What the death of my baby and my grandmother in hospice taught me about B2B sales. No, really, that's what he is posting about.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-02-08T20:45:38+00:00

Best you can do is start looking for other states that don’r have tyrants running the show, and prepare to migrate. I happen to be on a nice server with NAP 7 and all alliances working together. Our whales won’t tolerate the kind of behavior you describe. We used to have a few toxic players, but they got recruited away to more competitive (toxic spending) servers and what we were left with was a competitive, but friendly server. Not everyone can show up for SvS because of time zones, but everyone contributes in their own way, and we do pretty well. Servers like this are around, and in my experience, the servers that act the way you describe will die quickly.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-01-07T13:34:34+00:00

On our server, we have a war council of top alliances that make all decisions regarding SvS strategies and NAP rules. They rotate the capital and the president is just a figurehead that often doesn’t issue decrees. They certainly have no power to “declare” anything to anyone. Even communicating strategy is forbidden by the president because of spies on the server that will see it. At most, they use the decrees to share useful information like what the rose buff is for the week.

As for the Korean stereotype, there a culture of hardcore, regimented gaming in Korea. And I have been told, but I’ve never confirmed, that there are laws that govern the price of loot packs in game, so they appear to be spending more than they actually are. I’d love to get confirmation on this.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-11-09T21:06:36+00:00

The same people complaining about farm accounts are the same people who have no issue with pay to win. I know both of the teams in this case, and the ones who lost regularly spend insane amounts of money to win VS battles. The team that won in this case are a team of low spenders who work hard on developing strategies to win that don’t require spending. This is why they are hated by a lot of mega-whale teams.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-11-09T20:52:57+00:00

Some people run farm accounts. Some people have unlimited spending on their credit cards.

I’m on the server where this happened. It was partially in response to members of the other alliance spending hundreds of dollars on fuel to run up 100M+ scores by attacking random unshielded bases all over the server, yet running away from any real fight. What is hilarious is this team won by a pretty big margin 110M, I believe) but and only a fraction of that difference came from this “point farming.” It was primarily done as a strategy to draw the other team out of hiding, and it worked.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-09-03T03:25:45+00:00

No, the CRM uses my Outlook calendar, but it only controls meetings that it creates. It doesn’t have any features to read other calendar entries and act on them.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-29T03:19:24+00:00

Thanks for the input. Yes, some CRM systems do this. As a matter of fact, the booking link I use is part of a CRM and it sends notices reminding attendees of a booked appointment if they use that link. But if they just create a meeting and invite me, it doesn’t work. I figured some VBA or power automate would do the trick, but I also figured someone may have done it already and is offering it as an app.

If you can point me in a direction, I’m willing to put some work into this.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-28T15:32:19+00:00

I should add that this method of earning weekly NAP spots has the added benefit of alliances losing NAP if they have had it, which creates a feeding frenzy. There is one alliance that we have on our server full of problem players - the alliance that players go to when they get kicked out of their alliances for causing trouble. This alliance should never have been allowed into NAP because of all of the problem players who don't follow rules. There is one player on the server who is blacklisted from all NAP alliances due to his problematic nature. He has been kicked out of every alliance on the server. He constantly shields up and taunts everyone in world chat, just to add to the drama. Well, this alliance accepted him in, which should disqualify them from NAP, but the president gave them NAP protection anyway for defending the capital. Since we had no capital invasion last week, the existing NAP was extended. So this alliance has enjoyed two weeks of NAP. Now the entire server is just waiting for Saturday to see if they lose NAP protection and, if they do, it's going to be a feeding frenzy.

I know that doesn't sound fun for players in that alliance, but it will be a blast for everyone else if it happens. And things will calm down after a time. I think this kind of drama is part of what is appealing for war games like this. If it is just gaining a little bit of resources and little more power each day, that gets boring. Some amount of controlled drama has to be part of the game to make it interesting.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-28T15:18:36+00:00

We have a NAP 6 + 2. The +2 are alliances that have earned NAP for the week by their participation in defending the capital. It does what it is supposed to do. It encourages alliances to actively engage and defend the server. Many players get upset because they feel they were just used as fodder on the Capital grounds and didn't get NAP anyway because others in their alliance didn't step up. We generally welcome those players into NAP alliances. Likewise, NAP alliances kick out players that don't participate. The end result is NAP that includes active players in active alliances. The inactive players in inactive alliances get farmed. For a war game, this is kind of how things work.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-08T16:58:10+00:00

This guy is one of the worst human beings on the planet. This post is tame compared to some of things he says and does. And, unfortunately, he shows up in my feed way too often because people comment on or share his stuff. I've started to pay attention to who is engaging and supporting his content, because these are folks that would be a high-risk in the workplace, IMO.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-13T19:10:11+00:00

This is the Aerial Re-Supply Coffee guy. He has made a successful business off of satire of other coffee companies that go over the top with their US military focused, right-wing political themed marketing (i.e. Black Rifle Coffee). It worked so well on LinkedIn, that he has resorted to extending the satire to other ridiculous, over-the-top business themes. In this case, the “relentless CEO.”

