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This cannot be accurate. I've traveled the midwest, and so many are miserable. I don't buy this at all.

Some awful growth marketer who took a Reforge class is crying today.

I truly believe stuff like this is contributing to the rise of socialism. There's no nuance left in anything, anymore.

Google is a slight red herring here, they need to be going after Facebook.

I do believe that we're living in two political dimensions - dimension A, and dimension B. (This is purely academic distinction - just for illustrative purposes.)

I was just in Kansas, and all I saw were people that would benefit massively from Liberal/Democratic policies, and yet vote against their best interest Every. Single. Time.

Wrapping blue collar and middle class voters in a blanket of patriotism, near-worship of the military class and first responders, and positioning anything else as anti-American is very powerful.

WOW. I almost sent him a DM... it won't accomplish anything.

I wonder, and I am not trying to be a smart-ass here, if this is the first case of a growth hack (some sort of push notification/alert) that actually lead to someone's death.

This is the correct answer, not the other answers below. We call it branded search, or brand protection placements.

This is the sort of practice that will get Google in trouble with Congress.

I mean, they're wholesale knocking off Slack, calling it Teams - Slack is dead.

Please, anyone let this be a lesson: you can destroy a brand that took decades to build in a matter of months.

Priority boarding is now being used by most airlines as a class differentiator - a perk you can add to paying for a Comfort + or Economy Plus or First Class ticket.

FYI, those details were originally posted on YOSPOS, a SomethingAwful sub-forum which is the world's best Internet forum for computer touchers.

They regularly lambast HN via this thread. It would be great if more people read their criticisms of the community here.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=39...

$50K is household income.

Average income is more like $32K.

tHe sTaTE wAnTs tO cOnTroL me!!!!

modifies car to literally emit noxious emissions everywhere

The Bay Area (once a generation of boomers passes) will HAVE to become more like NYC - with "cities" (using that term loosely for places like Cupertino, Mountain View etc as these are really sterile suburbs with trip malls) becoming more like "boroughs" with an overarching authority.

We're talking a 30 year timeline, though.

2x

- Stop smoking so much weed - Read regularly every night or at least 4-6 times a night - Exercise 4 times a week (I already do, just gotta keep it up) - Remain positive - Leave Silicon Valley

Correct, this isn't surprising considering the US president right now.

Bingo. You dodged a bullet bud.

That's the differentiator; I have no problem with that.

Let me be clear: I'm okay with NON-business specific challenges. AKA, from a marketing perspective:

How would you position a new SaaS service that allows you to track your children's school performance? (but the hiring company is in SaaS business tools)

Vs. doing work that is directly actionable and can be taken by the business, "How would you update our homepage?"

That's the line now. Not opposed to challenges.

Aside: marketers, engineers, whomever. Don't do free projects for companies. It's never worth it.

I monitor their site to make sure they never use the work I presented. Waiting to pull the trigger on a lawsuit!

Experienced this at a local tech company that will remain nameless. They're in the logistics space. They enable fast shipping for merchants.

Did 10+ hours of a challenge project - something I would have charged $5,000+ for, including a channel-specific attribution model (with defense of my choice), a complete onboarding campaign flow with timing, and sample email creative, lead scoring model, and a bunch of pedantic questions about my background and history. 15+ pages, presentations, etc.

Did three virtual conference calls. Met the head of engineering and CEO. Went over; great, energetic conversations.

Received a call from the recruiter, poor thing, and she could barely get the words out to me.

Them: "I'm so sorry... uh, but... but it was a no."

Me: "I completely understand! Not everything is a fit. Do you have any actionable feedback for me?"

Them: "Uh, they... I mean, we... just... are looking for, more? I think."

Me: "Um, okay. Thanks for the opportunity."

They still have not filled their head of marketing role. Two months later.

(I suspect their young founder didn't like me - not a problem, but not something you can tell a candidate.)

This article resonates.

Other industries employ a significantly larger amount of people. Ford has 85,000 employees. Facebook has 35,000.

It's a wealth concentration issue.