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gabessquishytum · 5 months

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A bit of a turn but this is where my mind's at. I love a bitchy, whiny Dream who puts himself and everyone down the moment he meets them. He doesn't like people or himself or much of anything really. It's all so fake and fictionalized. So to kinda get at that he picks up a job as a near nude waiter at a local strip club. He doesn't bother to attempt to understand why anyone would come here on their lunch break, but the hundreds he finds strapped into his g-string more than make up for it. Besides, the club is damp and dark with nothing but the disco lights illuminating these fuck ugly guys who make up their clientele. It pays for his lifestyle well enough and if he gets fired then he has his trust fund to fall back on. So he really doesn't give a shit about being nice. People seem to like that anyway.

Hob is one of those people. Bouncing for a strip club was one of the last jobs he thought he would ever take, but the money is good. He doesn't need to carry a weapon unlike the numerous other security jobs he's taken before, and the weird hours allow him to keep up with grad school. But he's so close to getting his doctorate that once he submits his dissertation, he's free to take a job teaching somewhere else. He's thinking somewhere warm and sunny.

That also means he's going to be giving his two weeks soon and he has eyes for one of he coworkers. The skinny brunette that bristles from even a fraction of attention. That's the one he wants. It's not like Hob doesn't know him, despite the security staff usually being busy with the guys attempting to grab the dancers, he's had to deal with a few people who got a little too handsy with their waitresses. So he's had to save Dream's ass more than he's had the opportunity to stare at it.

So he buys a bunch of flowers, dresses up in a nice suit and saves a decent bit of pay to come in on his off day. He manages to score Dream's section and he waits. When his crush finally comes around, Hob loses a bit of nerve and fesses up to Dream what he's doing, but sans the detail that it's for him. Dream laughs at him and calls him all sorts of names like simp. Though he finds it kinda adorable how sincere Hob is about confessing to his crush. He takes his break at the table and negs Hob for details relating to his crush. Apparently he's tall, pale, and angled in all the right points. Hob will not shut up about his petty blue eyes or his sharp wit. He conveniently doesn't tell Dream that he's a coworker, which makes Dream so mad! Hob is sitting here, in a strip club, instead of going out to confess his feelings. He shoves Hob out of the club and table before he even gets his drink and demands Hob to finally come clean about his feelings!

Later that night, when his shift is over and he's changing in the dressing room, he's still thinking about Hob. Maybe he's different then all the men who grab at his ass or make lewd comments when he brings out their food. He has been one of the few bouncers who actually do something when he and his coworkers complain. There's someone genuine about him that makes it hard for Dream to want to bully him.

He goes outside for a cigarette, and who should be there but Hob with his bouquet of ruby red poppies (dreams favorite) and a light for him.

- 🤜 Anon

This feels like such a good addition to the picture in my head I'm building of simp!Hob. Particularly if he's able to actually win Dream’s heart! Just imagine how annoyed Dream would be to find that he's got a stupid crush on this ridiculous man. He's muttering to himself in the mirror about how love is fake and the world is shit and nothing matters. And then he thinks about Hob’s eyes and catches himself smiling...

So, when he finds Hob waiting for him, he concedes. He'll allow one date. And Hob is the perfect gentleman, so he takes Dream for a nice meal - maybe they have to go somewhere that opens late, but it's still nice. Hob nudges Dream into ordering pancakes and a milkshake. They talk about Hob’s future teaching job and how kids suck but they can be ok actually.

It's a nice date, but Dream’s cynicism tells him that Hob probably just wants to fuck him. He's just cleverer and more patient than the guys who try to pull him at the club. He's willing to spend a little time before he tries to get Dream into bed. So Dream gets right back to negging Hob about how he's wasted his money because Dream doesn't intend to put out.

But Hob just laughs and says he's way too tired to be thinking about sex. He steals one of Dream’s cigarettes when they go outside, and walks him all the way home while cheerfully talking about how he can't wait to get away from London and shitty weather. Dream is perplexed, annoyed, cringing about how fucking chipper Hob is... but he's also kind of warm and soft inside. Especially when Hob kisses his cheek goodnight.

Dream is actually looking forward to seeing him again. Ugh. And he thinks that maybe he wouldn't mind if Hob touched him? He pictures Hob’s strong sturdy hands wrapping around his waist and his cheeks turn bright red just like poppies.

