mguerville

That was my experience as well trying to pivot into AE from the PM/Strategy role, I was very quickly humbled and finally understood why even some technically inept people can be successful AEs

I collect memorabilia of business scandals, crises, etc. and getting a newspaper or magazine from the early days of an event is often eye opening when contrasted to the final version that ends up in the history books

A niche provider that doesn't do generative AI very well but does "AI powered search with citations" is perplexity.ai

I've used for rather obscure queries and liked the summary the AI wrote as well as the links to dive deeper. I imagine that's what AI search will look like across all providers before long.

Location: US (Chicago)

Remote: Yes (US and EU time zones)

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Technologies: CRM (Salesforce, pipedrive), BI tools, some SQL, basic API tasks, any productivity software

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Mid-career B2B technology strategy/ops leader with wide range of experiences (finance, sales, marketing, M&A, VC, consulting, operations); in a mix of large (including public) organizations, venture-backed startups, and side hustles (in descending order)

Looking for a hands-on leadership role helping build, scale, and execute robust processes across any and all of my various areas of functional expertise. I've build teams; sales and marketing plans and processes from scratch; financial models for investing, acquiring, or fundraising alike; managed large (50+) cross functional projects for turn-arounds, product launches, and M&A integration; advised and reported to C-suites; and even taught strategy and innovation at a top 20 global B School.

I can work closely with and get into the weeds with sales reps, lawyers, devs, PMs, accountants and marketers alike; and fill in as needed in about half of these roles.

Interested in joining a team solving an interesting B2B or SMB problem with a healthy culture and ambitious but reasonable goals. Sector and location/remote flexible.

Haven't read the whole thing yet but in "Meet Joe" I found a very astute description of the situation my best friend and I were commiserating about just yesterday.

Through the common cog blog I also stumbled onto this book recommendation: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop; and it feels like the complexity of today's world is partly responsible for this loss of agency many of us experience and dread

As a non developer it's even more daunting because if I want to create something it's likely to be a web app and to learn about front end + back end + infra/hosting + security + database just to build a basic CRUD app it's a ginormous second step on the learning curve to push past the first step of taking a python bootcamp (with a session or two on Flask if lucky) for example.

I'm looking at the Odin project but more realistically I'll just keep slowly creeping upwards from no code (built a half dozen apps on Glide, Adalo) to Low-Code (Noodl, tadabase) to serverless (pythonanywhere).

I work at a large publicly traded tech company and spend 3-5 hours a week in various meetings solely focused on getting updates on the contracting process with fewer than 20 enterprise accounts... I may not be able to use this near term but thank you for creating it and I will share with my stakeholders for inspiration at the very least.

I do share carlosdp's concern on law firms' (and even internal legal teams)'s willingness to use something like this though, as it threatens their billable hours (or soft power)

Oh right, how could I forget…

I am not a lawyer but the claims here seem pretty damning and asset that Musk flat out doesn't respect contractual agreements (nor building codes apparently) in the least. I can't recall anyone quite so broadly deciding they're above contracts across a variety of topics in the past.

I think it's smart, it makes it tangible to an audience that has time and time again demonstrated incompetence at understanding technology when explained with any level of abstraction.

Public transit robs citizens of motivation to walk for health benefit or robs them of potential capitalist-nationalistic pride of stimulating the economy by owning an expensive vehicle.

My smartest employers always said they preferred hiring the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers, or the stars from unheralded companies rather than the employee #987563 from big name logos.

Unfortunately that's not the norm, but I find branding yourself in that way can at least help overcome this challenge in the hiring process (if you get past the screener that only looks at these filters that is)

perplexity.ai does provide them and I try to use them over phind or ChatGPT for that reason

Amazon is an aggregator or e-commerce that harmonizes the buyer experience across all manufacturers on its platform, and allows buyers to build a shopping cart of disparate items from many vendors, all with more of less the same terms and conditions. This article describes how OEMs are doing indeed going online, but doing so in quite the opposite approach, by each building their unique ecommerce distribution and shopping experiences.

Aside from my qualms with the article title, the content itself is anecdata at best.

I do think people are increasingly going to buy cars online, much like appliances and other large purchases they'll trade off physical inspection of the vehicle against viewing review videos and getting feedback from social networks, but because there's a whole segment of the population (gear-heads) that enjoys the shopping experience I think dealerships can still thrive, they may just need a much smaller footprint and staff that can entertain the car enthusiast clientele.

