joeldidit

I agree. What a mistake they would be making to buy eBay. eBay's anti-innovation and stagnation-driven culture would kill everything dead.

This is no secret. Micromanagement, management, a lack of freedom, inability to trust co-workers (can't collaborate with them), inability to speak freely, out of control deadlines, etc..

AngularJS, SCSS, Python or PHP, Memcache, SQL database (MongoDB where needed).

For entrepreneurial success you need to deliver something many people (or a few people who will pay a lot) want.. in the way they want it.. when they want it. If you figure out what that thing is, then it's all about doing it (or presenting it) well enough for them to want it, then getting it to them. There is no entrepreneurial success if you don't deliver what they want.

1. Find out what they want.

2. Find a way to get/make it at a cheaper price than you'll charge for it.

3. Ensure that the product is good enough to be desired.

4. Get the product in front of those people that want it.

5. Sell, sell, sell.

5a. If the product is good enough, then you will mainly be eliminating fear, uncertainty, and doubt, because the product will sell itself.

6. Profit.

Sure. Would be a progressive move. It may end up being up to you to ensure that you get the advisors and advice you'd need.

Read more, read more things that make you think and that wow you, learn new skills, expose yourself to new forms of expression, meditate, try nootropics (Cerebrolysin, noopept, pramiracetam, etc), push your boundaries, watch videos on YouTube.

What? Stop hiring the person, hire the resume.

The question is why. I doubt Steve Jobs was that important (especially near the end where it looked like he was losing control of the company). Do you mean to tell me that none of the executives that were pining for more power and to have things done their way shared the vision for an "innovation first" culture? Are they really all that backward and stupid? Very strange.

I'm obsessed with being the sole founder at my future company. Granted, I'm looking to create a lifestyle business, but hopefully it will all work out.

...yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, that's why.

Not!

This is BS.

I saw more than her attractiveness (and I don't think she is, which is clearly all you gathered from what I wrote) when I looked at her. I just saw someone with nothing special going for her. Vote me down into oblivion, I just don't see why people still fall for this BS.

If this person did for me what that drummer did for you, then I wouldn't have said what I said. More importantly, if I perceived that this person was generally perceived to be like the drummer you mentioned above, then I would have said something else. What I perceived was something closer to the lead singer you mentioned, but minus the good looks (though I'm sure this woman is attractive to some group): kinda blah.

Of course it can. Not generally the case, but sometimes it's just that simple. Especially if you've been around similar before.

If not that, then you can tell by the fact that she jumped into bed with a married man. And having messed around with another exec, it doesn't take much to see what's going on here.

Seen her pic. She's not all that. How strange.

That means you recognize success, not talent, which is the case for most people. Most people see success, success on top of success, and the ability of someone to string the right words together, not whether they are talented or not.

Managers are a necessary component of any sizable enough team, sure. The problem these days is that middle management doesn't really do it's job, and instead does the opposite by imposing their will and by getting in the way as they fight to maintain territory and climb the ladder themselves. It only takes a short while before middle management becomes this corrupt and worthless layer, especially if you hire them from the outside (already corrupted). Middle management also tends to suck due to lack of training and due to conversion from an individual contributor to manager being seen as a promotion and a path to executive leadership. The skills required of a manager and those required of someone in an individual contributor role are usually very different, and also the skills required of an exec are different from those required of a manager, so what's present are three separate paths that should be prepared for and climbed separately, but that often gets lumped together.

Better training would yield better middle management, so would a breaking out of this long held notion of territory and holding your employees down. I'm almost convinced that all managers care about are climbing the ladder, holding their employees back (to not lose them, to not have to deal with a threat of someone better, and to be able to take credit for everything the employee produces), buffering against lawsuits, and protecting their territory. That's it.

Sure there are some common threads among all career paths, but that is to be expected. The problem is that the individual contributor to middle manager role change isn't a promotion but a career change, and so is the change from middle manager to executive.

It's also a shame, because by the time most individual contributors are done climbing through the middle management ranks whatever energy, passion, naive ambition, and leadership ability they had is probably long gone (beaten out of them), and what's left is nothing more than the same old thing. This is especially bad if they also had grand visions of what the future could be, but by the time they are done climbing the ranks, they are just another bean counter looking for the next headcount trimming and for a way to meet this quarter's goals at the expense of the long term.

