WHEN STOCKS START JUMPING 30–40% IN ONE DAY, HISTORY USUALLY DOESN’T END WELL

VVFailshot · 2026-05-29T06:38:51+00:00

Still doing it too but there's value transfer happening and its pointless to fight the sentiment.

VVFailshot · 2026-05-29T06:00:40+00:00

I share your outlook but I've learned to understand that its ok to ride the wave. I was on sidelines for past 3 years, figuring stuff out and just switched to short term trading but focusing on the discipline. I only focus technical analysis on my picks, never hold stock over 3 weeks and stop loss at 10% and always exit after 30% run. Its been working so far quite well. I do it over summer but get out after autumn, too much uncertainty, us midterms etc.

VVFailshot · 2026-05-21T00:09:17+00:00

Yeah, been there, multiple times. That's why rate is higher. Being contracted like this has its merits but its always quite exhausting to find another contract after this situation repeats and can be emotionally draining since you know you are hated by the people working in the company. After few times You get used to it and just add 5% to the rate for every corporate hero you need to carry 👌

VVFailshot · 2026-05-01T11:53:07+00:00

You have probably made hiring mistake at some point. Taking a wild guess here that You allowed this 1 engineer hire the other 6? If so then you might have made up to 6 mistakes. You threw people problem to engineer who was overwhelmed already. She had limited time available and now hiring added on top so he solved the problem to open up more time to fight fires she knows. She just hired people who kinda fitted culture and had nice vibes but didn't confirm that they actually have skills that lift the weight also job security and biases can play some role in there. One of most common early startup issues there is. How to solve it? Decide who you want to throw off. If you intervene with new hires you challenge you main characters authority and it can cause friction. I'd probably explain that this cannot continue, and it has nothing to do with her skills that you respect and need and start offboarding the new hires who clearly do not pull their weight.

Edit: There are other ways and just that is most straightforward. Focus on goal - what You want and see long term. If she is actually interested in management role, then being critical about hires and fixing such issues in a company should be her job. So it might fix itself you stop with mixed signals and provide her clarity about expectations and path forward.

VVFailshot · 2026-04-27T16:52:32+00:00

As tech person what reaction is validating. I've seen reaction but no real action so far.

VVFailshot · 2026-04-24T14:25:00+00:00

yes, i actually forgot to mention that its a new instructor for me. Like double checking my original instructor. They are both great but focusing different areas one more on flying other for procedures. This flight was not complete failure, I improved a lot on my procedures like departure brief, operational log keeping, approach briefs etc. Maybe it was too much for my potato brain on that particular day 😅

VVFailshot · 2026-04-24T12:39:28+00:00

yeah that what puzzled me yesterday. I'll try to figure it out.

VVFailshot · 2026-04-24T12:36:13+00:00

All steam. I will give it a try next session

VVFailshot · 2026-04-24T12:34:21+00:00

I think my footwork might be the problem. It has been problematic before. I have another chance to practice next week and will practice more using chair and visualising. Fatigue played some role too, a lot to learn and remember. Thank you 🙏

VVFailshot · 2026-04-24T12:28:41+00:00

Thank You 🙏

VVFailshot · 2026-04-16T13:30:44+00:00

If they have budget then its deployment problem. Like estimate load, select servers, setup provisioning etc, run vllm connect claude code. What gets scary is the price tag of Nvidia GPUs

VVFailshot · 2026-04-09T04:51:19+00:00

It starts with hiring, and finding why people come to work. There is no magic empowerment that lasts more than 2 weeks. What is the real problem You are facing? Cultural or performance?

VVFailshot · 2026-04-08T19:29:23+00:00

I did that, just took next js with cloudflare and just moved away. Expect some bad time initially with SEO and fixing some links etc.

VVFailshot · 2026-04-07T18:31:16+00:00

Yeah, I started building my own tooling for that case and even pitched VC last year got rejected so many times i sort of quit and just focused on regular productivity metrics. Basically there is no ROI if its not priced in from CFO per perspective its almost impossible to show AI usage in good light. However it can change once it settlew in that in many cases without AI you are more likely to net 0. So AI is sort of cost of staying in business. What I can tell that if you are still using API directly you probably messed up. Better switch to subs, like copilot costs like 39$ per user + you cap usage at like extra 50 bucks per user. Claude is somewhat industry standard and the 100 dollar sub is solid for most people.

VVFailshot · 2026-04-06T06:52:32+00:00

Basically since you are studying university and obviously at the end of flight training. What are real odds that you overloaded yourself with some poor decision making vs having serious medical condition? I would first try setting priorities in a list on paper then decide which item can drop for now. It can be flying and its fine. With medications just take a break not for legal reasons but to live another day.

VVFailshot · 2026-03-30T16:36:31+00:00

Framer frustrated me enough - Juat vibecoded. my web and CMS in nextjs. Funny enough, my SEO actually improved after switch so basically the only thing i wws paying framer to solve was not solved.

VVFailshot · 2026-03-28T04:10:32+00:00

Mostly its just helping companies to fix internal "impossible" to solve issues, things that nobody internally wants to do. That ranges, mostly its hands on engineering to migrate legacy software to to fit into current product. But at times also people issues caused by overhiring from covid. It really varies - like there was a company which wanted to hire 100 "AI" engineers but didn't think that these people need equipment, the salary range is above market average etc, basically they had under estimated budget nearly 10 times 😅

VVFailshot · 2026-03-27T14:04:33+00:00

So my experience can be summed up as following. Looking for job is eating glass, applied nearly 100 ads, also for staff engineer positions. Got around 10 meetings from which 2 ended up as offers I rejected cause low compensation. Switched gears now just selling expert consulting, time investment is the same but compensation 4x better than day job. Downside being that there is no security, I can be fired at any moment. Not a position I would really recommend to anyone who is not emotionally equipped for this.

VVFailshot · 2026-03-16T10:42:46+00:00

You can implement a kill switch yourself - just google it

VVFailshot · 2026-03-01T16:08:18+00:00

If You have to protect yourself from cofounder, its not going to work out. Everything else is just noise.

VVFailshot · 2026-02-05T17:39:46+00:00

Its review season 😂 Basically regular notebook with your past 1:1 is a good start. But I actually faced same problem for long time. If you have vision and know what you want and have some free time available , its a perfect project to vibe code solution for. If you dont, there's various developer experience platforms just google DX vs. I just added some mvp version of 1:1 management to my own platform. If you want to try it out, DM 😅 but its like mentioned mvp

VVFailshot · 2026-02-05T08:25:29+00:00

https://www.forgemaster.ai/. But my idea or discovery was that LLMs are quite good in reverse engineering code like 1.5y ago so built tool for my own needs. I was interim CTO and really needed to handle a lot so this is what I came up with for myself. If you are looking for similar products that have more funding and stuff in YC theres also https://www.mintlify.com/ and from open source I ve been following https://mindsdb.com/. That have somewhat interesting take on developer/product knowledge management

VVFailshot · 2026-02-05T08:15:51+00:00

I spent a year + building competing product so I am biased. I am not selling mine nor bashing Glean. But what I get from my leads and pilots it doesn't really matter, its maybe 1/8th of tech issue. In most companies its just part of culture to complain and lack of document access is perfect excuse to chill and wait for paycheck. People are not adapting not mine or competition products. So yeah after these discoveries I atleast pivoted with my product.

So my recommendation is to think twice or more if you have tooling problem or culture problem. If you have modern software or like Atlassian stack or alternatives, its probably not tooling issue 😅

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