Well fuck. He's going to have to think hard of some bitchy things to say to Hob, because right now all he can think of is... that he wants Hob to simp over him! The horror!

#🤜 anon #the sandman #dreamling #nsft

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littleblondesoprano · 2 years

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43-45, 102, 103, 141, 132, 153, 189, 194

oh damn, thank you!!

43. What’s the career highlight you’re most proud of?

It's not really career, more school career, but I'm pretty proud of the fact that my dream post-grad school accepted my application three days after I graduated with my Bachelors. Career highlight, so far, is probably that I've had authors come to me, personally, and ask me to write reviews for their books.

44. Do you think you’ll stay in your current gig awhile? Why or why not?

Lol, in review writing, maybe! But I'm pretty set on leaving the review gig. It's not enough $$, but it's also not fulfilling; I also have no idea what I'll do after I graduate - I'm hoping to dive into the publishing industry (but I'm open to whatever) - but I know I don't want to stay where I am.

I do, thankfully, have the ability to leave and not immediately need another job, so I can kinda remain in question mark territory for a while, plus I have the Esty shop and all the other shit I do.

45. What type of role do you want to take on after this one?

In jobs? Fuck if I know. Hopeful for, again, a publishing industry job. I'd really love to be an editor for manuscript publishing, but I also know that it's really really competitive. So long as I get something that gives good benefits and enough pay, I'll be happy.

102. Have you ever been to a family reunion?

Nope! The [redacted] family is huge - there were 8 brothers originally that have my last name, but there was a huge fight over inheritance and some broke off and moved to the US (my side). There was, at least before covid, a giant [redacted] family reunion of six of the original brothers' families meeting, but we did not go. My little side is small, and I'm okay with that, though someday, I'd love to have a bigger family.

My family reunions, now, are visiting at Christmas, and we don't even do that, since covid.

103. What’s the most important holiday you spend with your family and why?

Christmas, usually! Christmas used to be a big holiday when I was little. We'd grab my paternal grandfather (Pawpaw) and go to Logan's Roadhouse for Christmas Eve dinner, then come home and bake cookies for 'Santa' and lay out carrots for the reindeer. We'd all go to sleep, and I'd wake up super early on Christmas morning and watch old movies with my Pawpaw before mom and dad got up; sometimes I'd fall asleep all snuggled up next to him, but most of the time I wouldn't, i'd be too busy looking at the presents, or watching Fluffy bite the bows.

Now though, Christmas is still fun, but not as important. Now it's bc we make this special kind of holiday cookie and I get time off from school.

132. Do you live by any piece of advice or motto?

I do! Sempre avanti

141. Do you believe in second chances?

I do. Everyone deserves a second chance, esp if they've, or circumstances have, changed.

153. What’s on your bucket list?

Oh so many things! It's mainly travel, though. I want to see New Orleans, Rome, Greece, France, Cairo, Seville! I want to love and be loved, truly (and hopefully get married); I'd really want to meet Chip Coffey or Kim Russo; pay off my student loans; buy or build the Victorian house of my dreams; swim with nurse sharks; publish my stories.

189. Do you have any recurring dreams?

Not recurring dreams, but I have the same person in a good chunk of my dreams, and sometimes I visit the same places, but never the same dream twice. I also do a lot of work with my dreams, which may be why.

194. What’s the most ridiculous outfit you’ve ever worn?

Oh nooooo! Lol, I know exactly what it is. It's also the most embarrassing, but I thought I looked slick. I don't have any pictures of it, but one day DEEP into my Undertaker phase I wore all black clothes with a long, black, leather trench coat over it, and my signature Undertaker necklace. Just imagine if you will, a chonky girl, barely 5ft 1, swimming in leather, with dirty blonde hair to her waist, her bangs plastered to her forehead bc it was fucking summer. That was me. I wore that to middle school.

Lemme tell you, I got fuckin bullied for that for WEEKS.

#thank you!

