BlueTie

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by BlueTie 1y ago
The sad fact is that the people best suited to thrive in a context where relationships are transactional and mostly dependent on continued usefulness to both parties - are sociopaths/machiavellian types. And these are precisely the peo
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by BlueTie 2y ago
The financial environment now is very different than even 2-3 years ago. Mortgages went from 3%->7%. Bonds/Treasuries actually pay a decent return. The most speculative investments are no longer running hot because they have to comp
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by BlueTie 3y ago
I ran sales for a start up and as much as I hated these types of questionnaires - it was a huge competitive advantage to have someone who knows their stuff (a founder who wrote most of our code) complete them fast and get them back. It&#x27
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by BlueTie 3y ago
I write down a bunch of very small 5-15 minute subtasks that I want to do - being very specific and including the estimated time to accomplish into a 1hr block. Then I put on Brain.fm for 1hr. That's it. Works really well for me. Rinse
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by BlueTie 3y ago
I think it has nothing to do with the decline (which is mostly a result of an all-time insane bubble in P/E ratios and VC investment with lowest interest rates ever) but it will have everything to do with the lack of rebound from this
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Nassim Taleb has advice to follow something called "the barbell approach" where 90% of your money is super safe (all stock market index funds/t-bonds/etc.) and 10% of your money is in some super speculative asset. I don&
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by BlueTie 4y ago
It's cheaper to let OpenAI figure all the stuff out first - then pour your war chest of money to n+1 their model instead of doing all the work of experimenting/failing/correcting course yourself. Give it a year and they'
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Locally: Contract test (mock provider/consumer) As part of CI/CD: Depending on complexity - basic functional tests against the specific endpoint or end-to-end test of API functions (using mocks when APIs aren't available). On
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by BlueTie 4y ago
1. Gold goes up between 50%-150% as many countries offload USD-debt/reserves and need another globally accepted reserve. 2. Biden resigns stating mental health/old age while dodging more probs into family. Salts earth for a Sander
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by BlueTie 4y ago
A few takes on this: * College degree is just a proxy for people in dead end jobs. This could easily say "Men without yachts..." "Men without country club memberships..." "Men without genius IQs..." etc. "
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by BlueTie 4y ago
There is an episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tries to get more time in front of a woman he's interested in by leaving his hat in her apartment thinking that even though she doesn't like him - just listening to him talk ov
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Sales guy here. The way I sell against top tier names is to use attunement to my advantage. Sure the other company has a huge name - but they're not like you and will never be like you; instead they'll expect you to be like them.
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Nice catch. Fixed.
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Hi there - one of the few pro sellers on HN here. You're planning on prospecting into one of the most rejection-heavy domains out there with small physical business. These people get dozens of calls per day from companies they've
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by BlueTie 4y ago
I hate all the comments here so adding my own take (I have a different perspective than many here as I sell software - I don't build it). A feature or features is what your software does literally. A company is an ideology around what
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by BlueTie 4y ago
Think of all the things that are Ivermectin-level questionable (cloth masks, 6ft, vaccinated don't spread, 95% effective at preventing illness, airborne, etc.) that have negatively impacted far more people than a few nuts who decided t
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by BlueTie 5y ago
Yields on investment (the ratio of how much you pay vs. how much future cash flow you get) are as low as they have ever been. Bonds, Treasuries, Stocks, Mortgages, everything. So that makes people think we're in a bubble. On the other
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by BlueTie 5y ago
I read The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Tolstoy (who became very spiritual himself and wrote a bunch of religious texts later in his life) and the Bhagavad Gita (two of his Gandhi's biggest inspirations). It's part why-has-no-o
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by BlueTie 5y ago
The fact that the entire comment section is talking about how sorry they are for the doctor because patients were rude to him and one even punched him - in the background of a story that is talking about a pandemic rushing through his commu
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by BlueTie 5y ago
I'm not particularly happy but I do know that pursing happiness as a goal is a bad idea. It's worth trying to set a different goal (health, career, family, whatever) and pursue that. Once you feel like you're making progress
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by BlueTie 5y ago
Still, it would seem negligent to bifurcate the population into (vaccinated = low transmission; unvaccinated = high transmission) when the reality is exactly as you describe - a forever variable efficacy rate across the board (transmission,
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by BlueTie 5y ago
If your mortgage rate is 2.5% and inflation is 4.5%. You're getting 2% real returns. But you're also getting leverage since most buyers put 20% down or less. 4:1 leverage on 2% is 10% real returns. This is BEFORE asset appreciatio
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by BlueTie 5y ago
Understandability is waning. Which in many places amounts to the same thing. Newtonian physics could be understood by an average child. General Relativity could be understood by intellectuals somewhat. The cutting edge of physics now is bar
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by BlueTie 5y ago
Fair Warning: It's not uncommon for a company to get bought for the price it costs to pay back preferred stock (investors) and essentially 0 out the common stock and/or offer new equity options (and new vesting period) at the new
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by BlueTie 5y ago
I work in software sales so I get to see things from a slightly different perspective here that might be valuable for you to consider. Over a decade with a handful of different vendors I've worked with, I have had "are they seriou
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by BlueTie 6y ago
Start by setting realistic expectations. A normal human can only do about 4 hours of difficult work per day before burning out. The whole office thing was/is a way take 4 hours of work and make it feel like an actual workday. If you do
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by BlueTie 6y ago
"Disrupting" a space too often means creating a shitty, tokenized, empty version of it that's so easy it replaces the more difficult and nuanced real thing. I can't imagine a better world where sex is a pornhub search an
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by BlueTie 6y ago
I built my house about 5 years ago in a subdivision. First year on the back deck at noon there were a handful of bees buzzing around and at dust I was getting eaten alive by mosquitos. After 5 years of watching my neighbors spray for mosqui
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by BlueTie 6y ago
> Well, in this case, people are mad at Azure/MS and Canonical for betraying developer trust, not the individual salesperson. He's just a pawn in the game. It's not like this guy went rogue; this is his job. It's stil
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by BlueTie 6y ago
As someone who works in tech sales - the real bullshit here is that this is some right-out-of-college 22 y/o entry level sales person (SDR) who was likely told to to take this list and message everyone on linkedin 1x1. The negative imp

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