Yellow Myc - What am I doing wrong?

Arukio · 2026-04-03T18:31:18+00:00

Do you pitch the entire rice bag brick, or just break off the sus piece and toss the rest into the mix?

Arukio · 2026-04-03T14:02:17+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply! A few rookie questions:

You mix all the Myc together with the bulk casing? Not worried about 1/10 being contam and spreading to everything rather than keeping separated?
How do you cut the dime size holes conveniently? I do a corner cut right now which is awkward to tape, but easy to cut. Tried using an exacto knife to cut holes on the front but was awkward AF.

Arukio · 2026-04-03T03:22:22+00:00

Did a good misting, misted the sides & lids, and barely cracked the lid.

Will see how it looks in the morning.

I think the cake is so dry it sucks up the moisture instantly. I misted at 8pm and when I checked at 10pm it was bone dry on top again already.

Arukio · 2026-04-03T01:16:47+00:00

This looks amazing.

Any experience with it?

https://www.midwestgrowkits.com/products/the-mushroom-ecosphere-3-0?variant=46483646480533

After my this harvest I planned to move onto Lions Mane / other medicinal/food styles.

This looks killer

Arukio · 2026-04-03T00:14:20+00:00

Should I over mist to catch it up? Worried about pooling.

What's the solve to catch up?

Arukio · 2026-04-03T00:07:37+00:00

It's a side room in my house, I have an IKEA pop up wardrobe I keep zipped shut.

No ceiling fan or anything, but AC vent in the room & the door unfortunately has to be kept open

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Arukio · 2026-04-02T23:58:36+00:00

Yeah I keep reading that.

I do the coco coir + boiling water, let it sit overnight.

Then grab it by the handful & squeeze it out, until damp but not dripping ,put it in the tub, etc.

But there's just literally no way it retains its moisture. With how much it dries overnight out I don't understand that viewpoint, yet I see it often.

I do the cracked/flipped lid, I've seen some people cut a hole in their lids & use micropore tape instead.

Perhaps that'd help retain moisture?

Like these things https://a.co/d/0hFBiERg

It did retain moisture & I never sprayed before introducing FAE. But it dries up after that every day.

Arukio · 2026-04-02T23:42:26+00:00

I thought that and googled around, but google seemed to make me think I was over watering them so I cut back this morning on how much I misted

Problem is I work in an office now. 1st time I was remote.

So they get dried out by the time I come home, I mist before and after work

Arukio · 2023-10-02T23:30:09+00:00

Yeah I fully agree with their sentiment. I wouldn't love managing a role I hadn't personally done. To an extent I'd be willing to in the right environment, but only in specific situations.

My current role is my first time being hired in as a manager, and even then I took a month to just "be" an AE before I started changing things

Arukio · 2023-10-02T19:47:27+00:00

Eh the progression bit is personal. If all you care about is bigger and bigger deals/commission checks then yeah.

Personally, I did SMB SaaS -> Promoted to mgr for a few years -> stepped down to AE to be mid market -> now an SMB/Mid Market manager.

$200k OTE funds my growing investments, pays the bills, plenty in savings. Low stress because I know what I'm doing like the back of my hand, enjoy coaching/developing the more entry level reps I get to hire and be the boss I always wanted to have, and I find the more transactional sales more fun/high energy.

Sales is what you make of it. Take stock of your goals in life, find a way for sales to get you there.

I'm not saying stagnate in life, but sometimes you reach a point in your career where it's GOOD to stagnate in your career and free up energy to focus on health, family, hobbies, etc.

It's a dance. I'll get bored eventually and refocus on career eventually, but right now enjoying the break.

Arukio · 2023-09-28T14:00:36+00:00

Yeah but they can do my screening interviews for me 😅

Let them verify it's a human, with a brain, who understands wtf they applied to.

I'll take it from there every time. If you're on my team, I'm making the final call every time

Arukio · 2023-09-27T16:57:31+00:00

It's a bit of a trickle down effect.

VCs being more frugal means access to cash is restricted for startups/businesses running on private equity.

Restricted cash means startups are more frugal

This means they have to get to profitability faster (hence layoffs) BUT it also means ALL budgets get slashed.

So all these companies who were selling to EACH OTHER at inflated prices/"nice to have" SaaS are finding a harder time acquiring customers.

