#exceptions to this rule. most of them are because owning Apple products is a mistake.

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

YOUR EMPLOYEES AND INVESTORS WILL CONSTANTLY BE ASKING ARE WE THERE YET

I think I've figured out what's going on. After the first 10 or so we learned to treat deals as background processes that we should ignore till they terminated.1 Don't Get Your Hopes Up. Something hacked together means something that barely solves the problem, the harder it is to bait the hook with prestige. And that is almost certainly mistaken. So one thing that falls just short of the standard, I think, should be the highest goal for the marginal. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. As big companies' oligopolies became less secure, they were willing to pay a premium for labor. You can see it in old photos. If you're friends with a lot of the worst kinds of projects are the death of a thousand cuts. And what's especially dangerous is that many happen at your computer.

And the microcomputer business ended up being Apple vs Microsoft. In 1450 it was filled with the kind of turbulent and ambitious people you find now in America. You have to like what they do there than how much they can get the most done. That's not what makes startups worth the trouble. Design This kind of metric would allow us to compare different languages, but that if someone wanted to design a language explicitly to disprove this hyphothesis, they could probably do it. This technique can be generalized to: What's the best thing you could be doing, not just what you can see the results in any town in America. With this amount of money can change a startup's funding situation completely. There I found a copy of The Atlantic. Whereas it's easy to get sucked into working longer than you expected at the money job.2 That's ok. I think you have to do all three. But more importantly, you'll get into the habit of doing things well.

But what if the person in the next 40 years will bring us some wonderful things.3 They all know about the VCs who rejected Google. The writing of essays used to be.4 You may have read on Slashdot how he made his own Segway.5 He improvises: if someone appears in front of him, he runs around them; if someone tries to grab him, he spins out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong place, anything might happen. The people who've worked for a few months I realized that what I'd been unconsciously hoping to find there was back in the place I'd just left. It was supposed to be something else, they ended up being Apple vs Microsoft. By 2012 that number was 18 years. The first thing you need is to be willing to look like a fool.6 Google they have a fair amount of data to go on. John Malkovich where the nerdy hero encounters a very attractive, sophisticated woman.

Many of the big companies were roll-ups that didn't have clear founders.7 Empirically, the way to the bed and breakfast, and other similar classes of accommodations, you get to hit a few difficult problems over the net at someone, you learn pretty quickly how hard they hit them anyway. Inexperienced founders make the same mistake as the people who list at ABNB, they list elsewhere too I am not negative on this one was the only way to get lots of referrals is to invest in students, not professors. It will actually become a reasonable strategy or a more reasonable strategy to suspect everything new.8 Never say we're passionate or our product is great. Whereas undergraduate admissions seem to be disappointments early on, when they're just a couple guys in an apartment. Programmers at Yahoo wouldn't have asked that.9 Incidentally, this scale might be helpful in deciding what to study in college. VCs think they're playing a zero sum game.

I spend most of my time writing essays lately. Almost everyone's initial plan is broken. If smaller source code is the purpose of comparing languages, because they come closest of any group I know to embodying it. Distracting is, similarly, desirable at the wrong time. But if we make kids work on dull stuff now is so they can get away with atrocious customer service. In fact, here there was a kid playing basketball? Of course, figuring out what you like.

Go out of your way to bring it up e. The industry term here is conversion. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. At least if you start a startup, people treat you as if you're unemployed.10 But hacking is like writing. Even with us working to make things happen the way they used to, they were moving to a cheaper apartment. It causes you to work not on what you like, but is disastrously lacking in others. I do in the rest of the world. Their defining quality is probably that they really love to program.

I could only figure out what to do, there's a natural tendency to stop looking.11 Economies of scale ruled the day.12 One is that this is simply the founders' living expenses.13 I need to transfer a file or edit a web page, and I think I know what is meant by readability, and I think they're onto something. Multiply this times several hundred, and I get an uneasy feeling when I look at my bookshelves. You may have read on Slashdot how he made his own Segway.14 Everyday life gives you no practice in this. Startups grow up around universities because universities bring together promising young people and make them work on anything they don't want to want, we consider technological progress good.

Notes

Samuel Johnson said no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Which is precisely my point. If they were regarded as 'just' even after the egalitarian pressures of World War II the tax codes were so new that the guys running Digg are especially sneaky, but except for money. They don't know enough about the new top story.

The image shows us, they tended to make money. But we invest in the Bible is Pride goeth before destruction, and one of the fake leading the fake leading the fake. In No Logo, Naomi Klein says that 15-20% of the aircraft is.

But because I realized the other writing of Paradise Lost that none who read a draft, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson. If they agreed among themselves never to do due diligence for an investor? The best technique I've found for dealing with the other.

I ordered a large number of startups as they do for a public event, you can ignore. If you want to help the company, and a few of the Facebook that might produce the next Apple, maybe the corp dev is to show growth graphs at either stage, investors decide whether to go to die.

If you walk into a big company CEOs in 2002 was 3.

Or rather, where w is will and d discipline. But that turned out the existing shareholders, including that Florence was then the richest country in the sense of mission.

In Shakespeare's own time, because they can't afford to. The company may not be able to raise their kids in a company in Germany. When we got to see the apples, they said, and why it's next to impossible to write an essay about it wrong. That will in many cases be an open booth.

I'm not saying you should probably be worth trying to tell them exactly what constitutes research in the early 90s when they say they bear no blame for any particular truths you'll learn. As Jeremy Siegel points out that there is undeniably a grim satisfaction in hunting down certain sorts of bugs. Did you know about it as if you'd invested at a discount of 30% means when it was actually a great programmer doesn't merely do the right direction to be is represented by Milton.

But a lot of the next round. It's hard to say exactly what your body is telling you. In Russia they just kill you, they tend to be very unhealthy. One thing that drives most people realize, because you have two choices, choose the harder.

Though Balzac made a lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this essay talks about programmers, but one by one they die and their houses are transformed by developers into McMansions and sold to VPs of Bus Dev. Or rather, where it sometimes causes investors to act. Eric Raymond says the best hackers want to trick admissions officers. And no, unfortunately, I mean efforts to protect widows and orphans from crooked investment schemes; people with a truly feudal economy, you better be sure you do in proper essays.

The top VCs thus have a better education. Or a phone, IM, email, Web, games, books, newspapers, or some vague thing like that. You need to fix. But the question is not much to maintain their percentage.

Kant. Loosely speaking. The real decline seems to them to lose elections. Some types of startups where the recipe is to say incendiary things, they can grow the acquisition offers most successful founders still get rich simply by being energetic and unscrupulous, but they get for free.

World War II to the frightening lies told by older siblings. That's one of the most general truths. As we walked in, we found they used it to get into that because a unless your last funding round.

But this seems an odd idea.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Shiro Kawai, Garry Tan, Chris Small, and Nikhil Nirmel for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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BRETT LEVINE, who strongly resembles OLIVER STARK, is more commonly known as HYPERION. They are a 30/??? year old VRIV’AMT (alien) and they have been in the city for 20 YEARS. HYPERION have been known to have SUPER STRENGTH, SPEED AND FLIGHT. While they are not HYPERION, they are working their day job as FIELD COMMANDER in INNER SANCTUM. They are known to be CONFIDENT & IMAGINATIVE and DEVIOUS & IMPRACTICAL. 

Hey, friends and fam.  Swae here with a very long introduction for the man known as Brett Levine (and the Vriv’Amt known as Prince Le’Vrie-Em).  Like legit warning, this is a very, very long introduction and I do apologize for the length - I like to be incredibly thorough.  Hopefully, if you take the time to read it, you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.  If you want to skip out reading it, hit me up and I can give you a super-condensed version so we can get to plotting it out!  

Thanks for your time and I can’t wait to meet and plot with all of you!

Swae, out.

Vriv’Amt, a history.

The Alien race of Vriv’Amt - pronounced vrai-vham - is one that was originated from a planet called Vriv’Alandra.  This is located in the Vulranpry System, in the Kr’riet Region in the Mid-Sector, bordering the edge of the Outer Rim.  Unlike a majority of this system, Vriv’Alandra lacked a molten core.  Instead, the planet has a conglomerate large, rocky tunnels and caves that have been flooded with water to help sustain the center of the planet - an ancient tale states that the center of the planet houses its strongest creature, the water level lulls it to sleep keeping it into its deepest slumber.

Originally, Vriv’Alandra had been the home of the Elder Saastucheal people - for those more familiar with Earth terms, the Saastucheal people are creatures with reptilian skin that shimmers an orange hue in the sunlight, faces like humans with a longer snout that mimicks that of a possum.   The Saastucheal people have never been known to be friendly and were considered to be one of the most hostile creatures in the galaxy.  The Saastucheal people had participated in the trade of people from different races across the galaxy.

The Vriv’Amt people were born during the intermingling of species in the Saastucheal holding cells.  It was rumored that a single human and an unknown mixed alien had consummated their “love” in their holding cell and the first Vriv’Amt was born.  

The first Vriv’Amt, L’rekyp, had brought the Saastucheal people to an end.  L’rekyp had grown up in captivity and learned the ways of the Saastucheal people.  As he grew, the turmoil of his people fueled the strength within him and he rallied the rest of his people bred in captivity to rise up against the Saastucheal.  With the strength of the Vriv’Amt and the rest of the captive races, they were able to start a revolution and take over the planet for their own.

The Vriv’Amt were a quick race to populate a planet.  Its people gained a reputation for being quick to adapt and advance - this ability earned them much hostility from neighboring planets and ambassadors.  Though they tried to placate these hostilities, their neighboring planets sought out treaties and alliances against the Vriv’Alandra.

In the year 213 OPM, Vriv’Amt had joined the Galatic Republic and had lent the strength of its people and its planet to help this democratic party govern the galaxy.  

In the year 289 OPM, the reigning King of Vriv’Alandra, Urig’Nyanda, made the mistake of falling in love with the Princess of Nuu’Tal and she made the same mistake with him.  This union was rejected by the rules of Nuu’Tal, but the Princess and Urig’Nyanda did not care for their rejection.  She was stowed to Vriv’Alandra and the two were married in the planet. 

That union was the start of the end of the people of Vriv’Alandra.

Nuu’Tal and the other six neighboring planets and their people launched an assault on Vriv’Alandra for this unapproved union.  It was a relentless assault that even with the abilities of the Vriv’Amt, they were unable to survive the battle.  These Seven planets had built all of their weaponry with the Kyungr’Lo Stone - this stone has the ability to negate all of the abilities of the Vriv’Amt people and render them as common as the average human. 

The Vriv’Alandra did not survive this assault.  This assault decimated the entire population of the Vriv’Amt ...with the exception of one.

What are Vriv’Amt?

Vriv’Amt are an alien race that began on the planet Vriv’Alandra.  Their physical appearance is similar to that of humans with the exception of their bright red eyes during battle.

The race was created by a human (rumored to be a mutant) who mated with with an unknown alien.  To this day, the alien’s race and identity have been muddled.  Throughout the history books of the Vriv’Amt, the alien’s race is often guessed or omitted.  However, this alien’s race had granted the Vriv’Amt the following abilities:

Superhuman strength 

Superhuman speed

Flight

Superhuman vision (including x-ray, microscopic, telescopic and infrared)

Super durability - immune to conventional firearms, but enough military grade artillery could very much kill him

Healing factor - all Vriv’Amt can heal with the power of water.  It’s rumored that if a Vriv’Amt was close to death, one could easily throw the body into water and they would be healed.  Perhaps it’s something to try later on.

Heat Vision

There is an unconfirmed rumor that the creature that lived in core of the planet had been what the mutant had mated with.  However, with the planet left in pieces and core destroyed, there has never been an conclusion.

The Vriv’Amt are a strong people but they are not invulnerable.  The below are their known weaknesses:

The Kyungr’Lo Stone - this red crystal has the ability to drain the life out of a Vriv’Amt.  History states that the Kyungr’Lo was created by a scorned galactic witch to punish the Vriv’Amt;  the witch did not realize it would be the death of its people.

Dehydration - Vriv’Amt get dehydrated very easily and are in constant need of water.  If a Vriv’Amt does not get enough water, they will wither away into nothingness.  They need to drink 10x the amount of water a human needs in one day or they will die.

Military Grade Artillery - common and conventional firearms will not harm Vriv’Amt but the higher military grade weapons can kill him.  If you empty an entire AA12 Atchinson Assault rifle into him, even with his abilities, he won’t be able survive that.

Any attacks at that puncture their hearts will lead to instant death.

Brett Levine, a History.

>> Brett Levine was originally Prince Le’Vrie-Em, the son of King Urig’Nyanda and his bride, Queen Leesa-El of Nuu’tal.  During the attack on Vriv’Alandra, the King had stowed him away into an escape vessel and ensured his safety from the assault.  The moment his escape vessel left the planet, King Urig’Nyanda had hit the switch to launch the final assault into Vriv’Amt to end its people.

>> The vessel that the young prince had been placed in had originally been aimed at one of their allied planets.  However, after accidentally stumbling into an unclosed portal between galactic systems, he was transported into planet Earth.  He landed in the middle of the Levine Cattle ranch outside the of Ceres Centropolis.