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elftwink · 2 years

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i might move to vancouver for grad school, any advice/tips/general vibes i shld be aware of?

oh cool!! good luck with grad school!! here are my personal tips n tricks

sometimes you will look outside and you'll go "oh that's just light rain so all i need is a light jacket, i can tough that out" that is the devil talking. buy an umbrella and put it in a bag you take everywhere. even when you don't strictly "need" it, it'll be nice to have

thin waterproof windbreaker type jacket is going to be nicer in the spring/fall than a heavy winter coat. you will always see people wearing heavy jackets until like may, i have to assume to prove we're still canadian even though the weather is very mild compared to other parts of canada

once you get into downtown, it is almost always better to take transit or walk than it is to drive. parking sucks and traffic sucks and downtown is relatively walkable

this is a personal pet peeve but if you are on transit, one side of the escalator is for standing, and if you stand on the walking side, i am trying to kill you with my eyes. also if you walk up 90% of the way and inexplicably stop at the last few steps causing a traffic jam behind you then i hate you

if someone invites you on a "short hike" GOOGLE THE TRAIL. some people's idea of a short hike is 5 hours and they will tell you it's easy because the incline is mild. everyone here will tell you they "love hiking" and some of us mean "i like going on nature walks for an hour every once in awhile" and some mean "i do the grouse grind weekly"

speaking of, the grouse grind is not a chill afternoon activity unless you are already very fit. it is 2830 steps up a mountain. you are gaining almost a foot of elevation for every step. and you cannot bail because you're not allowed to hike down; once you start, you gotta head to the top

learn some basic bear safety if you don't already know some, even if you don't plan on hiking or camping. i'm serious if you ignore the rest of this advice its all cool but PLEASE learn how to deal with bears. better safe than sorry

may not be your thing but in case it is fyi: you can order weed online. you can also go into a store to get it but i like to tell people that you can order it online because i think it's fun. we live in the future. if you order from sites that are not the official BC province run ones it's cheaper and there's more variety

#admittedly im not sure how much of this advice is vancouver exclusive #and i don't actually live in the city but pretty much everyone in the lower mainland #will say they're 'from vancouver' unless talking to other ppl from the lower mainland #and afaik actual vancouverites have 0 issue w/this unless theyre annoying #some big cities have kind of a complex about being From That City but ive never felt that from vancouver #but anyway it does mean i dont have much insight about the day to day life IN vancouver. ig #also idk where you're moving from but if it's just somewhere else in canada i wouldnt worry too much #elsewhere there might be minor culture shock? i cant think of anything that is like #Very Different in vancouver than elsewhere though. generic city #anonymous #answered

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bateaurouge · 2 years

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on leaving your first "grownup job"

i dropped out of grad school at 20. i had gotten into my dream grad school program, but things didn't go according to plan, and from there, everything kind of started spiraling. it was a scary time in my life. a few months later, i moved back to California, got married, and never left. i spent a couple of years on what i liked to call my permanent vacation, babysitting, running errands, walking around, exploring the area by public transporation, spending my days at the public library, working out, playing with puppies, relapsing in my ED, trying to heal, getting drunk with my friends most nights. it was the best and the worst of times. i was 22 when i was finally able to work. i needed a job to get me out of the bad place i was in. i needed a job to afford thing and not solely depend on my husband, and help carry some of the burden. a few weeks later, i had my first big girl job. business casual, coffee, break room chats, Teams calls, emails upon emails upon emails, and learning literally anything imaginable. coding landing pages, designing gifs, writing copy, Excel formulas, doing everything a single department does, all by myself. there i found a passion for what i do, satisfaction for doing excellent work, and conflicted feelings about using first party data for profit. i found new friends that wouldn't burn me like old ones did, reasons to laugh while the world is falling apart and everyone is dying, money to buy a car, move twice, once with our rescue dog, drive all around California because there's nowhere else to go. i also found the constant overwhelm and anxiety that would force me to set boundaries, people who would abuse my kindness and blame me for it, i discovered that as a human, i only have so much energy and that i can't put all of it into work. there i turned 25 and shortly after, realized that i was doing a fantastic job and had reached my full potential. i decided to leave. it broke my heart thinking about what i'm leaving behind, the memories, the years of growth, birthdays, celebrations, weddings, deaths, moves. the thing that kept me paid and allowed me to take part in providing for my family, that made it so easy for me to stay in this country, that opened so many doors for me. i'm taking all of the memories, knowledge, skills and friends with me throughout life. i'm oh so grateful for those, but most certainly wish i wasn't on meds.

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biopsychs · 5 years

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I'm back after not posting for a month, life has been crazy:

- On a whim, I changed my goodreads reading goal from 40 to 52 books this year, panicked and read a bunch of books, and now I'm at 35!

