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But has it ever happened that some salesperson who was genuinely authentic and just doing her job made you feel otherwise? And you did not hate them while they were doing their job?

Yeah I have seen this. I hope there were better ways to restrict this from happening

That’s a fair question. What I have seen is that engineers are rewarded way more in equity than salespeople. Is that true?

If you are starting from scratch getting warm intros need a "prep" phase. The best people to introduce you to investors are founders itself. You should build authentic connections with founders, try to help them.. in terms of your skills, network, hiring etc. Founder community generally works on the principle of giving. So if you are a helpful person who is building something good, other founders will make those warm intros.

Yes

I never heard about 4chan before

Self promotion is understandable. But the core message in this is that people calling their past choices as strategy on why they did what they did instead of accepting that it was because of constraints, luck or just the situation.

Often these things lead to wrong motivations for people who consider them as experts

Haha this is hilarious

Bearblog discovery feed as well

It’s fine if people keep it to themselves.. it hurts when they state these assumptions as facts which is a wrong advise for people

I was curious to learn about how they do what they do. Not promoting or demoting their products here. I generally mention things I read as part of footnote

That’s a good suggestion. I am going to check out this book

How?

I agree. I write 70% of it and then Claude helps me refine it by enhancing vocab, structure and grammar. Ideally I would like to just use it fix grammar but atleast this way I am writing more and my drafts just don’t sit in notes.

And use social media to say it out loud

Do we have an alternative?

Yes! I follow bearblog discover feed. That's also quite good

I learnt its called - cognitive dissonance

I agree. But I have learnt that it's important to get your work recognized too. Unfortunately, the algorithms doesn't relate to that much rather than just clickbaits.

Have you found any social medium on internet that actually empowers honesty?

I learnt people even put wrong revenue numbers or what not

Yes that’s the point I was trying to make. These lies don’t just affect them but also the people reading it as they might never see what actually happens

Rooting for you! Thanks for sharing your process.

Not really, there are honest ways as well to influence as well. I also find it annoying when people try to manipulate at the sake of influencing just to sell something. Infact, wrote a small piece on this https://aishwaryagoel.com/what-engineers-taught-me-about-sel..... would love to know what you think?

I actually wrote a blog on this a few days ago. which was focussed more on sales practices of manipulation and better ways to do things: https://aishwaryagoel.com/what-engineers-taught-me-about-sel...

Designing data intensive applications

Ghost for work.. bearblog.dev for personal use

That’s so cool. Would love to check it out

I am glad

Such a cool project! took me back to early 2000 days of watching tv