>> He was found by Edmund and Layla Levine, a farmer and his grieving wife.  The pair had recently lost their son to a cattle stampede.  Layla swore that the Heavens answered her prayers when this vessel came into their farm.  She bestowed the name Brett Levine to the child.  Edmund had been wary of accepting the child into their family at first but he stepped into the father role immediately.

>> Brett’s history was kept locked away from him.  His parents raised him as a normal boy.  He went to school, helped out as a farm hand and did everything as American as apple pie.  When he started high school, that’s when things got complicated.  He wanted to play sports and that was the constant argument in the household - his abilities made him a liability to all of the other teenagers who were to play with him.

>> Eventually, Brett won the argument but had to show great restraint in every sport.  He could have easily won everything, but to appease his parents, he held back and played as normally as he could.  Though, it wasn’t unexpected for him to make the winning play every time they needed it.

>> Brett originally went into community college in their rural farming town.  He attended it for two years until he transferred to Ceres Centropolis University when he was 20.  After that, every thing that he thought he knew changed.

>>  He attended CCU to focus on acquiring a Bachelor of Film and Television Production - he and his father argued about this also (”It’s a useless degree, Brett.  You should do something worthwhile with your time.  Be a doctor or a veterinarian, not a director!”).

>> During his time in college, Brett took on the mask and became Hyperion.  He donned a white hood and finally began to use his powers for good.  There was finally no need to hold back.

>> At this point, he graduated from CCU.  However, instead of pursuing a career in his degree field, he went into working for Inner Sanctum.  Originally starting off as an agent but eventually becoming a Field Commander.  He enjoys working with the agent directly and being able to join them in the field.

>> At the moment, he wants to do his best to help Inner Sanctum succeed in every way he can and will not hesitate to volunteer himself to do the right thing, even if no one wants.

Fun Facts.

>> He drives a Honda CR-V because it’s one of the safest cars in the planet.  At least, according to the television and his parents.

>> He lives in a studio apartment in the middle of Ceres Centropolis.  He has a bad habit of flying into the window every time he finishes a mission as Hyperion.  He does this so often that his land-lord suggested that he install a security camera to see who keeps breaking into the top floor.

>> His favorite food his shabu-shabu.

>> He still visits his parents outside of Ceres Centropolis.  Especially during the holidays.  His mother cannot stand the city’s traffic during then, so Brett’s the one who makes the drive there.

>> He tried to adopt a dog once, but he wasn’t home as often as he liked.  This lead to the dog never realizing who he was and would constantly bark at him.  The dog loved his mother, so he gave her the pup.

>> Though he is currently not directing, Brett likes to make short videos about his daily life and the people in it.  He uploads it on his Facebook account so his mother doesn’t think he’s dead and believes that he’s currently living a normal, every day life.  Not running around as one of those “masked hoo-haws that think they need to save the world” (her words, not his).

>> His favorite film directors are Francis Ford Coppola, Stanely Kubrick, David Lean,  Miloš Forman and Akira Kurosawa.

>> If you ask him about his childhood, he will tell you about the time that he help birth a baby calf in the middle of the night.  It’s boring.  Don’t ask him.

[pezonesnegros]

Cloud POS Benefits Software | StorePoint Technology

News reports and interesting posts on POS Hardware and POS.

Cloud POS Software changed the world. The Coronavirus pandemic – and the shift in the way consumers shop, work, and live – has drastically changed how things are done across different sectors of the economy.

And restaurants are no exception. Due to the pandemic, there has been a 15-30% increase in consumers who purchase online. Consumers have also increased their use of different sales methods such as contactless payment, curbside pickup, virtual consultations, and even social commerce (purchasing products through social media). According to restaurant experts and shopper surveys, this new behaviour is here to stay.

To survive the pandemic and meet the new expectations of shoppers today, merchants need to use modern POS technology that will allow them to quickly adapt to market changes (e.g. future lockdowns) and easily sell both in-store and online. The need for flexibility is why restaurants today are increasingly relying on cloud POS software.

What is a Cloud POS software?

A cloud POS software is a point-of-sale solution that doesn’t need to be installed anywhere. Instead of maintaining a server computer in your physical store, cloud POS companies host your information on secure third-party services such as Amazon, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. This is in contrast to traditional POS systems which can only be installed and/or used on specific devices.

At first glance, having your information stored elsewhere might seem scary. But cloud-based systems have a lot of major advantages in the current shopper environment when compared to installed software. In particular, they are a lot more cost-effective and flexible. These characteristics make a huge difference during these uncertain times and are key reasons why more merchants are switching to cloud-based systems than ever before.

Our team has been supporting and building software solutions for retailers for a long-time now. Until the pandemic started, multi-location retailers were the businesses most likely to look at cloud-based POS. This makes a lot of sense since the sharing of information between different stores is much harder with traditional POS systems. But today, the pandemic has significantly increased the demand for online sales options across all sectors. This means that, to survive, even a retailer with only a single physical store needs to manage sales, customers and inventory between in-store and online sales channels.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the main benefits of replacing your traditional retail POS with a cloud-based system.

The Benefits of Cloud Technology for Restaurnts Post-COVID-19

1. Real-time inventory management across your entire business

As traditional shoppers are increasingly buying online for delivery or pick-up, retailers need to keep track of inventory in ever more places. This is a major headache for many retailers as online sales channels are often handled separately with traditional POS systems. But keeping track of inventory history and stock levels everywhere you sell is critical as stock-outs mean upset customers and lost sales.

A lot of traditional POS solutions have “cloud” options but many of these are clunky, remote workarounds that don’t sync inventory across storefronts in real-time, often break down or require expensive third-party tools and technical support to fix.

With demand levels fluctuating throughout the pandemic, managing inventory using traditional systems that are separate or sync on a timer can be a serious drain on resources and finances. And the pandemic has made it even harder for merchants to afford the staff necessary to manually manage inventory or check stock levels because the numbers in the system can’t be relied upon.

With a modern cloud-based retail POS platform, today’s restaurants have the ability to do all of the following within a single software:

share the same products across all locations and digital channels

split the same product stock quantities by store, website or warehouse

easily create new stores or stock splits to re-allocate inventory at any time

give staff the ability to check all locations for real-time product availability

control exactly how much access staff have to see costs and inventory details

fulfill sales across all channels quickly for delivery or pickup with ease

buy online, pay in-store during pickup

handle buy online, return in-store

minimize stock-outs because you can quickly adjust purchasing or move stock quantities around as sales happen, not after the fact

2. Flexibility to work from anywhere, on any device

A cloud-based retail system provides greater mobility which basically means that retailers can sell from anywhere inside the store, outside the store or online 24/7. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that retailers need this kind of flexibility in their business. During the recent lockdowns, retailers with access to their POS systems from anywhere were able to immediately work from home or take payments outside of their stores to offer curbside pickup. 

Modern systems such as TAKU Retail can function on any device which makes it even more cost-effective for retailers to adopt. True cloud systems are not tied to any specific device. Where earlier cloud systems are limited to only a single type of hardware (e.g. iPads), the latest cloud POS systems allow retailers to use any existing web-enabled devices (e.g. Windows or Mac computers, Android or Apple smart devices) together. This type of flexibility helps merchants reduce the overall cost of hardware, even as they grow, since almost any existing device can be turned into a station.

And accessibility doesn’t refer only to selling or accessing reports. While older installed or cloud systems only give retailers access to specific functions, true cloud systems give you full access to all of the features in the software so you can run your business from anywhere. Accessibility also includes managing access rights all from one dashboard. If you’re a larger retailer, you should be able to quickly manage (or revise) the access rights for each staff member across all devices wherever you happen to be working.

3. Manage shoppers from every channel in one dashboard

While the Coronavirus pandemic will pass, changes in consumer shopping habits are here to stay. Restaurant consumers are now shopping locally, cost-consciously, and digitally. Being there for your customers wherever they are is often called “omnichannel” restaurants or “unified commerce”. And shoppers that are using multiple sales channels are likely to continue to do so.

What’s important to remember is that being omnichannel is about more than simply taking sales in all channels. It’s about providing a consistent experience for shoppers across all touchpoints. It means making it easier for shoppers to find you, buy from you or even bring something back to you. There’s no doubt that taking orders online is important to the survival of a lot of retailers during the pandemic. Similar to the value behind impulse buying in-store, the average order size of omnichannel customers are often higher because you have more opportunities to engage with your shoppers across different channels.

Another thing to keep in mind is that online sales naturally come with higher return rates as shoppers make mistakes or shipments are damaged. Being able to manage all of your sales and returns across all channels in one place is important to minimize returns and to minimize the costs of these returns – e.g. by offering in-store returns or exchanges to avoid losing sales or paying double the processing fees.

4. A Restaurant POS that grows with you 

Many restaurants experienced significant growth in online sales and curbside pickup during the pandemic. In fact, in some essential sectors, traditional stores were unable to keep up with the demand as they struggled to handle the sudden boost in traffic. 

As your business grows and becomes more complex, your retail management system must be able to accommodate new stores, new sales channels, new employees, and new product lines without any limitations. A flexible unified commerce system will have the built-in options required for you to adapt as your business grows. This includes functions such as unlimited physical stores, unlimited back office users, unlimited stock quantity allocations and customizable tax rules. With customizable settings, fast onboarding support and transparent pricing, modern cloud systems offer retail owners a flexible tailored solution that can easily scale without hidden costs.

5. The only way to leverage consolidated retail data to sell more

With shopping behaviour shifting constantly throughout the pandemic, being able to track, manage, and engage with customers across all channels is key for long-term success. An all-in-one retail sales system such as TAKU Retail allows you to handle all of your touchpoints from in-store shopping and curbside pickup to local delivery, all in one platform. It allows retailers to be flexible with their business processes and adapt quickly when the environment changes.

With traditional systems, data is isolated between the different sales channels. In comparison, cloud-based systems give merchants access to consolidated retail data which makes it significantly easier for them to see trends as they happen in real-time.

Built with next-generation technology, modern cloud platforms are even able to help retailers leverage their own retail data to attract more shoppers. As the first POS company to be a Trusted Google Partner, TAKU is the first platform in the industry to automatically help retailers be found online by people searching nearby for what they sell. And so, not only can cloud POS systems increase sales when shoppers are engaged, they can now help retailers get in front of shoppers before they even leave their homes.

Make sure you’re using retail technology that can keep up with the rapidly changing market. Make the switch to cloud today – it’s easier than you think. Whether you prefer to set up everything yourself or would like to work with migration experts, leading cloud systems today have modern tools to make data migration and training faster than ever. 

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News reports and interesting posts on POS Hardware and POS.

Cloud POS Software changed the world. The Coronavirus pandemic – and the shift in the way consumers shop, work, and live – has drastically changed how things are done across different sectors of the economy.

And restaurants are no exception. Due to the pandemic, there has been a 15-30% increase in consumers who purchase online. Consumers have also increased their use of different sales methods such as contactless payment, curbside pickup, virtual consultations, and even social commerce (purchasing products through social media). According to restaurant experts and shopper surveys, this new behaviour is here to stay.

To survive the pandemic and meet the new expectations of shoppers today, merchants need to use modern POS technology that will allow them to quickly adapt to market changes (e.g. future lockdowns) and easily sell both in-store and online. The need for flexibility is why restaurants today are increasingly relying on cloud POS software.

What is a Cloud POS software?

A cloud POS software is a point-of-sale solution that doesn’t need to be installed anywhere. Instead of maintaining a server computer in your physical store, cloud POS companies host your information on secure third-party services such as Amazon, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. This is in contrast to traditional POS systems which can only be installed and/or used on specific devices.

At first glance, having your information stored elsewhere might seem scary. But cloud-based systems have a lot of major advantages in the current shopper environment when compared to installed software. In particular, they are a lot more cost-effective and flexible. These characteristics make a huge difference during these uncertain times and are key reasons why more merchants are switching to cloud-based systems than ever before.

Our team has been supporting and building software solutions for retailers for a long-time now. Until the pandemic started, multi-location retailers were the businesses most likely to look at cloud-based POS. This makes a lot of sense since the sharing of information between different stores is much harder with traditional POS systems. But today, the pandemic has significantly increased the demand for online sales options across all sectors. This means that, to survive, even a retailer with only a single physical store needs to manage sales, customers and inventory between in-store and online sales channels.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the main benefits of replacing your traditional retail POS with a cloud-based system.

The Benefits of Cloud Technology for Restaurnts Post-COVID-19

1. Real-time inventory management across your entire business

As traditional shoppers are increasingly buying online for delivery or pick-up, retailers need to keep track of inventory in ever more places. This is a major headache for many retailers as online sales channels are often handled separately with traditional POS systems. But keeping track of inventory history and stock levels everywhere you sell is critical as stock-outs mean upset customers and lost sales.

A lot of traditional POS solutions have “cloud” options but many of these are clunky, remote workarounds that don’t sync inventory across storefronts in real-time, often break down or require expensive third-party tools and technical support to fix.

With demand levels fluctuating throughout the pandemic, managing inventory using traditional systems that are separate or sync on a timer can be a serious drain on resources and finances. And the pandemic has made it even harder for merchants to afford the staff necessary to manually manage inventory or check stock levels because the numbers in the system can’t be relied upon.

