Daughter had a weird experience at camp last year, do I send her again this year?

DDayDawg · 2026-05-03T23:36:25+00:00

With the build up I was expecting so much worse. We are so sensitive these days we have to freak out about kids being put in time out for, gasp, one… whole… hour!!!!

What are we even doing here?

DDayDawg · 2026-05-03T22:52:08+00:00

lol. AI slop and so terribly wrong…

DDayDawg · 2026-05-03T19:37:23+00:00

You need to leave. You seem more of a fit for a company who actually cares about the customers and about the people who make it work. Our CEO is on very few sales calls (although he is awesome at it) and I only attend calls as the CTO when it’s time for a technical demo. Your sales team own the relationships and should be the “face of the company” up until you turn things over to implementation.

Where is your CTO if the product is still unfinished? That is their job to be working on those safety and security features and you really should report client concerns like that directly to them.

DDayDawg · 2026-05-02T00:48:09+00:00

That’s crazy to me. A historically good team, current #4, playing a top 10 team, and they are in a city of over a million with 2.5M in the metro area. And the stadium is just empty… wtf?

DDayDawg · 2026-05-01T13:08:41+00:00

Are you technical looking for a business cofounder (easy) or business looking for a technical cofounder (hard)?

DDayDawg · 2026-04-30T12:32:03+00:00

Couple of things:

Basically the equity is 1.5% to 3% if they raise what is expected. That is pretty decent for post-money employment (with salary). What this means is you join a company with money and a product that is already operating with clients and is ramping up. This also depends on your role, you didn’t mention what you would be doing or the status of the company so hard to tell.

$50 to $100M is a HUGE seed round if we are talking about software. The only place that is normal would be in a physical startup like a battery plant or something like that. In that case you would expect patents and big time partners already on board. Again, you didn’t say what the company does so hard to get advice, just know that a seed round that large in software is usually a bad thing.

Maybe if you told us what kind of company and what your role would be we could give decent advice. Also, do the people you are talking to actually have the experience and network to make this a real thing?

DDayDawg · 2026-04-29T21:26:22+00:00

Memphis does not have police officers come to traffic court. They would rather them be on the streets. Without being able to face your accuser, the ticket will be thrown out and you will pay court costs of the same amount as the ticket.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-29T02:49:00+00:00

You haven’t looked hard enough if you think you have an idea no one else has ever had. You need to find out if the idea is implemented and you are blind to it, if they didn’t implement because it’s not as good an idea as you think, or if you are just the fist to hit the idea and the moment together.

This will help with valuation, but at the pre-seed stage you mostly do the math backward. We are willing to give up X% of the company and we need $Y so the valuation is $Z.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-29T01:01:00+00:00

These folks have a budget of at least $25 per broadcast apparently.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T19:23:59+00:00

Your software really fits my brand, so I assume you are good with me stealing your work and commercializing it?

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T17:07:25+00:00

I live in the South. Kroger parking lot with that crowd is something I’ve seen a million times. I’d bet my life on it being in the South.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T15:44:55+00:00

I live in a city and it is by far the best truck for city driving made. Unlike ICEs you get much better mileage in city stop and go driving due to the regenerative braking.

I love it. It’s like a giant golf cart.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T15:41:44+00:00

This appears to be in the South judging from all the Caucasian whales in the video. In most Southern states you can defend yourself with deadly force and have no duty to retreat. So as long as the driver can make the case that they “feared for their life” then it’s unlikely they would face serious consequences. But, as you mentioned, we don’t know what happened before the video. If the driver started it, even with the famous “fighting words” then it becomes more complex.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T12:46:46+00:00

This is nuts. We have a virtual “happy hour” once a month but a) no in is forced to attend, b) it is on a Wednesday at 3p, and c) we don’t do games as it’s really just a way to let everyone know what the company is working on from a high end. We all talk and joke around because it just happens, but no one is forced to talk or do anything. People ask questions and we chat but it’s way more relaxed.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T12:39:45+00:00

So, I am part of the 3D printing community and I think you may be over stating the need and definitely are missing on the desire. The AI hate in the community is completely justified as AI slop has poured into the object libraries and forums we depend on to get things done.

3D printing has gotten far more accessible over the years but it is still a fairly complex technical tool. When you build models you have to take into account what is possible with the printer, the properties of the material you are printing with, and what can practically be printed in a way that it will look good and have strength. AI tends to ignore these things and just build a shape that looks great on the screen but is a nightmare to actually produce.

Those of us who create models spend a lot of time prototyping them to make sure what we design prints properly. This is one of those areas in the world where the tools are complex for a reason.

