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Choosing what the keep and what to innovate is still choice. The beginning was imposed but they took it from there and made it work.

Would love to hear more about what you are looking for, my email is cswart [at] outlook.com

Your son's insecurity is being preyed upon

Getting the iPhone isn't a solution. Building up your son's confidence and capability will arm him against bullies and internal insecurities.

To build these up I did martial arts as a teen and it helped me a lot.

Caving to peer pressure is not a position of strength.

On the other hand it can also be the case your son wants an iPhone. In this case good to chat with him.

If you organise yourself you can make an impact a group of 50-100 is easy to build and can achieve a lot. Once you build a group it's easier to network as well. This takes a lot of time and effort for 5-10 years. Don't defeat your voice, fight cynicism.

Most social media doesn't like links off-site. Posting the blog post as a Reddit post works better.

Completely agree books keep me sane from digital overload.

Stop eating anything with white sugar added to it and limit added sugar.

Re 20% more stranger interactions it depends on how you handle the interactions. I am open to chatting with strangers but if they are annoying I am also happy to share that with them.

I recommend you read Spark, I think exercise as a valid treatment for a number of mental health conditions is a good hypothesis worth exploring and experimenting.

I wouldn't take the results for granted either but I think it can be worth it to test it on yourself.

You seem to know a lot about EU VAT,can you recommend any companies, toools, or resources to learn more?

What public speaking club is it? Around me toastmasters and more exclusive university clubs are the only options

Sure but it's less fun to be a refactor assistant full time

What do you think are the key working from home skills? For some roles such as sales and marketing I can definitely see the challenges with working remotely.

Would love to know more. What project was it? Did you contribute wanting a job or was interested any way? Did you get a job through this strategy?

Could you share some examples of what you liked about it? I struggle with reading tech books when I am not sure what I can get out of them

VS Code Liveshare sessions allow you to join your colleague's VS Code to do an over the shoulder code review. Really recommend it for pairing and for some code reviews.

Pycharm also has a similar service if you use Pycharm.

Beyond the contractor solution you could go for a Place of Employment (POE) solution like remote.com or Deel. The POE would employ you and ensure the tax and employment liabilities are taken care of.

If you are interested to learn more you can email me at chriss [at] comtura.ai or happy to answer any questions here!

Updating Salesforce on a Friday afternoon is not fun. Salesforce hygiene is a real challenge for most companies.

So, we take transcription and use it to empower the reps to update salesforce to fix this (Comtura.ai). One of the things we noticed from user interviews was that they'd actually just be ctrl + F'ing through gong or zoom transcripts to find the right information.

Whilst the overlay (Dooly/SP) is something we offer. We actually find that most usage comes from just the "notepad" feature.

Reps who handwrote notes had to duplicate it into salesforce, those that typed notes (bad demo practise because you just piss off your prospect with tip tapping + it doesnt support your memory like handwriting does, fun fact!)

hence we started working on this problem.

If you would like to try it out by all means go for it (contact@comtura.ai)

This is Chris, Comtura co-founder.

We aren't a Gong competitor, we also integrate with Gong ourselves.

Gong does provide a Salesforce integration. We interviewed 10 users of this feature who mostly ended up copy pasting parts of the transcript into Salesforce.

Key differences between the Gong Salesforce integration and Comtura: 1. Beyond Gong we also support Zoom and Microsoft Teams 2. We have built specific machine learning models translating between transcripts and CRM records while Gong has been focusing on highlighting coachable moments in transcripts

This is Chris, co-founder of Comtura.

Fathom allows you to leave bookmarks in parts of Zoom calls and push information based on these bookmarks.

Comtura makes suggestions based on what our AI thinks you should put in Salesforce. We also integrate with more WebEx solutions such as Zoom, MS Teams, Gong.

Shameless self promototion at comtura.ai we are working on 3.

With Comtura we plug into call transcriptions and recommend conversational suggestions to push the customer's voice into Salesforce.

We have come across so many companies spending hundreds of thousands on Salesforce data entry with very poor quality data captured. This also results in sales management potentially spending 8h a week just watching Gong recordings to understand their pipeline.

I am Chris, one of the cofounders of Comtura if you are interested to learn more about we do email me at chriss[at]comtura.ai

We used to do this with flatmates with dinner duty. One of us would cook dinner every night for the whole flat based on a rota. We were 5 people and all pretty close so that definitely helped!

Could you post release notes on Twitter and on your blog? That way users knew that the product is still currently supported

Well it's a last resort but pretty effective due to bad PR and costs

How did you get in the habit of walking 8km a day working remotely? I hope your example can motivate me

Sounds awesome thanks for thinking about sharing your work!

I remember as a student money was tight towards the end of the year and had a budget of about 1.20 USD per meal for 2 month

It was not easy I rarely ate meat and only cheap meat at that. I still felt lucky as it was a temporary thing.

Going to try your approach. I think prioritisation and measuring impact are awesome skills to cultivate.

Hard to tax as it's easy to move across jurisdictions.