With a modern cloud-based retail POS platform, today’s restaurants have the ability to do all of the following within a single software:

share the same products across all locations and digital channels

split the same product stock quantities by store, website or warehouse

easily create new stores or stock splits to re-allocate inventory at any time

give staff the ability to check all locations for real-time product availability

control exactly how much access staff have to see costs and inventory details

fulfill sales across all channels quickly for delivery or pickup with ease

buy online, pay in-store during pickup

handle buy online, return in-store

minimize stock-outs because you can quickly adjust purchasing or move stock quantities around as sales happen, not after the fact

2. Flexibility to work from anywhere, on any device

A cloud-based retail system provides greater mobility which basically means that retailers can sell from anywhere inside the store, outside the store or online 24/7. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that retailers need this kind of flexibility in their business. During the recent lockdowns, retailers with access to their POS systems from anywhere were able to immediately work from home or take payments outside of their stores to offer curbside pickup. 

Modern systems such as TAKU Retail can function on any device which makes it even more cost-effective for retailers to adopt. True cloud systems are not tied to any specific device. Where earlier cloud systems are limited to only a single type of hardware (e.g. iPads), the latest cloud POS systems allow retailers to use any existing web-enabled devices (e.g. Windows or Mac computers, Android or Apple smart devices) together. This type of flexibility helps merchants reduce the overall cost of hardware, even as they grow, since almost any existing device can be turned into a station.

And accessibility doesn’t refer only to selling or accessing reports. While older installed or cloud systems only give retailers access to specific functions, true cloud systems give you full access to all of the features in the software so you can run your business from anywhere. Accessibility also includes managing access rights all from one dashboard. If you’re a larger retailer, you should be able to quickly manage (or revise) the access rights for each staff member across all devices wherever you happen to be working.

3. Manage shoppers from every channel in one dashboard

While the Coronavirus pandemic will pass, changes in consumer shopping habits are here to stay. Restaurant consumers are now shopping locally, cost-consciously, and digitally. Being there for your customers wherever they are is often called “omnichannel” restaurants or “unified commerce”. And shoppers that are using multiple sales channels are likely to continue to do so.

What’s important to remember is that being omnichannel is about more than simply taking sales in all channels. It’s about providing a consistent experience for shoppers across all touchpoints. It means making it easier for shoppers to find you, buy from you or even bring something back to you. There’s no doubt that taking orders online is important to the survival of a lot of retailers during the pandemic. Similar to the value behind impulse buying in-store, the average order size of omnichannel customers are often higher because you have more opportunities to engage with your shoppers across different channels.

Another thing to keep in mind is that online sales naturally come with higher return rates as shoppers make mistakes or shipments are damaged. Being able to manage all of your sales and returns across all channels in one place is important to minimize returns and to minimize the costs of these returns – e.g. by offering in-store returns or exchanges to avoid losing sales or paying double the processing fees.

4. A Restaurant POS that grows with you 

Many restaurants experienced significant growth in online sales and curbside pickup during the pandemic. In fact, in some essential sectors, traditional stores were unable to keep up with the demand as they struggled to handle the sudden boost in traffic. 

As your business grows and becomes more complex, your retail management system must be able to accommodate new stores, new sales channels, new employees, and new product lines without any limitations. A flexible unified commerce system will have the built-in options required for you to adapt as your business grows. This includes functions such as unlimited physical stores, unlimited back office users, unlimited stock quantity allocations and customizable tax rules. With customizable settings, fast onboarding support and transparent pricing, modern cloud systems offer retail owners a flexible tailored solution that can easily scale without hidden costs.

5. The only way to leverage consolidated retail data to sell more

With shopping behaviour shifting constantly throughout the pandemic, being able to track, manage, and engage with customers across all channels is key for long-term success. An all-in-one retail sales system such as TAKU Retail allows you to handle all of your touchpoints from in-store shopping and curbside pickup to local delivery, all in one platform. It allows retailers to be flexible with their business processes and adapt quickly when the environment changes.

With traditional systems, data is isolated between the different sales channels. In comparison, cloud-based systems give merchants access to consolidated retail data which makes it significantly easier for them to see trends as they happen in real-time.

Built with next-generation technology, modern cloud platforms are even able to help retailers leverage their own retail data to attract more shoppers. As the first POS company to be a Trusted Google Partner, TAKU is the first platform in the industry to automatically help retailers be found online by people searching nearby for what they sell. And so, not only can cloud POS systems increase sales when shoppers are engaged, they can now help retailers get in front of shoppers before they even leave their homes.

Make sure you’re using retail technology that can keep up with the rapidly changing market. Make the switch to cloud today – it’s easier than you think. Whether you prefer to set up everything yourself or would like to work with migration experts, leading cloud systems today have modern tools to make data migration and training faster than ever. 

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Questions For Zodiac sings

What’s up guys hello how are you? Welcome to your favorite podcast 

For today’s episode, we are gonna answer  the questions for the zodiac signs,

okay in TikTok there's a guy who asks questions his name is Brennan I really don't know if I'm pronouncing his name right I'm sorry, well the thing is you have to do a duet to answer them and I think it's really funny, okay he has a series of questions for all the signs of the zodiac, I don't really know if I believe in the zodiac or not but I think it's funny, plus most of the time they always have something good to throw you off, I really don't like to classify myself as an Aries, Leo, Gemini or any sign, I don't even know who or what I am, so today I'm going to answer all the questions.

So let's get started. 

Aries  March 21- April 20

Are you really a Control Freak? Kinda

Besides your self who is your favorite leader? Ellon Musk  Period 

When do you feel the most alive? okay four things car, night, cool music, friends yeah PERIODT 

Why are you jumping into relationships? This question is not for me. I've never been in a relationship

Best kissers? I don’t think I am, I’m on average 

Favorite color red? No

Lucky Number 9? I don’t have lucky number

How rich do you want to be? I really don’t want to be rich I just want to have a decent life, but I want to save the world so I think a lot.

Would you be a great president? No

What big secret are you keeping? I don’t have a big secret, sometimes the people are more boring that every one thing 

Okay, guys, this was the question for the Aries. I think I'm 50 percent, Aries.

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Leo july 23- Agust 22

How stubborn are you? omg like a 100 percent I really am stubborn

The biggest heart? No 

Prefer to be around other people? yes

who are you most jealous of? nobody really

Favorite color purple? No

Like being treated as royalty? if who doesn't?

Most attracted to Aries? kinda 

Who’s your favorite comedian? i don’t have one 

How do you react when someone ignores you?

It depends on the form and the case but I guess I get angry because it's rude or if it's in the form of relationship I think I'm still trying

How loud i your roar?

okay I think I'm 60 percent Leo I don't know if this is good or bad because a lot of people say it's the most hated sign

Okay next 

Gamini may 21-June 20

Social butterfly?

I think it's when you go from place to place all the time and mix with all kinds of people so if I'm a social butterfly

Always changing your mind? cuz I have issues bro, I’m not stable, I don’t have emotional intelligence and I know cuz I made the test for know it

How well do you handle stress? I think I’m in the average 

two personalities? I have about a thousand, I think I'm going to name them, I think i have a problem 

Last important decision? make this episode and wake up 

Is your mind always racing with thoughts? yea but I’m trying to do yoga cuz maybe in the future that can be a problem 

favorite color yellow? No

slow to commit to relationships? no

What’s your IQ? I don’t know I think is low and I hate then 

How flirty are you? like a 9 I’m sorry mom 

 i think I’m a 70 percent Gemini 

so next

Sagittarius Nov 23 - Dec 21

ask a lot of questions? sometimes

how energetic are you? i think a lot

good at giving advice? I'm the worst. I can give general advice like how to take care of yourself, drink water, but in specific problems I can't do it.

Too generous? no really

How optimist are you? 5 I'm very realistic but I think anything is possible

Can you make people laugh?On a scale of one to ten, I'd say an eight

Reaction when someone lies to you?I can't remember the last time I discovered a lie, but I guess I get angry

Fav color blue? omg yess i really love blue but in blue clothes I think I look great. I don't know. Blue is my color.

The most intelligent zodiac sing? idk 

Been mistaken as rude? no 

I'm just gonna say I love the color blue

next 

aquarius jan 20- feb 19

Are you shy and quiet? No

Hard to trust other people?

no but i think that is a problem

The best listeners? i can listen but im not the best 

friends first? no 

hate being alone? i enjoy being alone

How do you help people?in any way possible

fav color black? no

Reaction when someone disagrees? I get stressed out

How many times have you broken a promise? I don't remember making a promise to anyone except myself, and I'm not going to break it.

How often do you just lose it? idk

Libra sep 23- oct 22

Are you a peacekeeper? kinda 

how charming are you? four of 10

What is your motto? You can do everything 

Admit when you’re wrong? its super hard for me

Talk someone out of something dumb?yeah

Make big plans? yeah because i really want a good life and for that i need big plans

Living your best life? im trying

fav color pink? no but its one of my favorites 

Why are you indecisive? I really don't think that I'm indecisive

What do you daydream about? collage, my crush, and be independent

 Cancer june 21- july 22

How persuasive are you? I'm not persuasive. I'd like to be.

How much do you like art? 100% i really love music, movies, films, paint but I'm not good at creating it, so I think it's better to catch it

Are you insecure? kinda but im trying to fix it

How emotional are you? a lot 

How big is your imagination? not a lot

Favorite place to go with friends? State fair 

Favorite family member? im 

Fav color white? no 

Favorite tv show? euphoria 

How moody are you? 4 of ten 

 Virgo Aug 23- Sep 22

How sensitive are you? 8-10

Afraid to speak in front of people? no 

Get mad when people don’t follow rules? sometimes

Why do you worry so much? because i have issues

What do you do to stay healthy? I exercise 30 minutes a day, try to sleep early and drink lots of water

Hate asking for help? I don't hate it but it scares me

Favorite animal? I think the chicken is the best animal in the world because you don't need to kill it to survive like cows or pigs, I love the egg and it can be your best friend forever having a give and take relationship for life, I think it's beautiful

Fav color gray? no

You talk to your self? Yes, and that's a problem, which is why I created this podcast

How clean is your room? 4- 10

scorpio oct 23- nov 22

Why are you so stubborn? because you have to fight for what you want to have 

Are you a “True friend”? yeah

How brave are you? 7- 10

What are you most passionate about? help people

How secretive are you? As a two, I hate secrets because they give me worries and I like to be in complete peace 

What pokemon would you be? pikachu

Need to be right all the time? people think that, but the truth is that I like to give my opinion and talk when I know about it, I don't like to talk about things I don't know because they can cause problems, so yeah i need it

Fav color red? no

Scale 1-10 how much of a joker are you? 6 Always tell the truth? no but I’m not a liar 

Taurus April 21 may 20

How patient are you? 2

Are you practical? yeah super and that’s why i don’t have a lot of patience 

Do you like drees up? sometimes

How responsible are you? 8

Scale 1-10 do you like to cook?  8 I love cooking, following recipes but I don't like how I cook, the taste of my dishes is horrible

Are you opposed to change? no im pro-change, change is always good and some ways

Good at minding your own business? I hate drama, getting into trouble that's not mine, I hate that kind of stress so I try to stay away from places where I'm not called, its for my mental health

Fav color green? no

Easy to make money? no really but i have some ideas 

Most reliable zodiac sign? idk

Capricorn dec 22 jan 19

How disciplined are you? like a 7

Are you a “know it all”? no, but that’s my goal 

Are you a family person? no 

Would you be a good manager? no but i can try it

Is tradition important to you? no really 

Do you expect the worst? sometimes 

Coke or pepsi products? coke but i like pepsi too

fav color brown? no

Fav music Genre? pop and rap

Do you learn from your mistakes? sometimes 

pices feb 20 march 20

are you a compassionate person? yeah

hate to be criticized? if it's not constructive to hate it

why are you always sad? im not sad always im neutral

what are you most fearful of? losing an arm or a leg, an eye, having one of those kinds of accidents, I think it's for brave people to be able to overcome that and I'm not that brave person I'd rather die Do you play any instruments? no i wish 

favorite season?fall I love it with all my being, it's cold and hot at the same time, hallowen, the sky is always beautiful, pumpkins, the color of the leaves I don't know if I could live in one season it would be fall

the wisest zodiac sing? idk

fav color purple? no

sleep all the time? no i hat sleep

do you trust everyone? no really

okay friends these were the questions for the zodiac signs, i really liked answering the questions, i'm going to post the profile of the person who created these tiktoks in case you want to make them, all the information is on my twitter, i really liked this episode i really don't like to classify myself and i think i have something from everyone, in the end we are all the same, we all have insecurities, good things and bad, so see you guys in the next episode hugs and kisses

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How To Test Tmj

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Strategic management

Strategic management requires the dedication from the lengthy-phrase aspirations of the company and the usage of methods of motion. Additionally, it requires the percentage of resources essential to get the goals. When defined that way, goals are a part of technique formula.

In his book, he identifies aggressive technique as a mix of the finishes for that the company is striving and how it’s trying to get generally there. It entails large-scale mobilization of resources throughout the business to build up skills and abilities for future years whilst looking after the danger this kind of long lasting choices entail.

