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It’s unlikely they’d cancel an account for a cancelled card. Probably the fastest approach would be to just cancel it and see where you get an “update your payment!” notice.

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I think minor grievance gets upgraded to major grievance when it’s a leader of the company no longer engaging with you, effectively turning you into a pariah and unable to do your work leading to termination.

1. Get domain and set up webflow site. Throw in a random template and give access to sales team to add whatever content they want.

2. Spend remaining 3 hours, 45 minutes rehearsing speech about how great it was to work with the sales team and how much you guys can achieve when you put your heads together.

3. Get promoted.

4. Next time a request comes in tell the new guy to throw together a site in 3-4 hours. Don’t worry about the results, they’ll learn.

5. Spend newly free time internally/externally blogging and being a ‘thought leader’

6. Get promoted.

7. Leverage new title to job hop to another company as an ML Engineer so I can learn what ML actually is.

This feels unfair to say.

People with moral values don’t and shouldn’t avoid this kind of work to make sure that they care about accuracy, edge cases, that they continuously refine how they define utility and try to view it from a place of empathy.

Doctors and first responders make these calls often when they perform mass casualty triage, or when to declare someone’s death to enable collection of life saving organs.

Normally I’m all for rapid validation of ideas, but this is one of the areas in which I think it is not a great idea.

Just because you are validating an idea does not absolve you from being properly licensed to provide mental healthcare. Be aware you are likely putting the therapist’s license in jeopardy, and as you are offering healthcare services you are likely still required to be HIPAA compliant. There are also possibly even further data protections you are expected to comply with given the likelihood you will have information on mental health, substance abuse and sexual history.

An insane number of engineers fake it til they make it. They do a 3 hour online class, boom, they’re an ML/DL/AI engineer. They fork AI related repositories so they seem to have street cred for it.

What everyone knows in the industry but doesn’t say out loud is that companies hire engineers who are interested in a technology and can be trained for it and engineers want to find roles in which they can train for new skills they don’t have yet.

The hotel industry can compete amongst itself, and increasingly the people I’ve talked to are preferring hotels to Airbnb due to the hidden fees, over-controlling landlords and scams.

Excessively commercializing residential units was creating all sorts of problems with raising rents and wrecking any sense of community for people.

I see this as an overall great thing.

It’s such a perverse filter: take accountability/blame and you get relegated. Pass the blame and market yourself as the one heroically fighting the dysfunction and you get promoted.

I wonder if there are any management/organizational systems which have accountability and graceful failure as positive requirements for promotion.

I feel like if you’re having enough incidents where you can accurately calculate a P95 for recovery then that isn’t the metric you’re going to be caring about. Instead you’re going to be focused on change failure rate.

Also for failures I would imagine they aren’t heavily skewed to small amounts.

I’m in the NYC area and have been part of a few VC backed companies. Happy to chat and give you feedback/pass on to any connections I have if there’s a fit.

Email in my profile.

They could be held partially responsible as they could have their fund LPs sue them for negligence, especially if they had any materials detailing that they did diligence.

They won’t be though, because everyone would be afraid for future repercussions. That said, they’re on a list of VC firms I would hesitate to take calls from going forward.