jamiecollinson
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
iSDA is a mission-driven company bringing advanced technologies to the small farm sector in Africa. We harness the market in order to reach millions of farmers, and use the best science to maximize profitability for our clients and their farmers. Our current focus is to prove our business models through delivery of fertilizer advisory for low-income farmers, intermediated by local agents and based on technologies we have tested in Kenya and Ghana: handheld spectral soil scanners, and iSDAsoil, the first farm-level soil map of Africa.
We are looking for someone with diverse experience and a track record in the African private sector, a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and a history of building new business opportunities to deliver on our mission to improve the profitability of small-scale farmers.
We're a remote-first team, the position is Africa-based and will involve extensive travel.
If you're interested please take a look at a more detailed job description at https://www.isda-africa.com/head-of-business-development/ or reach out with any questions.
Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?
Background: technical founder wondering what reading to recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset. I've thought perhaps Mythical Man Month and How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond essay) but not sure they're quite right.Any suggestions?(In case it helps an analogue in the mathematical world might be A Mathematician's Apology or Gödel, Escher, Bach.)
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"A linter for prose."
:command ("proselint" source-inplace)
:error-patterns
((warning line-start (file-name) ":" line ":" column ": "
(id (one-or-more (not (any " "))))
(message (one-or-more not-newline)
(zero-or-more "\n" (any " ") (one-or-more not-newline)))
line-end))
:modes (text-mode markdown-mode gfm-mode org-mode))
(More details in my config at https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-chec...)Solving Knights and Knaves with Z3
While some were meant for sea, in tug-boats ’Round the shore’s knee,
(Milling with the sand,
and always coming back to land),
For others, up above
Is all they care to think of,
Up there with the birds and clouds, and Words don’t follow.
—Tiny Ruins, from “Priest with Balloons”Saying no to SaaS feature requests
How RealtimeCRM uses Clearbit to do data entry for you
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integra...
Google Photos vs. Flickr on retina screens
Ask HN: Validating an ad supported business?
I'm considering an idea for a content business which would be ad supported. There's an awful lot of advice out there on avoiding this kind of business in favour of something where people pay you directly, but let's say I want to consider an ad supported website as a business - how would I model / validate it?My thinking so far is that it's a bit like the marketplace problem. On one side of the...
The story behind Cristo Redentor
Worth your salt
5 areas that will most affect humanity
Medium style time to read in Jekyll
Source: not the OP, but I work for the UK arm of the same charity (SOS Children's Villages)
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