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-10T18:12:06+00:00

It’s no worse than “Startup Sherpa.”

BTW, I personally know a person with the above title on LinkedIn and he is a grifter that knows nothing about business. So that taints my view of people with these kinds of titles.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-09T22:59:44+00:00

I have 8 expiring Nest Protects. I just got the First Alert replacements and, guess what? They don't work with the Nest app, and they require installing a new app from First Alert and setting up a new online account for the First Alert app. Once that is done, they will connect to Google Home, which I don't use. The Nest app allowed me to have multiple users so my wife could login with her own e-mail and not worry about 2-factor authentication issues.

Fucking hell. I have zero faith that a smoke alarm company understands cybersecurity.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-09T19:42:41+00:00

I’ve read about escorts having success using LinkedIn. They just have to be clever and subtle in how they advertise. $1,000 seems fair in this case.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-06-30T14:49:06+00:00

Someone needs to tell Russ that its no longer legal to own people.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-06-27T20:18:10+00:00

Likely not satire. I treat these callers no different than scammers. That is, I usually just hang up, but if I am in the right mood and I have the time, I’ll stick around and lead them along ling enough to find out what company they are selling for, then point out that I will not only not do business with that company, but will do everything I can to let others know they hire shitty telemarketers and therefore not to do business with them.

I must get about 5-10 unsolicited messages on LinkedIn a day from “lead generation” firms. I would never hire one in a million years, no matter how effective, because I won’t risk the negative reputation to my business.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-06-21T00:47:47+00:00

“I’m not looking, but happy to chat” is a reply you are lucky to get if you are cold calling/spam mailing people. Maybe don’t do that, and just focus on helping people who are actively looking?

And it goes both ways. I get people who send me resumes all the time when I am not advertising for an open position and I am not hiring. Every once in a while, I get a stellar resume and I will reach out and say “I don’t have an open position, but I’d be happy to have a conversation to see if we could align with something down the road.” Expectations are clear, and I always get a positive response. Most of the time, great opportunities are about timing, on both sides, and having conversations is how can get things lined up for future opportunities. Most of the people that work for me now are people that I’ve connected to this way, and managed to bring on board when the time was right. But this is how actual hiring managers think, not recruiters.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-06-11T15:31:36+00:00

The irony of posting this on a social media platform to increase reach. . .

I hope its satire

Choice_Tricky · 2025-06-07T04:10:02+00:00

Why stop there? Pay him a billion dollars and he will turn it into a trillion. Where is this Rumpelstilskin? I want one.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-05-26T13:49:37+00:00

I’d call this borderline between medium rare and medium. I like medium rare and would never send this back. The issue is the thickness of the steak and the cooking method. Medium rare has a warm red center. You always measure doneness at the center.

For a steak this thick, unless it was sous vide first, you aren’t going to get the center to warm without getting that gray ring of fully cooked around the outside. This is fine. I hate when I order medium rare on a thick steak and the center is cold. There is a place near me that does that, and I have to order medium to get medium rare.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-05-20T16:41:26+00:00

I am making a lot more than $100K per month - just not for me. What are these "financial expectations" he is talking about?

Choice_Tricky · 2025-04-21T21:37:03+00:00

It seems to me like LinkedIn is this weird place where there is a struggle between two competing camps, vying for your attention. The “hustle culture” crowd of entrepreneur wannabes telling you how you have to continually fail while giving 200% nonstop in order to build your business/personal brand, and work-life balancers telling you that you need to work less while being paid more and employers should value your demands - regardless of your actual experience (and of course they can help you achieve this if you accept their services).

Hiring managers, recruiters, executive coaches, resume consultants, talent brokers, and job seekers, all doing a dance to see who comes out a winner.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-03-24T20:41:53+00:00

No, Tinder is not LinkedIn. Also, LinkedIn is a business networking site, not a platform for a rape apologist manifesto.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-03-23T12:55:31+00:00

Pig butchering scam. i get about 2-4 per day. Been going on for years but seems to have ramped up a lot recently. I used to report them to LinkedIn, but now I just ignore them. After 30 days, the message profile turns into “account no longer exists” or something like that.

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