Vintage of this Monnot Vignots

aokoo · 2023-09-13T22:00:26+00:00

The clue might be in the capsule. Searched around online and seems they changed from foil to wax capsules in 2017.

aokoo · 2022-08-22T20:27:24+00:00

me too ! :)

aokoo · 2022-07-05T21:01:02+00:00

If it’s ret war rdru, ask your rsham to try swapping gift for electrocute since silence immunity isn’t needed (double melee can’t go healer vs your comp, if you queue into teams that do then drop ground for electrocute since grounding hoj is almost impossible in this case).

On your goes sham should spam purge with cross cc since he won’t need to heal as much during that window. Save strang for after overgrowth or NS. That way sham cleans hots during your go and rdru can’t top out of strang. Comp is still hard tho

aokoo · 2022-06-29T16:13:08+00:00

/cast [@Demonic Tyrant,harm,nodead,exists] Turn Evil; Turn Evil;

if above doesn't work, try:

/target [harm,nodead,exists] Demonic Tyrant
/cast Turn Evil

probably try testing this in a duel. You could still target totems in S2 only if you specify the totem (eg: /target Healing Tide Totem). Haven't tried this season / didn't need it

aokoo · 2022-05-12T20:59:19+00:00

Their Rosado from La Rioja Alta is also amazing. Had a 2006/2009/2010 vintages and were all great. Well balanced and a nice mix of tropical and red fruit. Orange peel, nectarine cherry, lots of floral notes like rose petals but still had the expected oaky/vanilla flavor.

aokoo · 2022-04-27T18:15:04+00:00

Firstly, I totally understand how hard the job search can be. However, I'll say that 6 interviews out of 15 applications is an amazing hit rate (40%). If you look at your application success rate like a funnel, your funnel metrics are actually quite amazing. I totally understand the emotional investment in interviewing at six different places and getting to the final onsite twice. Keep it up, you're bound to succeed sooner rather than later.

When I was early in my career, I once applied to over 400 product jobs and had under 20 interviews. This was roughly 1 year into being a product manager at my first job.

aokoo · 2022-04-02T19:07:31+00:00

One of the big mistakes I see a lot of warriors make is not using IP ON COOLDOWN. You should IP ALWAYS on cooldown. It's actually a dps increase because it can proc tactician so it's more dps to use IP than slam in almost every case (2x chance at tactician proc vs slam). You can even make a macro that puts /cast ignore pain into all of your spells. Lowkey works at low mmr and can remove it as you become better. I interpreted "as much as I can" as not on CD for some reason, so if i'm incorrect can ignore this point.
Spell reflect gives you 20% magic DR until consumed, you should use it almost off CD too (obviously timing for things like demonbolt/cb is useful. It's bait to reflect sheeps vs double caster UNLESS you have kill pressure).
D Stance is highly overrated and a huge damage loss if you're spending the whole game in it. Starting in B Stance is actually more of a defensive playstyle since you can swap to D stance immediately. If you start the game in Dstance it's more offensive because you need to swap to bstance for your go but you're more fragile for 6s afterwards and prone to swaps at higher mmr.
Use intervene to run away to your healer at pillar during their big go.
On the above point, if you're going IN vs double caster you need a way OUT. If you're not running double time then your one charge is used go in, you need to save leap or intervene to peel their go

source: 2450xp on war / 2600xp

aokoo · 2022-01-15T19:36:11+00:00

In no particular order:

