codyZ

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by codyZ 8mo ago
I have no productive words to share other than positive feelings and kind empathy to you @sberens. I've gone through this manufacturing route in China before about 10 years ago and...it has largely been the same. Even with near native
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by codyZ 3y ago
This is nothing sort of amazing. Great f*cking work. No exaggeration - this almost brought tears to me...
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by codyZ 4y ago
Perhaps I am an isolated incident and honestly hope for the sake of the community that it is. But they followed up with an email to my personal email tied to my personal email from sign up from @business.fb.com domain per their help center
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by codyZ 4y ago
I also thought it was a scam call but they followed up with an email to my personal email tied to my personal email from sign up from @business.fb.com domain per their help center https://www.facebook.com/business/help&
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by codyZ 4y ago
Indeed it is. I too thought that perhaps it was a scam. But the call was followed up by an email from business.fb.com and per their Help Center, it is indeed from Meta https://www.facebook.com/business/help/3727039
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by codyZ 4y ago
Correct - My personal number is nowhere to be seen anywhere on the business account.
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Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me
317 points by codyZ 4y ago|80 comments
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by codyZ 4y ago
I think that I actually 'L - O - L' at most three times a year when reading on my computer. "cut off your finger and work even harder." is the best one yet!
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by codyZ 5y ago
Ha! This is good! XD
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by codyZ 5y ago
I regularly tell people this - that Coinbase really could have "died being the hero" but instead has "lived long enough to see yourself become the villain"
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by codyZ 7y ago
Multiple people in my last organization fit this bill. Worse, these bad actors are somehow able to leverage their incompetency to be branded as 'thought leaders' themselves. Its comically impressive...
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by codyZ 7y ago
This is by far the most effective workplace environment and arrangement I have experienced as well, for teams and large companies - almost like physical 'pod' structures
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by codyZ 10y ago
Coincidentally, in my research paper, it's found that one of the deciding factors that VCs and Accelerators choose/invest in companies is actually how much they 'like' people or founders
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by codyZ 10y ago
Fair point, though there's no way that her site would have taken off without the misleading blurb. In an essentially culturally Confucian China, the task of naming a child is commonly relegated to the most senior/elderly person in
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by codyZ 10y ago
Moonwalking with Einstein -Definitely. Also Brain Rules is a good one as well. I would be cautious with Cal Newport's books and take it with a box of salt, however. To be fair, I only read one of his books (So Good They Can't Igno
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Ask HN: Where did you learn to Meditate?
1 points by codyZ 11y ago|0 comments
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by codyZ 11y ago
I remember reading somewhere that Peter Jackson was directing Lee on how to sound when stabbed in the back...Lee promptly told him No. That is in fact not how he sounds when he is stabbed in the back. He knows...(given his military backgrou
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by codyZ 11y ago
I slowly saw all of my Samsung-fan co-workers/partners transition to iPhones or atleast other Androids during my 2 year stay in Beijing. Ancedotal evidence at best but the quality of their phones and the software was subpar. I've
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by codyZ 12y ago
I visited this Bakery twice - once to potentially buy bulk, another time as part of a business case study. All the employees, atleast the ones I observed working the floor, were all happy and smiling. Good for them.
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by codyZ 12y ago
Having worked and traveled extensively in China, I couldn't find a single person that had good things to say about Xiaomi, other than its price. Western media seems to be fixated on this company but I've asked so many Chinese nati
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by codyZ 12y ago
'Business' is a large topic - anything in particular? Marketing? Finance? Customer Development? Management? etc? Books that I'd recommend: Anything by Peter Drucker, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Made t
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HN, what is your meditative practice?(moderndao.tumblr.com)
1 points by codyZ 13y ago|1 comments
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by codyZ 13y ago
This is an excellent service/Chrome extension that I have been proudly been using for over two years (I think...) I donated then and I will donate now again. Keep up the great work. It is wonderful. edit: two years
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by codyZ 13y ago
This is hardly news at all. It seems a China-tech article pops up every few months talking about relatively the same thing, awe, amazement, efficiency, whatever it may be. Its not just Shenzhen though. You will find comparable shopping mall
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by codyZ 13y ago
>For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products, Unfortunate, but true. Everything is suddenly an app. Is there a difference between 'social' startup and 'tech' startup? I think the culture, particularly th
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by codyZ 13y ago
Talking about business, entrepreneurship is fun. Doing it is another. Separates the Men from the boys.
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by codyZ 13y ago
That's a good one too - luckily they had a second edition or it may have been totally lost in the endless abyss of time. I'd be really surprised to find someone of my generation to have read about it though...
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by codyZ 13y ago
I also feel like The Lean Startup really isn't anything new. Its just articulated and repackaged in a different way that's more sexy, or tech-y. God forbid any of my peers start reading Drucker...
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by codyZ 13y ago
5 second inhale, 5 second exhale, repeat 5 second inhale/exhale X times or for Y minutes, etc. Note that 5, 7, and 10 are arbitrary numbers that may change per person. The rate of inhale/exhale should be as constant as possible as well, me
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by codyZ 13y ago
I've meditated weekly for about 2 to 3 years on and off, but these past three years, I've meditated almost daily averaging an hour every session, sitting zazen and breathing. For me, there's two types of meditation. One that clears my mind

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