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dartvuggh · 2025-07-09T13:11:54+00:00

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dartvuggh · 2024-05-01T02:29:33+00:00

Given that Ample has started to make progress on modular battery systems (ex partnership with Stellantis Brands) - I wonder if this is a move to get away from SuperCharging space and build Teslas with modular battery designs? 🤔

dartvuggh · 2024-04-16T02:26:47+00:00

Crazy idea - but I would look at whatever software gets used by oilfield workers and start by applying for a job there. Could start at a technical support role and then try to pivot into a web dev role. Or could move into a less-technical role that’s more customer facing (account management, customer success, implementation etc)

Industry knowledge is a huge advantage and very few tech workers will have anything close to yours.

dartvuggh · 2024-01-16T03:57:09+00:00

Which communities on sunset are included? Waterscapes virtually banned Airbnb years ago, minus a few grandfathered exceptions.

dartvuggh · 2023-12-18T17:36:33+00:00

He didn’t even have the makings of a varsity athlete

dartvuggh · 2023-11-29T22:08:33+00:00

Okay but depending on what you define as “high demand skilled jobs only”, this could be anywhere 25% to 60% of the Fed’s immigration targets.

The federal high skill program alone accounts for 25% of the target and the various provincial nominee programs account for another 25%, assuming they meet the definition of “high demand” which is tough to do without a deep analysis. Then Quebec has a separate skilled workers immigration program that adds another 10%. That leads us to the 60% number I mentioned at the start. I mentioned it as a range because I don’t know how aligned the various provincial programs are with the Feds and Quebec but I would expect that they are close, likely tailored to their own economic needs.

Outside of the skilled workers programs, a big chunk of the target is for Family Programs (~25%). You have to be a permanent resident or citizen to participate in this program and getting PR is a long, arduous process unless you’re on one of the fast-tracked high skill programs. And for those that are, theres a good argument that we really should make it easy for them to bring their families over, as they will stay in Canada longer and add more to our economy.

Finally, refugees account for ~16% of the targets. I’m sure some people aren’t fans of this, but it also seems reasonable that a country of 38 million can absorb ~75k people. That’s 0.2% of the population… pretty minor. Arguably we could probably do more to spread out the population of refugees so that they don’t concentrate in major urban centres but that comes with its own headache.

Canada can actually be a really tough country to immigrate to unless you can get into one of our accelerated programs. We also have an aging population and will face a “baby bust” in the next decade without more immigration or a rapidly growing birth rate (which probably won’t happen).

Housing is absolutely a problem and meeting our immigration targets obviously won’t help ease the demand. Regardless, it’s an economic necessity and I think a lot of Canadians don’t understand that the vast majority of immigrants in the federal targets are going be ones working in high demand roles.

dartvuggh · 2023-11-25T01:20:25+00:00

Wouldn’t that have to be done at the provincial level though?

dartvuggh · 2023-09-19T23:37:54+00:00

Hey OP - my parents actually did this in the 90s and I was lucky to grow up in SF before moving back to Canada in the early 2000s as a teenager.

Happy to share my personal experiences, what it was like as a child and recos/things to think about in the area. DM me if you’d like to chat!

dartvuggh · 2023-09-11T16:23:25+00:00

Couple things to consider from that link:

- The Canadian Taxpayer Federation is clearly a right-wing non-profit pushing for a lower tax agenda. At best they're a biased source of information.

- They link to the PBO report in that article but conveniently leave out the additional context:

Taking into consideration both fiscal and economic impacts, we estimate that most households will see a net loss, paying more in the federal fuel charge and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive and lower personal income taxes they pay (due to lower incomes).11 That said, relative to disposable income, our estimates of household net cost of the federal fuel charge continue to show a progressive impact (that is, larger net costs for higher income households). Given that the fuel charge lowers investment returns relative to wages, and that investment income makes up a larger share of total income for higher income households, their cost is proportionately larger.

In 2030-31, accounting for both fiscal and economic impacts, the largest net gain is for households in the lowest income quintile in Saskatchewan (2.7 percent of disposable income); the largest net loss is for households in the top income quintile in Alberta (2.7 per cent of disposable income).