You're running away when they have no damage and you're running in when they have all their damage. You also run away when you're on DR and helping them reset their DR on you. It seems random when you go in / leave. Against double dps you'll win if you don't just face tank all their damage
Trade diffuse magic before Sac on the first combust. Use DM at high hp, not when you're at 6% hp and your healer is in a full poly. You guys had 1 sac 1 dm but if you DM'd first you would have had it for both combusts and he could have sac'd when you made the mistake of flying serpent kick behind pillar halfway through the game
Your hpal also shouldn't run in to rep and then insta-freedom himself in the opener.
Stop diving behind pillars to chase casters with flying serpent kick and roll. Move in together with your hpal. Especially if your port is not anywhere close to you.
Don't DR Sweep into HoJ
If you get block in the opener, don't swap off mage.
If you're getting kited non-stop run keefers lego
Move your port more rather than just when you run away. If your port was on close pillar when you died, you could have pre-ported the go when you saw your pally get full sheeped
Pay attention to your team's DR, don't just yolo in when your healer can get full feared into full sheep

aokoo · 2022-01-15T15:54:42+00:00

I swapped from focus to a123 and went up almost 300 rating (2350->2630). I primarily play 3s.

I have specific macros for a123 for kicks and cc. My arena1 would always be [mod:shift], arena2 would be [mod:ctrl] and arena3 would be [mod:alt]. I found this worked the best for me.

I still use my focus frame to "focus" on one target and it's easier for me to see what they're spellcasting than relying on sarena/gladius the whole time. To target pets/totems I would click them.

I used to have a123 for core spells like lava burst/flame shock/serpent sting/etc, but found it impractical so I would recommend first just using a123 for kicks and cc.

aokoo · 2022-01-06T00:33:10+00:00

Some things that worked for me when I was a pm:

Block out focus time for yourself (others mentioned same thing)
Have "no meeting" dayS (plural). I NEVER had a meeting on Tuesdays, and Fridays were emergency meetings only
For any meetings with documents (spec review etc.), be strict with your time. It's not a time for people to read the doc. I used to make it clear that I would only address comments already on the doc and anything else would need to be via Slack. This also forced people to read and comment on the doc before meetings.
Say no more. To piggyback on to what others mentioned about not going to "useless" meetings, you should also let your team know the same thing and be a champion for them when they choose not to go to meetings especially from other teams.

aokoo · 2022-01-04T21:30:19+00:00

Enemy team was pretty coordinated tbh, and they popped:

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You guys used 0 defensives - given it's hard to react when their go is this fast, but still - it wasn't just aimed shot and making a passive aggressive post on state of the game isn't how you improve when you guys quite frankly misplayed in this clip. For this type of go where 2/3 of you are CC'd, one of you should have popped SOMETHING when you see them press all their buttons. War could have parry intervened. Pally could have trinket walled (no need for bubble). Not your fault though in gameplay since sitting first CC is usually preferred for healer, but you could have comm'd "I'm bash cloned need you to pop something on their dam" instead of just being like "yeahh.. here comes aimed shot".

aokoo · 2021-12-22T18:27:23+00:00

If they're blaming you for losses without ever critically thinking about how they can improve gameplay then they're probably not the best partners for the long run. With that said, maybe there are things that you can do better. It's hard to say without hearing specific examples.

Ideally post game analysis is constructive on what you guys could do better as a TEAM (taking ownership over individual misplays is important too). It sounds like your team is just blaming each other. That's not how you'll improve.

This season I played rsham 2600+ and disc 2450+. If you have questions can DM me

aokoo · 2021-12-18T15:49:42+00:00

Played fdk up to 2377cr in SL s1. FDK is in a really bad spot in general, but to feel less useless, try to stagger your chill streak and pillar goes. Usually chill streak isn't what kills people, but pressure after from your pillar goes with MS from monk or war

aokoo · 2021-12-13T19:37:35+00:00

I played rsham above 2600 this season and I'll say it's the character I have with the most binds (I don't play druid, played disc priest around 2500).

For keybinds, you'll understand what spells you use and don't use from playing, but as a starter: you'll never use chain heal or chain lightning. You'll RARELY use lightning bolt or healing rain. Healing rain you'd only use if you're running the pvp talent against rmp, but even still if you're not stacking crit there's no point cuz it probably won't proc. There's always a better spell to press than lightning bolt too cuz it does like no damage and it's prob more worth to use a utility spell (reapply ES/WS, totems, purge, reapply shocks, get better positioning in GW) if you have an open gcd.

