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What I want is to have a laugh or an interesting intellectual conversation.
- Waiting for an elevator that never comes with two strangers. What I may say: I guess we'd be camping here tonight. Do you have your tent with you?
- Embarrassing moment: I hit my head lightly to something in front of 5 people: Act funny saying Oh can someone call an ambulance.
- Someone dropping yogurt from their spoon on their shirt and locking eye to eye with me realising I've been watching the moment: I would have an empathetic look and then act with an imaginary spoon picking from my own shirt and eating it.
Basically the kind of mild jokes/acts you would do and say to close people would work on strangers as well
Later I went for random people in the street and that was quite awkward. There was simply not much I could work with (what I thought at the time).
This turned out to become a low stake effort to improve my social anxiety. Helped me build humour around it and eventually become comfortable
Fast forward to today, I can literally talk about anything to anyone. The main pattern I follow is to break the pattern and make a joke, be sarcastic respectfully or give a compliment. No permission just something they don't expect. Almost works all the time. It helps with confidence and also makes you realise its all in your head.
And it is fun indeed
Taking the antidepressant has become the dominant go to approach as it is more commercially profitable for the seller and easier to commit to for the taker.
- Search campaigns: - automatically crawl website, find the offerings and generate new campaigns - Provide qualitative recommendations such as, relevant terms to include/exclude, e.g. including typos as keywords, improvements on landing page
- Shopping campaign: - Smart labeling of all products to allocate the budget among Top performers, Rising and Ghost products to avoid draining the budget. E.g. instead of a campaign with 10k products with one budget , turn it into 5 campaigns with different budgets doubling down on what works.
Feel free to reach out for a demo
The idea is to be able to publish campaigns globally in any location/language and also get qualitative recommendations on what to improve. For example, if people have typos in their search terms, Rudy recommends to add it as a keyword so it can maximise the conversion.
Indeed if you're active, and like stuff, the algo improves and shows you lots of relevant content. But mostly from the prominent accounts and only viral ones. So the point of the post stands.
Could never put words on it but things don’t feel so real either.
The funniest part is now I speak my native language with my small kids and have fully relapsed to my original home town accent. I had abolished that accent years ago to avoid getting bullied at high school after relocating to a big city.
My kids are actively hearing and speaking 4 languages and one is with a thick accent!
UI: Django templates, htmx, tailwind, vanilla js or hypersceript, no build, no node, no npm. Avoiding writing js as much as possible.
Background workers: RQ with 3 priority queues
Deployment: Kamal one command deployment with underlying docker
Hosting: Linode server with backups
Storage: Mounted volume on the machine (maybe s3 eventually).
Benefits:
* High speed of iteration
* No boilerplate mess
* No build therefore no dealing with dependencies and npm rabbithole
* Fast deployment with Kamal (a bit of learning curve but once up just works)
* Much cheaper compared to PaaS. At least 50%.
* Multiple websites on the same instance
Of course I know django quite well so the goal is to remove as much friction as possible.
A lot of these boilerplate project make strong opinionated decisions which can be in conflict with how you build and structure your project. Meaning whenever you need to make modifications, you'd need to fully go through how it is done and could be counter intuitive to modify.
Also, for starting a SaaS, the initial version is probably better to be as simple as possible rather than a bunch of advanced features. Which means you'd be starting to slash features from the boilerplate at some point.
Indeed technically that might not be possible due to probabilistic nature of these models and may require a whole different technology. But one thing for sure is that enough labour and capital is going into it so the chances are not little.
Over the past few years I kept hearing there are issues with the bikes but I imagined such issues will be obviously addressed. Instead, they started expanding internationally (I read in comments they even had a presence in Japan!) while angry customers dealt with issues at home.
Really disappointed and a big reminder to prioritise product quality over growth at all costs. Vanmoof's desire to prematurely dominate the market turned into a fatal loss for all parties involved.