wildmindwriting
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Comment · 5 years ago
I did an 83b when stock options were granted since I was a very early employee. Paid $30 for 30,000 shares, which then went through a 10-to-1 split, so I had 300,000 shares. But, in the end, we went bankrupt and I received nothing. Wasn't out any real money and the experience alone was worth it.
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
I write about personal things, fiction writing, and tech over at https://www.wildmind.io. It's been a minute since my last post because new job, new city...
Also built in Hugo and deployed to Netlify. I keep going back and forth rebuilding it using Pelican or Nuxt.js; it's hard for me to leave well enough alone.
Comment · 7 years ago
I believe in being careful with words, for sure, but having to modify and monitor every piece of publicly accessible content because it may be triggering or aggressive is just too much. I feel like I must mention that I am a left-wing, very liberal woman but I disagree with the culture we seem to have created where we must talk softly around the issues for fear of offending someone.
We, as a people, must be able to accept criticism and learn to live with hardship. The world isn't a bunch of unicorns and marshmallows. Life can be hard and the more resilient you are, the better you'll be able to deal with those hardships. You're not going to strengthen and grow as a person if everyone around you kowtows for fear of upsetting you.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think this is often what Gary Vee is misjudged on. I've listened to more than a few of his talks, read his books, and find his message is that you should throw your all in, if that's what you want. If you want to have your Saturdays with your kids, go do that. Matt D'Avella had an interview with Gary Vee that acknowledges this. He seems to be very much about living your own life and not subscribing to the hype.
"Are you doing something you enjoy to do? Happiness and fulfillment has to become a much bigger part of the conversation than financial upside. I'm always very hurt when people think that I'm pushing hustle and too much work."[1]
Comment · 7 years ago
I switched because I've done a lot of WordPress development over the years and I wanted to learn something else. Liking it better is because it's a far simpler set-up for me: no database, write in the terminal, don't have to worry about comments or malicious log-in attempts. WordPress is great, don't get me wrong, but using the same platform became boring for me.
Comment · 7 years ago
What a lovely comment to read. Thank you! Netlify has taken the pain of maintaining a server away.
Comment · 7 years ago
You know, I've been using the Bitbucket & Netlify ecosystem for my Wild Mind[1] website for a little over a year. I moved from a self-install of WordPress on Digital Ocean to the Victor Hugo[2] boilerplate and then used my own theme. It's been an absolute joy to build with and I've actually been excited to continue to write because the friction to doing so is largely gone. Really can't recommend Netlify or Hugo enough.
[2]: https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo
Edit: formatting
Comment · 7 years ago
Does this not imply that your "way" is the "correct way"? As frustrating as teams, peers, and different stakeholders are, they make the thing we are building better. Yes, group think doesn't produce the best results but it is no worse than someone building something in solitude without outside input.
Comment · 7 years ago
I like your site design (and the most recent article), particularly the side/margin notes. I had done a similar thing on a previous incarnation of my own site but eventually decided to keep them in the footnotes section so that the focus would be kept on the essay. But seeing them here makes me rethink that decision.
I am slowly working my way through Web Typography by Richard Rutter (http://www.book.webtypography.net/) as I redesign my website. You may find it helpful as well. Another inspiration is Craig Mod's (https://craigmod.com) site (of which I took more than a few suggestions from).
Looking forward to reading your other articles! Good luck with the writing practice.
Edit: Change 'first article' to 'most recent article'.
Comment · 7 years ago
I also work in Boston and have done so since 2010. My experience has been the same as yours. A little over 15 years of experience, worked at a fairly well-known Boston startup, now in a VP level at a digital agency and I was also shocked at the kind of salaries indicated here. I don't feel I could command $180,000 in Boston even with all my experience.
You're not doing anything wrong. I just don't think Boston pays these kind of salaries (yet). We've got a burgeoning tech scene here but compensation isn't at the same level. When I was looking to relocate back to Denver a few years ago, Boston salaries were much higher than what I was seeing out there.
Comment · 7 years ago
Personally, I do hope you are right and that the direction this country is moving toward a more egalitarian society where a pre-existing condition doesn't mean a death sentence and that we have social programs in place in order to support a base level of retirement. Yet I also fear that me living in a liberal, leftist bubble (living in Boston, working with Democratic candidates, working in tech) prevents me from seeing what other people feel and think. Watching Fox News or Tucker Carlson opens one's eyes about what kind of "news" other people are ingesting.
Comment · 7 years ago
> It is clear to me that 2020 or later there will be a more socialist America, whether the Americans like it or not. And that could be good for America.
I'm not entirely sure. We (I'm American) have an attitude of what befalls a person is because of the decisions they made. We have a very "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and anything that costs one person money to help another is a non-starter. Look at the Affordable Care Act right now. America is an individualistic society.
Comment · 7 years ago
I have also found this to be the case too. Most people would rather have a GUI before even touching the command line. Most notably is Git; every single one of my developers use Sourcetree and if I have to help them with something, I always have to pop open the terminal. It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm only on the fourth video so far in his class but already I'm finding it useful, if for nothing other than having validation that it's okay to write the kind of stories you want to write. It's also quite interesting to hear the backstory to some of his books. If the first four videos are any indication, I suspect the rest of the course will be well worth it.