zdbrandon

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by zdbrandon 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly to New York or the Bay Area Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, React, Node, C#, Firebase, Supabase, Postgres, GCP, AWS, Azure Email: See Résumé/CV Résumé/CV:
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
That's a bit like saying that if you want to sail from Europe to America, you should jump in a boat and let the wind take you there naturally. Don't touch the sails. The entire hypothesis behind a formal DEI program -- whether or
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
The story is implying that whenever this happens to you -- forgetting why you came into a room -- the truth is that you were attacked by a vampire that made you forget the reason you were there, as well as the attack itself.
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Not quite. Cost savings is only one of the many things that can lure a customer toward a purchase. While Louis Vuitton would love to keep costs low, they wouldn't do it at the expense of their status as a luxury brand. "Bean count
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Show HN: Briefed – Summaries for Hard Paywalled Content(briefed.news)
8 points by zdbrandon 3y ago|1 comments
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Apple profits rise as services arm surpasses 1B users(briefed.news)
2 points by zdbrandon 3y ago|0 comments
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
You sell 10-20% 4, 5, or sometimes more times in an effort to increase the size of the pie while your share of the pie decreases.
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
I don't think I've ever once been "break-checked" in 15 years of driving. Is that something that only happens to people who habitually drive too close to the car in front of them? (Tailgating as we call it here.)
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Thanks!
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Aside: If you don't mind sharing; which url and reader are you using? Either my reader or url is so slow that I only saw the amended title in my feed. My url tries to grab only the most popular posts, so that may be the largest contri
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Apple's stance of "it never leaves your device" seems to be working so far.
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Looks like Gen Z is outpacing the previous two generations in home ownership. So this is likely a false prediction.
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Sure this works for creative endeavors. Now what would motivate someone to pick fruit in the summer Sun? Or clean toilets in a corporate office? Sure you could say, "there are some people who just enjoy picking fruit." But are the
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by zdbrandon 3y ago
Profits, not revenue. But the point remains.
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
Hoping for greater fools in the private market I presume. Sort of like "why buy stock in a public company that never pays dividends?"
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
As someone who was considering using one of those "banks" in the coming months, this whole ordeal makes me want to stick with Chase, Wells Fargo, etc. Stripe integrations be damned.
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
Not that I see it either, but if it were that easy to see, we'd be in the upswing. Fortune favors the bold.
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
It's "MBA circle jerk" to understand that taking out debt at a lower rate than the ROI you use the debt for is advantageous?
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
Are you asking “how could you not have known this before?”, or “how could you think that this is good advice?” Either way, it seems you’ve taken rather strong offense to such a small, and rather kind point.
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
The same piece of advice can be life changing, completely irrelevant, or anywhere in between; depending on the life the recipient has lived before receiving it. So it’s natural that some readers will scroll through any list of advice and f
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
My takeaway (not necessarily from the article, but from pondering on it) is that status is a lure. It has a certain gravity, and pulls others toward you who are playing in that same specific status game. It makes people want to be around yo
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by zdbrandon 4y ago
Find a well dressed celebrity your age, and mimic their style.
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
I wouldn’t call 2.5 years the “outcome”. You have kids with a much deeper horizon in mind.
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
Also work from home and 100% disagree. Can hardly get anything done with a 4 month old.
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
Merit alone? In America?
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
Would it have soothed you if he began the article with: “Though the advice in this article is necessary, it alone is not sufficient to achieve success. Luck also plays a large factor. You need both. You will also need to obtain financial le
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
That answer is different for everyone. Maybe the article should be “How to determine whether you should work harder”, but at the end of the day I’m not sure anyone can be convinced by an article. If you don’t have any anxieties based in t
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
The framework that I have for myself, is to figure out which letter from MAPS [1] is missing from the work, and then figure out how to fill it. I’ve found that if I have all 4, then it’s much easier to work hard without asking myself “why”
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
“Societal success” in this sense is relative to others’ performance, and as such will always be “hard”, because the person aiming for this success is by definition aiming to be a statistical outlier.
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by zdbrandon 5y ago
I did almost the exact same thing in the last year. (2 days a week) For me it came from handing in my 2 weeks notice to take some time off from a company I worked for for over 5 years at the time, and then being offered a schedule of my cho

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