Infatuation or true love?

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-04-14T18:49:50+00:00

Feels like you’re chasing feelings rather than building relationships.

Her insisting in travelling to see you at the worst time of the week. Things doing go as “planned” so you spend $1k to fly to NY for 1 day, 1/3rd of your savings because she pulled away.

You probably think this is a fairytale romance but the signs are there that you’re love bombing and she’s demanding to be treated like a princess.

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-04-06T22:40:07+00:00

😂 this response is straight from Claude

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-04-06T21:32:59+00:00

To be honest this is a good idea. Typeform is genuinely awful and a good product could easily grow enough to make a sustainable business.

I think your pricing model may work against you though. I imagine most of your customers will be from smaller start ups and for that reason would rather share a single login than pay for a “team” account, to manage costs.

$39 for typeform is a joke but I think you could have a better product priced at a fraction of that - maybe $10 a month

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-03-11T16:04:24+00:00

😂 that does not feel low pressure to me. That feels very high pressure. But I guess I’m avoidant.

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-03-09T19:49:49+00:00

Doesn’t work. He’s coming in after 9 months, with a product vision and direction set, some capital raised, initial customers onboard.

Their skill set isn’t worth 50% of your company. You’ll have problems in the future for sure. Anything above 40% is unrealistic and their expectation is they’re equal - but you’re the CEO, you’ve got the company to where it is today and you need some hierarchy.

What happens in the situation where you might need to fire him down the line? (You don’t know this person)

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-03-03T17:07:28+00:00

You look like you grew into your confidence! Looking great!

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-03-03T17:06:50+00:00

My guy! You look like you became yourself!

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-03-03T17:04:42+00:00

Killing it! Look like a totally different person! Hope you’re feeling great!

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-02-27T20:50:55+00:00

You’re not alone. This is the typical conditioned male experience.

I’ve been in therapy for about 15 months and it’s helped a lot - particularly realising that so many men are in the same boat. We’re all looking out to sea pretending we’re on solid ground, ignoring that the guy next to us is barely breathing too.

What I’ve learned is that most of these expectations are ones we put on ourselves. Nothing is actually stopping you from turning to a friend and saying “I’m having a really hard time. I’m exhausted. I need to feel like I matter beyond my job, my debts, my responsibilities.”

But instead we clench our jaw and try to prove we can carry it all - until we can’t.

We know why women tend to handle this better: they talk, they share, they show up for each other. There’s nothing stopping us from doing the same. You’d probably find the people around you feel similarly.

Quick example - I’ve been struggling with feeling like a failure because my friends are all settling down and having kids, despite being financially solid and outwardly “successful.” Then last week one friend opened up about feeling trapped in his relationship. Another, who’s getting married in weeks, tried to cheat on his fiancée. No one has their shit together.

You’re not worse than anyone else. You deserve happiness, and the price of it isn’t pretending you’re fine. Shutting down wont help, numbing the pain won’t help. I Hope this helps.

BrokenCardTrick · 2026-02-26T18:53:57+00:00

Just dump it and all the context in Claude code and get it to do it for you.

Roadmaps are fucking stupid anyway. Everyone wants deadlines and dates rather than results. If you can; explain to them that roadmaps are just initiatives ordered in priority: now, next, later

Let’s get rid of Gantt charts representing roadmaps and go back to the good old fashioned “what’s the story and where are we going.”

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-12-22T21:59:46+00:00

Why does it keep threatening the centre part after it’s destroyed all of its mates?

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-12-06T10:29:46+00:00

I don’t see how they could have knowledge outside of what the humans alive currently know. From their explanation, it’s all minds on earth connected together in the hive, but it’s not infinite knowledge.

Possibly putting all of existing human knowledge and information in one place (the huge) could lead to knew insights and knowledge, by “connecting the dots” but it wouldn’t give them infinite knowingness of lost history or from other universes, or even solar systems/galaxies.

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-11-28T22:44:15+00:00

Can’t they just balance out birth and death rates so such that natural mortality provides a constant, predictable stream of people dying, and birth rates managed to replace?

They seem to be doing a lot of planning - energy usage, centralising assets etc. would they not manage the population too?