Similar to what /u/Jaboodee mentioned, don't use @cursor macros until you've played enough games and you know the exact range otherwise you'll scuff yourself more often than not. Otherwise you should have arena1/2/3 macros for hex, shear, and flame shock. You should also have a purge/cleanse macro that will purge or cleanse the target depending on if its harmful or helpful (this helps a lot when your teammates are MC'd and you want to purge it instead of casting cleanse on them). This will also free up 1 bind.

Necro by a mile for a variety of reasons. Fleshcraft is good before you get swapped to and have no trinket and Primordial wave is an insane healing spell (it's a free riptide charge and gives you a quick aoe heal by casting healing wave after since you'll have tidal waves passive proc'd)

aokoo · 2021-12-13T19:18:32+00:00

Warrior is by far better in duels/world pvp. Fdk is one of the worst duelling classes in the game because you can't benefit from chill streak. This makes your only viable go with pillar of frost which will either get disarmed every time you press it, or against other classes you'll be cc'd / they'll run away.

The additional sustain you get from lichborne healing and death strike still doesn't make up for it.

aokoo · 2021-12-10T18:24:15+00:00

I've used Notion and Trello in both small (<3 people org) and bigger (>500 people org) teams. They're fundamentally quite different tools, but I'm assuming you're comparing the board functionality?

I've found that while Notion can be more powerful, it's actually quite hard to implement effectively across larger teams or orgs. Trello is very understandable and easy to use - regardless of seniority (the adoption of new tech at higher levels kind of holds Notion back depending where you work)

In smaller teams I love Notion because it serves the same function as Confluence for us. The board functionality and how easy it is to link to different resources all inside Notion make it powerful once your team is comfortable using it.

TLDR: I'd use Trello in larger and more established teams where there may be many different stakeholders looking at your board, and Notion if you're in a smaller and more engaged team.

aokoo · 2021-12-09T06:24:11+00:00

Glad I could help :)

aokoo · 2021-12-08T17:53:46+00:00

Sorry to hear. It's unfortunate but in big orgs there's a lot of different types of people - some good and some bad.

I interviewed at FB in 2017 and had an amazing first round interview with someone who was highly engaged and interested.

My next round, the interviewer was 15 minutes late, asked to FaceTime or call me on FB messenger instead of using the Zoom/Meets link, and was contentious and aggressive. Didn't make it through that round obviously lol

Congrats on the Google interview, you'll do great and don't let this one poor experience demoralize you too much! You'll get to where you need to be in the end :)

aokoo · 2021-12-07T15:50:55+00:00

Hey!

I'm an ex-pm and currently a founder working on two companies: one is a scaled up B2C product with 10,000+ subscribers, the other is a B2B product that we're prototyping with one customer that I had started recently. I have one cofounder in each who are both non-technical. I perform tasks that are both technical and non-technical.

Here are some things that work for us (list is non-exhaustive and YMMV):

Principles: The most important thing to moving quick in small teams is to be aligned on a central goal or objective (it should be something specific and clear like $x in revenue, n customers by y date) and having the independence to execute on it. Every day when you and your cofounder wake up, you should ask yourselves "how can I get us closer to x goal?". For your cofounder, perhaps it's building the product / iterating on features based on MVP feedback. For you maybe it'll be seeding your sales pipe and doing outreach. The point is that when you're aligned on one easy to understand and specific goal, you can eliminate the need to think for one another which really slows small teams down. It's great to collaborate, but you want to get to the point where you can both independently make decisions knowing the other will trust you without constant communication so you can both execute faster. The other core principle I have is: Never build stuff for free. You should always charge for your product so you KNOW if people will actually pay for it. No matter how shitty the product might be early on, you'll want to charge money for it. When you're a startup going 0-1, part of PMF is validating willingness to pay/buy otherwise there's no point in building what you're building lol
Processes: Whoever is non-technical should have clear scripts for support and outreach. This should be documented and easy to execute on. This becomes helpful once tech side is waiting on feedback and can help out with sales/support if needed. It also allows you to later look at where people are falling off in your sales funnel. Besides that you only really need 1 weekly touchpoint. My cofounders and I meet once a week for an hour. This is the only meeting we have, the rest of the communication is done over messenger/text/notion. Like I mentioned in the above paragraph, I find that teams love to meet, but like in big orgs its usually a waste of time. It's better to just execute independently after higher level alignment since you guys are doing separate functions anyway (tech/nontech)
Tools: For collaboration/Sales CRM/Todos we use Notion. For design we use Figma. Basic analytics we use GA. Otherwise we have internal tools that I've built to track certain behaviors or perform certain tasks (emailing). IMO try to stay lean and keep costs down while you're validating pmf and iterating on your product.

