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When I worked in cybersecurity I had a similar realization. No one cared about security posture. They cared about insurance policies. People hired us to shift blame instead of improve security posture. this is not terribly different
Yes, but...
They also have one of the most profitable business models the world has ever seen. Their RPE (revenue per employee) is roughly $1mm and growing at a 50% YoY rate...
They heavily use technology as leverage for insane margin growth. 90% rule of 40 as well.
Yea totally. I am an owner and I've been fighting with the board for 3 years over failure to hold elections, and inconsistent treatment of members / rules.
I have a lawyer, have won my first battle already but it cost me $6k out of pocket (and the HOA $25k) for something that should have never happened.
Next step is to expose the board and get people to turn out to vote, sadly there are unelected members on the board since 1995, and not enough turn out for a quorum so I am a bit hamstrung
This is so endearing. I've been at odds with my HOA [board] since I moved in and its a decades long tale of my community where everyone is treated poorly by our HOA.
I've asked the board for block parties annually, and events semi annually and theyve rejected it over and over again. Meanwhile I miss this type of community that I had in every building I lived in around NYC before moving to the mountains
Man I have to pick this up again. I was a top CTF, Arena, and duel player. I played through college competitively (2008)
as an american who avoids sugar and processed foods (like seed oils) its virtually impossible to eat out or buy anything beyond whole foods. Everything is contaminated.
Combine that with forever chemical use in packaging, pesticides in non-organic produce, our food supply chain is killing us.
I buy eggs from reputable regenerative free range, non-vegetarian fed chickens. I order my poultry and beef from regenerative farms across the country who are verified organic + grass fed + grass finished.
I bake my own bread and cook 95% of the meals I eat at home.
It costs an arm and a leg and isnt convenient but I feel much better.
Is this true? I know we all want to hate on Boeing for obvious reasons, but they did get a manned crew to space, without blowing anyone up...
I love this idea. Hong Kong has something kinda like this with bag check in town, and then a train to the airport. It's extremely convenient
Aspen, CO
Pros:
- Can be outside all year round (provided you love snow like everyone else here).
- Tons of activities, culture, and interesting people.
- I get to play hockey and snowboard / mountain bike in the same day, with maybe 20 minutes of time in my car.
- The weather is impeccable (again if you like winter).
- Small town airport is amazing. Get there 15 minutes before boarding and walk right onto your plane.
Cons:
- Small town. 10k people means you run into people all the time, people build reputations, etc.
- Airport can be unreliable in weather.
- Cost prohibitive for most friends or family to visit easily.
- Everyone is white, and mostly rich. Lack of real diversity.
- Eating out is prohibitively expensive and feels extravagant. (Pro to this is I spend more time with my fiancé at home cooking together and eating healthier)
I lived in NYC for nearly 20 years, and I visit for 3-6 weeks a year. I love NYC more than anything, but also for now really love my life I've built here, even if it gets lonely sometimes -- I always remind myself that I was lonely sometimes in NYC too.
Its been really nice to get out of the day to day commute to work, get coffee at [insert favorite local coffee shot], get lunch, commute home, go out to dinner or order in, go to bed, rinse repeat.
I get to snowboard daily in the winter, ride my mountain bike in the summer, see gorgeous scenery on every ride or drive, and really have mother nature as my playground. I am physically and mentally healthier than I've ever been.
But I miss NYC
Not really. I feel tired during the day sometimes but way less than when I used to work in an office every day. Usually a quick walk shakes it off if I have no cardio planned.
I think I’m mostly trying to understand what I can and cannot control in my life as I age
This is a great recommendation -- I dont really need caffeine but its a ritual I adore. I can definitely give it up so I think its where I can start. Thank you!
Stress is hard measure so I don't have a way to say I am more or less stressed than normal.
As another poster asked -- I have had tons of trauma but also put work in to overcome it. I have a great, healthy life.
I always work hard to quiet my mind but sometimes its hard to. I am an entrepreneur but rarely find myself ruminating late at night about it (these days). When I am stressed I find it harder to fall asleep for sure, but that isn't as often as it was when I was younger
Updated my post, I get 60-90 minutes of cardio a day and 30-60 of walking (zone 2)
I've been going down this rabbit hole for a while and don't have any conclusive answers.
I have always slept 7.5 hours in my adult life. I wake up a couple times a night briefly (and usually recall 1-2 time a night that it happens) but fall back asleep quickly.
My room is dark, and cold. Most of the times when I wake up it's because I am warm from my mattress (casper wave).
I am now purchasing a chilling pad for my side of the mattress to address that so I sleep deeper and more consistently.
I take magnesium because I am very active and have suffered for the last year or so from hypnic jerks, which are terrifying but have gone away since I started taking magnesium supplements before bed.
I occasionally have a hard time falling asleep or wake up early and cant get back to bed, but I still average 7.5hrs over a year -- and over 3 years since ive been tracking my sleep nightly.
I get sufficient REM, dont drink alcohol, gave up weed, and only have caffeine from 9am - 11am daily (1 coffee usually, sometimes a shot of espresso in addition).
Yet my deep sleep averages are ~45 minutes a night.
I am about to be 39, and I am unclear what to change beyond the mattress cooling pad which I will measure.
I've also started cold showers when waking up (60 seconds of cold to end my shower, working towards 2 minutes).
My family has zero history of Dementia so I am not as worried, but I am concerned with staying in tip top cognitive shape if possible.
I am tempted to try a sleep study and see what I might learn.
Edit: Lots of comments to address here.
