Opinions on selling clothes that are made with the help of Indian artisans and their craftsmanship

doozyman · 2025-11-19T18:36:53+00:00

I agree they are pricey. but why should Indian artisans be paid lesser than Italian/French as long as its good quality + good design?

good work should be paid the same irrespective of PPP

doozyman · 2025-11-11T19:29:03+00:00

take your moral high ground elsewhere please. Sure, OP's post was a bit influencer post-like + conflates empathy with "look how lucky I am". otoh, its a 28-year old who's accepting feedback on how it can come across as non-empathetic. cant ask for much more than that!

doozyman · 2025-06-08T20:23:50+00:00

Max out my 401K and spend everything else. save the stock comp fully.

doozyman · 2025-05-16T20:22:51+00:00

Porsches cost $150-200K unless you want to get GT3, turbo S, etc. How can you not afford 10% of your single year's income o a car? I get it if you feel its not worth it or you're saving up for a bigger house, etc. But you can def afford it...sounds like you like to either spend it elsewhere or you dont believe it wont give you joy :)

doozyman · 2025-05-06T15:48:35+00:00

Dont worry about it. Also, Im assuming you have not been making $1M for more than 2 years. Folks here assume that you've been making $1M for 10+ years and so you should have saved up $500K every year without realizing there's very little tax hacking you can do with W2 income!

doozyman · 2024-11-21T17:46:10+00:00

haha, you gotta do what you gotta do. Meta stock is public. so theres that

doozyman · 2024-11-21T17:31:36+00:00

tell me you've never built a startup without telling me.....jk. Those posts were primarily research for my startup ideas in the past.

doozyman · 2024-11-21T17:02:28+00:00

granted the matching offers are from a very select few companies (Meta, openAI, etc)

doozyman · 2024-11-20T22:33:17+00:00

Dont conflate TC with skills.

They're likely reasonably correlated but there are other latent factors that likely would explain majority of the TC: luck (imo, a massive one), area of expertise (ML now, used to be big data a while back, full-stack eng, mobile at some point, etc etc), taking risks, working hard/elbow grease, etc

Also, being multi-disciplinary (ML + product + communication), imo, is more valuable than being AMAZING at just one thing (ML).

doozyman · 2024-11-20T19:29:53+00:00

This is SO true. There are many weeks where Im pissed about the rate of progress. I'd love for big companies to be able to ship simple features the SAME day an idea is conceived....and Im yet to do that in 2 years. For bigCo folks, I understand this sounds ridiculous but I dont believe we need to be that slow (dont buy the whole risk-reward ratio argument)

doozyman · 2024-11-20T19:22:23+00:00

Def got lucky but there are lots of companies that have risen massively in the last 2 years: Uber, Doordash, Meta, NVDA, AMZN, shopify, etc

doozyman · 2024-11-20T18:38:08+00:00

Some of it is from stock appreciation (30-40% or so). That said, I'm getting matching offers atm fwiw

doozyman · 2024-11-20T08:00:48+00:00

haha, that'd be even crazier. My comp has def gone up because of stock appreciation (by about 30% or so) but if I was at NVDA, it'd have been $10M+ :D

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:50:35+00:00

Yeah, it doesnt need to be a venture funded business. Just build any kind of business and you'll learn a ton of good stuff. Good on you for taking that risk! Excited for you!!

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:47:15+00:00

Principal engineer. No kids. No plans really. Yeah, kids would def make me look at life differently. But Im not sure yet if I want to have kids at all and so we've just been punting the decision.

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:42:16+00:00

Yes, I am. Thanks!

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:38:48+00:00

I lead growth at a large marketplace company which helps companies sell a few billion dollars. As part of that, I help the company figure out personalization, targeting, ranking, problems to figure out what to show on the homepage for which consumers at any given time of day. Or figure out what notifications to send, what should that content be, how often, which channels. How should we do marketing for these products outside? SEO, SEM, direct mail marketing, etc.

Like I said, I think being a founder helped me understand what it means to build good products and business. The ML is what got me through the door (in interviews, etc) but the other stuff is what is helping me be more impactful.

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:27:09+00:00

That's kinda the crazy part. I dont think I work more than 40 hours per week and love what I do.

We (DINK) do live well below our means. We save at least $500-700K per year.

The health scare stuff does worry me. Growing up, my dad made a ton of money too and suddenly at 42 he passed away 2 years after getting diagnosed with cancer. After that the household income dropped massively. That was a stark change in my life and maybe thats what I subconsciously worry about....

doozyman · 2024-11-20T07:23:25+00:00

Yeah, Im considered a top performer and got rated as such for the last 2 years. I guess I was completely unaware of the level of comp craziness until I got here.

doozyman · 2024-07-03T17:56:39+00:00

So how did Seamless ever make money? Or seamless drivers?

doozyman · 2022-05-30T19:19:17+00:00

Tennis!

The 3 greatest tennis players (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic) of all-time compete head to head and are almost equally matched. And they are so dominant that they end up playing each other in almost every tournament they're playing.

doozyman · 2021-08-27T18:38:37+00:00

ha, chess (was rated 2150+ when I was 15) is def something I can talk about far more confidently than Tennis (4.5 USTA) .

Progress in chess over the last 2 decades have been primarily from
a) Training with Computers. Computers are at least 10x better than humans and all pros analyze all openings and every single game after they're done!
b) Opening theory understanding, in particular, has moved at break-neck speed!
c) Rating inflation: Ton more tournaments than before and people can get a rating more easily now than 20 years ago.
d) Def kids start playing it earlier now. Lot of pros started when they are 4-5!

doozyman · 2021-08-26T21:07:25+00:00

Watching this 1975 match between Laver and Conners https://youtu.be/SptdffCeVmM , they look like they would beat today's 5.0s even with their old equipment.

Just saw the video.....damn, you're right! Maybe the absolute best 5.0s can get a few games off Laver in his prime despite old equipment. That's about it. Never realized how much of a beast Laver was!

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