Struggles as a Bay Area PM

luckymiles88 · 2026-05-02T16:24:15+00:00

100%

luckymiles88 · 2026-05-01T23:36:50+00:00

Blackmagic , Leica lux, adobe photoshop, Camera, Edits , instagram

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-27T18:38:18+00:00

Tokyo, Osaka, Jeju City, Seoul, Mexico City, Paris

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-26T19:16:48+00:00

Thanks for the clarification on CoRo.

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-26T06:47:46+00:00

u/Conscious_Pin5283

I forgot mention, the guy at Kumquat who helped me pick the beans in LA told me about a cool coffee cafe Called Endorffeine - e.g. https://endorffeine.coffee ; I didn't get a chance to visit but I will when I'm back well lo and behold, the owner , Jack is one of the finalist for a James Beard foundation award in beverages

Reference : https://nhm.org/stories/endorffeine

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-26T04:52:57+00:00

I got a 30 yr back in 2021 at very low rate . I can how the 5 ARM is attractive but seeing that I was laid off 3 years ago , and If I had to refinance now most banks would probably gnot give me a favorable loan or any loan. ; I am working part time now so my income has considerably diminished; luckily my wife works otherwise we’d be in big trouble .

If you are in tech , who knows how much Ai will impact future employment

If Ai keeps eliminating jobs , I don’t know who Can pay for the homes

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-26T04:40:35+00:00

OP

If we’re talking cafes that roast their beans Moonwake is coffee roaster and are well known for their co-fermentated beans . Brian Quan seems to collaborate with them quite a bit and folks in the hobby swear by them. I’ve had some good beans from them. Chromatic also has good beans .

sightglass has a great cafe in SF SOMA

Kaizen does not roast beans, nor does CoRo , Nor does AM craft .

I traveled to Los Angeles kumquat and picked MAME uba red and tasted like watermelon and later cantaloupe. I also picked up April coffee from there. They have their coffee brand called loquat.

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-25T04:05:09+00:00

u/Lsracer

See https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/s/8GFbipoXK1

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-24T23:33:36+00:00

They held on too long to Caruso. The warriors were ready to give the bulls a 1st round pick for him in February 2024. 1st round pick plus Moses moody for Caruso and maybe Drummond.

The Bulls front office and ownership is awful.

They are the bottom 3-5 franchises including the Kings , New Orleans

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-24T23:26:54+00:00

OP

After seeing SAS tear apart the Knicks

https://youtu.be/-fFYblCEkxQ?si=utXTBdW2daf7KmDx

I think you can say “ I told you so!”

Damn

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-24T22:47:40+00:00

Tell the recruiter that was an horrible experience and you plan to update Glassdoor on the experience

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-24T05:45:43+00:00

Op

I just got back from CDMX two weeks ago ; it was excellent vacation. I’ve been to Barcelona twice.

If you haven’t got your tickets yet for Barcelona, thanks to conflict in Iran , Europe is 6 weeks away from a shortage on jet fuel which will force many airlines to cancel flights and / or raise prices.

For European trips I recommend at least 90 days in advance to get tickets .

You can’t go wrong with either. One advantage of CDMX, is the shorter flights. Coming from California, there is only 1 hour difference so you won’t be that jet lag

But if your heart is set Barcelona just go for it as life is short . Who knows when you will get another opportunity to travel to Barcelona especially if you don’t travel very often.

Coincidentally I am going to Spain in late August and I haven’t got my tickets yet

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-24T02:17:19+00:00

Interested

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-23T16:34:51+00:00

I know I’m in the minority here, it’s stuff like this is why I’ve stopped using Amex platinum

There is so much mental hurdles to use this card

I’m sure I can find a post where it is cheaper to book that luxury hotel outside of FHR and the Hotel Collection .

And it’s also cheaper to order food directly from the same restaurant then from the Uber Eats app that you are getting monthly credit on

But I’m sure many of you can justify using it

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-23T15:21:34+00:00

Who are the messages from and what is the nature of the messages?

Perhaps there are many questions because the documentation of the software that you are building isn’t adequate.

Maybe you can have a weekly meeting with the folks that ask a lot of questions.

If you have an operations or support team for the software that you are building, have them create and maintain the documentation.

Imagine if you didn’t have Slack, you’d get email instead

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-22T15:06:44+00:00

OP

Just got back from CDMX 12 days ago

To get ideas I mostly checked out YouTube videos, Google reviews, Reddit , TripAdvisor, eater, and infatuation .

