TheRealmccoy

Provide incentives and support to local companies to become multi-unicorns (BATs etc).

These companies start investing in other leading startups, scross the globe and have substantial stakes in them.

Then, nationalise these companies and you have then indirect control/semi-control/access over vast majority of leading startups across the globe.

This seems to be a nice move by Chinese government.

hi!

have you considered white hat selling?

Take 25 top companies of your prospects list and write to them asking for permission to do a pen test.

It all starts from there...

hello Master,

one issue with pitch is that, for doctors who are not versed with web technology, your offer is more of a paid liability, than a solution.

who would maintain the website, when you have sold them?

the vets, probably neither have the time nor the inclination to maintain it, and so far they have been doing without it.

Why dont you offer them, website and with just a marginal yearly cost, free maintenance also, with which they can always keep their website updated, by just sending you text and photographs by email?

this is like a complete peace of mind offer.

in fact, you can make it one offer, website with free maintenance (hosting, domain, updating content etc) at a flat yearly free.

You have a SAAS product in offering now...

this is gold and so inspiring.

Perhaps the most conclusive study to prove that mobile learning (on a smartphone) is a myth and at most a vanity.

While eating less and having CR and IF is important, equally important is the actual process of eating.

Most of the articles focus on results, but not on the actual process.

If one is eating sitting on the couch, watching television, completely oblivious of the activity, it is not going to help.

There is nothing absolute in nature, everything is connected.

How do we eat is far more important than how much we eat.

One simple experiment one can do at dinner is to sit alone, without any distraction with the dinner plate and for every morsel one takes in, chew it till you count 20 and then swallow.

Notice what happens...

I believe what the article points to convey about "emotional labour" is that, it is tough to do these jobs because, being in constant company of distress and suffering is emotionally very tough.

Specially in case of elderly or those suffering from terminal diseases, it is much more tough because inherent you are helpless, you want to do so much but inspite of your best efforts, you can't do anything.

that's emotional labour!

Things in life needs to be taken in totality and not in silos. Whatever Uber has managed to do is creditable, but at what cost?

Being a jerk company?

Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather ride a bullock cart, than avail services of such a company.

Susan Fowler is the giant killer of this century.

Salutation!

This further enhances the fact that we must have a proper 7 to 8 hours sleep.

Also, to some extent why naps are refreshing.

Does it means that when we feel overwhelmed, just closing our eyes and sitting still for only couple of minutes would help?

Typing I believe is not the problem, since we have been typing since like centuries now.

The problem is that there is no inherent pause built in the system.

It's boon is its bane!

Again, the React v/s Respond conundrum.

At hindsight, if you look at a Slack channel, so much information would be found redundant.

It is there just because it is so easy to put out there, because of the intrinsic nature of the medium, and it is so because, most of it is reaction.

Like, oh this is nice, let's put it out on Slack.

While writing an email,when the communication is being initiated, there is sufficient pause built in the system, to let one ponder, is this really worth it?

Email is not fool proof either of this syndrome, but far better.

I believe this has nothing to do with the workplace. The same thing never happened on email. If the workplace or culture would have been like that then, a group email sent by the boss/CEO would have solicited the same response.

On Email always worked like, it was email, for those it mattered, they responded and rest carried on with their work.

thanks so ever much!

Event: Your boss shares an article on @channel at Slack.

Reaction:: Since our boss has posted it and you don't want to be seemed a second rung player and the one who is NOT on her/his toes, you jump on the keyboard and first "Like/Thumbs Up" that post and then comment for the heck of it, something like "Wow", Amazing", "Insightful".

Then you look over your back ie, to see how many others have commented before you, and if you hardly see any, then you pat yourself on the back and consider the day to have been well spent.

Response:: You read the article once and decide whether it concerns you or to be discarded. If it concerns you, you read it once more, may be twice and take relevant notes. Then you decide, whether you should discuss this over an email to your boss, or a personal meeting would be more appropriate.

And thus, you draft an email or ask for 10 mins of private time with your boss.

