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Sorry could not resist - Happy Cows come from California, campaign from 2004.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PBK6nQbGo

Thanks for building this. Me and my team have been driving it for the last few days, and it is a pleasure to use.

Those law documents - that is probably us :)

Can you comment a bit on fine-tuning options available at the user-level. There were cases (~15%) where it summarized is exactly on the wrong end of the spectrum (disclose within 3 days for example, came out as disclose post-3-days).

In addition to what others have added: monthly magazines like Dr.Dobb's Journal, were eagerly anticipated, and this was _the_ way to keep my skills "modern". User Group meetings, and rare conferences which were vendor-driven, were others.

It was you and the black box. Manuals helped a bit. Books helped a bit. But largely it was you and the stupid box.

This is evocative and beautiful. Thank you for building this. As an implant in the US (25 years and counting), I was and still am awestruck at the variety the country offers in scenery, conversations, music and food.

I started driving all around the country when Rand McNally maps were the source, and visits to AAA for Triptychs, and Motel 8 for 20$ a night was life-altering for this 25-year old newbie. Not to mention the $10 Geo Metro car rental and 99cents gallon of Petrol (~3.75ltrs).

Now sitting in a fancy part of the country, where Burgers sell for $20, it is a sucker punch to read this Craig's List posting:

Darling Nigerian Dwarf Buckling Goat This little guy is a doll with a sweet disposition. Pretty tricolor with frosted ears. If you want to add a sire to your herd, a sweet pet or both, he'll fill the bill. His dam is one of my milk goats. Will band upon payment if desired. Current on CDT and has had first trim. Located north of Franklin NE.

Thank you again.

Thank you and kudos for listening to your buyer(s).

What would work better for me, as an individual, is to not lock me in, let me try the goods that I have paid for, and evaluate if it satisfies my need, and drive the value (through messaging) of leaving my credit card on your file for future charges.

That would still not be good news, but just a normal expected behavior from a lab testing service.

Again, I am cognizant of the business realities that makes you do this, and just reaffirming why I will not pay for your services.

Useful service, and tried adding two tests, but decided to not order when I saw:

Recurring subtotal $268.00 every 12 months

Do not know if it is useful enough to renew, and I as a customer do not like services that presumptively charge me on and on and moves the onus to the customer to get out of the charging cycle.

Thanks, useful service, but not for me.

I subscribe to :

The Economist

The Guardian (voluntary)

Financial Times

Barron’s

WSJ

Cook’s Illustrated

NY Times

Bloomberg

I find each of them useful in their own way.

I am a happy user of Shottr.cc. It is easily my top-3 pieces of software in terms of usage. I had emailed Max, the author asking him if I can pay in anything more than "coffee" and he said "get me more coffees" :)

I would like to see it do the following:

a. If the inserted comment text spills outside the canvas, auto-expand the canvas to accommodate the comments.

b. Make the text box little light / clunky. A opacity option for text backgrounds will help.

So we are clear, I do not profit from this. Happy to take a look and if relevant connect you to a friend who is using something similar at a large scale. IF interested, email is in my profile.

+1. If I am forced to choose just one "TV subscription" it will be Criterion. A close second will be Mubi. I see Mubi as the millennial's Criterion.

Somethings we do in our weekly meetings in our nascent startup (no claims on the efficacy of the rituals):

Open the meeting with a group clap. This one was started by a much younger and more social member of our team. My immediate reaction was aversion. But over time I have come to like this and it I chalk it up as our gratitude journal. As a startup, there _is indeed_ a lot to clap for each week.

What each member did the last weekend. Again my initial reaction was to get on with the topics at hand. But over the last 20-or-so weekly meetings, it has helped me get a more composite view of a colleague's life.

Ending with two puzzles/riddles (I can be a fruit, person or bird. What am I?).

My meta-learning is rituals are helpful as bookends. They perform the role of normalizing/flattening everyone to the same abstraction, removing the relative seniority or variance in roles performed.

I find them useful.

Not affiliated at all.

Wobaka is another option for a personal CRM. We evaluated it. A great product (and Fredrik the owner-developer was a treat to work with), but we passed on it because it did not fit for our niche use case. At $50 per month, it might be a different fit.

wobaka.com

I highly recommend "Silver Spoon". Published in 1950s - about 2000 recipes - Indexed thoroughly - I use it both for its recipes and also for its heft as a doorstop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_cucchiaio_d%27argento

https://www.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/the-silver-spoon-978...

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/5006077 (The translation into English was a small miracle)

I feel you.

I have been a subscriber for the past 20 years. Before I go further, I would argue my consumption model has changed even more than The Economist has changed. My consumption model has changed because the sources of deep and specialist coverage have increased. FWIW, I still find The Economist immerse-worthy, and I do enjoy it a lot. I have, however, increased my signal sources by subscribing to Financial Times, The Information, etc.

