at 15lb greater body weight.

Not rocket science. Strongly recommend Renaissance Periodization (the hundred of hours of lectures on YouTube if that’s your thing, the two main textbooks, the training templates, the meal books, or the meal apps) as a potential vendor if you’re on the simultaneously on the brainier/geekier and more ambitious to reach intermediate or further side of humans.

Comment · 3 years ago
Pavlo has multiple series depending on your level of understanding. His advanced lectures are particularly satisfying as well as his interview series.
Comment · 3 years ago
Also an old express user with “find close to free vpn” on my todo list today!! Thank you kind stranger
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe this maybe might be due to YouTube being able to interject 2 advertisements on videos surpassing ~7 minutes in length and “engagement” (not clicking out) being a potential metric related to monetization.

If you can get the headline click with 30 seconds worth of insight, then your payday is related to padding to get to the appropriate length. Imho

Comment · 3 years ago
EV, enterprise value?

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