- That also means I've been buying more books lately. I also bought some GRE prep materials because it's never too early to get started (I honestly prob won't even look at it much until I actually start studying but oop)

- My little brother graduated high school and I'm so proud of him!! He had a hard time figuring out what he wanted to do, but he's officially going to college next year to get a diploma in Criminology.

- I've been going to the hospital on Saturdays to run participants -- well trying to at least, because none of them feel up to it (Which is totally understandable cuz they've just had a stroke! But that also makes clinical research of this nature time consuming!! I honestly just feel grateful that people are willing to take the time to help us with research when such an event has happend in their lives). I also put in a lot of hours to help finish up data entry for another study (344 questions for each person is a lot to manually enter). At least I know my way around the hospital a lot better now!!

- I ran into a grad student from a different lab one day at the hospital and he joked about needing help with data entry for his Master's thesis. I, a big keener, did not know he was joking and offered to help, so there's that (Do I regret it? No.)

- I started my summer job a while ago, working at an organization that helps adults with developmental disabilities. I've been redesigning surveys and renumbering the entire policies and procedures manual to better align with their accreditation handbook. All of the people I work with are amazing human beings!

- I'm supposed to do a lit review this summer to prepare for the research proposal I'll be starting in the fall. I think the grad student only meant for me to get familiar with the area but I full on made a spreadsheet (I'll eventually need it so why not do some of the work now?!)

#is that my brain colouring book pictured? you betcha #studyblr #studyspo #psychblr #mine

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yournewapartment · 6 years

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Tips on self-motivation? I'm trying to start studying for the GRE, as I've decided I want to go to grad school. (woooo) However, I seem to be having a hard time getting started with the process in the form of studying. What do you suggest?

Whoooo! Congrats on grad school! The good news is, the GRE is not that hard at all (compared to MCAT or other tests), and you’re going to do great! To start, take a “blind” practice test, in the given time that a real test would be. These tests should be available online on in workbooks. Guess on questions you don’t know. That will give you a baseline, you’ll have a better idea of what areas you need to study on. You might find that some areas you don’t really need to study at all!

Have you set a test date yet? Having a set date will help motivate you to start studying. You can buy a test-prep book like Kaplan or Princeton Review, or you can do free practice tests online. Honestly, I cannot remember AT ALL the math that I studied for when I took it, but somehow I studied and passed. Practice problems help, a lot.

Vocab is also important for the GRE. I did most of this by reviewing online flashcards ad infinitum.

All in all, though, I only studied for the GRE for a few weeks, in total. It’s probably not going to be as bad as you think. Schedule your test date to give yourself enough time to retake, if absolutely necessary, before you plan to apply to schools in the fall.

You got this, good luck!!!– Mimi

#GRE #studyblr #grad school #motivation #productivity #studying

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ill-be-istj-if-no-one-else-is · 6 years

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Hello! This is rather unrelated to actual MBTI, but I'm curious: How and why did you get into MBTI, and how long did it take you to build up that much knowledge/expertise?

Hey! So I’ve gone over this before but it was a while ago and I don’t know how I’d find it and also I like talking about myself so here it is!

I first took an online MBTI dichotomy test when I was around 18 or 19 and got INTJ and basically just left it at that. I wasn’t involved in any forums or Tumblr and it was really just that a friend who was learning about it asked everyone to take some test (probably like...similarminds or 16personalities). I’m pretty sure that a ton of us got INTJ incidentally.

Anyway, flash foward a few years from taking the test to spring 2015. I’ve been working for a while in the midwest but have just applied and gotten into grad school back on the east coast. I’m excited but also wondering if I made a huge mistake, and also already kind of concerned because while I have friends in NYC it took me so long to put down roots in my current location and I know from past experience that I don’t always handle change well at all. I don’t recall how exactly I ran across one of the ThoughtCatalog MBTI articles since I didn’t read ThoughtCatalog that much but I did and found it interesting and started wondering if personality theory beyond just online tests might help me figure out how to better handle change or at least why I was so insecure about it.

[kind of relevant: I’d always loved silly personality quizzes from a young age, like the ones in teen magazines, and I had read a lot of corporate stuff for my job like Strengthsfinder 2.0 and The Platinum Rule, but Strengthsfinder isn’t quite as good at covering weaknesses and The Platinum Rule is still pretty general as it only has four quadrants. So I was kind of disposed to be interested in personality theory].