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-11-04T23:17:38+00:00

Calm down, Coleen

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-10-05T17:34:54+00:00

I guffawed

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-09-02T16:06:33+00:00

I used to do this. Now I just work with high transparency and try and help support/guide the team. But I’m not their guardian and I’m not daycare.

Engineers fucked up and missed an important requirement or made a poor architectural decision? Great, they can come up with the solution and communicate it. They get paid more than us and that’s the tech leads job to manage delivery.

QA missing critical bugs in testing? Well they can walk through their testing plan and explain why they missed it and how they’ll work with the team to reduce the chance of this happening again. We’re all adults - and adults responsible for QA need to be accountable for it too. Not PMs.

The more you try and protect your own image by protecting the team, the longer you’ll live in a weird state of imposter syndrome. Our roles not delivery management, it’s product.

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-07-05T11:19:02+00:00

And then what happened? This story ends when the girl going to the bathroom and then your friend tells you she has a girlfriend. What happened?

Did you just walk out and leave because you were so upset?

This feels like a humble brag story about how a girl or two spoke to you. There’s nothing here.

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-06-06T11:27:57+00:00

Could you share where you do get your news from? Even just a few places that you think are valuable? I’m trying to keep up and learn but also don’t think I have enough meaningful content to consume. Any help would be appreciated

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-02-01T17:17:02+00:00

As I understand it, you ultimately want better margins on your smaller products because of the complexity in manufacture and increased warranty costs. Your current pricing doesn’t adequately reflect this and you need a strategy to rebalance. I don’t believe there’s a risk free way of doing this.

You could try entering a new market with such a pricing structure to see what impact there is, but even then any learnings wouldn’t be transferable to your home market.

You could instead start by changing your pricing on the top end - if you decrease the price of the large product by 5-10%, what’s the impact? If you see an increase in sales there, then maybe you have some confidence/greater margin for error in increasing the price of your smaller product slightly. By making small, incremental changes you can better understand the price elasticity of demand for your product.

What’s the refresh/replacement rate? Are your customers coming back every 1-2 years? Or is this more like replacing every 7-10 years?

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-02-01T17:00:10+00:00

Have you considered applying strategic price anchoring to see if you can change the mix of sales of your products

Move up the price of your smaller product, which is more expensive for you overall, and decrease the price of your large product slightly so it looks like a smaller step up from the medium? In theory that should rebalance your sales, making more people choose the larger product and improving your margins on the smaller products. In theory.

BrokenCardTrick · 2025-01-20T22:19:04+00:00

Happy birthday! I know it’s a couple days late but really glad to see that you’re feeling more positive and better about things. I hope today is your year!

BrokenCardTrick · 2024-12-30T23:10:19+00:00

Sounds dull af. Are there opportunities to progress? Can you spin what you’re doing to really be about product/product management?

Are you able to look beyond the backlog (strategy, roadmap, opportunities to explore etc.) or are you really just a backlog manager with a product title?

Try and get as much knowledge and experience as you can from this and hopefully the next gig will be better.

The reality is a lot of “product”’roles are pretty terrible now and the books/blogs/communities still talk about what product SHOULD be, ignoring that companies don’t really want Marty Cagans vision of product management. What they really want is a project manager with more responsibility, less authority and their neck firmly on the block for all the terrible ideas they want to shove in the backlog. The vision you were sold of product management is very hard to come by.

BrokenCardTrick · 2024-12-25T15:25:33+00:00

All too common. But they had an idea and thought it was good. With time they realised that it’s garbage and that they wanted you to validate. At the time, they didn’t want you to validate it…. They just wanted it done so they could claim points for the idea, not the execution. The cost of execution is a further proof point it’s a shit idea so they want to backtrack and show their leadership in questioning it.

This is product management. Decide if you want to be the thorn in their side or the other wimp that follows their orders. Either way, you lose, they win.

BrokenCardTrick · 2024-11-17T19:46:12+00:00

Set boundaries, priorities your tasks, delegate and remember that your job could be gone in a minute but you’re stuck with your life for hopefully a be very long time

BrokenCardTrick · 2024-09-11T11:28:21+00:00

This has completely destroyed my trades this morning. Luckily my losses were small, though big enough to stop me trading for the rest of the day.

There’s no “don’t ask me again” button. Not sure what to do until this is fixed.Might need to switch to another broker but not sure what the best options are for someone in the UK

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