MarcoSanto
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I will humbly give my POV on this. I also never understood the VC verbiage until after I “launched”. Now here is what I understand after coming forward with a business idea: the formula for “success” is being able to “uncover” a market request for a product/service and SELL that product/service to them.
In this regard idea = market_need = make_something_people_want.
Therefore, to me ideas AND execution are EVERYTHING.
I think what people mean is that “talking” about an idea is not sufficient.
I strongly disagree that ideas are cheap, as I disagree that execution is a given.
I believe ideas are oxygen, execution is hydrogen, what you want is water…
Fun!
I trolled your bit and it froze.
To the first question I replied: “Hell I know??? You are the consultant!”
Worry about what other people think
So from the looks of it you are in a negative mind frame. Use a professional mental coach (therapist, of course, not one of those "gurus") to help you reframe. It is never too late nor you are never not good enough. But you have to get to a point where you really believe it, not just superficially. A well structured mental coaching development path will help you reframe. Use the right tool, get into therapy.
So I am contributing work to a product that is solving this exact problem.
Would you mind giving it a look and see if it fits your requirements?
www.nuvolaris.io
This. FFS who wants to stay home to live and work!?!?
I don’t understand WFH.
the right way is to have better public transport and cheaper housing, not secluded lives.
Yes, I do, but that's probably because I am not the target audience of their product. My gut feeling is that the target customer are devops teams in scaleups
Edo, what was it? For burnout or ADHD?
I feel you. As many here I failed to recognize burnout early enough to prevent total exhaustion. My experience (not a doc) is medication won’t help and ADHD seems to be a stereotypical American fixation almost like tomato sauce for us Italians.
Call it for what it is and don’t blame yourself. The cure for burnout is change. Distance yourself from the source of discomfort, lay bricks or bag groceries for at least three months and it will go away. I am saying this because you said you cannot afford a vacation (not slouching on the couch, rather travel). Not sure my experience will help, but that’s my 2 cents.
It'a sunken cost effect at paly, little more than that.
Oh, and parents pressure, least we forget the role of family.
You can test my claim empirically by asking yourself: "are all college graduates I met more intelligent than me?".
Admission test measure how well you can prepare for admission tests, nothing more.
There are too many confounding factors and co-factors that play in the career of a relatively fresh semi-adult aged 17-18, that reducing it to a single number is just moronic or bad-faith utilitaristic escape route.
Universities only care that you graduate so they can make money, therefore they use the simplest KPI to measure that. Let's not forget Universities are staffed with people and are a business.
I’d trade coaching budget for company car any day. But as the old saying goes: “what if they leave after we train them”?
Pls post here if you find a channel. I am also interested in that. I have (www.adplist.org)[www.adplist.org] but it’s more technical mentoring than anything else
Yeah, that's a valid business. I also looked into that. wWould not mind to colaesce with others who think it could be worth to go to sanctuaries/worship palces and try to establish the service. think St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. St. Francis in Assisi, etc. (I am from Italy, but I guess every country has some sort of shrine where everyone goes, turists included)
I myself went for what I enjoy / makes me happy / balanced / serene. I am not “good” at anything myself either, but I realized that being “good” is heterodirectional criteria i.e. it’s judgment from the outside and I don’t think I want to let the “outside” chose for me. Not claiming social influence is not important, just that it should be 2nd-3rd in importance.
Try to do what makes you happy, whatever it is, and try to surround yourself with good relationships. I use this criteria and it works on my machine… :D
Looks like the meme about the price of a bottle of water going around the internet has not reached some of us. There is no “true” price for water. Price is contextual. OP, you are in a contest for which your price is what your price is. Change context. I did.
Define interesting. Once you have that, look for companies that do that. Apply, rinse repeat. In a short while you will be in a network of like minded peers. After that you should be good. Mind you, the secret it’s people
Become the poorest in your social circle and the problem will solve itself. You are hanging out with the wrong people, that’s all. We are social animals, we don’t understand absolute values, only relative. Become poor again by changing your surroundings. Meditation and therapy won’t help. New friends will.
I have to complete a DS/ML project to graduate a course.
I would like to work on a real business case and not a made-up one.
I am not sure where one takes real business cases to work on to train models. I don't think there is place where companies ask for freelancers data scientists.
I thought maybe if there is a company interested in having me work for them for about a month, I will gladly work on their data instead of try to come up with some realistic sounding dataset.
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MarcoSanto on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey HN,
I am looking for a real business case to use as a capstone project for a DS/ML course I am doing at General Assembly.If you are interested or you know anyone who might be, leave a comment here or signup on this form: https://forms.gle/TB4wBnAp46YMjQYf6I am willing to exchange about one-man month of work for attribution and endorsement.Cheers!
As bad as possible, but not any worse...
Yeah, that's when 99% socialises. So I can see now you are pretty much out of the loop.
"nobody, especially your age, could relate to you!": How old are you?
The only advice I may be able to give you, and to myself, is talk to an association of SMB in England.
Not sure it helps, but we are all in the same boat. No payment here also.
Same problem here. Where are you located? Not US, I suppose.
This sounds like something that call for its own subreddit, because, even if there might be remedial lawsuits you can bring to them, it will be expensive to litigate in US. I am afraid they count on that.
Given this is a real emergency/problem for everybody now.
In Italy, government has temporarily forbidden the actioning of repossession/penalties clauses in mortgage contracts and has suspended payment of taxes.
I would recommend banding together with other people in your country/same situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...The board of medical doctors has issued a therapeutic guideline that says not to ventilate over the age of 60, or better "to allocate ICU resources and personnel based on estimates life expectancy", as is an accepted ethical behaviour in cases of insufficient resources.
People 60 and older are sedated and practically euthanised if not enough ICU beds are available.
That's why you probably see other countries (namely UK and US) react differently.
Unfortunately it's difficult to asses the validity of the statistical reporting, even assuming good faith on the side of all parties, statistics protocols are easy to overlook/get-wrong in medical emergencies.
Use translated CC to hear it from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnxGwptaQc
We have entertainers put out PSA messages to educate the population to leave enough beds free to accept critical patients
Thanks verdverm. I got filtered out for lack of seniority on Toptal. I guess they like to keep there namesake true...
I am going for small roles/jobs here.
Was hoping for banding up with a small team/community that reads HN.
I have been largely unsuccessful because of the vetting system that filters me out. I was hoping for direct connections to teams that may need extra hands and who read HN, or someone in a staffing/temp agency.
This looks good. We should replicate it!
Reddit seems a good suggestion, did not think about it.
I will hit all social channels to find a community.
Thanks!