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Hey. Sorry to hear this.

I have also been fired a bunch of times, and people describe interacting with me in the exact same way as you just described it.

Your brother is consistently going for the wrong kind of job, from the sound of it. Operations jobs.

I eventually succeeded when I switched to work that is more strategic and creative.

I got really into language learning, blogging, website building, and then just followed things forward.

I then eventually became head of marketing for two different startups.

And now I run a bootstrapped company that is exploding in growth. We’ll probably do $10m+ next year in revenue.

I pay people to take care of details while constantly explaining to them what my vision is.

I KNOW the feeling when you see people lose faith in you. You can literally see it in their eyes.

And I also - finally - know the opposite feeling. That of admiration and appreciation.

Please show this to your brother.

Maybe you’re not familiar with how correlation is reported, but 0.23-0.5 is very high.

Just a quick fyi - On the nose means something different.

I run a business. Our reach per post , on FB, is 30-40% of our followers.

The reason for this is we don’t just post 24-7 about how amazing we are.

We post 1-2x a week, and our followers genuinely like us and are fans of the business.

So… the changes on FB haven’t impacted all businesses in such a negative way.

Premierleague.com only fixed this issue around 2015-2016. I first noticed it in the early 2000s

Contrarian counterfactual myth

This is is an alternative theory that has gained traction in some contrarian quarters; but holds little weight.

The Soviets invaded territory that the Japanese held; and their actions did remove a possible pathway for Japan to stay in the war, sure.

However -

The US was the main game in the Pacific Theatre and their continuous, rolling campaign of victories - culminating in the bombs - was the primary cause of the end of the war.

This is the general consensus and has been revisited.. and revisited .. and revisited .. mostly by those with a primary motive of discrediting the US for using the bomb.

It’s easier to argue against the use of the bomb when you bluntly reject any positive outcomes; but first one must deal with reality. And the reality is not difficult to discern.

The Soviets invaded Manchuria, meanwhile the US had already taken actual Japanese territory.

While this absolutely made it much more difficult for the Japanese to allocate the resources needed to defend themselves on so many fronts, they were far more interested in defending their homeland than in keeping captured Chinese territory.

If you were to consider two counterfactuals -

- Soviets invade, bombs are not dropped - Soviets don’t invade, bombs are dropped

Only one of these still leads to surrender. Manchuria was a sideshow compared to the real game.

Editing to add -

If you want any further proof, just look at who the Japanese actually surrendered to. There is nothing in their culture (then or now) which would cause them to surrender to anyone besides their actual victor.

I work for an AI company.

And .. yeh .. the Chinese research is essentially our secret sauce.

This is understandable, but wouldn’t it also happen that the LP uses various signals to communicate to the VC that now’s a bad time?

Such as opening the small talk a Zoom call by saying ‘it’s been a very difficult month for us.’

There are very few VCs who won’t be influenced by a signal even as simple as this one.

Making up plausible sounding words for domain names is fairly simple.

A few methods -

- Take a common surname suffix and add a new prefix to it - Make up something that sounds vaguely Japanese, Scandinavian, Spanish etc and you pretty much always find something available - Take a word that already exists and change (or add) one or two letters

Admittedly the results of the above can border on the ludicrous but the idea is to come up with enough names to eliminate those.

*SOME authors expressed struggles and this made the news.

There are many, many successful authors. Some of them, it just flows. One of the best selling non fiction authors in the world over the last 10 years is a friend of mine. He doesn’t describe it as a struggle.

Quick comment on this. I also work for a seed level startup and we have gotten dozens of Fortune 500s, plus most of the big accounting, auditing and consulting firms.

The reason this is possible for us is because our tech isn’t mission critical for them.

I doubt the CEOs/CXOs of any of these companies even know we exist.

We’ve just been fortunate that a lot of ops teams in these companies need our thing.

So - that has really changed my paradigm of enterprise sales.

Sometimes, if you’re SAP, you need to get whole of company buy-in. But if you’re SurveyMonkey, you don’t