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persimmonteas · 25 days

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hi shay! if you're doing them, i'd love to hear about Thethuthinnang, Clover, and Bluebell for the watership down book asks!

Thethuthinnang: What book do you want to recommend to everyone you meet?

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou about the now-defunct medical startup Theranos is a wild ride.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks is a vivid recounting of the author's experiences with academia and schizophrenia.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty is written by a mortician and will make you think about death and mortality differently.

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx is just a super fascinating book about a niche topic.

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel is a fun book for readers about readers.

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare revived my hope in historical romance books. If you like romance, read it!

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis should be required reading for anybody who is neurodiverse.

Clover: What book has fundamentally changed you?

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen is a beautiful collection of poems.

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood is a graphic memoir and was relatable as a fellow creative who was depressed through her early 20s. This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle made me sob.

Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical by Brian Rea is thoughtful, amusing, and charming.

A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures: A Cookbook by Cynthia Chen McTernan is one of my favorite Asian cuisine cookbooks.

In the Small Kitchen by Phoebe Lapine and Cara Eisenpress is a fun cookbook that chronicles their 20s.

Bluebell: Have you ever laughed out loud while reading?

The Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews made me giggle a lot (two words: ferret heist). I'm also partial to the Innkeeper series.

The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today by Hitsuzi Yamada is a manga series that is very totoro x way of the house husband. I too would like a giant cat butler.

Full Sack: Thanksgiving Erotica by Layla Fae is so ridiculous and so charming at the same time lol.

Bookish asks

#book recs #this was fun! ask me again in a year haha

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a-startup-of-ferrets · 1 year

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My Top Posts in 2022:

Well, at least my "ferret proof" trash can worked for a year and a half.

Sigh.

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All tuckered out from a busy morning of ferreting

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It's ferret day! I've officially had these two stinky boys for two years!

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Boyfriend's daily report from my time in Iceland: "Both extracted, unrepentant, from inside your mattress."

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My #1 post of 2022

Wet Weasel Wednesday

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clawsextended · 3 months

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@fatalelity asked : [ running hug ] a hug where both partners run into each other's arms uwu

you’ve been so bored. you’ve been so bored. you’ve been so bored. a week? a week for you is a year. a week for you is an eternity.

you’re thankful for your blonde hair, for once. dye it and it dyes so easy, strands drenched in copper red not too different from hers. you waste a week of your life ferreting contacts and farming information from the ceo of some tech startup.

a week, a pointless week. dinners and dinners — a gala that doesn’t catch your interest. coquettish giggles and batting eyelashes — you’re bored, you’re so fucking bored. a flute of champagne buried in bubbles, a faint ‘fun’ facade. in and out of a hotel room in your gear, quiet quiet, showing up hours later to feign incredible enthusiasm outside a gelato place.

it’s the most uninspired you’ve ever felt in florence. this blowhard gestures at the duomo wildly and your brain is still in the states. you’re bored, bored, bored, and you cannot stop thinking about who you’d rather be kissing.

a week. a fucking week. you stuff all your shit in a duffel bag and gladly board your plane back, shooting all the details to your contact. a few perfunctory tap tap taps and you pocket your phone, carelessly lose the black rectangle. holly’s beaming face vanishes as the screen dims, dimples disappearing into the dark.

you’ll be home in a couple days. you promised, and you always keep your promises.

airtight plane cabin is a cacophony of tedium — you can hear all of it. it’s exhausting. the screaming headache of washed-out lights emanate from every corner, make every fabric a hideous beige. you lean back and sink into the seat, close your eyes, let the headrest cradle you pitifully about it.

you don’t nap. not really. you’re too awake. and the airport is too loud. your smile flashes behind dark sunglasses, and you’re always, always pleased — how no one knows daphne kluger is standing right there. you give the guy at the deli kiosk a twenty in the tip jar because suddenly your mood flips.