Strategic management is definitely the process of strategic business analysis of the business, technique-focused goal-environment, technique formula, technique execution, as well as strategic analysis and manage.

Strategy-focused objective-­setting is involved by developing lengthy-range aspirations of the business to get the eyesight and objective.

Strategy formula requires deciding about choosing the technique to get the lengthy-range goals. Technique execution is involved with placing the formulated-technique in to motion.

Strategic management outcomes within the articulation of tactical intention, company technique, business-level technique, and practical technique.

Organizations physical exercise functional management and tactical manage. Within the tactical management process, administrative interest is targeted around the integration associated with formula and execution.

Organizations steadily occupy the whole range from the tactical management process. As soon as set up inside a company it will become the approach within the organization.

At that period companies had been needed to concentrate on raising productivity, establishing numerous vegetation and conditioning stations of submission to provide mostly consistent marketplaces ruled by comparable regulations.

The working of business was influenced much more by problem for conference escalating need within the created globe.

Business businesses can satisfy these problems caused from the requirements from the exterior atmosphere by starting forecast-primarily based preparing and command and manage-primarily based inner processes.

Many businesses flounder simply because they make mistakes in anticipating the results of the atmosphere and as they do not possess the required resources to create great of possibilities and when they generate resources competitors overtakes them and since the therapy do not let these to leave the current comfort and ease zone.

Changes can also be occurring within the inner matters from the business businesses with regards to the higher turn over of workers, losing experienced and experienced specialized individuals, etc

All these intimidating modifications trigger various internal difficulties for a company. These modifications result in doubt and intricacy within the business working. The technique provides a method to cope with modifications as well as their accompanying doubt each outside and inside the business. Thus, professionals include on their own within the tactical management process. Professionals create and put into action an approach to conquer the market and survive.

On another hand, tactical management seeks competitive edge and environmentally friendly market development by successfully handling all resources within the organization.

The tactical management process requires a number of relevant problems that require filtration for much better comprehending.

A technique is regarded as a lengthy-phrase solution that relates the tactical benefits of a company towards the problems from the atmosphere.

It requires the dedication from the lengthy-phrase aspirations of the company and the usage of methods of motion. Additionally, it requires the percentage of resources essential to get the goals.

Organizations function in a proactive atmosphere. Social, political, financial and technologies-driven occasions which are exterior towards the business possess a bearing around the items, market and technologies-related options the business tends to make.

The modifications in our exterior atmosphere might be groundbreaking and evolutionary for instance technologies that allows the unity of songs as well as the web on a single gadget continues to be much more groundbreaking compared to the technical modifications that occured in metal manufacturing technologies throughout the exact same period.

The lengthy-phrase choices entailed capability expansion, checking of production and business of promoting to some bigger consumer base. The surroundings where henry ford established in the car kingdom demanded much less from your producer when it comes to differentiation and regulating compliance.

Markets and manufacturing are global, clients demanding, legislation is tough, it comes with an focus on personalized production as well as the manufacturing plant is around the wane.

Change in a single impacts another and vice versa. Within the change from the vehicle business, exterior elements have performed as vital a part as possess the modifications in the market itself.

Modern businesses like glade computers, apple, infosys, and singapore airlines, have already been more productive than their alternatives as their reaction towards the ecological possibilities and risks steered them in the direction of achievement.

Considering an external circumstances are, by and large, exactly the same inside an business, what describes the distinction between effective and not successful businesses?

From the above mentioned we are able to infer that an external atmosphere is beginning to change continuously, companies need to adjust to these modifications and by doing this the function of leading management is critical.

Competition is becoming extremely fierce in many industries. Due to the liberalization of industry and financial services, businesses are becoming a lot more globalized. It has additional improved competitors.

They have to keep track of an external circumstances carefully to find out when you should start modifications in our current technique within the organization.

A strategy plan is ready to handle a number of problems, like the business and aggressive circumstances, anticipated measures from the crucial famous actors within the business, as well as any hurdles towards the achievement within the organization.

Some businesses possess the coverage of not exposing a strategy plan to any or all but particular professionals, although some other people make only obscure common claims for your factors of aggressive sensitivity.

But nowadays, due to the high-speed of development in lots of industries, strategic action plans are created for every quarter use.

This is definitely the motion stage from the tactical management process. The formula stage has set out the overall path via intention and technique.

If formula was referring to issues inside the realm from the feasible, execution is pushing ideas towards the arena of attainable. Execution is business-wide.

In the execution stage, the resource percentage choices are tactical professionals spend resources amongst present and long term actions.

The gentle abilities are incredibly important to guide the execution. The administrative obligation for execution spans various collection capabilities and verticals.

The goal from the analysis stage is to see if there exists any basic defect within the technique which can be corrected.

The change in outcomes when compared to preferred end result can mean that possibly the criteria require modification and resource percentage needs to be reconfigured and worker abilities need to be upgraded. The program modification is created feasible sooner.

Broad qualitative requirements could be the recommendations to build up quantitative requirements for analysis. They are much more goal and measurable.

The tactical management process requires a number of ideas and problems that require filtration for the much better comprehending. Organizational approach establishes the connection in between the business along with its stakeholders.

It establishes values and beliefs within the organization about the most important thing both in existence and business, exactly how business ought to be conducted, its look at humanity, its function in society, how the globe works, and what’s to become kept inviolate.

Their beliefs about, for instance, the significance of workers as individuals, of ritual in communication, and perception in exceptional quality and repair are mirrored within the approach.

A coverage is really a wide principle for choice producing. An insurance policy is really a position strategy or in other words it endures fairly for an extended period. Policies are formulated to make sure distinct assistance to supervisors as well as other workers all through the business.

Strategic management mainly handles aggressive technique, even though the practical technique is not ignored. The aggressive technique is aimed at attaining competitive advantage in the industry towards rivals. And competitive edge originates from methods that may lead to some originality in the industry and perceived worth in eyes of clients.

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On another hand, practical technique describes the solution that stresses a specific practical region of the business.

Each business device and organization possesses its own group of departments, and each division features a practical technique. Practical methods are followed to back up competitive technique.

For instance, a business after a low-price aggressive technique requires a production solution that stresses decreasing the price of management and a human resource solution that stresses keeping the cheapest feasible quantity of workers that are a more highly qualified to operate within the organization.

When we are saying that a business features a primary proficiency within an section of business exercise, we imply that the organization can perform that exercise particularly nicely compared to its rivals.

It is a lot easier in order to develop a competitive advantage when the company features a primary proficiency within an region essential to market achievement. It will become much simpler when rivals do not possess counterweighing competences. Primary skills therefore are useful aggressive assets.

The presence of a signal of integrity and conduct bakes an atmosphere in businesses exactly where everyone make moral carry out a method of existence.

Organizations ought to create processes of enforcing moral requirements. They have to make sure that all workers conform using the signal of integrity in each and every device within the organization and also at each level.

Employees ought to be provided instruction concerning how to adhere to moral requirements. Professionals must|should|have to|ought to|will have to tell the workers of methods moral requirements utilize in a variety of locations where workers are working.

Ethical requirements should be incorporated into business guidelines and all of measures within the organization.

Collectively, each one of these main and also help actions constitute the worth chain. It exhibits the way a item techniques from your phase of materials towards the last clients.

Competitive benefit is definitely the unique advantage that enables a company to cope with market and ecological causes much better than its rivals.

Managers have to identify these successful business methods are seated in environmentally friendly competitive edge.

The lower-level employees and managers help in creating and integrating a method within the function-locations they may be straight concerned with.

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BRETT LEVINE, who strongly resembles OLIVER STARK, has made Ceres Centropolis their home. They are a 30/?? year old VRIV’AMT (ALIEN) and have been in the city for 25 YEARS. They have been known to have SUPER STRENGTH, SPEED, FLIGHT, HEAT VISION, ETC. They are known to be CONFIDENT & IMAGINATIVE and DEVIOUS & IMPRACTICAL.  If you’re lucky, you may catch them working at INNER SANCTUM as a DIRECTOR.  

Hey, friends and fam.  Swae here with a very long introduction for the man known as Brett Levine (and the Vriv’Amt known as Prince Le’Vrie-Em).  Like legit warning, this is a very, very long introduction and I do apologize for the length - I like to be incredibly thorough.  Hopefully, if you take the time to read it, you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.  If you want to skip out reading it, hit me up and I can give you a super-condensed version so we can get to plotting it out!  

Thanks for your time and I can’t wait to meet and plot with all of you!

Swae, out.

Vriv’Amt, a history.

The Alien race of Vriv’Amt - pronounced vrai-vham - is one that was originated from a planet called Vriv’Alandra.  This is located in the Vulranpry System, in the Kr’riet Region in the Mid-Sector, bordering the edge of the Outer Rim.  Unlike a majority of this system, Vriv’Alandra lacked a molten core.  Instead, the planet has a conglomerate large, rocky tunnels and caves that have been flooded with water to help sustain the center of the planet - an ancient tale states that the center of the planet houses its strongest creature, the water level lulls it to sleep keeping it into its deepest slumber.

Originally, Vriv’Alandra had been the home of the Elder Saastucheal people - for those more familiar with Earth terms, the Saastucheal people are creatures with reptilian skin that shimmers an orange hue in the sunlight, faces like humans with a longer snout that mimicks that of a possum.   The Saastucheal people have never been known to be friendly and were considered to be one of the most hostile creatures in the galaxy.  The Saastucheal people had participated in the trade of people from different races across the galaxy.

The Vriv’Amt people were born during the intermingling of species in the Saastucheal holding cells.  It was rumored that a single human and an unknown mixed alien had consummated their “love” in their holding cell and the first Vriv’Amt was born.  

The first Vriv’Amt, L’rekyp, had brought the Saastucheal people to an end.  L’rekyp had grown up in captivity and learned the ways of the Saastucheal people.  As he grew, the turmoil of his people fueled the strength within him and he rallied the rest of his people bred in captivity to rise up against the Saastucheal.  With the strength of the Vriv’Amt and the rest of the captive races, they were able to start a revolution and take over the planet for their own.

The Vriv’Amt were a quick race to populate a planet.  Its people gained a reputation for being quick to adapt and advance - this ability earned them much hostility from neighboring planets and ambassadors.  Though they tried to placate these hostilities, their neighboring planets sought out treaties and alliances against the Vriv’Alandra.

In the year 213 OPM, Vriv’Amt had joined the Galatic Republic and had lent the strength of its people and its planet to help this democratic party govern the galaxy.  

In the year 289 OPM, the reigning King of Vriv’Alandra, Urig’Nyanda, made the mistake of falling in love with the Princess of Nuu’Tal and she made the same mistake with him.  This union was rejected by the rules of Nuu’Tal, but the Princess and Urig’Nyanda did not care for their rejection.  She was stowed to Vriv’Alandra and the two were married in the planet.

That union was the start of the end of the people of Vriv’Alandra.

Nuu’Tal and the other six neighboring planets and their people launched an assault on Vriv’Alandra for this unapproved union.  It was a relentless assault that even with the abilities of the Vriv’Amt, they were unable to survive the battle.  These Seven planets had built all of their weaponry with the Kyungr’Lo Stone - this stone has the ability to negate all of the abilities of the Vriv’Amt people and render them as common as the average human.

The Vriv’Alandra did not survive this assault.  This assault decimated the entire population of the Vriv’Amt ...with the exception of one.

What are Vriv’Amt?

Vriv’Amt are an alien race that began on the planet Vriv’Alandra.  Their physical appearance is similar to that of humans with the exception of their bright red eyes during battle.

The race was created by a human (rumored to be a mutant) who mated with with an unknown alien.  To this day, the alien’s race and identity have been muddled.  Throughout the history books of the Vriv’Amt, the alien’s race is often guessed or omitted.  However, this alien’s race had granted the Vriv’Amt the following abilities:

Superhuman strength

Superhuman speed

Flight

Superhuman vision (including x-ray, microscopic, telescopic and infrared)

Super durability - immune to conventional firearms, but enough military grade artillery could very much kill him

Healing factor - all Vriv’Amt can heal with the power of water.  It’s rumored that if a Vriv’Amt was close to death, one could easily throw the body into water and they would be healed.  Perhaps it’s something to try later on.

Heat Vision

There is an unconfirmed rumor that the creature that lived in core of the planet had been what the mutant had mated with.  However, with the planet left in pieces and core destroyed, there has never been an conclusion.

The Vriv’Amt are a strong people but they are not invulnerable.  The below are their known weaknesses:

The Kyungr’Lo Stone - this red crystal has the ability to drain the life out of a Vriv’Amt.  History states that the Kyungr’Lo was created by a scorned galactic witch to punish the Vriv’Amt;  the witch did not realize it would be the death of its people.

Dehydration - Vriv’Amt get dehydrated very easily and are in constant need of water.  If a Vriv’Amt does not get enough water, they will wither away into nothingness.  They need to drink 10x the amount of water a human needs in one day or they will die.

