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I recently had a problem with one of my Jabra earbuds dying. They claimed it was no longer under warranty (even though their website promised a year or two under warranty and it had been only about 8 months). I eventually just gave up and got new earbuds. It pretty much destroyed my view of the company.

Isn’t that just a difference in shape? I think either way it’s the same amount of butter.

Worked on a startup doing something very similar--would recommend against it. As everyone else is saying, the sales process is incredibly long and most local governments just aren't used to buying SaaS. Local partners are important AND you'll need to be very good at sales: can't rely on marketing to bring in customers.

It's a hard business to bootstrap unless you have a large bank account to fall back upon for years while waiting for sales growth to kick in.

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Big NGOs also need technical people, too. Check out the Humane Society, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Compassion in World Farming, etc. They aren’t going to be the highest paying jobs and there are all sorts of downsides but it’s a way to use your skills to make a difference in the world.

And the US as a whole is 500x the population of Vermont.

If you can find clients to hire you, anything is possible. I started freelancing during the Great Recession (because I couldn’t get a job) and was able to make it work.

Find at least one client before you quit, though. And make sure you have at least 6 months of savings so that even if that client fired you on day 1, you’d be okay.

As long as companies use CRM and ERP systems, enterprise software is going to stick around. That’s just a fundamentally different proposition than one team starting to use Slack or Twilio.

I generally avoid fake meat but plenty of people don't eat meat for religious or moral reasons. They might still want something meat-like, though, and fake meat provides that.

I started as a casual biker (using the London bike share on vacation there) and became a serious bike commuter. It’s a journey, not a simple division.

Just to add on to this advice: if you want to do an MBA (or really even if not), stay at Facebook for a few years. Otherwise, people will think you either can't hold down a job or just lack commitment. That's a bad image to have whether you're applying to graduate programs or starting a career.

I can tell you as someone in business school now, my resume has some similarities and it has definitely hurt me.

I’m part of a group trying to do something similar (buying an apartment building and then all living together there). From our early research, I think the biggest thing I can say is that you need systems in place at the beginning for resolving conflicts and ending things. (Don’t wait until you have an issue). Also, if people decide to go their own way, that’s okay as long as you had a good experience while living together.

I love New York but I’m pretty sure if you consider the history of the world, London, Rome, Istanbul/Constantinople, and Jerusalem (maybe Beijing/Peking too) are almost certainly more important.

The antibiotics fed to non-organic animals cause them to grow faster.

Oh, Amazon won’t explicitly say they’re being fired for trying to unionize. There’ll be some cover story that the workers violated some rule no one ever heard of and everyone else ignored, too.

This is easy on the eyes but why not include the financial statements? Those numbers are pretty important.

I've only read Bonfire of the Vanities but it's a great taste of the conflicts and tensions brewing in 1980s New York. Unfortunately seems relevant today to explain the President's world view.

I'll take misguided socialists and communists over fascists and Nazis any day.

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There are parts of the Underground that are, in fact, above ground and elevated (especially farther out like Ealing and Stratford). Then there’s also the Overground, which I think counts as light rail, but is generally on ground level.

It was part of the MTA. You'd still need to take a bus from the train, though.