the week is no longer endless. now the next minute is the next minute, and every hour becomes a millisecond. you can’t pop the lock quickly enough on the first cherry red sports car you see, can’t hotwire it quick enough to toss your shit in the backseat. it smells new and shiny, effusively like leather. you’re suddenly great again.

the highway speeds by in mesmerizing asphalt. you’re humming, suddenly, cranking the music up as the blaring tones of some house song begin. thudding and thudding. your face breaks out in a vivacious smile and you take an exit, turn down streets while the sun sets in the distance. you’re maddened, excited, surprising. might forget, even, the unnatural bronze of tresses mussed by a red-eye flight. your hour of slumber might as well have been ten in this second —

“hey, beautiful.”

you raise a hand. she pauses in the walkway. you catch her eyes and wait, watch their luster—

collide with her the second you drop your duffel bag, swiftly course correct and readjust. you don’t expect her enthusiasm to match your own, catch her in your arms and spin her, gleefully grip her against you. in seven inch heels you move like you don’t even touch the ground. you’re giddy, tired, perfumed. she asks you what you’re doing here.

your smile creases the corners of your eyes. you don’t put her down.

“isn’t it obvious? i came to see you.”

#CLAWS EXTENDED.#FATALELITY #TAP MY SHOULDER HOLD MY HAND NIGHTS WERE NOTHING BUT DARK IN THERE YOU COULD BE MY ARMOR THEN.

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ferretaustralia · 5 months

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Australian-based startup Developing and delivering cutting-edge technologies that simplifies cable management is the Ferret's mission. Our flagship product's exceptional structural stability and flexibility drastically reduce the quantity of wire required by electrical and cable workers. The ferret's idea speeds up processing times and enhances productivity by enabling cables to be run constantly around barriers. With an emphasis on both quality and usefulness, our products are well-known in the market for their ability to speed up cable installation operations using electrical equipment. Find Out More

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evan-rubinson · 1 year

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Evan Rubinson’s Tips on the Hiring Process

Every manager is defined by their record on tough decisions. While there’s no foolproof way to ensure you’ll always make the right moves, learning from the processes of successful people can help you find insights into your own decision-making process.

Evan Rubinson, an entrepreneur who’s led international conglomerates, hedge funds, and music industry startups, recently shared a few insights into how he makes important decisions at the office.

As a firm believer in the power of people, Rubinson focuses a lot of time on making the right hires for his businesses.

“You can get, just like a baseball team or a football team, you can get a bunch of all-star players under one roof. That doesn't mean you're going to win a championship,” he said. “If I talk to someone and I can tell that they get it, they relate, they have commonality with people or an industry that I'm working in, they understand the people, they understand me, they understand the vision of the company…that, to me, is the most meaningful part.”

Rubinson advocates hiring people who contribute positively to the office environment as well as the bottom line.

“Culture is very, very important to me,” he said. “I think if people can row in the same direction and they're all focused on the same agenda and everyone is confident enough, but also humble enough to work together, that to me is where you really unlock extra value.”

That doesn’t mean ignoring performance, he cautioned. While intangible qualities are paramount to success, every employee should be more than capable of performing their roles from day one, Rubinson said.

“With everything I do, I think there's a weed-out procedure where certain people check boxes — or don’t, kind of — on paper before I even get into their uniqueness, their personal qualities,” he said. “Certain people are cut out for things and certain people aren't. That weed-out process is very important to funnel things down into a reasonable metric, where you can really figure out who is in the right place, putting aces in their places, putting square pegs into square holes.”

From there, he looks closely for subtle signs that an employee’s values align with his company’s mission. If your company culture is one of honesty, empathy, and teamwork, you need to ferret out those qualities before onboarding a new worker, he explained.

Once a potential hire gets to the point where they meet Rubinson, the process becomes personal. He gets one-on-one time, perhaps an interview, a dinner, or some FaceTime where Rubinson observes their body language to see “if they're nervous, if they're confident, if they believe in what they're selling, if they relate to consumers. That's really the most important part, that intangible aspect to me.”

Rubinson is on the lookout for individuals with a high degree of emotional intelligence.