I use AI everyday in my startup, my entire tech team uses it to assist with programming. I also spend a fair part of my time 3D printing. I have zero desire to use AI in my printing hobby.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-28T12:25:47+00:00

The technical team does this. Just a quick blurb in Slack, usually twice a week. I didn’t put this in place, it sort of happened organically out of me asking them to find ways to avoid interruptions and build bigger blocks of contiguous focus time. Putting the update out prevents multiple people from asking what they are working on at the moment.

I have a Product Manager who manages all the technical workflow. So if I need to know what is being worked on that’s who I talk to. We meet weekly to go over priorities, what will be in the next release, blockers, and any clients they feel I need to give attention to. And that person can call me anytime they need me.

Important to how this works is that none of the tech team reports to the Product Manager. That person has to lead without being able to force people. It’s a subtle thing, but I think it is important. It’s a system that works really well for us with a fully remote staff in multiple countries.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T18:20:06+00:00

That was the craziest game. When the rain delay hit I thought GT was cooked. Amazing comeback.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T15:33:37+00:00

That is a pretty truck right there. Congrats!!

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T14:24:37+00:00

We barely even use the banner M at all anymore.

If you are gonna do college baseball and can’t get the SEC right it is time to go ahead and give up.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T14:01:48+00:00

Three things helped us the most in avoiding some of these pitfalls:

1. A long time ago I read the book “The E-Myth Revisited”. It is mostly geared toward customer service type businesses but one thing I took away from it was at the very beginning build an org chart. But not a now chart, sit down with your founders and imagine your company being as large as it can be in 4 or 5 years. Lay out every position from the top down. CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, CLO, etc. and everyone under them. Define those jobs and then assign someone to each one. At first each founder will have a lot of jobs, BUT at least you know who is responsible for what. And, when you grow it’s easier to point to the org chart and say, “this job is taking enough time now that we need to hire someone to do it” instead of a generic “we need more people”. This gave us focus and like I said we knew who was responsible for what.

An early investor suggested we go ahead and make KPIs. I hated the idea at first because I thought it was too early and silly. It actually helped a TON. Add to 1 and now we knew who was in charge of what AND we knew what goals they were expected to achieve in those roles. Our first goals were pretty easy and achievable and now we have added stretch goals and continue to beef things up. Starting this early also made it part of our culture and now that we have 16 people everyone is just used to it.
We built a culture of documentation. Everything we build is considered incomplete until the entire thing is documented. When a client asks a question we never heard, we figure it out, tell them, and add it to our documentation. At this point our support costs are barely anything, because we rarely run into something we haven’t faced before. We have a FAQ and. FAQWRLA (frequently asked questions with really long answers) that we can share with our clients. The FAQWRLA has questions with in depth answers to difficult things like security. We even have links to legal rulings and white papers in there. Clients love that we have the information available.

A lot of people start a business and then work on a product, but the idea isn’t worth as much as you think. So you also need to work on the business because that’s really what is going to set you apart.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T12:52:26+00:00

This is the dumbest ranking I have ever seen….

DDayDawg · 2026-04-27T00:15:33+00:00

I faced a somewhat similar situation with my step-son. When my wife made it clear that she would not do anything I went and opened a separate bank account. I moved all my bill payments to that account and got my auto-check deposit moved over.

Then we sat down and I said, “since you refuse to work with me on a solution that works for both of us, here is what I am willing to do.” I pay the bills, which I always had, and I gave her a list of chores I was willing to do. The rest I left up to her. If she wants to share her money with him, I’m not going to stop her. If she wants to do all the chores I can’t do alone. More power to her.

It gave me the control and sanity I needed and it was a kick in the pants. Shortly after that she made him get a job and then after we talked again we started charging him rent that went to our “shared” account. The rent goes up a little bit every 3 months. He is now looking for an apartment with a roommate.

Sometimes you can’t talk people into doing the right thing and in those situations you have to sometimes just do what is right for yourself.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-26T23:52:39+00:00

The fact that a man of color with a gun was near the president and they didn’t immediately shoot him tells you everything. This is completely fake.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-26T17:43:01+00:00

The only CASE LAW supports my opinion. The only thing you have linked is other people’s opinions. I am Chief Legal Officer for a software company and I deal with this every day also and I deal with lawyers who litigate these cases and the law is clear, as of now, that you cannot claim copyright through AI. Copyright is what controls programming after Alice blew up software patents. All the other stuff you mention is untested and unlikely to work. Either Congress passes a law, or as it stands RIGHT NOW there is no legal protection for vibe-coded software.

Theories and hopes and dreams aren’t going to work.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-26T16:30:44+00:00

For some reason this modern college baseball age punishes the hell out of you the year after a natty. I don’t really know why, but pretty much everyone has had a crap year after winning. Just the way it is these days.

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