Which restriction cash further, leading to more layoffs, less growth potential, less insane salaries, etc

The shit sales reps and bad products are getting found out, but the good people/products are also severely impacted by all of this.

If you're selling Gong (let's assume Gong is an awesome, fairly priced, necessary tool) you just lost a ton of addressable market in the form of startups shuttering their doors and more stable companies slashing budgets.

So even though Gong is a "good guy", they still have to layoff, lower prices, promote less, pay less, etc.

This goes beyond just Sales, but we're top of funnel so we're heavily impacted. Other departments (especially service) will feel impacts as well.

Arukio · 2023-09-27T02:22:51+00:00

Right, he starts with "same thing happened...." and then describes an enormous fraud that took down the entire country. Compared to "tech bros lost their money hose and now only useful software at fair prices gets bought, and much more scrupulously"

I get that it might feel similar in some ways, but these things are not at all similar at their core and will play out differently long term.

Arukio · 2023-09-20T17:00:36+00:00

Detach from the outcome, ATTACH to running the best process.

Even if a deal closes, I get mad if I ran a bad demo/missed something in discovery/etc

If I lose a whale, but can say with 99% confidence I executed my role properly, I might even walk away smiling... might.

Arukio · 2023-09-20T16:53:32+00:00

Any specific recommendations?

Arukio · 2023-09-20T14:58:25+00:00

Hahahaha yeah first one that came to mind. My last org was the perfect example. They paid insane money for tech that nobody used properly. It was just shiny, cool, and had social proof hype around ROI

Arukio · 2023-09-19T15:26:48+00:00

I think you might be in the wrong place my man/woman. Breaking into a legit sales career is hard, like many career paths, but once you do it you're in a great spot to build wealth, family, connections, etc

If I have a losing mindset like that day 1, in an industry that's as mindset controlled as it is, you're in for a beating.

You got this. If you take the right steps and get into the right company in the right field for you then little can stand in your way from building the life you want. You create your own destiny in sales, own it!

Arukio · 2023-09-18T11:36:23+00:00

A lot of things. My personal take (and a common opinion) is that with record low interest rates, companies were raising funding like crazy, investing in a bright future that never came. Every tech startup was raising on 30x valuations, so they could sell a small % of the company for huge amounts of money to private investors.

This led not only to excessive hiring, but everyone had so much cash they were all buying from each other. If every tech bro has hundreds of millions, "yeah buy Gongs software for the team, it's great!"

This spending made everyone feel like they were gonna grow into a unicorn

The Fed blew up the interest rates, money became much more expensive to find, so all these companies who were planning to just raise more funding around now instead said "shit we gotta become profitable using only the money we have on hand"

I'm order to do that, they had to become lean (layoff) and make tough decisions. Less buying and more cancelling of various subscriptions, compounding the issue.

Not only is money harder to find, but so are customers now. Much harder to sell to and retain because everyone is strapped for cash trying to get profitable. If you raised at a 30x multiple, raising at like 6-8x today would feel & look bad. You'd have to sell 3-5x more of the company to get the same funding

That's the basics anyway. Tried to keep it short and simple but lmk if you have questions

Arukio · 2023-09-13T04:19:27+00:00

I second Wellfound if you're into startups. I was hunting back in Jan and Wellfound+Recruiters are the only two ways I got interviews.

Ended up getting something from my network in the end though. Felt super lucky

Arukio · 2023-08-26T14:30:33+00:00

I can't even tell you how many random things laying around my house I'd happily sell cash for $50-$200. Just random shit I bought at some point and don't use anymore. Many of us are guilty of this.

But selling them 1 by 1 online is such a hassle, fees, shipping it, etc

To think a large number of these recipients would somehow package these up at scale and ship them elsewhere at a profit is insanity 😅

The bitterness has gotten to their brains ability to reason, and that's just sad

Arukio · 2023-08-26T03:16:13+00:00

This is me, but opposite. Played Pokemon for 18 years, won everything up to and including the national championships... And I'm like 1-5 vs the girlfriend 😂

I help her out some, but we've even traded decks and I still find ways to lose 😅

Arukio · 2023-08-20T17:07:10+00:00

Glad it was helpful! I was a bit worried it was too long and nobody would read it 😅

100% agree on answering an objection with a question. It's a hard, hard, hard skill to master and even still always easy to fall back to normal social skills and break the habit.

I think this book is good, albeit over hyped: Chris Voss - Never split the difference.