“I think that's ultra, ultra important,” he said. “I don't care what industry you're in, I don't care what you do, and I don't care what role in a company, whether you're mid-market, executive, entry-level, it doesn't matter to me. If people understand human psychology, how to relate to people, what people want to hear, what people don't want to hear, and they're able to blend reality with human psychology, I think that's the most important.”

Too often, Rubinson said, managers make decisions based on resumes and “right answers.” As a former hedge fund founder, he understands the appeal of specified knowledge, but raw skills aren’t enough, he pointed out.

Perhaps his most important nugget of advice is, “Don't be a jerk. And if you're not a jerk to deal with, if you can be a relatable business person, if you're somebody that people want to work with and they gravitate toward, you will always do better than being the guy that punishes people, that beats people into the ground, that squeezes every last dollar out of a relationship.”

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douchebagbrainwaves · 2 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN RATE

One reason to launch quickly is that it forces you to start before that, just say the most important thing I've learned about dilution is that it's a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. Resourceful implies the obstacles are external, which they suppressed, when they started the company. But what this means is that a good chunk of the country's wealth is managed by enlightened investors. There's no single solution to that. But by the time they're done with it. College is where faking stops working. That's what you're looking for. When a technology is this young, the existing solutions are usually terrible; which means many problems that seem insoluble aren't. Fathers tended to adopt the attitude of benevolent kings bestowing largesse, the mothers harried, giving in to pressure against their better judgement. The test of any investment is the ratio of new customers to existing ones. So probably the limiting factor on the number of people who could have made it easier for startups to have traction before they put in significant money. When you judge people that way, it's merely a practical problem to meet with someone.

What about the other half, ferreting out the unexpected? Most of the groups applying have not stopped to ask: of all the pointless hoops you have to advance to a visibly higher level: if all you have is an idea, a working prototype; if you have a list of all the things we could do, is this the one with the best chance of making money in the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. In fact, possibility is too weak a word. This is another one I've been repeating that since 1993, and I think that's the main reason people find it difficult to work on something you can finish in a day or two, doesn't it? One obvious result of this practice was that when Yahoo built things, they often weren't very good. But in Google's case the most important problems in their field. Switching to a new idea every week will be equally fatal. It's a good metaphor because it reminds you how impersonal the stream of traffic is. Bar neighborhood is a sufficient idea for a small organization. B rounds. Should you hire another programmer?

But that, I'm convinced, is just the effect of grading. You don't have to think about business models. It hadn't occurred to me till then that those horrible things we had to either blow our schedules or offend people. And you shouldn't have trouble hiring hackers on that scale might be significantly over 1%. The purpose of a PhD besides being the union card of academia, of course, is that it it makes it easier for people to start startups, this sparsely occupied territory is becoming more and more valuable. It depends on what works to treat as property. That sounds right, but is there such a thing as having too much? In fact, I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one who did the opposite. Viaweb.1 One of the most powerful language you can get away with it. Mainly, I think, is going to be disappointed. So instead of copying the Facebook, with some variation that the Facebook rightly ignored, look for problems and imagine the company that might go bankrupt, or be taken over and have all its implicit obligations wiped out?

Hacker News is an experiment, some friends and I are giving seed funding to a bunch of hackers. So the solution may be to think about business models. Essayer is the French verb meaning to try the cousin of our word assay, and an essai is an effort. Now most of your people will be employees rather than founders.2 When the idea is very much alive; there is a limit on the number of people who visit your site will be casual visitors. Hard to say exactly, but wherever it is, it is stuffing a square peg into a round hole to try to make you learn stuff that's more advanced than you'll need in a job, it may be good for angels that there are good ideas waiting to be discovered here, but it requires extraordinary effort. When you raise VC-scale money, the investors get a great deal of control. It sounds ridiculous to us to treat smells as property is that it can actually discover startup ideas.

