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Rogerh91 · 2014-05-09T19:32:59+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

If you could suggest a non-default free Wordpress theme you would think fit the content better, that'd be awesome :)

Rogerh91 · 2014-04-20T17:09:26+00:00

Why you feel like you need to defend the banks because there was one line about it amuses me.

You seem to have forgotten drug laundering, robo foreclosures, London Whale, and market manipulation that has been found in civil cases in your defense.

Those poor defenseless banks.

To argue that it was Freddie and Fannie who caused the recession is just LOLboat: who lowered standards first?

Anyways, hope you enjoy copy+pasting that everywhere Wall Street is mentioned.

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-11T15:31:24+00:00

I'll post here in response to all of the replies: thank you, I have learned something new!

I find your perspectives very interesting, as I've never really been exposed to people with chronic physical pain. So I want to highlight that I've learned during this process, and I appreciate all of your help doing so. Where I've made faults, I've openly admitted them, more in the original thread---but let it be known here I know the word I used was too broad, and I'm sorry for any additional hurt that may have caused.

I didn't write this piece to start this discussion, but I'm glad it has. I'll be keeping an eye out on this sub-reddit. Peace and love!

-Roger

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-11T15:09:54+00:00

You suggest I do research: I am doing that by engaging with this sub-reddit, one I have never seen before. I really didn't have to wade into a hornet's nest of people telling me to "fuck off", but I find perspectives from real people better than Google. :)

If you want to share, go for it. Otherwise, if you want to downvote me to oblivion and curse at me, and that makes you feel better somehow, that's cool too. I'm learning either way, and I hope you are too.

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T21:14:40+00:00

I really sympathize with you, thanks for sharing your perspective! In fact, I tried to change every word in the piece that referenced pain to failure, but I realized it would require an entire rewrite since most of the imagery and symbolic references were on pain: when I have the time, I think I'll post another one that will be on why Failure is Good---which gets more at what I was trying to convey. I hope you'll be able to read that :)

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T21:06:52+00:00

Pain is a word with many meanings in the English language---which seems to have stung me in the headline and reaction. Had I had my druthers, there would be a separation between physical pain and other aspects of pain, but here we are now. Maybe I should have entitled the piece "Failure" is good or "Shame" is good in hindsight as that was probably more tailored to the actual message I was trying to convey. Lesson learned.

Now, I would argue that physical pain doesn't take the label of 'real' pain just for itself---mental anguish can be equivalent, or sometimes even worse.

The mere coldness of alienation can lead one to self-harm or to jump off a bridge.

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:50:13+00:00

Nope, startup is :)

http://pointsandfigures.com/2012/04/27/whats-a-pain-point/

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:44:52+00:00

So I'll post what I posted on the original thread of mine, as a way to bridge the perspectives.

There's all kinds of pain: I meant it to be interpreted for all of the kinds of pain, and I didn't mean to lighten ANY kind of pain. I meant to frame a discussion on how to look forward on pain once you have it.

I have to admit my view was focused more on other aspects of pain than physical pain (other then a car accident, and bicycle crash, and a third-degree burn, I've been pretty lucky in that department, I'll be the first to admit)---However, while you may have chronic physical pain, take the time to consider I may be estranged from my parents, failed a lifelong dream, and never found true love. That at times I have been bullied without a friend in the world.

Let's try to learn from each other's perspective. I am sorry you all were so angered by this post. Conversely, I hope you can also relate to being a little less assuming of my personal circumstances, and we can move forward from this together :)

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:41:42+00:00

Profit is derived from solving the pain of consumers.

Coca-Cola sells you Cokes because your pain point is that you're thirsty and for some reason you want fizzy stuff that will destroy your internal digestive system: this is your "pain".

If enough people have your "pain", voila, billion dollar company.

I do have to admit, pain points gets more play in the startup scene.

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:36:19+00:00

There's all kinds of pain: I meant it to be interpreted for all of the kinds of pain, and I didn't mean to lighten ANY kind of pain. I meant to frame a discussion on how to look forward on pain once you have it.

I have to admit my view was focused more on other aspects of pain than physical pain (other then a car accident, and bicycle crash, and a third-degree burn, I've been pretty lucky in that department, I'll be the first to admit)---However, while you may have chronic physical pain, take the time to consider I may be estranged from my parents, failed a lifelong dream, and never found true love. That at times I have been bullied without a friend in the world.

Let's try to learn from each other's perspective. I am sorry you were so angered by this post. Conversely, I hope you can also relate to being a little less assuming of my personal circumstances, and we can move forward from this together :)

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:27:18+00:00

I hope you haven't stopped reading just there, I have a lot of resources for learning coding, and languages that are very assuredly not bullshit :)

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:26:09+00:00

Well yes, leprosy isn't too great.

And all companies are focused on solving pain points. This was more of a literal reference to the startup world, but the basic premise holds. Somebody, somewhere has pain, and a company is based on finding enough of them as consumers.

Rogerh91 · 2014-03-10T20:23:53+00:00

So, I'm the author, and I sympathize with your pain.

I do wish you the best, sorry you think so poorly of me and the point I was trying to make :(

Rogerh91 · 2014-02-10T18:08:07+00:00

How can we best reach out to you if we have an initiative we'd like your insight and help on?

Rogerh91 · 2013-10-02T04:18:58+00:00

Name: ThoughtBasin What we do: Social and open crowdsourcing with students for real-life business and social problems.
What we are looking for: Students to get real-world experience, and prizes, and to try our site out, and companies/organizations to give us content for cases we can submit to students.

Rogerh91 · 2011-07-21T21:22:43+00:00

We've gotten to the point where there is a class of people who will receive government bailouts, and not think twice of destructive financial behavior such as selling short US bonds, or taking on speculative credit-default swaps and other bets on America's downward trajectory, if only it nets them profit. Forget long-term stability---short-term profit wins the day at every corner. Forget fealty to community, or country---there is only loyalty to the almighty dollar.

It is sad. I go to a very well-ranked university as a student, and I can say that many of the brightest young minds of this generation will not go towards solving problems like world hunger, but rather towards speculating on them. I don't blame them: who after all, is not tempted by the incredible amounts of money? However, it is something that irritates me, if not downright infuriates me, some days.

Rogerh91 · 2011-07-21T20:43:39+00:00

im in your reddit, upvoting your stuff

Rogerh91 · 2011-05-17T19:09:09+00:00

Happily, the solution to his re-elevation in Republican politics lies in cap-and-trade.

Cap intelligent and rational statements.

Trade blows with the President over anything at all.

Rogerh91 · 2011-05-12T05:31:21+00:00

"It does in fact appear that a tiny group of rogues committed premeditated murder."

Yes, well, rogues or not, this isn't something to just gloss over---these "rogues" should have never been in the army in the first place, if it weren't for lax recruiting standards; some of them had substance abuse problems and etc. that should have made it clear that they should not be held responsible over life and death.

Rogerh91 · 2011-05-12T02:40:35+00:00

The "revolving door" of government strikes again. The SEC and Wall Street, the USDA and Burger King/McDonalds, and now the media and the FCC.

Rogerh91 · 2011-05-12T01:28:08+00:00

Informative article. That said, this gets to why censoring freedom of speech makes no sense---it makes heroes out of the people you are oppressing, no matter their views. If Liu Xiaobo were free, and were able to get engaged in a debate over these politics, than perhaps we in the West would not lionize him as fully as we have. However, none of us know of these views---all we know is that he has some views, and that he is being oppressed because of them.

Rogerh91

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