Military Grade Artillery - common and conventional firearms will not harm Vriv’Amt but the higher military grade weapons can kill him.  If you empty an entire AA12 Atchinson Assault rifle into him, even with his abilities, he won’t be able survive that.

Any attacks at that puncture their hearts will lead to instant death.

Brett Levine, a History.

>> Brett Levine was originally Prince Le’Vrie-Em, the son of King Urig’Nyanda and his bride, Queen Leesa-El of Nuu’tal.  During the attack on Vriv’Alandra, the King had stowed him away into an escape vessel and ensured his safety from the assault.  The moment his escape vessel left the planet, King Urig’Nyanda had hit the switch to launch the final assault into Vriv’Amt to end its people.

>> The vessel that the young prince had been placed in had originally been aimed at one of their allied planets.  However, after accidentally stumbling into an unclosed portal between galactic systems, he was transported into planet Earth.  He landed in the middle of the Levine Cattle ranch outside the of Ceres Centropolis.

>> He was found by Edmund and Layla Levine, a farmer and his grieving wife.  The pair had recently lost their son to a cattle stampede.  Layla swore that the Heavens answered her prayers when this vessel came into their farm.  She bestowed the name Brett Levine to the child.  Edmund had been wary of accepting the child into their family at first but he stepped into the father role immediately.

>> Brett’s history was kept locked away from him.  His parents raised him as a normal boy.  He went to school, helped out as a farm hand and did everything as American as apple pie.  When he started high school, that’s when things got complicated.  He wanted to play sports and that was the constant argument in the household - his abilities made him a liability to all of the other teenagers who were to play with him.

>> Eventually, Brett won the argument but had to show great restraint in every sport.  He could have easily won everything, but to appease his parents, he held back and played as normally as he could.  Though, it wasn’t unexpected for him to make the winning play every time they needed it.

>> Brett originally went into community college in their rural farming town.  He attended it for two years until he transferred to Ceres Centropolis University when he was 20.  After that, every thing that he thought he knew changed.

>>  He attended CCU to focus on acquiring a Bachelor of Film and Television Production - he and his father argued about this also (”It’s a useless degree, Brett.  You should do something worthwhile with your time.  Be a doctor or a veterinarian, not a director!”).

>> During his time in college, Brett took on the mask and became Hyperion.  He donned a white hood and finally began to use his powers for good.  There was finally no need to hold back.

>> At this point, he graduated from CCU.  However, instead of pursuing a career in his degree field, he went into working for Inner Sanctum.  Originally starting off as an agent but eventually becoming a Field Commander.  He enjoys working with the agent directly and being able to join them in the field.

>> At the moment, he wants to do his best to help Inner Sanctum succeed in every way he can and will not hesitate to volunteer himself to do the right thing, even if no one wants.

>> Brett moved up from Field Director to Deputy Director and eventually Director of the Inner Sanctum.  Brett had intended to change Inner Sanctum from a hidden organization to one that people could proudly turn to and reach out to for any problems, especially ones connected to power.  He believed that transparency was important, especially when it comes to saving the world.

Fun Facts.

>> He drives a Honda CR-V because it’s one of the safest cars in the planet.  At least, according to the television and his parents.

>> He lives in a studio apartment in the middle of Ceres Centropolis.  He has a bad habit of flying into the window every time he finishes a mission as Hyperion.  He does this so often that his land-lord suggested that he install a security camera to see who keeps breaking into the top floor.

>> His favorite food his shabu-shabu.

>> He still visits his parents outside of Ceres Centropolis.  Especially during the holidays.  His mother cannot stand the city’s traffic during then, so Brett’s the one who makes the drive there.

>> He tried to adopt a dog once, but he wasn’t home as often as he liked.  This lead to the dog never realizing who he was and would constantly bark at him.  The dog loved his mother, so he gave her the pup.

>> Though he is currently not directing, Brett likes to make short videos about his daily life and the people in it.  He uploads it on his Facebook account so his mother doesn’t think he’s dead and believes that he’s currently living a normal, every day life.  Not running around as one of those “masked hoo-haws that think they need to save the world” (her words, not his).

>> His favorite film directors are Francis Ford Coppola, Stanely Kubrick, David Lean,  Miloš Forman and Akira Kurosawa.

>> If you ask him about his childhood, he will tell you about the time that he help birth a baby calf in the middle of the night.  It’s boring.  Don’t ask him.

[lauramalchowblog]

Intermittent Fasting: How It Works, Reasons to Try It & Considerations for Athletes

It’s curious how not eating can spark so many questions and debates. A practice born out of necessity for our ancestors, fasting for long stretches happened when weather or circumstance hampered hunting and gathering, or for shorter periods while on the hunt or foraging.

As food has become readily available and abundant in many countries, our near-constant state of food arousal can dull the hormonal drivers that regulate appetite and, ironically, lead us to want to counteract the overabundance with some restriction. When we eat too much too often, we get the natural inclination to push back from the table and vow not to consume another bite for a (possibly long) while.

Fasting, particularly intermittent fasting, is gaining popularity now as a weight loss and weight management tool. As some celebrities proclaim that intermittent fasting is one of their “secrets” to their hard Hollywood-worthy bods, more and more people will be keen to latch on. We compiled a list of our greatest hits on fasting and intermittent fasting to provide education and context around how intermittent fasting works, reasons you may want to try it, reasons you may not want to try it, and considerations for athletes who want to fast.

First, let’s start with the basics. Before making any changes to your eating (or non-eating) habits, it’s important to understand:

what it means to fast

why people fast

how long to fast

what benefits or downfalls there could be to fasting

whether all of the above can or should apply to you individually

Do the effects of fasting differ for men and women? What are the most common things people get wrong about fasting? Is fasting an effective tool for weight loss? We answer those questions, and more, in the following articles.

Fasting How to

How to Lose Weight with Intermittent Fasting

Fasting can be really beneficial to those who are trying to lose fat. Yes, that’s fat and not weight. Unlike some other kinds of weight-loss methods, which result in loss of water weight or muscle mass, fasting can effectively get rid of fat.

Read more

How to: Intermittent Fasting

There is no one way to do IF. The only real guideline is that, as always, the food you eat should be healthy. (It’s pretty clear how we choose to characterize that.) In addition to the substantial health benefits, the simplicity and flexibility are what draw people to IF.

Read more

Dry Fasting

Dry fasting is going without both food and fluid. That means no coffee, no tea, no broth, and no water or liquid of any kind (except the saliva you manage to produce). It’s an extreme type of fast whose fans and practitioners are adamant that it can resolve serious health issues. But does it? Is it safe? And what kind of research is available on it?

Read more

Fasting vs. Carb Restriction

Both fasting and carb-restriction appear to operate along similar physiological pathways. Both lower carbs. Both increase fat-adaptation. Both have the potential to get you into ketosis. Both lower insulin and blood sugar. But is one better than the other?

Read more

Top 10 Fasting Mistakes

If you’re making fasting mistakes, you might never accomplish the benefits you were hoping for. Before you throw in the towel, I want to help you identify some possible fasting pitfalls you might not be aware of and also help you avoid them.

Read more

The Pros and Cons of Fasting

The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Fasting is one way to have your cake and eat it too. Beyond the already proven benefits of a Primal Blueprint low-carb lifestyle, fasting once in a while seems to offer many of the same benefits of calorie restriction—you know, stuff like increased longevity, neuroprotection, increased insulin sensitivity, stronger resistance to stress, some cool effects on endogenous hormone production, increased mental clarity, plus more—but without the active, agonizing restriction.

Read more

Intermittent Fasting for Women

With fasting, perhaps the most important variable to consider is your biological sex. This really does make intuitive sense. Biology cares most about your fertility. Can you reproduce? Can you produce healthy offspring that survive to do the same? These things come first. And from that perspective, a woman’s situation is more precarious than a man’s.

Read more

Should You Try Fasting?

Primal folks who are losing weight or looking to lose a bit more, and getting the right lifestyle changes enacted (sleep, exercise, sex, leisure, rest, relaxation, mental stimulation) should definitely try fasting. They will likely flourish.

Read more

When Does Fasting Cross the Line?

How do you know if your fasting regimen may be slipping into the grey area of potential orthorexia or disordered eating? We can’t diagnose anyone in an article, of course, but there are signs to watch out for if you have personal concerns or worries about others.

Read more

14 Reasons to Fast

Anytime you attempt a “radical” health practice like not eating, it helps to have a good reason to do it. That will not only give you something to aim for, but it will ensure you actually have a physiological justification for your experiment. Never go in blind. What are some of the specific scenarios and conditions where fasting makes the most sense?

Read more

Long Fasts: Worth the Risk?

If fasting for more than three days sounds riskier than just skipping breakfast, you’re right. Long fasts can get you into trouble. They’re a big commitment. You shouldn’t just stumble into one because it sounds interesting or some guy on your Twitter feed wrote about it.

Read more

What Breaks a Fast?

  It’s the nature of many beings—particularly those with weight-loss goals, it seems—to want to know what the “rules” are so they can look for the loopholes to bend them. It’s no surprise that the top-performing article last year on Mark’s Daily Apple was “Does Coffee Break a Fast?” Consequently, we followed up with an article about whether bone broth breaks a fast because we received additional questions. Then people wanted to know about supplements—should they be taken while fasting? We then created a definitive guide to what breaks a fast. If there’s any other liquid, leaf, pill, stone, or twig we neglected to examine, let us know in the comments section.

Does Bone Broth Break a Fast?

Most people aren’t fasting to be able to brag about eating no calories for X number of days. They fast for shorter (often intermittent) periods of time for specific health benefits. It’s entirely possible that bone broth “breaks a fast” but allows many of the benefits we associate with fasting to occur.

Read more

Does Coffee Break a Fast?

Does black coffee break a fast? Put another way… Does coffee interfere with the benefits we’re seeking from a fast? Depends on the benefits you’re seeking (and what you put in the coffee). Let’s look at some of the most common benefits first and if/how coffee affects them.

Read more

Do Supplements Break a Fast?

Does fish oil break a fast? What about my multivitamin, protein powder, collagen, or melatonin? Mark delves into the research to provide definitive answers.

Read more

Definitive Guide to What Breaks a Fast

One of the most common questions I get is “Does [x] break a fast?” What they’re really inquiring about is: “Does this interfere with, negate, or nullify the benefits of fasting?” Let’s go through the most popular queries one by one and figure out how each one affects an intermittent fast.

Read more

Does Intermittent Fasting Work for Athletes?

Does fasting before and during workouts confer any performance perks or additional fat-burning benefits? Should athletes fast before every session, or only specific types of workouts? What are the potential drawbacks to fasting for athletes? Let’s go.

Intermittent Fasting Tips for Athletes

What are my specific recommendations for athletes who wish to explore intermittent fasting? I’ve got 12… plus some details about my own fasting and workout routine.

Read more

Benefits & Concerns Fasting for Athletes

Sometimes, high stress is exactly what we need to progress—a few heavy sets of squats, some rounds on the Airdyne, a killer CrossFit workout—as long as you can recover from it. A major modulator of our stress is the amount of food we have coming in. At least in theory, exercising in a fasted state could provoke a powerful adaptive response that athletes would find helpful. So, does it stack up? What exactly can intermittent fasting offer athletes?

Read more

Fasted Workouts

To some, the idea of working out without “carbing up” or doing the pre-workout protein shake is unthinkable. To others, fasted workouts are sacred tools, the perfect antidote to modern decrepitude. Where does the truth lie?

Read more

That’s it for today, folks. Thanks for reading, take care, and leave a comment below if there are more questions you have about IF!

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Intermittent Fasting: How It Works, Reasons to Try It & Considerations for Athletes

It’s curious how not eating can spark so many questions and debates. A practice born out of necessity for our ancestors, fasting for long stretches happened when weather or circumstance hampered hunting and gathering, or for shorter periods while on the hunt or foraging.

As food has become readily available and abundant in many countries, our near-constant state of food arousal can dull the hormonal drivers that regulate appetite and, ironically, lead us to want to counteract the overabundance with some restriction. When we eat too much too often, we get the natural inclination to push back from the table and vow not to consume another bite for a (possibly long) while.

Fasting, particularly intermittent fasting, is gaining popularity now as a weight loss and weight management tool. As some celebrities proclaim that intermittent fasting is one of their “secrets” to their hard Hollywood-worthy bods, more and more people will be keen to latch on. We compiled a list of our greatest hits on fasting and intermittent fasting to provide education and context around how intermittent fasting works, reasons you may want to try it, reasons you may not want to try it, and considerations for athletes who want to fast.

First, let’s start with the basics. Before making any changes to your eating (or non-eating) habits, it’s important to understand:

what it means to fast

why people fast

how long to fast

what benefits or downfalls there could be to fasting

whether all of the above can or should apply to you individually

Do the effects of fasting differ for men and women? What are the most common things people get wrong about fasting? Is fasting an effective tool for weight loss? We answer those questions, and more, in the following articles.

Fasting How to

How to Lose Weight with Intermittent Fasting

Fasting can be really beneficial to those who are trying to lose fat. Yes, that’s fat and not weight. Unlike some other kinds of weight-loss methods, which result in loss of water weight or muscle mass, fasting can effectively get rid of fat.