The biggest drawback of a real time communication tool like Slack is the React v/s Respond conundrum.

Productive communication and teamwork requires that we respond, rather than react.

What happens specifically with tools like Slack which start off as demi-official tool and then transcend to official is that, one gets into the habit of reacting, instead of responding.

I have personally seen this "fastest finger first" played, almost always.

There has been tons of literature written on reacting v/s responding and I need not dwell into it.

Another aspect is that there is no exit, once Slack is the primary communication tool. One is forced to use it, otherwise you are like an outcast and people more often tend to take it as a signal that the person is on its way out and hence moved away from Slack.

Rest of the drawbacks is documented in the article.

This happens in a lot of companies, there are moments like this.

Also, nothing in your contract or offer letter would have said that the company would do a salary review every year.

When such a decision is made, companies are aware that what could happen, the way salary review is important for an employee, in equal measure it is important for the company too.

So if such a decision is made, they weighed in every thing, may be the fact also that, people might leave or they would look for another option.

And the company also knows that people who would have options are the good people, and no one wants to let go the good people and being left with average or above average people later, when the finances are sorted.

If you love what you do, stick with SoundCloud, it's just part of life and could happen anywhere.

PS: I have been through this once.

hello Derek and Will, Currently I am on an experiment to learn programming only via a smartphone and I have started with 6.00.1x of EdX. I am using Termux and GNUROOTDEBIAN app on my phone. If you would be interested, along side I could work with Py and may be give you a comparison of some sort on my experience of different module and topic on both. Prior I worked for 7 months as an EIR with an edtech Startup and also have been a founder for 52 months.

Please do let me know, my email is in my profile.

If you need someone who could work with you on sales part, please do write to me, my email is on profile. I have diverse sales experience of different industries and have lead sales team of more than 400 direct people, nationally.

I was also a founder for 52 months.

I would not ask for money for next 6 months. We can take it forward beyond that.

It is not money that I am after, it's the redemption and I hope you would understand.

Not get a cheap laptop.

This is one of the first in the series. Post October, I am going to work as a waiter at one of the beach shacks here and based on my experience, I intend to write a novel and also publish my research on "How to get maximum tips, working as a waiter".

Both creative writing and story telling are very close to me, off late I have written 17 short stories, they can be read on https://medium.com/@realmccoy

the stories are numbered.

This is about learning how to program solely on an android phone.

the assignment i believe would not require typing very long and complex programs and may be if they do, i would try to do it in batches.

Once a person has learnt programming on a smartphone, she could graduate to work on an actual laptop or desktop.

But this is an experiment or a research project kind of thing, and it is too early to count the chickens.

I am currently into voluntary poverty but that does not mean I could get a cheap laptop. I am currently far from my home, where I have a Ubuntu desktop as well as laptop.

I would try termius but I believe I have the entire Linux setup now on mobile. I am using Vim.

indeed,this experiment is to find out that, whether a mobile could be used for creating value also like programming skills resulting into direct or indirect employment.

certainly no incentive for biggies here because time spent creation in mobile means, time not spent consuming which is ulterior to their motive.

specially in crisis torn places, one finds only gloom and sadness; the future looks dark and bleak, if a pedagogical approach is found where kids and youngsters can learn on mobile itself, something like Programming, which could help them in a better future, that could help many. Unfortunates those who are forced to migrate, may be can learn enough to start a new beginning.

thanks, I have an android phone. also my intention is to finish he two EdX courses specifically.

wow ! thanks so very much! I hope that I won't disappoint, either of us.

and yes, thanks for the offer to, but it would cost you a lot to ship it all the way where I live.

but also, this is an experiment in pedagogy and Mobile learning. If tomorrow, I am staying at a place where bombs are exploding everywhere, it would be so much trouble to run with Bluetooth keyboard and the mobile both, rather than only mobile :-)

:-) same here. let's see how far I go.

thanks so ever much, I would try Termux, though I would like to stick with VIM which I have currently installed. I want to be comfortable with it first and then may be take on Emacs