Has to be. It's funny to me as a non engineer that is getting more fluent over time with engineering concepts, to notice that it's not just occasional comments but a good proportion of the posts themselves on HN that are somewhat in that vein. "Tell HN: We rewrote a compiler to run on a Miele dishwasher SoC", "Show HN: a new anti-DNS web browser that only accepts actual IP addresses as URL"

I only have anecdotes and it’s from Chicago (not SF where indeed a lot of drivers commute an hour to get to a high demand area) but here it’s not that uncommon for people to be able to quickly hop on or off driving on short notice. It probably rarely moves the supply needle more than 10-15% at most but that’s not completely insignificant in comparing vs a less dynamic fleet like taxis.

And I believe there's an entire subgroup of Uber drivers that monitors the current rates and opts to drive only when there's a good enough surge, thereby dynamically creating more supply.

That’s likely because at a F500 you have a lot of variation between jurisdictions (states, or worse nations) on pretty fundamental things like PTO, overtime, etc. So each has its own set of rules and HR helps communicate them (via handbook or other means like a sharepoint site or slack channel)

It’s all about the markets, if company A hires a lot and the market thinks it’s a sign of growth it rewards it with demand for its shares, then company B looks at A and sees a hiring wave as the only material event that could have triggered A’s shares outperforming its own and decides… fuck it let’s signal to the market that we do are growing.

Then the market psychology changes and some CEO is the first to think that maybe this time the market would reward the opposite action, aka a layoff. It works… so the next one over goes and the rest of the dominos fall in the name of competing for institutional dollars within a zero-ish sum game

Devs in Vancouver would benefit

I think part of it is that the quality of the hard product, as the Atlantic calls it, has declined. The catalog is thinner than ever (in quality and IP, perhaps less so in raw quantity) and the magic of recommendations is now poorly disguising its attempt to just make you watch content that's just barely good enough to not make you churn but without breaking the bank.

So when the soft benefit of social sharing is now penalized (risk being SOL if trying to watch Netflix in a hotel room while on the road) and monetized the users are annoyed. On top of this Netflix is somewhat of the ideal scapegoat for another frustration, media fragmentation. I think that one is a bit unfair but I know a few people who sort of blame Netflix as the kingpin of the streaming industry for the fact they need 7 different streaming services that each ramp up the advertising dials every year despite starting out ad-free.

I've tried a couple of apps that promise to create children stories based on ChatGPT and while it works (-ish) for short stories I think the only way to get a better and longer output that is decent enough to warrant publishing is to be very hands on with the prompts, at which point I'd argue it's possibly considered real creative work and ChatGPT is just a (very powerful) tool, not a full-blown substitute for a writer/author.

Mobile stabbed the scroll bar but SPAs and infinite scroll put the nail in their coffin.

My other pet peeve triggered by your transit app comment is creeping privacy intrusion. I use a private DNS and can barely go a week without having to tweak my allow-list because an app that use to work fine now is blocked because they added yet another tracker. Looking at you Park Chicago, CTA apps, and seemingly every public service app I’ve ever used.

I did a cursory search but now realize it's a bit dated (2018), nevertheless here is the original source that prompted my comment: https://drivemag.com/news/these-are-the-5-best-cheap-new-car...

There's bound to be a market for cheap vehicles in the US. It's crazy to me that Europe has several models with MSRP below EUR 10k (Dacias at EUR 7k) and here there's just 2 or 3 below $20k.

Every other material good I can think of is cheaper in the US (from new homes to electronics and apparel), but cars are 2x the price of their European counterparts?

Gross Profit isn't a helpful number as it doesn't account for any fixed costs like offices, wages, sales and marketing, etc. Operating profits is a better indicator (EBIT or EBITDA) and also much closer to the holy grail of Free Cash Flow that companies need to keep an eye on to make sure they make payroll and fulfill their interest payments obligation, among other things

I got smart light switches for security reasons so I can have timed lights when on vacation and make it look like we’re home. A smart thermostat to save a bit on HVAC cost, and an alexa that is exclusively used as kitchen timer and weather quick checks. But i similarly couldn’t find rational reasons to go further into home automation outside of the itch to tinker with more tech.

Interested as well, there's a bit of a derth of good sources for these but wellfound (formerly angellist jobs) and builtin are my go-tos

Interesting timing, wouldn't think it's optimal given macro conditions, but perhaps they don't want to wait however long it'll take to get back to the frothy markets

And not doing so could affect their IR (investor relations) negatively, which is a higher concern than PR to most companies