> but my hair did thin out but only after I was lazier on my work outs.
How old are you?
Also, working out helps reduce stress. Does it seem more plausible that getting lazier on your workouts, rather than the creatine, increased stress in your life, thus the hair thinning?
I have never heard of creatine causing thinning hair.
>I'm sorry, but if you're making over half a million in TC a year, you can have an emergency fund set aside
Seriously. It boggles my mind how people can earn this much money, yet face difficulties when they lose their job. I guess they're people who didn't grow up poor and/or are too hungry for material things.
There's very little I want or need in this world; if I were making $500k, I'd be able to somewhat retire within 2-3 years.
I've had a brilliant product built for a specific niche. I personally know a few business owners in the niche, so I reached out to them and offered it to them for free.
"That's awesome! I'll try it out."
Not a single person tried it out. I also emailed every other business owner within a 30 mile radius to give it a go, for free. Nothing.
This wasn't my first rodeo, either. I've built so many projects since 2015 in the hopes of having a SaaS business.
I've completely given up on "SaaS", especially in the current year, with the rise of LLMs and perhaps hundreds of thousands of new projects released daily. It's completely draining, and I've burned through so much money trying to "make it". Never again.
If I wanted to grow my company's LinkedIn following count, I would just post a few fake jobs.
When people apply for jobs on LinkedIn, there's a "Follow <company>" checkbox near the submit button that's checked by default. Candidates who are spamming applications most likely wont uncheck the box. Candidates who really want the job will probably leave it checked as well (looks good if the company decides to check them out).
I think this is the real problem. LinkedIn made it easy to get followers by posting jobs. Follower count looks good.
This reminds me of a mermaid "documentary"* I watched as a gullible 15 (?) year old. It aired on Animal Planet, if I'm not mistaken. I thought it was absolutely real. _Mermaids are real_. I used to tell everyone to watch it...
Years later, I found out it was completely fake; the end credits even tell you it's fake (I missed that). I had a hard time believing anything after that realization.
I had an atheist phase when I was like 15. Probably lasted until my early 20s. I blame that on Carl Sagen, Richard Dawkins, et al. I obsessively read science books, and all of these smart people were telling me there isn't a God. They made sense; I believed them.
I think around age 20-21, I read Descartes' Meditations on Philosophy, which forced me to evaluate all of my beliefs about existence. Digging further into other philosophers (and religions), I realized there's not a whole lot I really know... about anything.
Eventually, I came to the belief of there being a creator, although who or what this creator is, I have no idea.
I built leetchess, a browser extension (works in Chrome/Brave) that makes your new tab pages full of chess tactics.
As a chess fan, I love it. It's something I wanted to exist. Although I haven't gotten any good feedback yet from other chess players. If you're a chess fan, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
You reminded me of one of the first interviews I ever had in tech. I took 2 phone screens, and a take home assignment. Last step: Zoom interview with some of the IT team (3 people). It started well, but I slowly started panicking. All three of them were shooting questions at me, which I answered them all correctly, as far as I know, but I was so... cold. Started stammering my words and speaking like a terrified child at the principals office.
I could observe myself and knew what I looked like, but couldn't break it. The CTO stopped me as I was speaking and said "this isn't going to work". As soon as he said that, I ended the call. I had some major imposter syndrome during that time, I think that played a huge role in my fumble. Still massively cringe when I think about that, though.
Static pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.
It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month.
> The only reason to dramatically overpay for the hosting resources they provide is because you expect them to expertly manage security and stability.
This and because it's so convenient to click some buttons and have your application running. I've stopped being lazy, though. Moved everything from Render to linode. I was paying render $50+/month. Now I'm paying $3-5.
I would never use one of those hosting providers again.
Some of them, yes. It seemed like they'd use it. I don't know. Maybe bad execution, or something. Although, maybe I should try again. Perhaps they were busy. I also didn't market beyond reaching out to people (which involved the people I know + cold email outreach).