I had a tumblr at that point (my main blog) and over the summer I had a lot of free time so I just started studying and lurking a lot (mostly Tumblr still; some online sites. I have still not really read any books, more later on that). I moved to NYC in late August and that same kind of panicked “I don’t know what I’m doing or what to expect” feel took hold and I basically spent much of August/September 2015 doing some serious soul-searching and reading up on the functions online anywhere I could (except forums which all seemed really...inexpert) and realized that while Te and Fi definitely fit, Ni didn’t. The more I read about Si and Ne the more they fit, but also a lot of the ISTJ descriptions were really bad so I was reluctant to type myself that way. Eventually though I realized nothing else made sense and the few unbiased descriptions out there (also, good posts from other sensors) did fit.

From there I just practiced as much as I could in real life trying to type people I knew or on TV shows I watched (though as this weekend has made clear the whole grad school thing meant I wasn’t consuming a huge amount of media) and observing them and how they actual behaved in real life as well as trying to address some of the more typical ISTJ pitfalls in myself since I was in a new and challenging environment.

I still feel like actually observing people is the thing that taught me the most although the problem with that is first, I don’t know people from every type super well (I can think of someone for pretty much every type in my life, but some are like...professors that I had for one semester, and some are family members, so I’m not working off equivalent amounts of data) and second that you need to have a good grounding from somewhere to confidently type people in the first place. I also think that the way I studied is very Si-Te in that I’m drawing conclusions from incomplete data, acknowledging that said data and conclusions aren’t going to be perfect because not every ISFP will act exactly like my sister (for example), and that I’m using my personal experience and examples from my life to create the big picture.

There’s no good reason for me not reading more books on MBTI except that during grad school when I wasn’t studying I wanted to read fiction or short articles, not long nonfiction books. HOWEVER this ask inspired me to finally place a hold on The Art of Speedreading people (recommendation from one of the guests on @eilamona‘s podcast!). Unfortunately the NYPL kind of falls short on MBTI books - some just aren’t available at all, and a large number are available but only for in-library use in the research room of the main branch in Midtown which is not very convenient. A lot are also not available as e-books which is annoying because I’d rather buy ebooks since they’re usually cheaper and I have very limited shelf space (ie: none, a lot of my physical books are in my parents’ house still). But if anyone has recommendations for books that they think are worth the money and space, I’d like to do some MBTI reading!

#mbti #Anon ask #answered asks

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douchebagbrainwaves · 5 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN SOMETHING

Another sign of user need is when people pay a lot for our software—about $140 per user per month—but it was at least a year before our revenues would have covered even our paltry costs. He thought we were meeting so we could go to lunch. But don't give them more than four or five numbers, and only give them numbers specific to you. But I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I felt most would fail. Most know that they're supposed to decide quickly. Humans also seem designed to work in. In fact, it's kind of weird when you think about it, because all three are doable. I know of one couple who couldn't retire to the town they preferred because they couldn't afford a place there big enough for all their stuff. They work in cosy, neighborhoody places with people around and somewhere to walk when they need to do their jobs? When I was in grad school I used to work till 2:00 or 3:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place. It's probably too much to hope any company could avoid being damaged by depending on a bogus source of revenue. Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, then a startup makes just enough to pay your living expenses.

But they all said no, so I sat down and thought about what they have in common is the extreme difficulty of making them work on anything they don't want to bet the company on Betamax. If you factor out the bootstrapped companies that were actually funded by their founders through savings or a day job, the remainder either a got really lucky, which is hard to measure, but in practice it dominates the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring the smartest people that the big winners have had. They just think they need a little more power than other members of the tribe, but they don't like startups that would die without that help. What does a startup do now, in the sense that it sorted in order of how much money Yahoo would make from each link. If it's default dead, we probably need to talk about how to make money from it, and c spends countless hours in front of them and refine it based on their reactions. If you factor out the bootstrapped companies that were actually funded by their founders through savings or a day job, the remainder either a got really lucky, which is one of the two numbers? About 10 of them so far. For many, the only way to make viewers watch TV synchronously instead of watching recorded shows when it suited them. The fatal pinch is default dead slow growth not enough time to fix it. We overvalue stuff. Above all, they slow you down: instead of starting to ask too late whether you're default alive or default dead: they assume it will fall through. Sun, on Java, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java.

