Yeup. Interesting how the older LED bulbs are particularly bad for this (and in the UK, at 50Hz). More modern high quality ones seem significantly better.
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Folks who did their PhDs about the same time as me, and progressed through a couple of postdoc positions, are variously: science teachers, data scientists, product managers, quants, environmental analysts, software engineers, hardware engineers and industrial scientists.
In the UK, fewer than one in ten astronomers who take a first astronomy job post-PhD (usually called a postdoc) progress to a permanent faculty position. Those that do make the journey typically take about a decade and three to four fixed-term positions to get there.
For full disclosure he's a friend of mine, but the book is a gripping read.
How would you barter between product development and sales?
How about if the sales person worked a day a week but closed ten times as many sales as the full time dev?
What if you got a co-founder who investors trusted from prior experience that drove them to actually invest?
How about someone leaving college versus someone who could earn several $100k on the open market?
Apparently[1] teams tend to do better than loan founders, and ultimately whatever you put together has to be tuned to what would motivate the other members of the team to stick around as long as you need them to in order that value is created. I don't believe there is a cookie cutter that fits.
[1] Somewhere in Disciplined Entreprenuership, Bill Autlet, MIT
There are a few exceptions in more human measurements - beer is measured in pints, burgers and steaks in ounces, distances on roads in miles and personal dimensions in feet and inches, barleycorns and stones.