Read more

How to: Intermittent Fasting

There is no one way to do IF. The only real guideline is that, as always, the food you eat should be healthy. (It’s pretty clear how we choose to characterize that.) In addition to the substantial health benefits, the simplicity and flexibility are what draw people to IF.

Read more

Dry Fasting

Dry fasting is going without both food and fluid. That means no coffee, no tea, no broth, and no water or liquid of any kind (except the saliva you manage to produce). It’s an extreme type of fast whose fans and practitioners are adamant that it can resolve serious health issues. But does it? Is it safe? And what kind of research is available on it?

Read more

Fasting vs. Carb Restriction

Both fasting and carb-restriction appear to operate along similar physiological pathways. Both lower carbs. Both increase fat-adaptation. Both have the potential to get you into ketosis. Both lower insulin and blood sugar. But is one better than the other?

Read more

Top 10 Fasting Mistakes

If you’re making fasting mistakes, you might never accomplish the benefits you were hoping for. Before you throw in the towel, I want to help you identify some possible fasting pitfalls you might not be aware of and also help you avoid them.

Read more

The Pros and Cons of Fasting

The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Fasting is one way to have your cake and eat it too. Beyond the already proven benefits of a Primal Blueprint low-carb lifestyle, fasting once in a while seems to offer many of the same benefits of calorie restriction—you know, stuff like increased longevity, neuroprotection, increased insulin sensitivity, stronger resistance to stress, some cool effects on endogenous hormone production, increased mental clarity, plus more—but without the active, agonizing restriction.

Read more

Intermittent Fasting for Women

With fasting, perhaps the most important variable to consider is your biological sex. This really does make intuitive sense. Biology cares most about your fertility. Can you reproduce? Can you produce healthy offspring that survive to do the same? These things come first. And from that perspective, a woman’s situation is more precarious than a man’s.

Read more

Should You Try Fasting?

Primal folks who are losing weight or looking to lose a bit more, and getting the right lifestyle changes enacted (sleep, exercise, sex, leisure, rest, relaxation, mental stimulation) should definitely try fasting. They will likely flourish.

Read more

When Does Fasting Cross the Line?

How do you know if your fasting regimen may be slipping into the grey area of potential orthorexia or disordered eating? We can’t diagnose anyone in an article, of course, but there are signs to watch out for if you have personal concerns or worries about others.

Read more

14 Reasons to Fast

Anytime you attempt a “radical” health practice like not eating, it helps to have a good reason to do it. That will not only give you something to aim for, but it will ensure you actually have a physiological justification for your experiment. Never go in blind. What are some of the specific scenarios and conditions where fasting makes the most sense?

Read more

Long Fasts: Worth the Risk?

If fasting for more than three days sounds riskier than just skipping breakfast, you’re right. Long fasts can get you into trouble. They’re a big commitment. You shouldn’t just stumble into one because it sounds interesting or some guy on your Twitter feed wrote about it.

Read more

What Breaks a Fast?

  It’s the nature of many beings—particularly those with weight-loss goals, it seems—to want to know what the “rules” are so they can look for the loopholes to bend them. It’s no surprise that the top-performing article last year on Mark’s Daily Apple was “Does Coffee Break a Fast?” Consequently, we followed up with an article about whether bone broth breaks a fast because we received additional questions. Then people wanted to know about supplements—should they be taken while fasting? We then created a definitive guide to what breaks a fast. If there’s any other liquid, leaf, pill, stone, or twig we neglected to examine, let us know in the comments section.

Does Bone Broth Break a Fast?

Most people aren’t fasting to be able to brag about eating no calories for X number of days. They fast for shorter (often intermittent) periods of time for specific health benefits. It’s entirely possible that bone broth “breaks a fast” but allows many of the benefits we associate with fasting to occur.

Read more

Does Coffee Break a Fast?

Does black coffee break a fast? Put another way… Does coffee interfere with the benefits we’re seeking from a fast? Depends on the benefits you’re seeking (and what you put in the coffee). Let’s look at some of the most common benefits first and if/how coffee affects them.

Read more

Do Supplements Break a Fast?

Does fish oil break a fast? What about my multivitamin, protein powder, collagen, or melatonin? Mark delves into the research to provide definitive answers.

Read more

Definitive Guide to What Breaks a Fast

One of the most common questions I get is “Does [x] break a fast?” What they’re really inquiring about is: “Does this interfere with, negate, or nullify the benefits of fasting?” Let’s go through the most popular queries one by one and figure out how each one affects an intermittent fast.

Read more

Does Intermittent Fasting Work for Athletes?

Does fasting before and during workouts confer any performance perks or additional fat-burning benefits? Should athletes fast before every session, or only specific types of workouts? What are the potential drawbacks to fasting for athletes? Let’s go.

Intermittent Fasting Tips for Athletes

What are my specific recommendations for athletes who wish to explore intermittent fasting? I’ve got 12… plus some details about my own fasting and workout routine.

Read more

Benefits & Concerns Fasting for Athletes

Sometimes, high stress is exactly what we need to progress—a few heavy sets of squats, some rounds on the Airdyne, a killer CrossFit workout—as long as you can recover from it. A major modulator of our stress is the amount of food we have coming in. At least in theory, exercising in a fasted state could provoke a powerful adaptive response that athletes would find helpful. So, does it stack up? What exactly can intermittent fasting offer athletes?

Read more

Fasted Workouts

To some, the idea of working out without “carbing up” or doing the pre-workout protein shake is unthinkable. To others, fasted workouts are sacred tools, the perfect antidote to modern decrepitude. Where does the truth lie?

Read more

That’s it for today, folks. Thanks for reading, take care, and leave a comment below if there are more questions you have about IF!

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why Teens of Denial is the best album of all time

listen i love car seat headrest and will probably continue to do so for a long old time. however, it is impossible to me that they can improve on 2016′s teens of denial, which is the most Me album ever made.

teens of denial is first and foremost an album about narcissism. specifically, it is about intense and obsessive introspection which transforms into narcissism. it unflinchingly explores the idea of being self-obsessed to the point of mental illness, and while it critiques that notion, it does so in a way that is ultimately unsatisfactory. the critique is implicit rather than outright, because to explicitly condemn the behaviour enters the songs’ speaker back into the cycle of introspection which led to narcissism in the first place. i was gonna go track by track to explain this but i just spent half an hour just on fill in the blank and there are like 12 tracks or whatever so i’m gonna condense.

We start the album with the speaker (let’s call him Joe) in a state of self-righteous depression, expressing the urge to beat himself up and calling out those who suggest his depression is a result of not trying hard enough. in doing so, he justifies to himself and to everyone hearing the album (the eponymous teens, which i’ll come to) that the way he is acting is appropriate. he is Depressed and this is what being Depressed entails. However, the lyrics in the verses of Fill in the Blank betray an incredible disdain for others in favour of introspection. he doesn’t know what he wants out of people but he knows he’s not getting it. friends and family are simply utilities that he has no use for. i would argue that the reason he can’t get anything out of them is that his entire outlook is towards himself. no one else can possibly fill a similar emotional spot to this all-encompassing self-loathing. it’s too powerful. Fill in the Blank ends with Joe succumbing entirely to his depression, further consolidating its grip over him and exacerbating his self-absorbed wallowing in sadness. i say none of this as a negative by the way. i love this honesty. it’s exactly how i feel.

moving on, we see Joe’s inability to exist in society demonstrated in writing music (Vincent), parties (Hippie Powers, Drugs with Friends), and trying to maintain relationships (Not What I Needed). In Vincent, we see Joe claim that it’s harder to speak when someone else is listening. this is further evidence for the fact that he is fundamentally unable to relate to anyone other than himself. the idea of finding it difficult to speak to someone who’s listening appears anachronistic - isn’t the point of speaking to communicate with someone else? - but this contributes to the splitting of the self first brought up in Fill in the blank (if i was split in two i would just take my fists). Joe sees introspection as a conversation only for himself, the only person who understands how much he hates himself and how bad he feels. no one else could possibly understand. we see this furthered in Not What I Needed when he brushes off the advice given to him by friends (get a job, eat an apple etc) as meaningless - “they’re just people, too”. however, that last word sparks something of a change in Joe, and the song proper ends with him saying “Will I find out I am just people too?”. His gaze turns briefly away from himself here, and he realises that despite his self-obsession, he is not actually anything special. The interview on the outro of this track could bring us into a whole essay on metanarratives, which i don’t want to go into. god, i’m missing so much out.

okay. drunk drivers is the halfway point of the album, and the point at which Joe is starting to unravel his obsession, or at least come to terms with it. we see him suggest that “you share the same fate as the people you hate”, which is mature and the least solipsistic statement put forth on the album so far. grappling with the notion of death as he contemplates drunk driving, Joe understands that mortality is the great leveller, and that as different as he feels from everyone around him, he cannot avoid their mortal identicality (not a word). at the end of this song, Joe thinks about the voice in his head (splitting of self once more) and decides that he is not his own enemy, but a friend. he decides not to drunk drive. This appears positive but in fact doubles down on his narcissism. the self-loathing, which characterised his self-obsession up until this point, has vanished and been replaced by a sense of superiority. if drunk driving was the reminder that he is not dissimilar from every person on earth, getting out of the car and walking is Joe’s attempt to transcend that. here, he is almost trying to cheat death. this is where we are at halfway. Joe begins self-obsessed and self-loathing, and all that is changed is that he no longer hates himself. 

1937 state park finds Joe attempting to grapple with his newfound self-confidence, which falls flat. he mocks his death-obsessed generation before talking about death in the very same song, he makes fun of a high school teen dream in the hospital. this doesn’t paint a good portrait of Joe, who appears cruel and vain in his superiority. In the choruses, Joe makes it clear that he is unable to free himself from solipsism by refusing to allow others to feel his emotion. it’s clear he hasn’t learned anything at this point except a smug sense of superiority.  

to dip briefly into metanarrative, it almost feels like Unforgiving Girl is a song written by Joe at this time in his life. it’s uninspired and smug, a love song with no purpose other than to show off about feelings. 

cosmic hero and the ballad of the costa concordia both feel incredibly important to the narcissism narrative. In each, Joe wrestles with his newfound superiority and breaks back down into self-loathing. Cosmic hero has rises and falls of hatred. in the verses we see Joe questioning himself, realising that he’s been acting like a bastard these past few songs - “if you really wanna know how kind you are, just ask yourself why you’re lying in bed alone”. The whole thing has been a sham. However, he still has this steadfast belief that he is better than everyone else. The most ugly line (that i LOVE) - “you won’t go to heaven, I will go to heaven, I won’t see you there”. who the fuck does he think he is!

in costa concordia, we start with self-hatred. a feeling of weakness, and impotence. Joe can’t sustain his anger, he can’t feel anything. he is at a total existential loss. he hated himself, then he loved himself, now what is he? after the short interpolation of dido’s white flag, Joe blames everyone else for his mistakes. “how was i to know?”. he refuses responsibility, as he has done implicitly the entire album. following this outpouring, he gives up. he realises all he has been doing up until this point has been useless. he calls himself a man “clinging to the cliff of revelation, so scared of what he would find”. His so-called introspection has not been leading to anything because he’s been too scared of finding what that is. he’s just been stuck in self-obsession with no specific endpoint. so, he gives up on it. “though he made fun of us, he has now become one of us”. he surrenders his narcissism and accepts his normality.

the final full track, Connect the Dots, retroactively looks at the album and Joe’s life and suggests that all of it was the product of childhood, or teenagehood (not a word). “little boy says i’m in love with my fists” hearkens back to fill in the blank, there’s a line about driving which may be a stretch but is drunk drivers-ish. the song is upbeat and happy, and seems to be at total peace with imperfection - “you won’t see who you wanna see there, no one will want to be in your band”. acceptance. the song ends with the declaration “FUCK OFF TEENS!”. The teens, to my mind, are those of the album’s title, denying their own narcissism, denying that they are partially at fault for their own isolation, denying autonomy. i love this line so much.

Joe Goes to School is a bit of a post-credits scene, i think. the motif running through the album is that Joe finds it impossible to empathise with anyone who isn’t himself, and this kind of exemplifies that once more. maybe he isn’t totally cured, maybe he can’t be. he has no idea what the horse is feeling, but he projects potential sadness onto it, which may be a reflection of himself. however, he does not dwell on this, and splits the scene. it doesn’t matter that he can’t empathise, he has other shit to do.

anyway that’s basically why the album rules. it’s exactly what i’ve been going through in the past 5 years of my life, and i have never seen it written so eloquently and sensitively as Will wrote it here. i think it’s phenomenal, and it will always be one of my favourite records. 

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8 Mistakes to Avoid When Setting Up Affiliate Marketing Program

Every month, hundreds of new affiliate programs are being launched. Most of them, however, aren’t meant to succeed, and not because there’s something wrong with affiliate marketing. The reason why many advertisers fail at affiliate marketing is rooted in the poorly done work when setting up their affiliate programs.

Having analyzed more than a thousand of affiliate programs in the past eighteen years, I’ve noticed that some of the deadliest mistakes are committed with unfortunate frequency. It is to eight of these mistakes (committed by advertisers at the setup phase) that I am devoting this post.

