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when I called 561-567-8431, I got "Welcome to Verizon Wireless, your call can not be completed as dialed. Please hang up and try again."

Not OP, but I am interested in this community and I am also getting an error when I try to sign up:

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I have a personal website but am not comfortable sharing here - is there a way to message you?

My friend has a trackchair, which is basically a wheelchair with tank tracks. Slower than these bike-style chairs but very off-road capable. The coolest one I've seen is from Ziesel - their track-style chair can go 20MPH!

http://actiontrackchair.com/ https://www.ziesel-adventures.com/welcome/models

Anecdote:

I have wanted to do this at several points in the past few years (3 years out of school now, first real job). Although I can't say for certain what life would have been like had I done it, I'm currently glad I didn't. I have learned a lot about myself and about perseverance, and the experience I have gained has unlocked more interesting opportunities for both the present and the future.

1-2% returns on rentals is far too low (REITs return ~12% and require no headache) but even if that was true, housing is one of the few places where a "Regular Joe" with just a little bit of research can actually gain a market advantage and "beat the market". I can link you properties right now that can be bought and instantly rented for 15+% returns with no work and >20% with some fix up work. This is possible because of 1. easy to access leverage vs. other asset types and 2. difficulty of scale, which prevents the Blackrocks of the world from just buying up all of the property that could actually return 20% and making the market efficient. If I had to guess, the reason you are seeing 1-2% returns is because you are looking at really "hot" markets where the prices reflect an assumption of future appreciation.

Since you mention that money is the main thing you need, I think you are mostly looking for a "seed stage investor". Crunchbase has a list of a ton of those (802 total) that exist in the SF Bay Area. Looking at the full list requires a pro account, but a free trial is available.

https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/san-francisco-bay-area-seed-s...

Don’t do this here please. Either offer something constructive that is related to the content of the parent comment or don’t post at all.

Anecdote from when I was in China. My friend and I were walking down the street in Jinan (a big city though not one of the Major Chinese cities - think Pittsburgh in the US) when a yellow Ferrari fishtailed around the corner, squealing its tires and speeding away down the street. My immediate reaction - which I imagine to be the average American reaction - was "what an asshole". However, the Chinese around us on the street had quite a different reaction: "wow what a cool guy/car". Not really sure what this means about the perceptions of displays of status between the two cultures, but it's something that has stuck with me ever since.

To be fair, this perspective does assume that people care about the health of society as a whole. If you're willing to let others get substandard care or even die, it may be more optimal for you to have your own smaller, lower-risk pool with better benefits.

This used to be me. I now realize that the reason for my grogginess was that I was totally dehydrated after my 10+ hr sleeping marathon. I now sleep with a water bottle and try to drink half of it before going to bed. When I do this I find that I will naturally wake up after about 8.5 hrs, drink the remaining half of the bottle, fall back asleep for 30 min, and then wake up feeling great. Wonder if this could work for you too

I am a mid-twenties single male Product Manager, working at a major tech company in SF.

I average 55 hours/week at work. Usually this means 9-7 5 days per week but sometimes its 9-8 or I'll work for 3-4 hours on a weekend.

I don't spend any time with family because I am single and my whole family lives on the east coast.

I spend 4-5 hours a week working out, usually weight training in the morning right before work.

Nothing fancy for productivity - create lists for everything, prioritize the items on your lists, and put the items you commit to on a calendar. Know yourself and try to schedule at a pace you can realistically accomplish, but don't freak out if you only tackle 70% of your list for any given day. The trick is to be disciplined about actually using these lists (I'm still bad at this).

When you're feeling like you're totally burned out and don't want to do any work - just do ONE thing that day. Making ANY progress at all is so much better for your psyche than getting nothing done, and once you complete that one thing you can stop beating yourself up for being unproductive and enjoy just doing nothing.

Because I see this sentiment (PMs have easy jobs and don't really do anything) a lot on HN, I want to offer an anecdotal counterpoint: I am a PM in San Francisco and most of the PMs I know personally work extremely hard and add a good deal of value to their companies. I realize that as a PM I am biased towards thinking I provide value/work hard, but I can safely say I have never heard of anyone working in a PM role as easy/useless as the one you describe.

This is an encouraging post for someone who aspires to be a solo founder. Could you explain 1. JTBD and 7. Go to market strategy and how to practice/improve at them?

+1 I am also interested in this

My company will not allow that unfortunately (I have already tried), I would need to move to a different company to try something like that

I am a product manager currently thinking about trying a career in software development. I have coded for a few years on the side but never professionally, and my computer science background is limited to basic algorithms/leetcode. Wondering if any developers here think a PM background would be a boon for a new dev.

This is the plot of Chinatown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)

Mental trick I recommend: You don’t have $8M - you own a business that lends money to people. Your business gives money to various companies through financial vehicles called ‘index funds’, which ensure that your loans are distributed across many different companies. The businesses use this money to fund their ventures, and are happy to pay you some money for the access to this capital. Your business is quite successful, earning you (.03 * 8M) = $240,000 per year. If someone else saw your balance sheet, they may be willing to pay you $8M for access to such a lucrative and easy-to-run business! Thinking this way allows you to spend the money however you want. Want to buy a Lamborghini? Go ahead! Use your $240k salary to finance your new car, just like any other normal person. But NEVER mortgage or sell any part of your amazing business just to buy a toy.

Is it just me or do all of these things seem very reasonable, even tame by novel standards? All of the examples are exciting stories, but nothing that doesn't show up in your standard action movie.

This is something that I would like to do. Do you have resources you could share that could help me? Specifically interested in how to find the list of all FB domains that need blocking

Cool tech. How exactly does this "humanize retail" as they claim? Does "removing conveyor belts" really humanize the process if the cashier behind the conveyer belt is removed too?

I'm generally a big skeptic of company missions (which this 'tagline' appears to be) in the first place, but completely non-sensical ones like this rub me raw. What's wrong with the mission/tagline being "reducing costs and improving shopper experience"? I'm sure their customers (retailers) would still love the product

/rant

You should have known better than to try and impress HN. You could have made $1M/day as an infant and people here will still poo-poo it.

I, for one, enjoyed the article. Wondering if you have any recommendations for discovering opportunities like this in a repeatable/systematic way.

Typo :^)

Why should I trust RevenueCat? "Because... They brings that experience to RevenueCat."

You're right that this isn't a proven method of success, but the smell test seems to tell me that it's harder to do two very hard things than it is to do just one. They are simultaneously trying to redesign the auto experience AND invent a technology that doesn't exist. If doing one made the other easier, I would understand, but that doesn't seem to be the case. They are solving a problem that doesn't exist yet.

Seems like they're putting the cart before the horse no? Don't you need functioning level 5 self-driving technology before you start optimizing for something like rider experience? This seems to violate the classic startup maxim to 'focus on just one thing and get it right'

Undergraduate tuition at CMU is $52,732 per year

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/tuiti...