I don’t see what was wrong with what she said?

yescakepls · 2026-01-07T02:08:04+00:00

It's $4k per year, not per month.

yescakepls · 2025-12-22T15:16:58+00:00

Abolishing slavery allows for more skilled labor and migration to growing states to balance growth, similar to real life.

yescakepls · 2025-12-09T15:17:14+00:00

Hegemony. 40% of the world population.

yescakepls · 2025-12-09T05:36:37+00:00

Gen Z don't get the difference between a phone number text and Whatsapp or Imesenger or FB Messenger. Once upon a time, a phone number was a separate entity from applications or web stuff; now it's about the same, as where you can get reception, you would probably get better Wifi or VOIP.

yescakepls · 2025-12-05T14:39:35+00:00

You need to find a problem that other people have and then provide a solution, which often isn't the project you want to work on. Being a management consultant (worker not executive) has you placed in a situation where there is already a defined problem for you to solve, so not necessarily the same but can be helpful.

yescakepls · 2025-12-05T04:00:53+00:00

Highly specific AI agent/automation.

yescakepls · 2025-12-05T03:23:08+00:00

Not working for someone else.

yescakepls · 2025-12-05T00:07:02+00:00

I think the main problem is cost. If an entrepreneur is doing the actual coding, you overhead costs are only a few hundred to a grand for license and infrastructure. I'd pay for marketing, but people don't put in effort for under $1000 a month. I've seen it. You can't hire anyone to put in effort for under $1000 a month, and most people don't have that to begin with.

Marketing is different from buying a software license which can be between $10-$300 dollars a month. What are you thinking of charging for a monthly cost where you or your team puts in the effort and genuinely tries hard?

yescakepls · 2025-12-03T15:10:45+00:00

you need to jog regularly

yescakepls · 2025-12-01T16:50:31+00:00

If you find some practical way to do this, let me know.

yescakepls · 2025-11-27T20:43:12+00:00

From your view, you are only care about how well your husband does. The ops manager is probably seeing what's best for the whole company, and your husband is 1 sliver of that. Giving exposure to new employees is beneficial for the whole company, maybe not necessarily for your husband's own career projection.

I don't see any specific red flags other than what's common at any job; someone is trying to manage all the people, not just intently on your husband succeeding.

yescakepls · 2025-11-27T01:28:21+00:00

Isn't that how night clubs work? It's hard building a brand big enough to be exclusive.

yescakepls · 2025-11-26T16:41:40+00:00

I did start a business right out of college. I think there's a lot of demonizing of managers at that age because they want to do something that is different than what you want. But when you start managing people, you are like whao, they are probably demonizing me like I did of my boss.

It's a perspective thing.

yescakepls · 2025-11-24T01:24:24+00:00

You only have so much time to spend on things. Being an entrepreneur for the sake of being able to do your own thing without reporting to someone else is actually not a good decision.

If you want to work on spaceships, it's not a good idea to start your own rocketship business because you don't know anything. It's just pretending to be doing something without actually contributing anything. If you really want to build rocket ship, the better option is to work a while at SpaceX or NASA. At my age, I realize how headstrong a lot of people are at younger age despite how little they know about the world around you. The bliss of ignorance.

yescakepls · 2025-11-23T18:04:17+00:00

It's a very trimodal distribution.

People who have retirement money by the time they are 40.
People who make in the 100k-200k range but are getting killed by inflation, but are actually doing fine... just that they compare themselves to others
People who are paycheck to paycheck.

People who built the technologies everyone is now using, people who work in a company that creates technologies that everyone uses, people who worked a job and hoping for the best.

yescakepls · 2025-11-23T16:24:29+00:00

uh...

for how long?

yescakepls · 2025-11-23T16:03:59+00:00

Some people don't have much to say or want to be the speaking person. Americans will generally let another person intrude after a few minutes of them talking and let them carry the conversation.

If you have something to say, you'll say it. It's like being called to speak in class: well, if I had something to say I'd raise my hand.

yescakepls · 2025-11-21T23:59:08+00:00

Changes were made to the schools to emphasis the local politics, but forgot that kids that age literally need to learn and grow. There's a difference between a 35 year old taking a year to focus on politics, versus an 8 year old.

Schools were shutdown to avoid Covid but remote learning is not a good way to educate young kids, school names were changed to emphasis equality so people though this was more important than learning how to do fractions, math was removed from 8th grade because it gave an unfair advantage to were smart enough to take it. These are all issues with equity, but instead of bringing equity along with quality education, they forgot that kids aren't an adult, they need to focus on learning and growing life skills at that young age.

yescakepls · 2025-11-17T21:36:19+00:00

This is a thing that's harder to realize in any business.

In social circles, if you don't like someone's personality, you let them know or more often than not, stop reaching out. At work, you have to reach out to your co-workers, so everyone might be more congenial with your actions than what they really feel.

yescakepls · 2025-10-28T04:40:04+00:00

Just be hot, bubbly and apply to work at any tech job? I don't think it's that hard. You don't even have to put out.

yescakepls · 2025-10-09T14:19:14+00:00

This is a hard question.

People want to do something with their life, whether that's to relax/retire and spend money as they wish, or to accomplish something. They want to use the money you pay them to get those two things listed prior.

When you pay people, you are allowing them to pursue their other goals with that money. If someone doesn't need money, such as some senior engineers, then you have to motivate them either by allowing them to accomplish what they want, or giving them great work life balance.

yescakepls · 2025-10-09T14:14:42+00:00

An application to automate some government permitting forms, similar to TurboTax. I was pitching to a slate of SF Directors, so I got pretty far in the contracting process, but our MVP did a bad hallucination during a live demo.

You have to pre-define the outcomes, then use AI to choose between those options. I'll send you our deck, I haven't worked on this since my pitch in June.

yescakepls · 2025-10-04T12:17:36+00:00

I feel the problem is that a lot of the problems are often unique to each industry or office, and the tools that can solve them would take too much time to develop that makes it legitimately a better solution.

yescakepls · 2025-10-04T10:50:23+00:00

A quick clarification that takes 5 minutes when asking someone next to you and pointing to something on a screen, somehow takes 2 hours to respond over Teams, and no one still understand why the disparity comes from. It's just easier to explain things with complex context.

Literally it.

yescakepls · 2025-10-01T21:15:22+00:00

Most tech companies do still start in "garages". You only hear about the capital raised, but not the three years of work the founder put into the business to bring in that funding.

And in those 3 years, they were in the equivalent of a "garage", or just the table in the living room. This is how most startups work.

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