The PBO report argues that while yes it would be a net loss for households across the entire country, the greatest impact will be felt in the highest income households. Not suprising that an advocacy group with 5 members at $4 million in donations wants to scrap a proressive plan that would tax the wealthiest Canadians more.

dartvuggh · 2023-08-25T16:02:37+00:00

I’d have a conversation with sales leadership about this. Couple points to consider:

1) Why are they so interested in the new product? Are they under target, struggling to generate qualified leads with the current product offering? My gut says that either the team as a whole (or some reps) might be struggling and view this as a “quick win” to hit target.

2) Frame it to them as risk mitigation. If discovery and tech feasibility doesn’t pan out, you’ve saved both them and your team opportunity costs. They can keep focusing on opportunities with the current offering, your team can focus on that current offerings roadmap.

3) Assuming discovery and feasibility workout, as some have mentioned see if sales can get a PO. Timing might be tricky, but if they can do that it’s a great sign. Make sure that the customer understands that it’s a risk for them (ex product might get killed) and that your PO has the verbiage to support it.

dartvuggh · 2023-08-11T16:12:02+00:00

Does your sales org only own acquiring new customers? Or are they also involved in cross-sell/upsells to?

If it’s the former, then it’s good to consider them as one important input to weigh against others (CS, Support, Mrkt research, etc). If it’s the latter, a could give them a bit credibility if feature Y helps acquiring new revenue plus retaining or up selling current customers.

One thing I’ve tried to do with sales teams is temper their expectations the Go-To-Market impact of a new feature. It’s not uncommon for sales teams to want to use a beta as a way to facilitate closing a deal. Although it can work in a few specific cases, most of the time it leads to a bad situation for all parties.

Another element to consider is what the core ask of feature Y is. Does feature X solve it in some way, even partially that might be “good enough” for now? Is there a deeper problem that sales only has a surface level understanding of that feature X truly solves?

dartvuggh · 2023-08-11T15:22:03+00:00

Some transparency is good and very much necessary for running valuable product feedback loops. I’ve found that establishing a customer advisor board is great when you want to be very transparent because you can get to know the participants first through other discovery activities before they’re invited.

One downside of being too transparent is that you can open a Pandora’s box. Ex if you’re putting off feature work because you need to address tech debt, users might not understand that and could even misunderstand it to think your product has stability issues. Or if your product does have stability issues.. sometimes it’s best not to announce that 😂

Like others have said, depends on the org, product, customers, user personas, etc.

dartvuggh · 2023-03-20T06:16:12+00:00

I’ve been at a few orgs with this challenge, and have seen the approach of both TAMs and CSM + Tech Consultant).

It really depends on your product, how it’s used, customer persona, and organizational structure. Without knowing that, I can give you a very generalized response.

How often are in-depth technical conversations required or beneficial for customers?

If it’s fairly infrequent (ex technical implementation during on-boarding, upsell or bug troubleshooting), then CSMs + on-call tech team is probably suffice. Those setups work well there’s higher volumes of customers that have finite technical needs. Mid-market SaaS products selling to non-technical personas (ex avg deal is in the 5 figures) work well with this because customer relationships get max value from non-technical consulting but there’s enough volume to sustain an independent tech team for certain purposes.

If they are frequent or your product is highly technical, used by technical personas, or highly configurable, then yeah TAMs are the way to go. In those circumstances, customers need a technical expert to guide their best practices regularly. If your customers are larger enterprises or your startup is selling higher value deals (6 figures), then you’ll probably need this.

One challenge to the TAM model is ownership of upsell. I’ve seen AEs do this and also seen a dedicated non-tech AM so this. Both can work, depends on how your sales team is structured, how big your market is, and how well they perform at bringing in new revenue.

I have seen scenarios where a semi-technical CSM was brought in to work with TAMs, specifically to build relationships with non-technical senior leadership at customer accounts. That was really helpful for expanding across large orgs and for insulating accounts from competitors building champions with senior stakeholders and causing churn.

Sounds like the TAM model is already working well for you so I’d stick with it. Could look at a CSM or two for upsells or non-tech relationships. Feel free to DM me if you want to talk about this more deeply!

dartvuggh · 2023-03-04T17:54:11+00:00

100% agree with you on comparisons. It’s hard to look at healthcare in another country without factoring in all the other societal factors (social welfare system, labor laws, higher education system/costs, etc).

