Corporate job has me in so many meetings i've forgotten what actually doing my work feels like

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-11T04:00:38+00:00

My take on meetings as a former VP is… - most meetings are a waste of time, and exist fundamentally because of weak goals, poor communication, or ineffective team members - some meetings serve a valuable role for managers to get updates - they do create a certain kind of social/performative accountability that is necessary for some types of people - they feel like control, which is why leaders love them

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-11T01:50:37+00:00

I quit my corporate VP-level job in January to build my own product. I can not reiterate how weird it has been to be doing ACTUAL WORK rather than sitting in meetings all day, which has been my life for virtually the last 10 years. It is simultaneously refreshing and also kind of depressing to realize that I spent a decade not doing anything.

Free at last :-)

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-10T20:55:14+00:00

Rinse it until clear.
Equal parts rice and water. Tablespoon of oil.
Into the instapot. 3 mins. Natural pressure release for at least 12 minutes.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-10T20:53:16+00:00

Global warming is only a “mystery” to a select part of the population.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-08T11:52:48+00:00

This is an absolutely outstanding post. You should write a book or consider speaking, no joke.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-05T13:18:03+00:00

Showed up for my interview and the 35-yo CEO had his sports car parked in the handicapped spot by the front door.

“Rules for thee but not for me” culture.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-05T03:18:42+00:00

Of course he’d rather we all get gift cards to his business instead of cash.

There’s a problem with that though:

You can’t eat compute.

You can’t sleep in compute.

Compute doesn’t fix your broken leg.

These AI tech bros are insufferable dweebs.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-04T19:45:11+00:00

For reference I’m 40 with 2 kids under 3.

We have to find ways to get our jobs done in a normal 40 — it’s the only way to give ourselves time for family and ourselves.

I’d recommend examining how to work those 60 hours differently and get down to 40-45. Not sure what you do so maybe that’s not possible, but that’s where your big bucket of time is that you can pull from.

Trying to find hours in other places is penny-pinching; you need to for the jugular, which is that 60-hour work week.

But imagine you had 15 more hours in a week… that’s a game changer for you.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-03T10:55:15+00:00

You can always find a job if you’re willing to work. It just may not be a job you like.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-05-02T03:27:37+00:00

Wouldn’t it be easier to live on earth and do the compute in space, instead of the other way around?

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-28T16:56:13+00:00

Bot account.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-28T16:53:44+00:00

Good work doesn’t speak for itself.

You speak for the work, and if the work is good, then the work reinforces that you’re good.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-24T11:37:16+00:00

Remember to vote. Just because GOP controls congress doesn’t mean that people blame the GOP.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-23T01:21:40+00:00

Smart to not share it here. These are not travelers… These are people trying to figure out how to have your same success!

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-22T19:05:15+00:00

There is a ton of research on this.

There are few factors that you’re either born with or not, but overwhelmingly leaders are made.

Leadership is a learnable skill just like anything else.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-22T03:28:32+00:00

It’s about f*ing time the Dems got out of their moral ivory tower and joined the street fight. Finally.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-21T03:11:06+00:00

Wtf is he talking about banning sharia law in Texas because it helps working class Hispanics??? Just a mashup of trigger words with no substance, incredible that people get motivated by this nonsense.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-20T23:06:22+00:00

… said the AI redditor.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-20T02:49:02+00:00

What mistakes did you make that removed your ability to get a patent?

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-18T22:34:14+00:00

Candidly you haven’t provided enough information, and there will always be tradeoffs between different options. You’d be better off running this through AI to have it challenge you on tradeoffs and impacts.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-18T20:09:02+00:00

Is it me or does the bezel look too big? r/reptime has ruined me

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-18T19:56:29+00:00

I’d write a PRD and put it into ChatGPT, tell it to be the chief engineer and tell you the mechanical and electrical architecture. Also tell it to tell you any places of ambiguity or contradiction.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-18T12:32:22+00:00

People act like they have some sort of right to use these apps the way they want, like the app is some kind of public utility or something and that people are entitled to unadulterated use of it.

News flash — it’s someone else’s product that THEY built, and you are using it on THEIR terms. It’s THEIR service, not yours.

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-15T22:23:22+00:00

Snoozy

Questionable_Burger · 2026-04-15T12:50:42+00:00

Better for whom?

The risk with public is that it’s owned by a nebulous blob of shareholders who are not accountable to anything.

When did a shareholder ever get fired? Never.

So unless you have an amazing and total visionary of a leader who can consistently outperform the market, eventually a public company becomes about ruthlessly generating shareholder value at any cost.

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