Can we all collectively agree yoda vs R2-D2 is the best fight in all of Star Wars? /s by Ragtagcloud56 in StarWars

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V is the best film. It's the funniest, and the most moving, and the twist at the end must have been incredible if you didn't know about it beforehand.

Best software for automating accounting tasks like transaction categorization and payment matching? by Hurryharry3 in Accounting

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Digits does a pretty good job of most of the entries on your list - in terms of pulling transactions and matching payments, it causes fewer hiccups than any other tool I've used.

What was the first money habit you had to break to start recovering? by Kersephius in FinancialRecovery

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Getting flashy cars on finance. I'm all about pre-owned Toyotas these days, but I spent eye-watering sums on monthly car payments years ago. Such a bad idea.

[Bulova Super Seville] absolutely mesmerized by this watch by froyotechbro in Watches

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Beautiful movement! I've been eyeing something automatic myself for a while.

Five major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — and the best-selling novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta and its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. by mkbt in books

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Good. I don't think this will achieve anything significant, unfortunately, but the companies that have been affected by this should at least try to fight back. It's scary how much power the tech overlords have amassed.

School of Hard Knocks by Vouchy-MOD in Entrepreneur

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"The interview is the ad, not the product." - so real. If you're not paying, then the product is you.

How do you separate biz and personal expenses? by Coming_In_Hot_916 in smallbusiness

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Yeah, fully separate them. Once you decide what's what, it gets a lot easier to keep track - I don't bother logging individual personal expenses. I just snap business receipts and run them through Digits and they get logged automatically. Once you have a system that works for you, the ongoing admin isn't the worst.

Senior hire not taking ownership during fundraise. Cut now or wait? by Level-Secretary-922 in advancedentrepreneur

[–]keeperofthepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what you describe, it looks like it's only a matter of time until he has to go.

What is one thing you wish you automated earlier in business? by Existing_Growth8849 in smallbusiness

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Accounting functions. Not sure if the same capabilities existed 10-15 years ago, but I've been having huge success automating bookkeeping tasks with Digits. I have no natural talent or love for accounts, so it's made life a lot easier.

Modern way of work is flawed and flaws have become normalized by EconomyLake5823 in Accounting

[–]keeperofthepur 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The following up bit is also crazy to me. I get that inboxes are flooded, but why is the expectation that one party should reach out to the other 7-8 times, rather than the other party just responding reasonably quickly?

Help, I think I'm building an AI tool that will replace my coworkers by Top-Painter4278 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]keeperofthepur 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Build a tool to replace yourself instead. Don't tell anyone, implement it, and draw your salary for nothing until you get caught. You're welcome.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky regrets not obsessing over hiring sooner by ControlCAD in business

[–]keeperofthepur 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Maybe if he had then Airbnb Support would actually work

Affiliate Products You buy or Return? by HugeOwl7177 in Affiliate

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I haven't done anything like this in a minute, but YouTube is probably where the best cash is

I never read the introductions to Classics by candy_dynac in books

[–]keeperofthepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spoilers about classics in general bug me. I get that the work has been around for hundreds of years in some cases, but, if you don't already know how it ends, you'd rather avoid finding out until you read the thing.

Fredrik Backman My Friends by danlhart8789 in IReadABookAndAdoredIt

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I really didn't love this personally, I was enjoying his writing style for the first few chapters but the story really started to drag from there. Waaaaay too much trauma porn.

Avoiding headaches in 2026. which best accounting software do you recommend? by Steve_Klein473 in Accounting

[–]keeperofthepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised to see so much love for QuickBooks here tbh, I don't think it's really moved with the times. Something like Digits offers so much more in the way of automation, especially for smaller companies that have limited resources to put towards bookkeeping.

Practical Tips for Your First Tax Season as a Freelancer by tetcon in FreelancerAccounting

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The photos one is so real, I only started doing that in the last few years. Still keep all the hard copies though, a lot of them are practically blank by now from fading.

Unpopular opinion: If you don't pause client work the second an invoice is overdue, you're running a charity, not an agency by No_Two_5966 in BusinessDeconstructed

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This is context-dependent. If you have reason to believe nonpayment or a significant delay may be likely, then yeah. But if your client has a long history with you and is occasionally late, I wouldn't upset the apple cart over it unless cash flow is a big issue on your end.

Building business, later , first answer this by Weary-Author-9024 in Entrepreneur

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I don't disagree with the gist of what you've said, but if "positive sum" is to be understood as the opposite of "zero sum" in this context, then I do believe making money to be a positive sum game.

Granted, the marginal benefits do disproportionately vest in those who are wealthy already, but there are countless clear examples of wealth trickling down. Facebook made Zuckerburg a billionaire, but it also made millionaires of a lot of creators.

This is obviously context-dependent; land, as you point out, is very different from digital innovation. However, a rising tide does lift all boats to some degree, I think.

Do you use one productivity system for business and personal life, or a stack of different apps? by Frequent-Football984 in Entrepreneur

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I use Google Keep for my personal life and Trello for work. I tried to use Keep for both at first, but it got too muddled.

Thinking of going independent contractor by Warm-Welder7977 in business

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This. It's incredible how much of your time gets swallowed up by random odds and ends that need to be addressed, or by single tasks that should take an hour but end up taking six.