willart4food

Secret to writing: 200 crappy words per day.

It was the year 1999, remember that? I was working at a startup and we were preparing to IPO. I got a cold call from a - I kid you not - "Color Consultant"; I don't know why but I listened to her instead of hanging up, her spiel was:

"Do you know [Inser name of recent IPO]? Well they hired me and I changed the color of their corporate identity from Black on Green to Green on Black; well 4 months later they IPO's raising $250 million at a $1+ billion-dollar valuation".

WUT?

Her implication was that she was taking credit for the successful IPO.

So, there it is.

I am not saying that April's contribution was not useful, but... everything in a long process is useful, but not 1 single contribution is responsible for the entire (or majority) of success. Except for grit!

#RAD #MVP

Good idea, even better implementation.

I grew up in the outskirts of Portland OR. I've lived in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Milano and NYC.

NYC is my place to be.

This is an issued that existed before COVID-19, more so now.

Here's the thing: what prevents someone from moving after taking a job that allows for "remote work"? And - more importantly - what would be the repercussions should someone be found out?

My guess is that the risk is worth the money.

#RAD

r/entrapment

You need to lower your standards, lowering the bar is key to happines.

1/2 joking

> "Imagine, for Thanksgiving, you go to your parents' for dinner and after a nice dinner they say, 'That's going to be $10 per person,' " Simonsohn says. "You would be upset."

LOL, my first ex-wife's mother would charge $40/person for hosting the mandatory Thanksgiving dinner, after people also contributed in the way of co-ordinated sides, fixings, beverages.

By the way, $40/person in the 90's.

And no she was not poor, and nobody in the family was flush with cash.

Without revealing toomuch:

What industry are you in?

Are you concentrated in 1 geo location or... across USA / across 1 county / global?

Have the lawyers been paid?

Depends where you are, more specifically the condition of the lines. I used to live in Boston's suburbia and had Comcast/Xfinity as the only provider. Lines were old and very far away from their CO, so .. many issues. I opted for renting they $5 then $7 then $10 then $12/month cable modem so when I call for tech support they would not blame the problem on CPE.

Now I am in NYC and Spectum/TWC works great in my building (orders of magnitudes better than Comcast), I have the free cable modem but I opted out of the $5/month wi-fi and got myself a $55 ASUS AC1900 router (refurbished) and it worked just great!

> "...Thank you for letting us know how we can do better. We will update our marketing materials, as well as provide more information about SMR technology, including benchmarks and ideal use cases."

I'd love to see the CEO read that with a straight face.