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The sad fact is that the people best suited to thrive in a context where relationships are transactional and mostly dependent on continued usefulness to both parties - are sociopat…

The financial environment now is very different than even 2-3 years ago. Mortgages went from 3%->7%. Bonds/Treasuries actually pay a decent return. The most speculative investments…

I ran sales for a start up and as much as I hated these types of questionnaires - it was a huge competitive advantage to have someone who knows their stuff (a founder who wrote mos…

I write down a bunch of very small 5-15 minute subtasks that I want to do - being very specific and including the estimated time to accomplish into a 1hr block. Then I put on Brain…

I think it has nothing to do with the decline (which is mostly a result of an all-time insane bubble in P/E ratios and VC investment with lowest interest rates ever) but it will ha…

Nassim Taleb has advice to follow something called "the barbell approach" where 90% of your money is super safe (all stock market index funds/t-bonds/etc.) and 10% of your money is…

It's cheaper to let OpenAI figure all the stuff out first - then pour your war chest of money to n+1 their model instead of doing all the work of experimenting/failing/correcting c…

Locally: Contract test (mock provider/consumer) As part of CI/CD: Depending on complexity - basic functional tests against the specific endpoint or end-to-end test of API functions…

1. Gold goes up between 50%-150% as many countries offload USD-debt/reserves and need another globally accepted reserve. 2. Biden resigns stating mental health/old age while dodgin…

A few takes on this: * College degree is just a proxy for people in dead end jobs. This could easily say "Men without yachts..." "Men without country club memberships..." "Men with…

There is an episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tries to get more time in front of a woman he's interested in by leaving his hat in her apartment thinking that even though sh…

Sales guy here. The way I sell against top tier names is to use attunement to my advantage. Sure the other company has a huge name - but they're not like you and will never be like…

Nice catch. Fixed.

Hi there - one of the few pro sellers on HN here. You're planning on prospecting into one of the most rejection-heavy domains out there with small physical business. These people g…

I hate all the comments here so adding my own take (I have a different perspective than many here as I sell software - I don't build it). A feature or features is what your softwar…

Think of all the things that are Ivermectin-level questionable (cloth masks, 6ft, vaccinated don't spread, 95% effective at preventing illness, airborne, etc.) that have negatively…

Yields on investment (the ratio of how much you pay vs. how much future cash flow you get) are as low as they have ever been. Bonds, Treasuries, Stocks, Mortgages, everything. So t…

I read The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Tolstoy (who became very spiritual himself and wrote a bunch of religious texts later in his life) and the Bhagavad Gita (two of his Gand…

The fact that the entire comment section is talking about how sorry they are for the doctor because patients were rude to him and one even punched him - in the background of a stor…

I'm not particularly happy but I do know that pursing happiness as a goal is a bad idea. It's worth trying to set a different goal (health, career, family, whatever) and pursue tha…

Still, it would seem negligent to bifurcate the population into (vaccinated = low transmission; unvaccinated = high transmission) when the reality is exactly as you describe - a fo…

If your mortgage rate is 2.5% and inflation is 4.5%. You're getting 2% real returns. But you're also getting leverage since most buyers put 20% down or less. 4:1 leverage on 2% is …

Understandability is waning. Which in many places amounts to the same thing. Newtonian physics could be understood by an average child. General Relativity could be understood by in…

Fair Warning: It's not uncommon for a company to get bought for the price it costs to pay back preferred stock (investors) and essentially 0 out the common stock and/or offer new e…

I work in software sales so I get to see things from a slightly different perspective here that might be valuable for you to consider. Over a decade with a handful of different ven…