- I exercise 60-90 minutes daily.
- I play a high level of hockey 4 days a week, snowboard or mountain bike 5 days a week.
- I am slightly over weight by scale, but I am just an athletic build.
- I eat healthy and cook nearly every meal I eat (I live in an expensive ski town with only high end eateries so I avoid them). Lots of brown rice, protein, fruit, and veggies.
- I walk 30-60 minutes a day (active dog).
- I get plenty of sunlight (within 30 minutes of waking)
I’m an avid snowboarder and mountain biker and live in a Colorado ski town. I had called detection and crash detection enabled on my phone and watch since it came out.
I was thrilled when I took a bad spill over the bars of my mountain bike at 30mph downhill and my phone offered to call 911.
I was dismayed when I started snowboarding this season and without falling my watch texted my emergency contacts and called 911 repeatedly on my first runs of the season.
I’ve now disabled it as my older mother doesn’t need another reason to be scared of her son doing extreme sports regularly.
Now I lost the extra safety the feature provided simply because it was incapable of understanding snowboarding behavior.
We didnt consider any, hence the friction towards getting more capital
No and candidly I mishandled the entire shutdown. As a solo founder, my company going insolvent really put me in a dark place.
I’m happy to talk about it now though.
I think the problem was twofold. We were trying to raise during a tumultuous time for consumer hardware — when VCs were really skeptical of hardware without subscription revenue streams. And our unit economics story was really challenging. COGs grew considerably to get to shipping and that compressed our margins in a way that made the growth story seem capitally intensive. I was convinced we could reduce costs and increase AOV / LTV but VCs really wanted subscriptions
Adding our failed Series A pitch deck because I think its interesting for this crowd:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9784417B1/en?oq=9784417
A lot of the claims surrounded how we designed and manufactured a light bulb that was modular.
We could support speakers, cameras, and sensors in the same form factor without any material mechanical or electrical changes.
both GPS and radio time receivers are very expensive. LED bulbs are a commodity product and thus have little room for margin.
Our low power clock + super cap added $1.25 of BOM which translates to $2.50-$3 of cost to the user.
Led bulbs at Home Depot are $3-5 on the low end.
If you ask me I dont think average users will ever pay for a solution to this problem.
People are simply not aware that their blue-heavy LED lights either cause harm to their sleep schedule or simply feel clinical at night.
I live in a very affluent mountain town now, one thats very aware of light pollution and is a general haven for health nuts, and yet 75% of the houses I see with lights on at night have blue-white lights. Especially in their kitchens. This makes sense as they are working areas
Yea great question. The bulbs were provisioned via an iOS app and there was a Wifi bulb sold that had a speaker in it (part of our pivot towards more marketable products)
The bulbs could have been updated either by A) having a wifi bulb that then synchronized each other node via a low power mesh network, or B) by opening the app and connecting to the network.
We effectively used the BLE radio to make a mesh network and a BLE device (phone) could connect and send and receive over the mesh.
The patent was handed over to our debt financing company (WTI) and sits idle.
The actual patent covered the method for tracking time without power and for synchronizing clocks over a low power mesh network
I started a company to pursue circadian lighting (called Twist) and sadly pivoted away from it as a core value proposition because of weak reception from the market.
I feel we were 20 years too early (we shut down about 5 years ago).
Our tech enabled smart circadian lighting (we called it adaptive lighting) without configuration, an app, or wifi. The lightbulbs worked without any smart gadgetry necessary.
Every time the switch turned on the light made a 20 ms computation based on the time it stored (via a low power clock and a super cap) and turned to the right brightness and color temperature automatically. This was protected by a patent but also could not find a buyer for the tech despite how differentiated it was
Now I have an entire home with hue downlights + bulbs that does circadian lighting (with HASS as well) and while its not nearly as elegant of a solution as Twist (aforementioned startup), it is pretty great and a huge life changer to me and my fiancè.
Edit: for context we use Philips Hue downlight retrofits + bulbs in other fixtures, all white ambiance, and Lutron Aurora dimmers, connected to HASS on a RBPI, running adaptive lighting from HACS
We use Remark, and given the ability to leverage AST, its pretty much limitless in terms of customization
Yea as ahmadss describe above, web3 and discord is as close as you can get to this experience.
A good friend had a really cool way of describing the evolution from web1(aol / dialup era) -> web3
Web 1 was unmitigated chaos, lots of creativity, lots of experimentation, lots of illegal activity, not a lot of money being made
Web 2 was ordered chaos, lots of money being made everywhere, not a ton of creativity but lots of business value creation
Web 3 is the best of both worlds (and some of the worsts). Lots of creativity, boundless energy, lots of value but also lots of fraud.
This is amazing because I see 4 of my own proggies up here. I need to get a VM setup to run these!
Thanks for putting this together
I have described this world to a few people in my life recently, and look back on it very fondly.
Everyone was anonymous, everyone was crazy motivated, and it was a wild west of credit card theft, software theft, and more.
I wrote a few prolific mass mailers and servers, was pretty well known in the scene, and was only 12/13 years old.
I learned to program, create great user experiences, and more.
My servers were the first to have plain text search: /server send photoshop instead of /server send 26-40
It also hosted the lists via a PHP webapp, tracked metrics on the web across users of the app, and connected to IRC.
It was a wonderful time of chaos, rapid learnings, and intrinsic motivation that shaped my life forever. If not for this period of time in my life, I dont know where Id find myself.
do you smoke?
ARM was public for a long time. In 2016 they were taken private by Softbank via a $32bn acquisition.