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jovisjoseph

12 karma · joined September 29, 2018

CPO & Co-founder @ usecorner.io
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jovisjoseph··on Social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing: study
I'm a CS engineer graduated from a college in Kerala (South-India). The whole course is 4 years long and in these 4 years, the administration didn't allow students to bring Smartphones to the campus. Yes even for the students who are majoring in computer science. And even laptops were only allowed from 3rd year onwards.

Their justification was laptops and smartphones are just a distraction for students. And the rules where quite strict and if you bring any of these to the campus they would fine you heavily. All because of the notion that internet and digital presence is bad for you even if you are studying about these devices.

jovisjoseph··on Load Google Fonts Faster in WordPress
https://css-tricks.com/sans-serif/

HOpe this helps for those who are wondering what sans-serif does exactly

jovisjoseph··on Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
Yeah, that sounds fair. But there is a small caveat here thou. The income from side projects are so volatile, sometimes you can't predict on them. You can only make them stable if you invest enough time on it and study the usage pattern. And most of the time you'll have to get on full time to get those metrics. So we will get back to that chicken and egg problem again
jovisjoseph··on From Quitting Silicon Valley to Getting Our First Paid Customer
Just reminded me of someone's quote. Startup life is somewhat like leap of faiths on infinite recursion. Build.ship.pivot.repeat
jovisjoseph··on Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
The problem here is the dilemma when to go full-time. Its always a tough call. Compared to a side-project building up a scalable business model is a different ball game altogether. So brace for that once you go full time everything changes and without going fulltime you'll probably reach nowhere
jovisjoseph··on Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
In my personal opinion if you are doing something that risky do it when you are young. Once you cross a particular age threshold your possibilities of future pivots back to jobs will be decreased considerably. Especially in the tech industry ageism does exist. And at a young age you tend to take a more irrational leap of faiths and to an extent, that's a must for an entrepreneur in his early stages.

In my own experience, i jumped into the entrepreneurial journey right after my graduation. Was it a well thought out decision. No of course not. It was a kid chasing his dreams. All cliches aside sometimes dreams don't feed you. But if you ask me "do i regret", i would confidently say No. If you choose to be an entrepreneur, no one or no book in the world can prepare you for the shit that you are going to face and 60% of the time you'll have bad experiences. So why choose it over a well-paying job? That's a question you might have to answer. And that answer will change over time. If you go with it, be prepared for the following

It not fun (As mainstream media portray it to be). Every morning when you wake up & your rational mind will ask you why? be prepared with an answer. Embrace the uncertainty and learn to survive on hope.

And finally, save some money at least to survive for 3 years. Live frugally

jovisjoseph··on 200 Million Indian Workers protest for two Days
As of this point, this is not something new