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by thrav 1y ago
Much of my team would probably qualify me as about as buyer-pull as sales people get — I told my VP my strategy for pipe generation in a QBR was exercising more product influence — and I disagree with many of the author’s points. I challeng
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by thrav 4y ago
The suburbs around San Francisco don’t really count, in my opinion. I also live in one with a Michelin star restaurant and plenty going on, but I still struggle to participate in a lot of it with a toddler. It’s a far cry from the Texas sub
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by thrav 4y ago
I’m sure you already know this, but don’t ever do sales.
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by thrav 4y ago
Yep. Sounds just like dbt’s approach.
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by thrav 4y ago
I hear you, but my point is the broad definition of shoe = “thing that protects your feet” shouldn’t be applied to either, anymore than “thing used to drive other things into things” should be applied equally to hammers, sledgehammers, mall
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by thrav 4y ago
“There’s no functional purpose for wearing a watch anymore.” This could not be further from the truth. If anything, the advent of tech watches has made it even more clear to me how valuable a watch that runs forever and never needs to be re
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by thrav 5y ago
Their investment in Tesla alone would be more than enough evidence, if they got in near their IPO. Throw in an investment in Apple when everyone started switching to Mac circa 2006 (I told everyone who would listen to buy it, but I was a co
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by thrav 5y ago
When you have ADHD, things often only come to mind via triggers, and many people in the tech community have ADHD.
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by thrav 5y ago
Just end the meal at first throw. After a few hungry angry days, it’ll stop.
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by thrav 5y ago
Or, ya know, just buying whatever hot new thing that gets invented and has traction.
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by thrav 5y ago
For more, read the all time classic: How to Win Friends and Influence People. The answer is basically: Be genuinely interested in people and they will like you.
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by thrav 5y ago
Wyze and Eufy are so funny. Parallel companies slowly crawling towards remaking every consumer electronic device, but cheaper and better.
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by thrav 5y ago
This is why I live in California. I want to prefer the outside to the inside. I want fast food to be non-existent. I want walking/biking to be quicker than driving. Anything that nudges me towards a better lifestyle is a bonus.
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by thrav 5y ago
To be fair to them, taking a great picture at a pumpkin patch is an American tradition. They often go on the Christmas Card. I was out there attaching a tripod to a fence and trying to get a good family portrait for my daughter’s first year
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by thrav 5y ago
I agree with most of what you’re saying here, but something that I didn’t communicate well is how far reaching this consumerism is. ‘Everything is bigger in Texas’ is actually a legitimate characterization. Bigger portions, bigger houses, b
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by thrav 5y ago
That’s fair. I appreciate the effort you put into the clarification. I do agree with OP, but I do not believe either of us have provided sufficient evidence to establish our assertions as indisputable, and wouldn’t have expected my comment
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by thrav 5y ago
Did I say, “All Americans”? Or was I making a comment about a common occurrence within the country?
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by thrav 5y ago
Did I make claims about entire countries, or did I readily admit that I was only sharing my own small taste, explicitly stating that it shouldn’t be sufficient for broad conclusions?
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by thrav 5y ago
My evidence is only anecdotal, but as someone who grew up in, and lived all over America, and lived abroad, I couldn’t agree more with OP. My friends in London, and their friends, many of whom grew up quite wealthy, were nearly indistinguis
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by thrav 5y ago
Of course, but I’m still interested to hear who you would mention.
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by thrav 5y ago
Who in the world, without some flavor of capitalism, is doing better? China needed to let individuals own companies to get where they are, even if they reserve the right to disappear those individuals at any time.
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by thrav 5y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say that's the main reason. The main reason is that doing it that way has proven to yield good results. We have work to do on how we manage the negative externalities of the approach, but the approach it
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by thrav 5y ago
Which is why their heavy investments in making high quality films out of the first film for each character is the real key. Click into each director of the phase 1 films. They were all multi-decade successes, with their biggest films fittin
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by thrav 5y ago
There’s a bit of a difference here, in that the landlord is also coming out the other side with an appreciating asset, not pure costs and the consumer coming out of the transaction with the asset.
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by thrav 5y ago
That’s fair, but you have to recognize that couldn’t have lasted forever. Your space was on its way to heavy commoditization, like software spaces almost always are. Ignoring the shifting sands would’ve likely meant a more gradual decline,
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by thrav 5y ago
Those are borderline, but they’re pretty close to being fully in the Tenderloin. That’s the roughest and one of the cheapest parts of San Francisco proper.
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by thrav 5y ago
They’re talking about corporate profits being funneled to already wealthy shareholders instead of the people responsible for generating the profits.
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by thrav 5y ago
To be fair, much of what you describe is just part of becoming a mature company. At some point, flat can't work anymore. At some point, the impact of individuals is diluted and the number of people needed is so high, that outsize rewar
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by thrav 5y ago
I think your last paragraph is the key here. You “got the win” without actually getting the win. Instead of praise, reward, recognition — you got more work. I think the point above is that the win needs to be material beyond your own recogn
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by thrav 5y ago
The bottom line is, Reddit has value — and not just a little. Whenever I’m trying to figure something out, I can always find a sub that has the answer, or will help. Most recent example was California drivers safety course. Googled: “Reddit

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