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I was in this exact situation last weekend. 3% battery, lost a couple drivers to cancellation (going Marina to Marin), and thought I was done for. Would’ve paid any price, but what they were quoting me felt incredibly reasonable the entire time, and around bar closing time on a Friday, no less. ($60 to San Anselmo)

I think it’s a bit of a choice, but also a result of tech workers definitionally being higher leverage employees. I worked at a giant employer in SF with a tall tower, and I had plenty of periods where I had to grind 12+ hours a day to perform at a high level, because my managers knew I’d do it if they dangled things in front of me, and if I didn’t, it was going to be visible enough to be very problematic for my career there.

Then I had periods where I’d crushed the before time, and could get away with walking the street shooting photography for 4 hours, as long as I didn’t have meetings. My attainment wasn’t that different in either case, I just got put on easier stuff, because I’d made it.

The shitty part is how easily the wrong manager can throw you back into that first place and effectively squeeze you, if you’re not an unequivocal top performer. In the past, I don’t get the sense that companies were as ruthlessly efficient and eager to cut out people who were good enough, but not excellent. It seems like it was easier to hang around, whereas now you have to grind and be the best for a nontrivial period of time to earn the right to relax a bit.

As an American who worked in London and at a London company, London pay is always crazy low compared to what I’d expect.

I’m interested in what these things do better than Salesforce, which is incredibly powerful Apps for gaps foothold, and allows both code and no code development.

I suspect the answer is that they don’t require you to buy seats for all the users, but wonder if anyone is familiar with both.

Feels boastful and insensitive in the current climate —- I’m guilty of worrying that it can make people in my circle who aren’t doing so well feel worse.

Maybe that’s patronizing and not giving other individuals enough credit. Thinking on my own past depression, I don’t recall that I felt worse because of comparison to others —- I think the bigger problem was more to do with my own lack of direction, displeasure with myself, and feeling trapped.

Seeing others take alternative paths and reach happiness might’ve actually been helpful for overcoming some of my self-constructed obstacles.

It’s become more about not wanting to feed the ad monster and give my circle more reasons to be in those apps these days. Apple photo stream is where we share instead.

Purchases can be made on expectations of returns based on comparable properties, or prices may be assumed based on other filled units. Filling at a lower rate definitively lowers those expectations.

On a 30 year model, small fluctuations have big consequences, and they cascade even further if there are multiple units.

That’s a pretty narrow definition of “progressive”

Consulting straight out of school is a really tough sell. Consultants are most often considered valuable by their employers because of their experience in a given industry.

I would not want to try to pitch myself as a consultant as a foreigner with little to no American work experience. If you’re doing it yourself, sales will be a challenge.

Fair point. I should’ve said relatively financially stable (which often translates to feeling poor with a certain crowd - often a point of disagreement between husband and wife) versus abundantly rich.

Funny enough, thinking more, the abundantly rich couples who easily had kids spend the least time together, as the husbands work jobs that dominate their lives.

Mental lightness. Not sweating certain stuff in the same way. Less unproductive dwelling. All things I experienced after a trip that would account for that.

This happened in my (31yo) beard, which allowed me to watch it shift grey and back in a short time, and it absolutely coincided with ~3 months of work where I was killing myself, and went away when I took 2 steps back and resumed riding my bike outside a few times a week.

It’s talked about in small circles, but not broadly. Anecdotally, my wife and one of her friends are the only people I know who quickly conceived and had a child without issue over 30.

My very close friend and his wife gave up after years of treatments. My sister and her husband are coming up on years of unsuccessful treatments. Several of my wife’s close friends either required treatments, have lost one or more pregnancies, and/or have yet to succeed with treatments.

It’s more than enough to make you feel like there is something serious going on. There was an article recently about aggressive drops in male fertility, which might shed light.

In my mind, the other big piece is readiness / pressure. I don’t think it’s everything, but I do think there must be a huge mental component to conception. The people who are more financially stable and on the same page seem to have the easiest time.

I’m sure there will still be a good number of people wearing them places like stores for a while, since we get so many tourists. I’d bet people continue to think, “why not?”, while it’s still spreading.

Most people spend 99% of their time with friends, family, or trusted coworkers anyway.

They’ve done studies, and parents are dramatically happier than non-parents after the teenage years (when the kids leave).

It’s a long term investment that pays dividends when you have nothing else you want to do with your life, but chill with your family.

I think someone like Derek Sivers (maybe not actually him) talked about doing this. From what I remember, it was quite painful finding one who would agree to it, and was probably only possible because it was a stand out property.

This would likely be more difficult for an average person to pull off, but can be a great mutual win if you pull it off.

Here it is: https://abc7news.com/sf-chinatown-pelosi-san-francisco-coron...

Not exactly dancing in the streets, but definitely encouraging people not to fear.

Narrowing into a business / software delivery context is hardly addressing the objection.

I would imagine snagging it on things, having it drop down due to a big impact and getting tangled in your pedals, or potential impact with your heels since feet are more active on MTBs.

This is a huge one, which won’t work in the best startups, but is a great strategy for someone trying to break in —- leverage a position at a cool tech, bad market fit, middling or even failing startup.

When my Mountain View startup disbanded, most of the team dispersed into Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and other large soon-to-IPO companies. Almost everyone ended up in a better place, and many of us would’ve had a hard time doing so before we joined.

It gets people in the stores though. That’s valuable.

Grab anyone else in this thread interested, and pitch it to Wyze as a new product division.

Granted, their products aren’t dumb, but they seem to be very consumer and quality focused. I have loved everything they’ve done.

You’ve described the ELT approach that is why dbt is taking the valley by storm.

I’m much more willing to accept this corollary with Aliens than Bigfoot. Two very different topics.

That’s the point though, isn’t it? Many people have devoted their entire lives to “exploring the options” and still come up with basically nothing.

FinancialForce is an entirely different company pretending to be part of Salesforce.

Soon to expire copyright material (stories, characters, etc.) that they then block from ever entering the public domain.

https://nyunews.com/opinion/2019/10/01/disney-public-domain-...

It feels more likely that Apple disallowed their other classes (since Apple has their own offering) than Peloton decided to disable some tracking, but not all tracking.

Here comes that squeeze up around 4160. I would expect things to turn south today or tomorrow, but I'm only half watching the markets now that I'm working again.

My point is that they can, to a degree. The bigger challenge for them is scaling in and out of the size of positions they need to be in to be profitable.

If you’re playing with thousands, you’re playing a completely different game than someone playing with billions. You don’t have to strategize about how to exit. You just exit.

Many hedge funds outsource the execution of their trades to HFT, which scales in and out over days.

Google Archegos if you want to see what happens when you liquidate billion dollar positions in a hurry.

My point is that they can, to a degree. The bigger challenge for them is scaling in and out of the size of positions they need to be in to be profitable.

If you’re playing with thousands, you’re playing a completely different game than someone playing with billions. You don’t have to strategize about how to exit. You just exit.