It's always easy to tell what happened to the good players that got beaten down while climbing the ranks, because the originally corrupted will play that good guy's misfortune as though it happened to them. They just love taking what they've done to other people, then playing it back as though it happened to them, not other people. Just listen to the excuses and "sob stories" of a corrupted management, and you'll get a good idea of what they'll do to you if you enter the race with any form of talent, potential, or ambition.

There should be a path for those that want to remain individual contributors, for those that want to be middle managers, and for those that want to end up in a leadership/executive role straight out of school. I understand the lack of incentives that a split among these roles would create (who would want to just be a middle manager with no path to senior leadership?), but that's something to be worked through. Someone can leave the individual contributor ladder and begin on any of the other ladders, but they should understand that this is a career/direction change and not a promotion. This animal needs to be turned on it's head.

And since there isn't one, anyone becoming a manager against their will, or as a stepping stone to executive leadership, needs to keep in mind and constantly remind themselves of what their true ambitions are, because if they don't, then after 8 or so years in middle management, they'll become absolutely worthless and probably corrupt. They also have to fight to hold on to their ability to craft a cohesive vision and making it happen, instead of mismanaging the ambition/vision of their superiors, because otherwise, they'll be ass out pulling the same dubious shit other worthless executives pull, and they'll be beating down star employees (to protect their own skin), rather than creating an environment in which they can get out of the way, and let those employees flourish.

It's simple. They are rotten to the core and showed there was no limit to how low they'd go to rise to the top. They also kissed a lot of ass, and played on the stupidity of those around them.

Remember to do your part to stem the tide of this phenomenon by not hiring or promoting these idiots. Not just the people you dislike, but people who are genuinely like this. If you stop promoting them, then they'll go away.

The power is yours.

I don't know if they are underrated, but you'll probably hear even more about Stripe. They'll either make it, or get stomped out by the big players.

I've been hearing a bit about Colorado, so maybe you'll find something there. Boston has also usually been a hub for these sorts of things.

Maybe now they'll stop harassing me.

Actually, not just a botched trip, but any trip. Don't do it.

Stupid. A botched LSD trip may leave you permanently paranoid and insane. Psilocybin is as far as anyone should go for "good mental health." There are better ways.

Done.

Title: "HN -- Resume from joeldidit"

I've applied there, but you kept ignoring me. Good background (3 years full-stack at good companies), but I have been out of the game for almost 3 years due to illness. Can't believe that's enough to end it.

As employee number 1 ask for 2-5%. Or more.

Pramiracetam every other day. Brainwave Entrainment (search for Neuro-Programmer 3) with affirmations.

The fact that this has to happen to have content rise to the top is a bug, and it needs to be fixed. It's understandable that many people won't visit the "new" page, and that most consumers don't upvote, but that doesn't mean that something shouldn't be done about it. Maybe 10% of posts on the front page (random placement) should be new content being given a chance to be voted up. Maybe those submissions could also be marked in some way, so it's clear why they are shown (but only if doing so won't cause people to ignore those submissions).

C was trivial to learn, don't listen to them. I learnt that first, and it made learning other languages easy (most popular languages are modeled after C). Mobile is a hot market, so it'd be good to learn Objective C. Also, Javascript is another popular one. Then I hear talk of learning Haskell and Lisp "just because," but I don't do anything "just because."

Ask a lot of people. Ask them about their daily frustrations. Ask them to share what they think the big problems of the world are. Post on forums online, go into chat rooms, etc.

I do not. Pick a market you think you can etch out a place in, then go for it. Sure, do some preliminary testing to ensure you're not wasting your time, but that's it. Every market is ripe for disruption, save the few that have "crime lords" at the top working overtime to destroy everything that tries to take their throne.

Sure, you probably won't be the next celebrity musician or television personality or Mark Zuckerberg or billion dollar startup founder, but that's what they tell everyone and then someone does it anyway. If you never try, then that someone will never be you.

The only trick is to find a market for the product you are offering (the market doesn't even have to exist, if you have tested the waters and are sure that when people see your product they'll think, "I didn't know I wanted that until I saw it"), then deliver what that market wants. Once the product is done and is what the market is looking for, it's all about getting the product in front of those users and making a compelling case for them needing what you are offering. And at that point, if you've done your job well, the product will sell itself.