simonswords82

In light of the recent Glassdoor decision to publish real names you may wish to use this page, as I just did, to remove all of your data from their website.

I was mostly being provocative. Reality is that OP seems to be quite narrow minded and has made some enormous assumptions about people who smoke cannabis.

In very general terms, the world would be infinitely better off if people did not cast such wide nets on their assumptions.

Don’t knock it until you try it. You might like it!

As a bootstrapped founder I am biased but given everything I have seen and heard in the last couple of decades I think the tone has shifted from success at any cost to creating sustainable/profitable businesses.

It also helps that in many ways creating a startup has been commoditized. Specifically, it's now cheaper and easier to use various online tools to get a new business up and running with little upfront cash/time than ever before. This trend will continue.

That's not to say this is true for all startups but it is true for the majority of them.

The good old days of being able to exploit starry eyed kids for their ideas in return for taking the majority of their equity is hopefully behind us.

Correct, and to add - It is infinitely harder to force yourself through the start-up meat grinder if you know that if that start-up fails it does not materially impact you financially.

This will potentially change as you get older. I’m in my very early 40s and what you say for my 30s was also true but not any more. Most of my friends at the same age as me report the same.

Best to dodge alcohol altogether where you can.

I recently hired a person who was on the moderation team at TikTok.

I won’t go in to detail but they suffered at the hands of a barbaric company which does not care about its staff or its users. People on the moderation team are SLA’d to death and most have some form of PTSD from the videos they’re subjected to.

I’d love to see Tiktok and all the other attention grabbing shitty apps die a death. But here’s the kicker… despite leaving TikTok due to the stress and anxiety working there caused her she still uses the app!

It’s a global media thing. The UK media are just as sensational on it and it does an excellent job of polarising people needlessly.

Yep, I'm a pilot and have been working on getting my instrument rating out of London Southend airport in the UK.

I purchased the London Southend airport upgrade to make the airport more realistic.

I have the exact same Cessna 172 that I fly (with steam gauges, not a modern glass cockpit).

And for the low low price of £FREE compared to circa £250 per tacho hour I can test my heart out on the exact test that I need to pass to get my rating.

Thanks for taking my suggestions onboard. I was trying to be positive.

I do agree with your premise that obtaining customer feedback is hard. That's why you have to be relentless about it.

People are busy. They have a million things vying for their attention.

If you want feedback that badly, you need to ask them one at a time for feedback. Go to them, go network with them, have coffee with them, call them, email them directly.

Will be interesting to see the mechanics of this play out. Wonder if the profitable offices will be split out and kept by the new owners of WeWork?

I'd love to see the statistics on the daily number of Google searches since OpenAI (ChatGPT in particular) came to the fore this year.

Anecdotally, I now use ChatGPT for at least 25-50% of the queries that I previously would have had no other channel for other than a search engine.

If I was in charge of Alphabet I'd be starting to worry. This move makes them look a bit desperate.

Hey thanks for this info, all of which I'm sure is super insightful for people who understand this level of detail.

What would you say the average person in the street should eat in terms of supplements, vitamins and food in general to maintain excellent microbiome based on your learnings?

If you can access BBC sounds the podcast app from the BBC I recommend you check out this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gd9yql?partner=uk.co.bbc...

Really insightful and from all accounts Chuck was a rare combination of both shrewd and immensely kind…

Nothing irritates me more than two for profit companies (Equifax and Experian) who have a license to print money by collecting my data without my explicit permission. Even with the introduction of GDPR and all the new consumer protection this brought about, I cannot ask them to delete all of my data.

They should not exist, or if they must exist they should be not for profit. It's a total scam.

People care about events when the outcomes of those events have consequences either for the company or better still those in charge of the company.

The reality is that despite Equifax showing a blatant disregard for the security of the data they have on people, the repercussions of this breach were trivial to them and their senior people.

So yes, I do agree that there is at least one company out there, Equifax, who does not care about PPI leaking from their systems.

Hand over as much intel to 4chan as possible and watch them find this thing in a matter of hours...

And LSD

The average age of the 118th Congress is 58 years old. The average age of the Senate is 64 years.

Source: https://fiscalnote.com/blog/how-old-118th-congress

For most people with Alzheimer's — those who have the late-onset variety — symptoms first appear in their mid-60s or later.

Source: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-signs-alzheimers-dis....

So, yeah. Of course there are individuals in Congress on Alzheimers drugs.

Edit: Oh, and Mitch has frozen up for a second time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66663389.

There really should be a baseline health test that people in public office must pass.

You're hanging out with the wrong people. I've lived in/around London all my life and have not once encountered that weird measure of wealth.

Especially when you consider that flats in some parts of London are bloody expensive too!

Of course he did. He put his own money and reputation on the line for both businesses.

There's a reason he was lauded before this Twitter/X debacle.

Being good creates the luck. I'm not saying it does not happen the other way around but it's fantastically rare to just "luck out" your way in to success.

Product/market fit doesn't fall out of the sky either. It's created by being good.

Depends on what choices you have made up to that point I'd say!

You sound joyful to work with.

Nobody said it was outside of working hours.

So glad you mentioned committing badge swiping fraud.

I was going to ask on an original thread, what is to stop people simply swiping other people in on their badge to pretend that they're in the office more than they actually are?

I'm pro work from anywhere so long as shit gets done but...

Picking up on social cues. Bouncing ideas around using a whiteboard. Speaking quickly without that ever so slight lag on Zoom which means you struggle to get a word in without potentially talking over somebody. Having food or drinks before or afterwards to unwind and build relationships and kick things around informally.

There's lots more.

The irony of the sheer number of awards people are giving each other on that post, which if I am not mistaken, is just lining Reddit's pockets.

> who show a sincere genuine interest and truly care.

...until you decide it's not for you and you are summarily kicked out and effectively exiled.

I am glad it works for you but JW acts like cult, and probably is a cult. I've seen first hand the damage it does to people who choose to no longer partake.

From this source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4zzruz/iama_exjehovah...

'Those who leave the faith are called "apostates" and are "disfellowshipped", a term for formal expulsion and shunning, where members are "prohibited from talking, and even from saying 'hello' to them".