SMAAART

Your word choice, e.g. "bets", implies that your mental model for life is gambling.

While very popular today, it's a losing game that you are playing.

Read/study about better, more empowering mental models, for instance, check the writings of Shane Parrish.

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Some people, but not everyone, are abdicating their agency. Period.

And that too is an expression of their own agency. #Laissez-faire

SMAAART

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The Genie is now out of the bottle.

SMAAART

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Chop Wood Carry Water.

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> A lot of startup advice is vague.

Sure, but in an ocean of quantity you need to know where to look for quality:

1. https://www.startupschool.org/

2. Book: The Lean Startup.

Those 2 resources address everything you need to know and then some, with concrete advice.

> What channels worked?

You have it all wrong.

SMAAART

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Same here (US East)

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1) Blue Ocean Strategy (again)

2) Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

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There is. You get to write it yourself; you get to be your own master/leader.

Critical thinking skills are the most essential tools, so is studying philosophy. You have agency, use it.

Of course you could always abdicate your agency to religion (pick one), or politicians, or influencers, or money/consumerism.

No matter how you dice it, the choice is always yours, and yours only,

SMAAART

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1. Always negotiate

2. Read this book: Never Split the Difference

NOTE: Understand the difference between negotiations and bluffing.

SMAAART

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When trying to access via the app or webapp I get the message: "We're improving your experience. Please log in later".

But I have received no emails regarding an upgrade or something to that effect, and their status site says: Our deliverables will be deployed during second weekend of every month. It may cause some latency in APIs during the deployment window.

No signs on x either: https://x.com/EmpowerToday

Something does not add up.

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VS code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/intelligentapps/models

> Models downloaded locally from repositories like Ollama and ONNX.

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1) There are at least a couple YCcombinator startup that does collections: Domu and Respaid.

2) There was a time in a prior life when I did consulting, and of course I experienced the same issue. I re-wrote my contract to get paid in advance each and every week (seldom every month). If I had no payment in my bank, no work that week. Easy, simple, the client was always in control.

Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa6PdOG2ts

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