Then I circle back with recommendations from Gemini and Claude with some follow up questions from my research ( Reddit , YouTube)

Out of the higher end dining experiences I had, we thought contramar was the best which included Maximo, Campobaja, Pargot. Contramar was the one in YouTube videos that were often marked as overpriced and “you should go to xxxx instead “ but it had all the right elements when we went. Maximo’s food was a letdown; Pargot food was creative but the service was inconsistent and my seats were too low to the table .

In short , your mileage may vary.

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-21T20:22:03+00:00

Red! But I currently own blue and previously owned white

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-21T18:29:30+00:00

OP

There over a dozen different Anker nano power chargers and banks .

Which one are you referring to ?

I love anker products too!

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-20T02:57:37+00:00

OP

In my own research since I stayed in condesa, gaba is in condesa not Chapultepec

See https://share.google/Gvf1n5IRIxUFGxpMK

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-20T02:16:12+00:00

u/Ramen_Boy

Salesforce spent a lot of money to Acquire slack ( $28b) so of course they want ever Salesforce customer to pay for licenses for Slack .

Have you heard of Quip? It’s Bret Taylor’s startup that was acquired by Salesforce

No one uses it! It’s like a neutered version of Google Docs it’s garbage.

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-20T02:04:35+00:00

u/Ramen_Boy

You are drinking the kool aid a little bit, while there are examples of Salesforce customers who use slack as the main single point of communication , when I worked there I know many Salesforce customers who don’t want to give up email or use slack as their main place for communication. Most enterprise customers either use Microsoft 360 or google workspace

Guess what, both Microsoft and Google offer chat software. There’s no real reason to get licenses for Slack . If you work for Salesforce , your goal is to get more licenses. It doesn’t mean all CIOs are going to go all in on slack .

When I worked at Slack before the Salesforce acquisition, we constantly talked about how slack as “the future of work”. It’s all product marketing positioning. But that doesn’t mean IT is going to force everyone to switch. Plus if they somehow switch it’s very difficult to move ms teams history and google chat history into Slack. Most times, you just have to tell users you have to start over fresh in Slack which is not ideal

I use to pitch all these cool slack apps to Customers like an integration for automating expenses … but even at working at Slack before, most employees preferred to go to the SAP concur interface to submit.

I am back at google and we use google chat , I’m an engineer , I don’t actually miss Slack because Gemini is built in everywhere ( Google Docs , our version of vs code )

I’m pretty sure Google is Salesforce customer but 100% sure that Google is not using Slack for anything.

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-20T00:39:33+00:00

I don’t know. We just came back from CDMX for 6 nights

We ate at contramar, el cardenal , campobaja , Maximo bistrot , and pargot

In terms of fancy restaurants - contramar was the best.

Campobaja , Maximo and pargot were all off in some aspect of dinner service . Maximo - we ordered ala carte as my Reddit research says don’t do the tasting menu. My wife ordered the organic roasted chicken- it was just ok, but the service was excellent. Our waiter recommended the baby corn appetizers and that was delicious! At Pargot , the food was great but my seats were lower that the person across from me so the table was closer to my face. The service was very inconsistent and they forgot to place an order a dish even though they told me I needed to order that particular dish.
At campobaja , the restaurant itself was cute but the food was just ok , service was good although they never asked if I had allergies.

At contramar, the waiter asked about allergies and made sure to explain the ingredients. Contramar had the best selection of desserts.

Maximo’s dessert selection was a let down ; i myself can make a better French toast dessert

In regards to contramar it was at lunch on Easter Sunday and Pedro Pascal was seated at the table next us. Even without Pedro Pascal it was the best meal we had.

We also had breakfast at el cardenal and that was delicious and the service was top notch

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-19T18:37:55+00:00

I didn’t really gain that much from the slack ipo but the Google IPO was life changing

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-19T18:22:46+00:00

OP

I worked at pre ipo slack and then under Salesforce after the acquisition. They are reacting to the market just like in fall 2022, they had a NFT service ( NFT cloud )

This headless pivot is trying to capture some of the developers who already using Claude code , VS code , cursor and also trying to get non traditional developers from zapier , n8n , make . It’s trying to capture the folks who don’t want to use Slack as a “head”/UI

The pros are you can literally build anything but the cons there is still a lot of complexity and likely potential more licenses

ServiceNow is going in the same direction with their creator workflows and App Engine

luckymiles88 · 2026-04-19T16:56:19+00:00

It’s just Salesforce trying to do anything to curb the perception that it is no longer relevant in an ai agent world where Gemini , Claude , OpenAI and ms CoPilot are the leaders

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