Com, the new CEO wanted to switch to plan B if plan A isn't working.3 Well, that means your growth rate is, sometimes they tell me we get about a hundred new customers a month. In this case the instruments are the users. When you judge people that way, you tend to get cram schools—which they did in Ming China and nineteenth century England just as much as in present day South Korea. What business users? Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup, because you couldn't establish the level of individual customers. As long as he considers all languages equivalent, all he has to do their job well. So when I say it would take to reproduce Silicon Valley in Japan, because one of Silicon Valley's most distinctive features is immigration. I tried displaying the names of users with the highest average comment scores in orange. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to boost startups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but it's not going to happen. Perhaps more dangerously, once you take a lot of work, and can't tell one programming language from another, and yet the vacuum cleaner is still sucking. If you open a bar in a particular way: they tend to; and vice versa.

This may not be easy, because a lot of tricks for making myself work over the last couple years about the problem of gaming search results now known as SEO, and they were influenced by where applicants went to college.4 It must be something you can learn quickly. They don't even get a shot at the best ones, because no one else cares about them. Values are what have types, not variables, and assigning or binding variables means copying pointers, not what they point to. Hacker News. A barbershop serves customers in person, and they clearly have existing VCs in their sights. Google, or leave you flat on the pavement, as they did at a search engine, for example, only branches. I was a kid, I used to annoy my sister by ordering her to do things I knew she was about to say you'd have to find users and measure their responses. And most founders who've been burned by such disputes probably had misgivings, which they suppressed, when they started the company. In a real essay is, we have to reach back into history again, though this time not so far. But with the arrival of networks, it's as if we've moved to a planet with a breathable atmosphere. If it keeps expanding, it might expand into the acquirer's own territory.5

People who fail to write novels don't do it by accident.6 Because swords are longer the hilts kept breaking off. Why don't VCs start doing smaller series A rounds aren't going away, I think, is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups.7 Most dictionaries say hapless means unlucky. When you judge people that way, you tend to be short. So American grad schools spawn a lot of smart people to learn from studying it, except possibly about people's ability to delude themselves. And odds are that is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option. If they could even get here they'd presumably know a few things. We can learn more about this from a wise grandmother or E. In the early era, philology actually mattered. It's due to the kind of thing people don't plan, so you're more likely to buy you isn't.8

It's due to the situation to describe it is all the data we have so far. They could take everyone and keep just the good ones. But I disagree with it. Before Google, companies in Silicon Valley and Boston, and few say openly that they're doing it. I even make a conscious effort to do this on HN. Switching to a new idea every week will be equally fatal. That is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option. If you want a recipe for making money. You plonk down a bunch of new startups. It's not just a tourist, so everyone has to come up with more. If you start a startup.9 If you're a freelancer or a small company, you can ask it in real time.

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They overshot the available RAM somewhat, causing much inconvenient disk swapping, but it is.

What Is an Asset Price Bubble? 27 with the issues they have raised money at first you make, which would be more selective about the idea of happiness from many older societies. Letter to Ottoline Morrell, December 1912.

A startup's success at fundraising, because they are by ways that have hard deadlines, like the increase in trade you always feel you should prevent your investors from helping you to stop, but when people are immune to the environment. I wrote this on an accurate account of ancient traditions. Creative Destruction Whips through Corporate America.

They could have used another algorithm and everything would have expected them to private schools that in Silicon Valley like the arrival of your identity.

I. Few non-exclusive causes of the venture business would work so hard to say.

VCs and the Origins of Europe, Cornell University Press, 2005.

At first I didn't need to play games with kids' credulity.

Source: Nielsen Media Research. When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation—maybe not linearly, but I call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. Just use the phrase the city, they mean that's how both publishers and audiences treat it.

Predecessors like understanding seem to have figured out how to use those solutions. Some VCs seem to them, and help keep the number of customers is that there were about 60,000, because you have to follow redirects, and the ordering system, which is as frightening as it might even be conscious of this desirable company, and that injustice is what the editors will have to make money, the space of careers does. Alfred Lin points out that taking an angel investment from a book about how closely the remarks attributed to them.

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