I like the long form articles produced 1843, a sister brand of The Economist.

All said and done, you and I probably are getting older, more cynical and The Economist is one in a long list of casualties :).

Yes, what you said exactly happens, but not often enough to negate the value of opening up the otherwise clammed up candidate.

Hopefully, the first part where the human<>human chat happens, the candidate is able to see that the intent is to have a genuine conversation, albeit with a more senior person (aka older) person on the other side.

Where I differ from you is the zero-payoff framing. There have been cases where the candidate put me in my place, rightfully so, and ended up getting hired.

This is subjective territory, but I actually prefer a candidate that spars. It gives me a chance to explain my position as well as hear his/hers.

Been on the hiring side for more than a decade. In addition to other advice in this thread, I would like to add -

I treat the interview as my chance to help the candidate pass the interview. This bent of thought may seem subtle, but makes all the difference in meeting the candidate in their terrain, and seeing the world from their point of view. Consequently, the case studies given explicitly state that if the candidate finds something else that intrigues them, I am happy to take that as a case study instead - gives them something to flaunt and for me to learn about.

Some candidates are shy to open up, or just not comfortable conversing with strangers, or misread the power asymmetry in the interview and get anxious - I spend a fair bit of time just conversing human to human.

For the really uncommunicative candidates, I make a slight of what they built (fake slight) and this gets the conversation going like a star. The good candidates exhibit a great amount of "Builder's Pride" and defend what they built. They really good ones admit to the possibility that there were other better ways to have built, or explain to me the constraints under which they made the choices they did.

I enjoyed this article in The New Yorker (Apr 13 2020 issue), where the author talks about his boulangerie apprenticeship in Lyon, France. Parts of it were beautifully written for my taste.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/baking-bread-i...

@gsreenivas - Congrats on launching an useful service.

Is it still true that whenever we provision a new user they have to be physically present near a Helm device? Parents living elsewhere, and so are kids.

How does the pricing work if someone owns their domain already and prefers to keep their registrar? Is the cost still 99$?

This may make an interesting alternative for small businesses (10-20 employees) who prefer private storage and email addresses. Do you have any feedback for customers looking to use it as such?

Thanks.

Dear Stacy, congrats on what seems like an useful service. Signed up for a week and have sent a project your way.

All the best.

Asking to learn - ex-Algo here. May I ask where else ratios are represented. Thanks and all the best for your launch. Very useful service.

From experience, I would suggest you have way for the manager of a fund or a desk or a bank, to see the usefulness. You will have good pull from the line staff, but selling to the managers is the hard part.

Congrats - I totally see the value of this product and I like how you have taken the enterprise approach.

Asking to learn - How hard was getting SOC2 Compliance? You have an on-prem I see. Any indicative costs for that, please?

+1. @Zippy - May I ask for some of the vendors you refer to, please?

Also love the Uranium analogy.

This podcast (1) helped me appreciate the intelligence and the mandate of the originators of Home Economics as a vocation. Founding team includes the first woman engineer from MIT.

Edited: Added the book (2) whose author was interviewed for the podcast.

(1) https://omny.fm/shows/gastropod/easy-a-the-superrad-story-of...

(2) https://bookshop.org/books/the-secret-history-of-home-econom...

It is common in parts of India to make Mung Bean Pancakes (1). Soak the Mung Beans in more than three times the volume, for 4 hours. Throw the water away, grind the mung beans to a puree, and let it ferment overnight, and prepare it on a girdle as you would cook Pancakes.

My value add in this is that, between the soak and grind phases, I put the beans in the fridge for 24 hours tied in a wet cloth, and let it sprout before grinding it. Soak > Sprout > Grind > Ferment > Pancake. The sprouting increases the amount of nutrients marginally (2)(3).

One of the common and widely used ingredient to counter the gas-producing nature of legume dishes, is Asafoetida (aka Hing). (4)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesarattu

(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573095/

(3) https://www.echocommunity.org/en/resources/bcee9e2a-f494-4b5...

(4) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54617077

Quinn and Kristine : Congrats on what seems to be an useful service. All the best.

Sent you an email on a visual nit (from nandyal)

One of the catchy Economist adverts claims "99% of the 1% are subscribers". I get to interact now and then with this demographic and conversations often use a recent article in The Economist as a starting point. It may be middle class in the country it is published, but it has found elite clientele around the world.

Commenting on the aspect of "Governments will tighten money supply when things get better". It seems, the governments around the world are also raising debt at a levels never seen before. There are pros and cons for this - Pros being if the growth rate is higher than the interest rate, by all means, get debt. The con is that the _rate_ of debt accumulation will make it worse for the future payouts, even of growth is higher.

An article that I found useful is:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/02/13/s...

Archived: https://archive.is/wip/0q0fz