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It seems like you found all the reasons you wanted to give up before even trying.

I recommend the book “Being Mortal” by Dr Atul Gawande. He is the same author of “The Checklist Manifesto” which I also recommend.

The book doesn’t touch the economics of elderly care but it offers a comprehensive explanation about how we got here. It also talks a lot about the operational details of dying which is something that the majority of people never thought about and is certainly eye opening.

I would have phrased it differently but would have said the same thing.

No other words are necessary.

Item 1 is key in my mind. As someone in a role that procures a lot of services the worst thing someone trying to get a foot in the door can do is “everything”. Especially if you can’t explain how you work.

It leaves all the burden of figuring out how I could potentially use your services on me, and I’ll try my best to avoid having to deal with that uncertainty on top of what I’m already trying to achieve.

If you want to be successful offering services be very clear about how you work.

While some authority comes from your role most of it comes from your attitude.

If you move to a new team officially as an IC, do what you do best and demonstrate your leadership skills. If they are truly there, people will follow your lead and the “demotion” has never happened.

I like the one where you ask the person to explain “what happens between when you type an address in a browser until you get something to show up” in as much details they can. It tells you a lot about people understand all the different concepts involving computing.

One thing that is easy to do, has a ton of tutorials online, requires minimal tools, and sells really well is cutting boards.

Based on your goals I think you are over complicating the situation.

Hello fellow Iowan!

It’s very weird that two different people cut the interview short.

I have a couple of NodeJS positions open. If you feel like it might work hit me up on my email and let’s talk.

How do you market a non-AI productivity tool? AI should have nothing to do with your marketing. Market the value that your tool offers, not how it’s made.

Traders Joe. Everyone is genuinely nice, and look like they want to be there doing what they are doing. I know it’s not true but they make it look like it is.

> If they were decent, and had your best interests at heart, surely a serious and collegiate discussion could have taken place before

How do you know they haven’t and that OP hasn’t failed those as well?

SSO Tax

This a very nice example (well done!) of talking a lot and saying nothing!

That is actually not true. Kanban has all the certifications and trainings just like scrum and has even maturity models that your company can be graded at.

See https://kanban.university/

Extracting data from PDFs can be done with Bing AI if you open it on Edge. It can’t operate on the files (save) though.

Again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678348

Get someone to pay/fund you because it works really well with their site or app?

This is weird.

- Prices went up - Way more people are going to the point where it’s overcrowded - But still dust accumulates on the equipment?

Just heard about Dapr last week. Might be more than what you are asking, though but it’s probably worth a look.

https://dapr.io/

Isn’t there a surgery you can do for the sleep apnea?

What kind of tasks?

Cover letter gets the hiring manager to read your resume. Your resume gets you an interview. Interview gets you the job. Simple process.

I agree to some extent with what you are saying but I challenge you to think the opposite way: the way your company works is the most effective way they can work.

Without all of them being YOU and acting like YOU think they should act, how else can they get anything done?

Have you considered that everyone else there thinks the same, except about YOU?

All these meetings and unnecessary occurrences are in fact necessary to get the bare minimum in agreement between all these different people who think differently and are trying to get different things done.

How else would it be done?

The best and most effective way to negotiate a salary or promotion is to have a competing offer.

If they want to keep you, they’ll pay and you win. If they don’t want to pay, you leave and still win.

Im sure there are companies out there giving raises out of the good of their heart but why would they do it?

If nobody else wants to pay you more, why would I?

I know this is frowned upon here at HN and we like to think people get rewarded for good performance but unfortunately only a fraction of companies work like that.

Good luck!

It took me around 4 years of speaking it daily to get from advanced/fluent to feeling as comfortable as I feel with my native language. These things take time. Just relax and keep using it and you’ll get there. No need to rush.

I would love to get an answer to this question as well. I keep comings back to Zapier and the likes hoping I will find a useful use case but can’t. It seems that all it does is add stuff from email marketing forms to Google spreadsheets.

This is beautiful and very much on point.

There is evidence supporting that. Not a lot but there is.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24026850/

It sounds like there are a lot of simple options out there and you just don’t want to use them because “God, no”.

The value in these events is in talking to people.

There’s hardly anything nowadays that you can’t learn by yourself, for free, online.

If you go, go to meet and talk to people. Don’t watch a single presentation. That’s where the value comes from.