Readit NewsThrowawayh89 commented on Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go? · Posted by u/humbleferret
Reading this is one of the bleakest depictions of founders I’ve ever seen.
Throwawayh89 commented on Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium malaymail.com/news/money/... · Posted by u/amarant
Yikes, looks like EVs are gonna be resource-constrained real soon unless new battery tech emerges.
Or new lithium sources
Throwawayh89 commented on Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN? · Posted by u/1212321234321
Yeah, Reddit at times does seem like some bizarre group think type of thing in terms of how comments are downvoted or upvoted. Coming from Reddit, in Hackernews it seems people are more accepting of controversial ideas.
This seems to have gotten much worse in recent weeks and I don’t understand why.
On a wide array of subs, spanning many topics. Moderators seem to be very quick suddenly to quash decenting opinions.
Throwawayh89 commented on Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN? · Posted by u/1212321234321
By not quitting you are missing out on something else too. I quit playing an addictive RPG game on my phone in the evenings (no pay-to-win IAP fortunately!). Soon thereafter, I came across an interesting hobby and now focus on it in my spare time.
FB was making me feel annoyed. Quitting it helped a lot. With HN it is a bit harder because some content here is actually useful. I find avoiding comments on submissions about layoffs, Google, Meta, Apple, lawsuits, etc. helps me be more positive.
I’m developing a similar approach to Reddit (in theory)
Saying these sites are great resources for information, but not great places to express emotion.
> It sounds like her clients backing out last minute is evidence of poor performance, even if the sales were entirely managed properly before that.
Certainly not without more details.
Good sales is far more complicated than closing deals. It's like in poker: you'd much rather fold a good hand (unclose a good deal) than shove all in and then lose to an even better hand (close the deal and then discover the customer was a bad fit, which has negative second- and third-order consequences.)
The big caveat here is “good sales for the company”
Sales reps so often have incentives that are terribly aligned with the company’s long term success.
How does it melt your brain. I can think of about 20 things I could be working in instead of writing code for my company. You want to pay me, but not give me work? Great, I’ll pick from my list of things and do that instead. Even if I’m not creating something, I can learn new things by reading books or watching tutorials.
I my experience, you aren't actually doing nothing and having nothing asked of you.
You are more likely tasked with things that require spinning your wheels. Boring, pointless, and directionless work that doesn't challenge you. It just melts your brain.
Throwawayh89 commented on Ask HN: Is doing tech-related work in the American medical field horrible? · Posted by u/Throwawayh89
"Getting in" where, in what sort of role? There are vast differences between low-level controller programming for CAT scanners vs. being a Sales Engineer for some huge "does it all" hospital management software suite vs. being on SecTeam at 23&Me.
Not really sure, which is why I left it intentionally ambiguous.
Clearly, "tech" roles on the front lines of medicine such as a CT Scan operator are going to suffer from the same stressors that others on the front lines experience. No reason to think that would be any different.