RIP, Tony Hsieh. A person of color, he proved that a business doesn’t have to be souless in order to be successful.
Not sure why this was downvoted?
Tony Hsieh has died
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#322Was holacracy at Zappos his idea or it came from the original founder?
Holacracy was developed at a software company by Brian Robertson who then took it and started another company, HolacracyOne, to refine and spread it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy. Tony Hsieh brought it into Zappos which was IMO incredibly influential in increasing the visibility of Holacracy. His passing is very sad.
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#323In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation. He was sharing a lot of stories about Zappos and in the end he talked about their Culture Book (a book entirely written by Zappos employees, with no editing). Immediately after watch it I sent an email directly for him (at the time a CEO of a company that wo…
great story
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#324I'm sad cause he's younger than me and I feel that I'm not done with my life yet. He probably other dreams he wanted to pursue and based on his history, he would have succeeded. We will never see what he wanted to do next.
What a loss for us all.
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#325Was holacracy at Zappos his idea or it came from the original founder?
Holacracy was developed at a software company by Brian Robertson who then took it and started another company, HolacracyOne, to refine and spread it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy . Tony Hsieh brought it into Zappos which was IMO incredibly influential in increasing the visibility of Holacracy. His passing is very sad.
Thanks for replying instead of downvoting. HN seems to be so toxic these days.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never been in a raging fire, but the property seems to be very open and spacious with no obvious choke points, how does one end up so trapped, and without realizing a fire is breaking out? My guess is he passed out from the smoke inhalation first while asleep and was burned.
My fire alarm goes off when I make toast. How can this happen?
In addition to what the other user said, people don't always have as many alarms installed as they should. There should be at least one on every floor.
But besides that, sometimes the fire just starts in an area that doesn't immediately set off the alarm due to whatever quirk of the floor plan and the passageways. If you're a heavy sleeper, and alone, in the time the alarm takes to wake you, the fire might have grown from that spot enough to block an exit.
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when you see a beautiful sunset I don't salute a beautiful sunset, and I don't require my children to pledge allegiance to the sun; nor would I be so crass, flippant, or despotic as to suggest - as you already did with citizenship - that someone declining to offer their loyalty to the sun deserves to be denied warmth. Tossing around false equivalences doesn't make patriotism a sunny day. > Everywhere I go I see peo…
You seem to be hanging on to the "pledge of alliance" discussion with the other guy which wisely decided to cut their losses and stop responding :) You do realise you're talking to somebody else now, right? Somebody which merely limited themselves to discussing patriotism, which doesn't require pledges. In fact I disagree with such behavior, especially when kids are required to recite them. Such things are typically…
Alas, I'm generally unwilling to concede retrospective attempts to move goalposts.
I don't consider this exchange to be a dialogue. Regarding the scope of audience and participation, I see remarks from six participants. I'm aware of adjacent threads addressing related topics and angles. We have undisclosed N participants that've been variously upvoting, downvoting, flagging, and vouching comments, leaving many flagged or dead (i.e. collapsed to casual visitors).
It seems to me there is no common ground on the matter between you and I, not even agreement of the parameters of discussion. A collapsed subthread whose index topic has naturally decayed from the front page lacks any prospect of additional voices, and with no opportunity I can perceive for the Hegelian dialectic to resolve otherwise, I shall break off here, and wish you (and any unseen readers that have stoically endured thus far) a good day.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
those are pretty wild claims. any way you can back it up?
Best I can do is this personal story: I, for reasons unimportant to the topic, knew personally people from all walks of Tony's life. I've would have a drink with his personal cleaning lady when she was done for theday, and drank more than one with Tony himself late into the night at Kareoke in his personal Airstream park. Many of my friends worked in all departments at Zappos, as well. When the drinks were mostly fin…
This is true, I don't have all the facts, but tony was obsessed with candles lately. First hand account says candles + nitrous tank caused the "fire" but it's more likely that he went too hard on the nitrous and was brain starved of oxygen, was on life support for many days braindead before his body went.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
Best I can do is this personal story: I, for reasons unimportant to the topic, knew personally people from all walks of Tony's life. I've would have a drink with his personal cleaning lady when she was done for theday, and drank more than one with Tony himself late into the night at Kareoke in his personal Airstream park. Many of my friends worked in all departments at Zappos, as well. When the drinks were mostly fin…
This is true, I don't have all the facts, but tony was obsessed with candles lately. First hand account says candles + nitrous tank caused the "fire" but it's more likely that he went too hard on the nitrous and was brain starved of oxygen, was on life support for many days braindead before his body went.
That being said, Tony was a great guy, and did so much for countless people. Myself included. He will be missed. His community of clingers and simps though... they are in finger pointing mode and eating themselves alive.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
those are pretty wild claims. any way you can back it up?
Why do you ask this question? You know he doesn't. But that doesn't mean it is false. If his username is anything to go by, I'd say that there is probably a kernel of truth to his statement. After all, people don't just make up stories about ketamine and nitrous addictions. Especially since dying in a house fire isn't a usual route to go. It might make sense he was on ketamine and somehow a fire started (he probably…
It is true. A bunch of his close associates tried to have an intervention lol. He blacklisted them all and quite as CEO of zappos. He packed up and left Vegas for Park City, only invited the most simpiest of simps who wouldn't question him. Candle obsession + nitro tank = fire. But first hand accounts say it wasnt fire or smoke that killed him. Too much nitrous not enough oxygen for the brain.