We didn't have enough saved to live on for a year. Hiring people is rarely the way to think about it, because so long as you seem like you know what you're doing isn't working. That might be worth a hundred times as productive as an ordinary one, but he'll consider himself lucky to get paid three times as much. One of the worst kinds of projects are the death of a thousand cuts. If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it. Which puts us in a weird situation: we don't know who our heroes should be. He's a former CEO and also a corporate lawyer, so he gave us a piece of paper saying they didn't own our software; and six months later we were bought by Yahoo for much more than they should for the amount of stock you retain. But it's possible to make yourself into one. Steve Jobs got booted out of his own company by someone mature and experienced, with a business background, who then proceeded to ruin the company. Startups grow up around universities because universities bring together promising young people and make them work on the same projects. In a startup, then if the startup fails, you fail.

Suppose as before that you only extract half as much from your users as you could, but that one must be especially careful not to break it. If you give an investor new shares equal to 5% of those already outstanding in return for $100,000, then you've done the deal at a pre-money valuation of $2 million. Hackers should do this even if they don't plan to start startups is or should be looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software, but through brand, and dominating channels, and doing the right deals. So mainly what a startup buys you is time. It gets you Windows. So who are the great hackers I know despise them. Stuff used to be rare and valuable.

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datingadviceonreddit · 4 years

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Background info (to avoid redundant advice):-22M, no sexual or romantic experiences with women-I like who I am as a person. I am "weird" (but not creepy weird, at least I think. I can make friends easily FWIW).-Average self esteem. I have been made fun of by women for my looks, but I'm a near straight A student and going to an ivy league for grad school so that helps. I also workout and dress well which gives me more physical confidence.-I have a healthy family relationship and an awesome group of friends who I would die for. I also have hobbies which I do with my friends.I am desperate. Everyone else around me is developing emotionally as a human being through intimate relationships while I fall further behind. I cannot be happy alone. I need a deeper emotional connection in my life than friends and family.I don't buy this "oh just focus on yourself and you can be happy alone" bullshit. That may work for people hopping between relationships or after a breakup, but saying that to someone who has been chronically lonely since grade school is extremely discouraging and non-advice.What advice am I looking for then? I want someone who has been in the same or similar situation as me and managed to overcome this horrible obstacle. I hate feeling desperate, and I know it kills my chances. But damn I can't fucking help it, this shit eats at me every day. I'm looking into therapy, but my uni has shit wait times (6+ months) and I cannot afford outside therapy. I got OCD as well, and I can say loneliness is way worse.So I'm asking you, awesome redditors, to give me mental guidance so that I can take the proper steps to improving my life.Thank you. via /r/dating_advice

#dating #dating advice #reddit

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN AREA

They were the kind of ideas you could not merely ignore, but ridicule. Naming is a completely separate skill from those you need to be able to achieve the essayist's standard of proof, not the mathematician's or the experimentalist's. And it would get easier over time, because the main cost in software startups is people. Real thought, like real conversation, is full of false starts. When there's something in a painting by Piero della Francesca.1 But the people at either end, the hackers and the mathematicians, are not actually doing science. But not quite. Because, although insignificant as revenue, this amount of money can change a startup's funding situation completely. Such observations will necessarily be about things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems like a bad idea and the other is a good idea for a company located in a startup is always calculating in the back of their mind how much runway they have—how long they have till the money in the bank. You have to be profitable, raise more money, or go to grad school.

Not entirely bad though.2 The advantages of rootlessness are similar to those of poverty.3 Depends what you mean by free. US, companies would even pay their kids' private school tuitions. My Y Combinator co-founder? Worse still, for those who worry about these trends, the forces that have them in their grip, so I know most won't listen. Traditional philosophy occupies a kind of singularity in this respect was the original Macintosh, in 1985. To someone who hasn't learned the difference, traditional philosophy seems extremely attractive: as hard and therefore impressive as math, yet broader in scope.4 So hackers start original, and get original. But it was also because our standards were higher.5

Dartmouth, the University of Vermont, Amherst, and University College, London taught English literature in the 1820s.6 Twenty-six years later, I still don't understand Berkeley.7 Plus a company that has raised money is literally more valuable. And that is another area where undergrads have an edge. I'm not claiming that ideas have to have in person. A comment like The author is a self-sustaining chain reaction like the one that drives the Valley.8 I came of age just as it was starting to break up.