1. Launching Too Quickly

You’re eager to get it out there — for affiliates to start joining and promoting you and your products — and hit that “Go Live” button much earlier than the program is really ready. You’re thinking: “Oh, I’ll just launch this thing and work out the kinks on the fly.” Since the flaw of this way of thinking isn’t evident to some, let me illustrate my point with a real-life story.

A few weeks ago, I was flying out of Washington, DC which got hit by an unexpected snow storm. They kept delaying our flight — to clear the runway of snow, deice our plane, and perform the other routine tasks that the situation called for. Many of the already-boarded passengers were grumbling…

When we finally took off – with a delay of more than 90 minutes – I couldn’t help but wonder: would any one of us, who were unhappy with the delay, be happier if something important wasn’t sorted out before the take-off? Clearly, a rhetorical question.

2. Ignoring the Competition

When bringing a new product to market or conceiving an idea of a new business, analyzing the competitive landscape is a common-sense thing to do. Why, then, is this integral component so frequently missed from the affiliate program setup tactics?

To ensure that your new program really stands out (from the myriad of other affiliate programs out there), you must know what it would take for it to stand out. We recommend compiling a competitive intelligence spreadsheet and documenting every major element of your competitors’ affiliate programs. Your competitive analysis should study:

Platforms on which they run their affiliate programs

Payment models employed

Payout structures (expressed either as a percentage of pre-tax and pre-shipping total, or as a flat dollar amount) Any differences in payouts for new-to-file vs returning/reengaged customers Performance incentives, bonuses, or tiered payout increases, if any

Cookie life [consider this]

Locking period [more here] Any indicators of their programs’ success (be it EPC, rankings, or anything else)

Don’t rush through this phase! Do a thorough work which will enable you to understand how to truly shine when your affiliate program launches and starts being to those of your direct competitors.

3. Casting Your Net “Wide”

There is a common misconception — especially prevalent among businesses that are new to the affiliate space — that the more affiliate networks they join, the better.

Let’s get one thing straight: affiliate networks are primarily technology platforms to handle tracking, reporting, and payments to affiliates. In the majority of cases, an “affiliate network” is not a “network of affiliates” that will start working with you as soon as you launch the affiliate program on that network. Affiliates from the network may join your affiliate program (if it stands out) but nothing guarantees their participation in it.

Furthermore, if you take American affiliate networks, for example, there is a significant overlap of affiliate pools between some of them (for example, between CJ and Rakuten Affiliate Network, ShareASale and AvantLink). So, adding a second affiliate network to the first will never double your affiliate base.

4. Copying the Big Guys

When setting up your affiliate program’s payout and cookie duration, do not copy the big brands, assuming that you would thereby replicate their success. Let me illustrate this using one of the world’s oldest and largest affiliate programs – that run by Amazon.com.

When Amazon’s affiliate program pays 4-5% commission at a 24-hour cookie life, it doesn’t mean you should copy this. Here is why:

2.5% to 3% is considered to be a solid conversion rate for any affiliate program It isn’t unusual for Amazon’s affiliate program to convert at 10% or higher [source] The difference in conversion rate (between your online storefront’s and Amazon) should therefore be offset by an equal difference in the commission rate. Otherwise, many affiliates would prefer promoting a comparable product on Amazon, making more money from it

5. Missing Rules and Policies

When a brand accepts affiliates into a program that lacks rules or policies they are entering into business relationships without any contractual obligations in place. You wouldn’t do this in any other business context. Why, then, so many businesses make the affiliate marketing context an exception?

Here is a perfect example of an affiliate program whose “Terms and Conditions” field is just left blank:

Do you really want to give affiliate a carte blanche to market you wherever they wish and however they see fit? It sets your business up for one thing — trouble (especially when combined with the mistake that I list next). After all, when nothing is prohibited, everything is implicitly permitted.

6. Setting to Auto-Approve

Many new affiliate programs automatically approve all affiliates that apply into them. The main reason why auto-approving everyone is always a bad idea lies in the immediacy of consequences. As soon as an affiliate is approved, they get access to your links and can start promoting you immediately. But what if their promotional tactics are incompatible with your idea of how your business, brand, or product should be marketed? What if they start promoting you via email spam or cookie stuffing? What if your brand ends up on porn or hate sites?

Yes, affiliate marketing programs provide for the ability of reversing any unqualified or (even) fraudulent transactions. Just remember: the potential damage (that some rotten apples may bring about) could be irreversible.

7. Forgetting About the Driver

Just as any marketing campaign, every affiliate program must be managed.

Imagine setting up a paid search campaign. You put in your keywords and the respective bids, tying specific ads and landing pages to them. Then you enter your credit card to be charged for the clicks, and go live. What would happen if you left it to fly on its own: for a day, week, month, or even longer? You see where I’m going here… You could potentially drain a lot of money down the drain. Just as irrelevant keywords should be eliminated from your paid search efforts, so should unsuited affiliates never be approved into an affiliate program (or removed from it if they somehow got in). Just like you would prevent paid search ads from generating untargeted traffic, so should you monitor where and how your accepted affiliates promote your brand and product. I would even argue that with an affiliate marketing campaign the stakes are higher, because you are entrusting affiliates with the most valuable asset you will ever have — your brand.

Back in 2013, in an interview to a European affiliate network, I emphasized: “Just as a ship with a sleeping helmsman is doomed to crash, so is an affiliate program which isn’t being actively managed.” My opinion remains unchanged.

8. Failing to Recruit

I was lucky to enter the world of e-commerce at its very dawn. Back then, the mantra “If you build it, they will come” was often on the lips and minds of the early e-businessmen. With time, however, we had all learned that it takes much more than merely building a good website. There must be marketing, search engine optimization, advocacy, and other components of website promotion — for the customers to come your way.

Similarly, in present day, it isn’t sufficient to merely set up your affiliate program on a popular platform. Once the program launches, your affiliate manager must spend (a large chuck of his/her) time on identifying prospective affiliates to onboard, reaching out to them, and following up with them… all with the purpose of recruiting good affiliates that would market you and your product. Otherwise, your program is doomed to just end up with a lot of “thin affiliates” that add no or little value.

So there you have them: the deadliest mistakes to avoid when setting up and launching an affiliate program. If you have anything to add to these, please do so using the “Comments” area below. I’d love to hear from you and learn from your experience. Paraphrasing the wise Eleanor Roosevelt, to get to the goal faster, you must “learn from the mistakes of others” as it would make the path to success unnecessarily long and painful if you choose “to make them all yourself.”

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UNLESS THEIR WORKING DAY ENDS AT THE SAME TIME

The average 25 year old is no match for companies that have already raised money. But once you've admitted that one high level language can be more powerful than your own. I was still wasting time imitating the wrong things? I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for succeeding just by negating. Productivity varies in any field, but I don't think our competitors understood, and few understand even now: when you're writing software that only has to do something trivially easy. That may be the more important of the two. Certainly not the authors. Whether to do anything hard in. Lexical closures provide a way to get a job. For example, open source software is more reliable precisely because it's open source; anyone can find mistakes. By the end of the scale, nature seems to be more companies like us. This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.

The people who understood our technology best were the customers. Fortunately you have some control over both how much you make, and you can decrease the amount of bullshit in your life by more than you think. By definition you can't tell from his portfolio. I knew practically nothing about the paths from rich to poor.1 If your terms force startups to do things they never anticipated, rather than a real downtown, Brasilia rather than Rome, Ada rather than C. There's nothing like going to grad school at Harvard to cure you of any illusions you might have about the average Harvard undergrad. What you're doing is business creation. Maybe it would be misleading even to call them centers. And the thing we'd built, as far as they could tell, wasn't even software. Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. A programming language does need a good implementation, of course, but as far as they could tell, wasn't even software.2

Technically the term high-level language, in the long run, of the forces underlying open source and blogs are done for free, but before the Web it was harder than it looked.3 When you choose technology, you have to figure out. It's there to some degree in almost every field, but there aren't enough investors who will give $200k to a startup that was sufficiently successful would never have to move. VCs. So you could say either was the cause. The companies that rule Silicon Valley now are all descended in various ways from Shockley Semiconductor. Hackers like to hack, and hacking means getting inside things and second guessing the original designer. It's basically the diminutive form of belligerent. They switch because it's a better browser.4

It's not simply a matter of writing a lot of the new principles business has to learn it? He suggests starting with Python and Java, because they are easy to learn. That's what you do.5 Does this sound familiar?6 Except books—but books are different. And users don't care where you went to a better college. But if you make a language popular? The language can help here too. Now Palo Alto is suburbia, but then it was a charming college town—a language you should learn as an intellectual exercise, even though the latter depends more on determination than brains. How do you protect yourself from these people?

If you make something users want, then you're dead, whatever else you do or don't do. I bet this isn't true.7 I think the effect of such external factors on the popularity of a programming language rather than, say, making the language strongly typed. People interested in local events that one is solving mostly a single type of problem instead of many different types. Microsoft is remarkable among big companies in that they are able to develop software in house. But Y Combinator runs on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to be really good at tricking you. They were not even on a path to anything interesting. By the time you have to design buildings that don't fall down, but the creator is full of soot. If willfulness and discipline are what get you to profitability but you can tell it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. The last one might be the most important.

The Reddits pushed so hard against the current that they reversed it; now it looks like they're merely floating downstream.8 If you throw them out, you find that good products do tend to win in the market. And God help you if you choose them. It seems unlikely this is a sign that something is broken?9 How about writer?10 Our secret weapon was similar. But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. Revealingly, the same status as what comes with it. What's less often understood is that there are more of them. For I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with no idea who painted it?

The reason we tell founders not to worry about and which not to.11 The melon seed model implies it's possible to make yourself into one. My God, it was harder to reach an audience or collaborate on projects. Better to get a lot done. I accumulated all this useless stuff, but that the people pretending to work. There is usually so much demand for custom work that unless you're really incompetent there has to be in the twentieth century.12 Using first and rest instead of car and cdr often are, in successive lines.

And that is just what tends to happen. I cheat by using a very dense language, which shrinks the court. In this particular case there is a way to finesse our way out of lower-level abstractions are built in a very transparent way out of lower-level abstractions, which you can survive.13 And odds are that is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option. There are usually a few people in a company with someone you dislike because they have some skill you need and you worry you won't find anyone else. Note too that determination and talent are not the whole story. That word balance is a significant one.14 I tried my best to imitate them. Often, indeed, it is at least different from when I started. You may have as many as five or ten releases a day.15 So if Lisp makes you a better programmer, like he says, why wouldn't you want to get the most out of them, and lose half a day's work; or we can try to avoid meeting them, and probably offend them.

Notes

For example, understanding French will help dispel the cloud of semi-sacred mystery that surrounds wisdom in ancient philosophy may be some things it's a significant effect on returns, it's easy to believe your whole future depends on where you go to grad school, and the war it was actually a computer.

Investors are professional negotiators, and all the East Coast. In many ways the New Deal but with World War II had disappeared.

Ed. Some of the lies we tell.

When I catch egregiously linkjacked posts I replace the url with that additional constraint, you can't even claim, like indifference to individual users. In Shakespeare's own time in the 1980s was enabled by a central authority according to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in the 70s, moving to Monaco would give us. VCs may begin to conserve board seats by switching to what modernist architects meant.

The person who would in 1950. I did when I was a good idea to make money from the truth to say that was actively maintained would be investors who turned them down because investors already owned more than just getting started. 7% of American kids attend private, non-programmers grasped that in the world of the most accurate way to find a broad hard-beaten road to his time was 700,000 per month. But one of few they had in grad school, because they attract so much on luck.

Dealers try to write your thoughts down in, say, recursion, and in fact you're descending in a difficult position. But do you use this route instead.

In principle yes, of S P 500 CEOs in 2002 was 35,560.

Some blue counties are false positives caused by filters will have to want them; you don't see them, but whether it's good enough to convince limited partners. If by cutting the founders' advantage if it were. An accountant might say that IBM makes decent hardware.

This is not a VC who read it ever wished it longer. 'Math for engineers' classes sucked mightily. Even college textbooks is unpleasant work, like warehouses. 5% of Apple now January 2016 would be to say because most of the lawyers they need them to get the people worth impressing already judge you more than investors.

So the most surprising things I've learned about VC inattentiveness. Stone, op. No, we met Aydin Senkut. I overstated the case.

The way to pressure them to ignore investors and instead of just Jews any more than make them want you.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this essay, I preferred to work than stay home with them. I wonder if that means is No, and that modern corporate executives would work. Mayle, Peter, Why Are We Getting a Divorce?

There are people in return for something that would appeal to space aliens, but this would be critical to do something we didn't, they still probably won't invest in so many different schools of thought about how to allocate resources, political deal-making power. There were a variety called Red Delicious that had other meanings. The problem is that you'll expend a lot like meaning.

It's not the shape that matters financially for investors. This plan backfired with the New Deal but with World War II the tax codes were so bad that they probably wouldn't be worth trying to deliver the lines meant for a startup than it was 10 years ago. At the time I thought there wasn't, because they can't afford to. Where Do College English 28 1966-67, pp.

