Enterprise sales:
Bigco: We want to buy your thing.
Me: Great! Here's the link.
Bigco: No, we want to buy it...differently.
Me: Uh...
Bigco: Slower. More complicated.
Me: Are you sure you can't just–
Bigco: You need to fill out these PDFs.
Ben Orenstein
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Ben Orenstein
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- My new consulting engagement: you pay me $10,000 and I delete your project’s backlog while explaining that nothing of value has been lost.
- You can passively consume hundreds of articles and podcasts and learn far less than shipping one side project a year.
- What I thought we were building: a SOFTWARE company What we're actually building: a software COMPANY
- Beginner: I wrote 1,000 lines of code! Intermediate: I deleted 1,000 lines of code! Expert: I prevented code from being written!
- You can tell someone runs a SaaS if they know the answer to 83,333.33 * 12 without thinking.
- I think new products shouldn't have a pricing page. Or onboarding. Or self-serve signup. I think you should do this instead:
00:00 - Most commit messages are next to useless because they focus on WHAT was done instead of WHY. This is exactly the wrong thing to focus on. You can always reconstruct what changes a commit contains, but it's near impossible to unearth the reason it was done. (thread)
- "We're building a product to save developers time!" Cool, but have you ever actually *met* a developer? They value their time at approximately negative one hundred dollars per hour.
- I suspect I'm one of the two guys Romy is talking about. Regardless, she's describing my situation. I'm giving myself about another year of searching for a partner, but will then pursue single fatherhood. I'm still hopeful it won't be necessary, but in the end I can't allowi know two guys who are considering having kids via surrogate bc they badly want children but haven’t been able to find partners to do it with. they’re both extremely successful and love kids. i dunno what’s going on with dating but i don’t think it’s just men being
- If you're a good programmer and a great teacher you can probably build a $1M/year dev education business in 3-5 years. It'll only have 90% margins though. Hope that's okay.
- If you're composing a commit message in Vim and decide you want to abort, quit the editor with `:cq`. Vim will exit with a non-zero status and Git will decline to make a commit.