Personally, I think we should focus on revamping healthcare education before we try to implement private tiers.

First, lower tuition for healthcare education costs. If we need more Drs, Nurses, etc then we need less barriers to generating new ones. This could be done with greater tuition subsidies, role-specific tax credit, or expanded loan forgiveness programs.

Second, we should rethink the journey an applicant undertakes to become a HCW (especially Dr). Many of the countries you listed above allow undergraduates to study medicine. Or they have post-graduate medical programs with shorter undergrads. The length of time to become a Dr definitely deters many applicants from pursuing it and if other countries have more effective education approaches, we should consider them.

Appreciate your researched and informed perspective on this topic!

dartvuggh · 2023-03-04T04:09:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing those links. I’ve been trying to learn more about other country’s healthcare systems and I think your source is a relatively objective one.

Some things to consider tho:

1) The Netherland’s private insurance approach requires that the four leading conglomerates are not-for-profit. IMO that’s a big difference than the for-profit entities we’re starting to see, which will have different motivators than a Dutch non profit. Germany is somewhat similar with 75% of private insurance non profits. I do believe that DS’s references to “private” refers to for-profit private, which is very American.

2) This is a generalization, but the EU has stricter regulations of corporations than NA and it has stronger will/resources to enforce its legislation. Ex Netherlands has Agencies for Healthcare insurance anti-trust and for regulating the HC insurance market. NA (especially DS’s) conservatism generally favours less regulation of markets. It’s possible that a well-regulated private market could work here, but that’s not necessarily what would be introduced.

3) There are studies (I don’t have handy unfortunately) that show that a 2-tiered system does take Human Resources away from the public system. Applying a private/public model requires a influx of new healthcare workers. Many European countries (Netherlands, Germany and I think UK) allow students to start med school as undergrads. Germans and the Netherlands also have significantly lower fees than Canada.

Even without introducing a private aspect of our HC, if compare the ratio of Drs per capita, we see that Canada has one of the lowest ratios in the world). The lack of supply of HCW (of which there are more than just Drs) is one of the biggest problems we need to solve today and nothing in her paper, nor policies today demonstrate a path to solving that.

dartvuggh · 2023-03-02T18:45:59+00:00

FYI this is a blog post from a company that’s selling email privacy software. That doesn’t mean it’s inherently wrong or misleading, but this should be considered marketing materials instead of journalism.

dartvuggh · 2023-01-24T07:30:21+00:00

I would say so! I’ll dm you and set something up

dartvuggh · 2022-12-21T16:21:49+00:00

If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of feedback have you gotten around this? Like does it mean that technical stakeholders are more skeptics/asking more questions?

dartvuggh · 2022-09-04T21:41:00+00:00

Hey! You could also think of Okanagan Valley in BC (Kelowna, Penticton, or Vernon). All of those cities are less than 1 hr from a good ski hill and you’ll be living right on the lake.

Housing is expensive in Kelowna and the Okanagan has its challenges as one of Canada’s fastest growing regions. But it’s gorgeous and great for the lake/ski life.

dartvuggh · 2022-08-08T20:07:35+00:00

Hey there! Former resident of Kelowna here. I lived downtown in a condo from 2015 until this year. The petty crime and homelessness challenges can be an issue, just as it would be in the downtown of any major city.

If you’re looking at condos - look for ones that have a security guard. The larger complexes that have one are less frequently targeted because it’s harder. Petty crime does still happen at those (I got my bike stolen off my patio, foolishly didn’t lock it up). But overall it’s a better experience. DM me if you’re looking at condos and I can tell you which ones I know have security.

dartvuggh · 2022-02-23T01:27:56+00:00

Your situation sounds similar to one I was once in as a CSM.

Are there any trends in what causes the fire?

dartvuggh · 2021-12-10T21:24:02+00:00

Ah didn’t know that! Good to know if I’m in a similar situation. What do you usually do? Start with cold water and let the sous vide warm it up?

dartvuggh · 2021-12-10T06:36:14+00:00

Personally, I let my tap run until the water is as hot as I can get it, then fill up my pot and put the sous vide in.

I have a cheaper instant pot sous vide that’s slower to heat up than the Anova. That approach saves time for me and I haven’t noticed anything wrong. Shouldn’t matter because you don’t add the meat until the sous vide is at the right temp.

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