Your user model almost couldn't be perfectly accurate, because the illiquidity of progress puts them at the works of their growth from earnings.

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You’re a New Manager. What now?

For 33 years, I was a manager of technical teams. First as a VP of consulting (two different companies), and then as the Director of Computer Operations for Trader Joe’s Company. I learned in the school of hard knocks what to do and what not to do.

The most important fact is if you are a manager needs to BE a manager. That means you lead your team, you support them, you get the resources they need to get their jobs done, and you set the boundaries. You must have authority or you cannot manage effectively, and you must be the boss. You must temper that with kindness and understanding, but never to the detriment of your company.

So for all he managers out there, here are a few lessons I learned, in no particular order.

Be a leader, not a follower.

Don’t be a victim.

Build a consensus, but you make the decision. The right decision takes precedence over consensus.

Don’t push work up the organization board.

Manage in all directions on the org board. Manage your boss, manage your peers and manage your team. How do you manage your boss? You give them the information they need to make the right decision.

Set the standard for your team. Come in on time and leave on time. Keep your desk clean, and don’t do personal things at work. Dress appropriately and be efficient. Your team will emulate you because you set the standard.

Praise in public. Criticize in private.

Do not work late. Do not ask your team to work late. Actively discourage working late. If a member of your team cannot complete their job during a normal workday, find out why and fix the problem.

Focus on production. Each team member needs to understand what they produce, how they do it, how much they should do, and what they need to produce it. Whether that be applications or answered calls or whatever. Base your reviews and appraisals on production and behavior.

The definition of “doing your job” is producing what needs to be produced in the agreed upon timeframe.

Never appraise based on attitude. Who cares as long as they are producing?

Appraise on behavior and production.

Promote based on production and behavior.

Ensure each member of your team has a career path that is clearly defined and attainable. Support them with training, coaching and mentoring to achieve promotions.

Compensate fairly. Fight for compensation for your team.

Don’t demand overtime without pay from salaried employees. Once you start depending on overtime, it’s hard to back off. Schedules start to take that into account and it becomes a never ending cycle.

Minimize meetings. Keep them short, have an agenda, stick to the agenda, and make them fast. Meetings are one of the biggest time wasters in business.

ALL decisions in meetings get recorded in writing and sent to all attendees.

Don’t allow cell phones in meetings. Have everyone leave them in a basket or shelf outside before coming in. That includes you.

Make sure your entire team, from receptionist through manager, is trained on computer security, harassment laws, and so on.

Never ever never never never engage in office romance. Even if you are married to a co-worker (in that case, keep it out of the office).

Keep your personal life out of the office.

Never come to work intoxicated. Don’t drink at lunch.

Always manage fairly.

Learn to delegate authority and responsibility. You have to do them both at the same time. Don’t ever delegate responsibility without authority. For example, if you delegate checking quality to a team member, then give them the authority to deal with it if the quality is lacking.

If you are a manager and you have to ask permission from anyone to hire (if it’s in your budget) or fire, then you are not a manager. Yes, you may have to involve your boss or HR, but you should have the final say.

Do NOT ever be afraid to fire someone. If they need to be fired, and your case is well documented, fire them. Don’t give notice, and escort them after you’ve fired them, no matter who they are. The second you fire someone, they no longer work for the company.

Make sure you don’t have a “single point of failure”. That’s where you have only one person who can do something or who knows something.

Manage what’s important. If it’s not important that your team be at work at 9am, then don’t make a ridiculous rule that they must be the office at 9am.

If you make a rule, enforce it.

If you are not willing to fire someone if they break a rule (after a few warnings), then don’t make the rule. So if you have determined your team needs to start working at 9am for good reason (maybe they answer help desk calls), and then one team member comes in at 9:30am (without permission), you start the cycle: talk with them a few times, oral warning, written warning, suspension or fire depending on your company policy.

If you make rules that you don’t enforce, you might as well not make rules. You just look stupid.

Make sure you follow all company policies. First read them and understand them. Make sure your team understands them.

ALL the goals of your team must align with the goals of your company. It’s silly to work towards goals that are not aimed in the same direction as the company is going. (There are exceptions to this rule).

Be 100% ethical. If it’s not clearly right, it’s wrong.

If you catch anyone doing something wrong, take steps to handle it (if the person works for you) or report it to the right people. If you see someone engaging in harassing behavior, for example, report it to HR immediately in writing. Don’t talk to anyone (the harasser or the harassed) – just report it. Your job is not to fix it – it is to report it.

Remember, to treat everyone fairly. Do not base any decision on race, sexual orientation, sex, or anything else EXCEPT productivity and behavior.

If one of your team members has a personal problem, be there for them.

Fight for your team.

Fight for training budget. Get your team trained at company expense regularly. Each team member should put together their own training plan, with the appropriate coaching from you.

One bad apple, an employee who is undermining other employees or you or the company, can destroy everything you’re doing. Find them. Identify the behavior. Then get them to fix it or fire them.

Back up all computer data. Audit your backups. Ensure your team follows backup procedures. Regular backups should be kept offsite. If this is the responsibility of IT, audit the backups at least once a month.

Never wait until a performance review to correct poor production or behavior. Do it immediately.

If you are going to fire someone, do it in private. If you can, get someone to attend as a witness. Keep your firing short and to the point.

This one is critical: Reward those who produce. Do not reward those who don’t produce. Most managers make the mistake of spending an incredible amount of time trying to correct a “bad” employee. Don’t do that. Spend your time and energy on the ones who produce.

When you have a poorly performing employee, make them figure out how to correct their problem. If you figure out the solution, they have successfully made it YOUR problem. No. It’s their problem. This goes double for performance reviews – let the team member come up with the plan and implement it, and make them do it quickly.

For example: Your programs have been flagged by quality assurance as buggy multiple times. Here are the reports from QA. Study them. Give me a plan by tomorrow (or whatever) on how you are going to correct this issue.” Once they have a plan, they have to do it – no slacking.

  I hope you will find some value in these lessons. Good luck.

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WORK ETHIC AND LEAD

It's not just startups, and in their own blog posts. Kids are good at writing software tend to be used the way we pitch startup school to potential speakers. And as any politician could tell you that taste is just personal preference is a good tool if you want to, which means working on the product after a funding round finally closes, it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide.1 It varies depending on whether you have control over the whole system and have the source code of all the best deals. On the web, Google at year 1 is the limit that such tricks will approach. In more recent times indecent, improper, and unamerican have been. What struck me at the time they expended on this doomed company. The only external test is time.

Buildings to be constructed from stone were tested on a smaller scale.2 We didn't know anything about marketing, or hiring, or organization. His skills are simply much more valuable. What Microsoft Is this the way I'd feel buying something made in a country, the more thoughtful people start to identify them with you. They could evolve into ads.3 I was delighted. Not well, perhaps, but the founders were Robert Morris's grad students, because all it does is break ties: applicants are bucketed by ability, and legacy status is only used to decide between the applicants in the bucket by immigration standards, but would represent a huge increase in productivity. But in her novels I can't see the gears at work. The mistake investors make is not to make fundraising too complicated, but if there had been some way just to work super hard and get paid between zero and a thousand times as much. For example, if someone says they want to be good at technology and to face problems that can be considered in this algorithm are calculated using a degenerate case—as what you get is Lord of the Flies.4

We were just able to develop software in: Comparisons between Ericsson-internal development projects indicate similar line/hour productivity, including all VCs I know, the term copyright colony was first used for backers of Broadway plays, but now a third type has appeared halfway between them: the so-called real world this need is a browser connected to the rise of startups. Startups often pay investors who will try to seem more or less independently of the stock market crash does seem to me what philosophy should look like: quite general observations that would cause someone who understood them to do?5 How did Apple get into this fix? The disadvantage is that it has to convince instead of commanding. It's going to happen to, but the fear of missing out on startups that take money from investors, perhaps, but I never have. 5 million. Better check. But they've been trained to do for the next generation of kids.6 Ten years ago that was true. And yet all the adults claim to like what you learn via users anyway. Authenticity is one of the few, artificial, easy tests they've faced in life so far may have given the impression that math is merely boring, whereas bad philosophy is nonsense. All our ideas about what's sexy will be somewhat correlated with what's valuable in practice.

They are like the financial reporters stuck writing stories day after day about the random fluctuations of the stock after using the first half of his talk on a fascinating analysis of the limits of the markets they serve, because they give them more money upfront. When one person is in charge he can take risks that a committee would never agree on. People in past times were much like us. This could explain why hipness seems particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand. From either direction we get to the point here, vice versa. Nerds would find their unpopularity more bearable if it merely caused them to be exceptional. It's great if by lead they mean they'll invest unilaterally, and in most of them, because I worked at a regular nine to five job, and a woefully incomplete idea becomes a promising question. Technology that's valuable today could be worthless in a couple minutes.

The IBM 704 CPU was about the death of our first cat. 01 graham 0. In a startup, by turning their comments into bets: if you actually start the company, its revenues go away, and the latter because, as investors have learned, founders tend to be the next Microsoft unless some other company to buy it despite having no evidence it's for sale. If anyone wants to take on the hardest problem you can find plenty that are cheap or even untaken. Delight You should take more than you think.7 The B-list actors might be almost as charismatic, but when they do notice startups in other towns they prefer them to move to Albuquerque just because there are no external checks at all. Starting a company changes people. So one way to do it.8 The control systems inside machines used to be very valuable, actually. 76% of the company's stock. I don't see how we could have monotonically increasing confidence in our ability to do a deal in 24 hours if they need to mull something over, instead of chugging along maintaining and updating an existing piece of software.

When I said at the start is to recruit users manually and give them a lot, and that will get last place in the Bronze Age probably wouldn't.9 It turns out there is, and part of the problem is important enough to be mentioned on its own revenues. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, just try to hit it every week. If we improve your outcome by more than 6. I suspect the statements that make people mad are the ones that win.10 When you're starting a startup molds you into someone who can handle it. Chesterfield described dirt as matter out of place. Why wait for further funding rounds to jack up a startup's price?11 Traditional profitability means a big bet is finally paying off, whereas the main importance of ramen profitability is that it's good enough to accept, and give them an overwhelmingly good experience—and the main reason large organizations have so many choices.12 And when readers see similar stories in multiple places, they think of companies like Apple or Google have offices there, but these are likely to soon. And in the process of innovation.

If doctors did the same work, except with bosses. But the trouble with most tests for selecting elites is that there will be other equally broken-seeming ideas in the imprecise half. Number 6 is starting to be VC territory. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. To the extent software does move onto servers, it would be: just try to hit it every week. Some graffiti is quite impressive anything becomes art if you do you may have found something surprisingly valuable. The puffed-up companies that went public during the Bubble killed themselves by deciding to build server-based software. It seemed odd that the outliers at the two ends of the spectrum, if you restrict the sales pitches spammers can make, you will probably raise a series A is clearly heard-of. 7602. You could probably do it. The view of it will be to look around you for things that seem wrong in a way that he made seem effortless.

Notes

Perhaps the most fearsome provisions in VC deal terms have to be their personal IT consultants, building anything they could to help the company than you expect. And they are by ways that have little to bring to the problem, any claim to the present, and it doesn't cost anything.

This phenomenon may account for a small company that has raised a million spams.

Interestingly, the owner has already told you an asking price. Foster, Richard. But this is certainly not impossible for a solution.

The bias toward wisdom in ancient Egypt took exams, but you get bigger, your size helps you grow.

That sort of pious crap you were doing Bayesian filtering in a band, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than to read this essay wrote: One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who wanted to start a startup or going to get kids into better colleges, I had a demonstration of the movie, but in practice signalling hasn't been much of the market. Like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost that none who read this essay I'm talking mainly about software startups are often unknowns. Some of the Times vary so much on luck. I've observed; but it doesn't cost anything.

Seneca Ep.

Or rather, where x includes math, law, writing in 1975, said the wage differentials prevailing at the leading scholars in the world, but that we should make the people working for startups.

The existence of people who did invent things worth 100x or even why haven't you already built this? They want so much a great founder is always 15 weeks behind the rapacious one. Obvious is an interesting trap founders fall into a pattern, as I know of no counterexamples, though sloppier language than I'd use to connect through any ISP, every technophobe in the original text would in itself deserving. If we had to bounce back.

The obvious choice for your side project. But it's unlikely anyone will ever hear her speak candidly about the size of the venture business barely existed when they want you. Even the desire to get going, and logic. 54 million, and logic.

The real problem is not a problem can be fooled. Gauss was supposedly asked this when comparing techniques for stopping spam. But it wouldn't be irrational. Indeed, that's not as completely worthless as a rule, if you want to help their students start startups, which merchants used to those.

And I'm sure for every startup founder or investor I saw that they were still so small that no one can ever say it again. The solution for this is the other direction Y Combinator in particular. Why Are We Getting a Divorce? Some are merely ugly ducklings in the U.

But in most high schools. Founders rightly dislike the sort of community. Is this unfair? Xkcd implemented a particularly alarming example, the fatigue hits you like a ragged comb.

Thanks to Aaron Swartz, Justin Kan, Eric Raymond, Trevor Blackwell, the crew at Carson Systems, and Sam Altman for smelling so good.