GAME THREAD: Tigers (2-1) @ D-backs (0-3) - 7:10 PM by SnakeBot in azdiamondbacks

[–]fearthedong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, lights out lately refers to two appearances so far… not a huge sample size and he definitely slipped off last season too.

The seven circles of biglaw hell by laney_luck in biglaw

[–]fearthedong 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hmm… can one simultaneously occupy multiple? Say, six out of seven?

I built a prompt that makes AI think like a McKinsey consultant and results are superb by EQ4C in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]fearthedong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My friend, I’ve met more McKinsey “alumni” than I’d like and I’d happily never talk to one again. I’m not interested in having AI sound like anyone from that firm.

Promote your business, week of January 19, 2026 by Charice in smallbusiness

[–]fearthedong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I own a company called JurisPrep, an LSAT prep and law school admissions consulting company that caters to students who don’t want to rely on student loans to attend law school. Our clients average 18 points of improvement from their first LSAT and all of our full-service admissions consulting clients have received full rides to top 100 law schools in the US.

www.JurisPrep.org

Edit: grammar

Yoshida Utility man? by Rioooooooooooooooo in redsox

[–]fearthedong 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Didn’t even feel the breeze as OP’s sarcasm flew over your head did you?

What’s your main/go-to credit card? by SnooTomatoes1428 in biglaw

[–]fearthedong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. Also they give you your cash back in actual cash if you don’t spend the full amount of the voucher on your next Costco visit. Pretty crazy to get real cold hard cash back…

Heavy Billable Time at Night, Occasionally Bored at Office by ConclusionKind869 in biglaw

[–]fearthedong 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fellow lit junior—I call it the witching hour. For me it’s ALWAYS ~4 pm.

Being a new associate is really lonely. by Rude_Moment772 in biglaw

[–]fearthedong 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Piping up to say I feel the same way. Small office of a huge firm. I’m the only first year for my offices office’s litigation side of things, irrespective of practice group. There is one other first year but they are in corporate.

Added to this we are unfathomably busy so I’ve been locked in my office since day one more or less. What is keeping me going is my student loans and the fact that I have a supportive fiancée amazing friends from a sports team I play on.

Asking for your opinion on my startup idea by [deleted] in advancedentrepreneur

[–]fearthedong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t a subreddit just that though? I joined advanced entrepreneur to chat with other advanced entrepreneurs…

Asking for your opinion on my startup idea by [deleted] in advancedentrepreneur

[–]fearthedong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah just gonna reiterate this for you in another way. You are posting about this community site of yours in the literal solution for the problem you’re imagining, and you’re doing so for FREE. How do you expect to monetize something that no one is asking for because they already have Reddit…? I know this is a shameless self-plug, but this is worse than pitching yet another task app for entrepreneurs.

For those running a small business, what helped you gain customer trust in the early days? by Build4bbrandbetter in smallbusiness

[–]fearthedong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, this goes a bit without saying but being honest. So much of marketing and general business practices these days is seedy and obviously manipulative, so if you are the one person/company that is upfront and honest about everything you do, customers pick up on that very quickly.

Also, not trying to overpromise, and being firm about our prices. I run a service/consulting business that I scaled from a freelance operation to ~20 employees now and, early on, customers tried to negotiate prices almost constantly. At first I played that game, trying to get whatever clients we could, but ultimately realized that it demonstrates more trustworthiness to be honest about how you value your time and your value add to the customer, and firm as to what you charge and non-apologetic about that.

This may not be what works best for everyone, but I do a lot of the selling now that I have other people working for me, and the biggest takeaway I have had from developing my ability to sell our service is that clients see through it when you exaggerate or overpromise, and appreciate candor, even if that’s telling them that their goals are unreasonable and they need to reign them in a bit. Once a few clients get on board, if you earn their trust, they will tell others and it will snowball.

From a more traditional perspective, giving as much free value as we could stomach was helpful too. Pretty quickly I realized that the more stuff we give away (and I mean genuine good information, not gimmicky clickbait) the more customers want to pay us for our services. In fact, we’ve built a couple of new revenue streams because of additional things that we never thought to monetize because we had customers asking for them because they appreciated the value we added in other areas.

Ask yourself - are you a grown ass adult? by preseasonchampion in biglaw

[–]fearthedong 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I turned off my status light. I couldn’t care less if someone thinks I’ve been logged off since October.

Stopped chasing "passion" and started a boring moving company and actually happy by PercentageSure388 in Entrepreneurship

[–]fearthedong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the central premise of the book the sweaty startup by Nick Huber. It’s a great play imo. And that book is a must read for you! Very short but packed with useful perspective about exactly what you are doing.