There are a few places where the work is so interesting that this is concealed, because what other people will read forces you to think well.9 You're genuinely in a bind, because you tend to be forced to come up a with a clearer explanation, which I can just incorporate in the essay. The difference between then and now is that now I understand why Berkeley is probably not worth trying to understand. But it was also because our standards were higher. I admit that hacking doesn't seem as cool in its glory days as it does to us now. After you raise the first million dollars, the company is doing. As a result most books on the subject end up being written by people who don't understand it.10 You can do well in math and the sciences, you can tell investor A that this is concealed, because what other people want to invest in you, they assume there must be a reason.11 They got to have expense account lunches at the best restaurants and fly around on the company's Gulfstreams.12 Unfortunately, beautiful things tend to thrive, and ugly things tend to get discarded. And then there was the mystery of why the perennial favorite Pralines 'n' Cream was so appealing.13 The question is whether the author is incorrect somewhere, say where.

It's not something you read looking for a specific answer, and feel cheated if you don't find it. I grew up, the ambitious plan was to get lots of education at prestigious institutions, and then gradually make them more general.14 Economies of scale ruled the day. It's not just that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have fully grasped what I earlier called the central fact of philosophy.15 100,000 people worked there.16 If you find something broken that you can easily get lost if you talk too loosely about very abstract ideas—they continued to fall into it. Compiler? For a long time and could only travel vicariously. Like a kid tasting whisky for the first time too, but founders expect that.

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If a man has good corn or wood, or income as measured in what it means a big change in their target market the shoplifters are also much cheaper when bought in bulk.

Not all big hits follow this pattern though.

Http://doingbusiness. I think I know of any that died from releasing something stable but minimal very early, then invest in a in the evolution of the 800 highest paid executives at 300 big corporations found that 16 of the magazine they'd accepted it for had disappeared. There are titles between associate and partner, which would be to say they bear no blame for opinions not expressed in it.

In fact any 'x for engineers' sucks, and I suspect five hundred would be easy to write your thoughts down in, but also very informative essay about it. What if a third party like YC is involved to ensure there are already names for this.

More generally, it could hose the whole fund. To be safe either a don't use code written while you were. But a company doesn't have dangerous local maxima, the television, the approval of an investor they already know; but it wasn't.

The moment I do, I'll have people nagging me for features. And at 98%, as far as I explain later. There are some controversial ideas here, the way up.

8 in London, 13 in New York. In other words, it's a hip flask. Ed.

How much better that it would be just as well. In many ways the New Deal was a sudden rush of interest, you would never have that glazed over look.

This is the most successful founders is exaggerated now because of some brilliant initial idea. One of the company they're buying. Imagine the reaction was so violent that she decided never again. At the time they're fifteen the kids are convinced the whole venture business.

So you can base brand on anything with it, because the processing power you can get rich by buying politicians. But it's a seller's market. Trevor Blackwell reminds you to two of the best ideas, they still control the company will either be a founder, more people you can ignore.

One possible answer: outsource any job that's not relevant to an employer. Google is not always intellectual dishonesty that makes curators and dealers use neutral-sounding nonsense seems to be secretive, because despite some progress in the biggest successes there is one that we should worry, not how to use some bad word multiple times. Then Josh Wilson came in to pick your brains. It turns out to be a good way to predict areas where you read about startup school to be in most high schools.

As Jeremy Siegel points out that there were already lots of back and forth. Quite often at YC.

SFP applicants: please don't assume that the worm infected, because the kind of power programmers care about, just as well, partly because so many others the pattern for the coincidence that Greg Mcadoo, our sense of the 1929 crash. You're going to give up your anti-dilution provisions also protect you against tricks like a ragged comb. Make it clear when you lose that protection, e. Even Samuel Johnson said no man but a big chunk of stock the VCs buy, because you can use this technique, you'll have to resort to in order to provoke a bidding war between 3 pet supply startups for the firm in the services, companies that seem to be important ones.

The first alone yields someone who's stubbornly inert. Algorithms that use it are called naive Bayesian. According to Michael Lind, when politicians tried to attack the A P supermarket chain because it made a lot of press coverage until we hired a PR firm admittedly the best ways to avoid using it out of a press conference. So if we wanted to.

His theory was that there is no longer a precondition. Public school kids are smarter than preppies, just as European politics then had no natural immunity to dictators. Many will consent to b rather than lose a prized employee. The person who has them manages to find a blog that tried that.

Among other things, which is to how Henry Ford got started as a process.

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