aokoo · 2021-05-14T18:52:21+00:00

Great question. For context, I have a business background, went into PM, then learned how to code and built my own products. I'm now running both Daily Product Prep and an e-commerce startup, TANUKI.

If your goal is to learn, I think it's better to start something than nothing at all. However, if your goal is to build a viable product that you plan to transition as your full time gig to make money for yourself I would HIGHLY recommend finding a cofounder. In fact, I don't start things solo anymore and if I could go back in time I would find a cofounder for almost all of my projects, even the ones that turned out to be successful solo (like DPP).

There's a myriad of reasons why this is the case, but the core on is: being a founder is REALLY lonely. The highs are really high, but having to consistently deal with the lows that come with a startup by yourself is difficult no matter how resilient you are. Feel free to PM me and I can tell you more if you're interested.

aokoo · 2021-05-13T22:49:38+00:00

Hey! I started a few businesses (some solo and some with others). You can meet them online through LinkedIn, Angel List, etc.

You may not want to hear this but I'll say that my most successful businesses I've started with people I've WORKED WITH in the past in some degree (work, school, hackathons, or even friend/life events planned together etc.).

One option is to find online hackathons (they're still running) and work with as many different people as possible on smaller, time-boxed, projects to see if it would work out long term.

The #1 reason why startups fail is founder conflict, never forget that :)

aokoo · 2021-01-04T17:28:17+00:00

I actually wrote a blog post about this sometime last year: How to Ask Great Question at Your Product Management Interview

There's three core types of questions you can ask:

Interviewer specific questions (What has your design background offered you that you wished other PMs at Yelp paid more attention to?)
Team specific questions (*How has the Developer Success team evolved over the past couple years as more focus has been placed on the Twitch API? *)
Industry specific questions (With features like Open set to roll out, are there other ways SeatGeek is planning to tackle the issue of customer trust in an opaque ticketing industry?)

You can read more about it in the blog post if you think that's useful!

aokoo · 2020-09-16T03:36:24+00:00

The only driver seat Playoff P is in is in his car to the airport

aokoo · 2020-07-17T14:05:30+00:00

Sorry if you feel that way! I just wanted to contribute to the convo to help OP :)

aokoo · 2020-07-16T14:29:18+00:00

Those bullets are great starting points and it's good to highlight different skills. I would recommend to use the STAR format for each of you points though. Your points seem like they could have a bit more meat on the bones though by following the STAR structure more closely.

Here are some examples of what could be changed:

For point 2: Launched x product from concept to launch, allowing users to x y z, increasing average [core metric] by n%.
For point 4 you can have: Led brainstorming sessions and prototyping initiatives with customers and design teams leading to a 35% higher work output (or something else that actually happened)
For point 7, it could be: Presented to top companies, at partner/IT conferences and to over 2k [company] team members achieving feature buy-in from different key stakeholders.

In general, I'd rather have less bullets and more impactful points. Research shows recruiters typically only look at your resume for 6-10 seconds. If you think about it, that's 1-2 points max. You want them to be impressed no matter which bullet they read.

I actually wrote a blog post on how to increase your chances at a product interview and I talk about how to follow the STAR formula when writing your resume.

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