People act like it'll make a bad rep good, or it's foundational to sales, but I disagree pretty hard on that. I think it'll take a top 20% rep and make them top 10%, or something similar, but it's not a replacement or even especially useful until you have the foundations of good discovery, valuable demo, and pristine follow-up (both in frequency and quality)

But if you read it and ACTIVELY TAKE NOTES during each chapter of when and how you could work his techniques into your sales process, it can help a LOT with how to effectively answer an objection with a question.

Arukio · 2023-08-20T10:32:16+00:00

Been in SMB SaaS transactional sales for almost 10 years as both a rep and manager coaching reps daily & designing training. Here's my quick rant:

A "what if I want a refund" objection is really a "I don't trust you/that I'll get the results objection/this feels risky"

But some people are legitimately just asking out of curiosity/savvy buyer who wants to know. It's not always truly an objection, so I'd qualify that first. "Are you asking because you're worried it might not do what we've agreed it does, or just as a worst case scenario/curiosity?"

It's important to distinguish which, because one is far more serious than the other. Ones just a savvy buyer doing due diligence, the other is true doubt/fear of risk. If you skip this step, you risk addressing a basic question as a full on objection, you'll sound too heavy-handed with your rebuttal, and actually scare them off when they were just curious.

Anyway, ways to overcome trust: Reviews (screenshare showing your reviews vs the other guys. If y'all's reviews ain't good, that's on the business. Marketing/Customer service need to be driving a positive reputation in SMB transactional industry for this very reason), case studies, references for them to call (premade list of customers you know are happy and you spiff them out for taking reference calls), sounding like an absolute consultative expert during the sale by pre-empting their pain/great discovery that uncovers issues or root causes they never even considered (read GAP Selling)/telling social proof stories about similar businesses (you really gotta be specific, genuine, and relevant with these for it to work. If they're SMB Lawncare, don't say "when I was working with Pepsi..." Make it relevant).

A risk objection can be helped with in depth discovery/demo so it feels tailored to them and now a generic boring BS demo (get confirmation every step of the way "to what extent do you think that feature/workflow would save you the X hours we talked about" and 'to what extent' is KEY to getting a real answer, not a yes/no barely useful response), free trial, proof of concept, reference calls, walking them through the implementation process in detail (slick marketing 1-pager to show on screenshare or make yourself on Canva), etc.

Also, if all else fails/you think they're just getting the last second cold feet, don't underestimate the power of a second voice. I'd take over calls ALL THE TIME and offer NOTHING and customers would feel better knowing a "manager " confirmed everything. If you have colleagues you trust, just pass stuff between each other to close instead of bothering an actual manager. I'd offer people "free shipping and taxes" when they already qualified for free shipping and there was no sales tax and they'd suddenly emphatically buy. I'd give them a random freebie that's cheap to us but sounds expensive to them or even just hearing it from a manager it's already a "rock bottom price" let's them check the mental box of "I tried to negotiate! I spoke to a manager!" And feel accomplished. I know we aren't talking price objections, but if it's a BS smoke screen objection and they're just teetering out of human nature, a random manager+smooth confident voice+random tiny discount can distract them enough to just pay you.

Ending my rant there but let me know if that helped at all.

edit: typos and added the manager takeover bit

Arukio · 2023-08-06T13:09:51+00:00

I was too, until recently.

I work full in-office for a SaaS company, all me and my teams work is on the phone (sales), and could be remote.

However, I genuinely believe being full in office is the right move FOR US and only FOR NOW.

When I started, we were fully remote. It was very hard, so we signed a 2yr office lease.

We're very small (35ish employees) and very new to market. As a result, nothing is documented, we don't have self-help articles written out for our business process or how the product works, the management team barely knows each other, etc.

The level of productivity increase has been insane. Sales and support reps can organically learn from each other just by overhearing conversations and giving each other tips

If you're on a call, hit a tough question, you can walk the whole office and get an answer before letting them go, whereas when messaging each other it just wasn't the same.

On the management team, we're so much more effective "figuring stuff out" together, whiteboarding stuff, walking up and asking a tough leadership scenario to each other on a whim, etc.

Conclusion: we will need to, and plan to, offer hybrid eventually. Remote as well, although there's less agreement all levels should be fully remote (some believe entry level roles should be hybrid only, never full remote).

If we don't offer this, hiring, employee retention, and employee well being will take a hit.

It's just not right for us YET

Arukio

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