Coaching is still a big part of what we're building, and I think it will be an ongoing option for orgs to have the option to bring in coaches to dive into their leadership and communication issues.
Been working on a small team exploring what the intersection of coaching, employee engagement, and AI looks like. (https://engage.myemmaai.com/)
Most employee engagement software is just placation for HR. When it's common that the lowest scoring question on feedback cycles is "I believe that action will be taken based on the results of this feedback," there's something fundamentally broken with how companies handle feedback, and how the tools their given enable them to react to it.
Our end goal is to help leaders and managers identify problems with trust and communication within a team. The reality is, 90% of the time, the problem lies with the leadership itself. We're trying to provide both the tools to diagnose what the problems are, and frameworks for managers to fix them.
5+ YOE professionally, but I have toyed with contract work and startups since 2013. Most recently departed a travel tech startup where I was the head of engineering. Looking for a role either as an engineering manager or as an IC. Most of my experience is working for early/mid-stage startups. Thrive in an environment building things from the ground up.
I've worked at companies in a few different industries. From venture capital firms to logistics. Willing to relocate for the right role, or where relocation assistance is provided.
Offsite (https://www.joinoffsite.com) is helping create more engaged, connected, and empathetic workplaces of the future by allowing CEOs and their People Leaders at high-growth tech companies to easily plan, manage, and follow-up after team retreats and other types of Offsites.
We're currently looking to bring on our second engineer, and will be hiring two more soon after.
- Looking for a full stack engineer with at least a couple years of experience
- Preferably with some TypeScript experience, but we can be flexible for the right candidate.
- Distributed team
- Quarterly Offsites. You'll join us at our next one in March!
I think the concept is awesome, and I'm excited to see it, but it raises so many questions about how this is going to work. First question that comes to mind is how are you going to handle weather- and not just crazy storms, but heat and pressure too. Blimps/semi-rigid airships face a less than ideal operating window, and while ballonets and ballast can help manage the buoyancy of the ship, inevitably you'll have to vent helium.
How are you going to approach the infrastructure the drones are going to need to stay topped up on helium and ballast, and how are you going to approach emergency situations where you end up outside of the operating window of the aircraft?
Used Atlas to incorporate and they helped correct mistakes that were made on both ends, was really nice having an actual person to talk to. Also had a deal for reduced fees which made it even sweeter. There were a few UX things that I wish were more clear initially, but they went above and beyond to fix them. Previously used LegalZoom for a 501c4 which was an experience I don't really recommend. It'd be nice to see some more options for different kinds of businesses. Kinda crazy to see how many companies they've incorporated yet still were able to offer really good support.
I like the new logo and colors, but man the weird thickness, spacing, and kerning of the font is off putting. The rhythm is all wrong so some of the letters look like they're the wrong sized or positioned wrong.
I think for startups in general you gotta blend a bit of those two strategies to be successful too. You gotta build a nice landing page to convince people you're serious to get some of those early meetings to convince other people you're serious.
I fall on the idea person end of the spectrum more than the work-horse end, and when someone comes talking about big ideas without some baseline plan, hypothesis, or validation I zone out too. I get so frustrated with people who spend 40 hours working on shitty slide-decks trying to convince me something is a good idea instead of finding a way to show proof.
I feel like this article kinda confuses "idea people" and "people with an idea." Idea people should know how to prove an idea. I've had a lot of similar hairbrained ideas come my way looking to build an MVP for something, and typically the end of our conversation is "use an excel spreadsheet and prototype this idea and come back in 6 months, then I'll charge you $75-$200k to build the tech"
I've prototyped enough of my own ideas to know that most ideas are shit.
Kinda interesting to think about how this fits in the market. Is some warehouse/manufacturing consultant using this or is it supposed to be for a small manufacturer to DIY their way to building the machines they need?
This is kinda an analog for doing the uncomfortable thing. There's a certain amount of security in doing what's comfortable, and if you can find happiness in that I think that's great. It's all relative. I think it's less "be cool at dinner parties" and more being happy with the path you've taken through life.
The 480nm number is really impressive at this size. Especially at 5000rpm with the 4-1. Compared to a ICE motor that weighs ~200kg, you effectively free-up 40kwh~80kwh (80 if you believe the 400w/hr claim that Tesla makes) of battery capacity right there. I think there's still a long way to go, but seeing things like this and planes like Pipestrel's electric planes, GA electric planes are more and more feasible.
Your preparation should depend on what kind of time horizon you're dealing with. Long term horizon? Be aggressive. Short term? Be conservative.
Trying to time the market typically results in smaller gains (larger losses) than just going with it. I think there are some overvalued sectors, but I'm overall pretty bullish. We might see a "true" crash if we uncover some fundamental flaw with the banking system.
The only way they would've made this deadline would've been to delete all of their posts.
I'm not upset in the slightest about them being gone, but I can kind of see the argument about how the app store is deciding how someone uses their phones here.
Clearly a big deal and congressional IT staff are going to have a crazy few weeks ahead of them. However, my understanding is that any classified information would have to be in a SCIF. I assume that would be the case with congresspeople as well.
I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced, but haven't seen that corroborated anywhere. Anyone know if that's true?
Repeating what a few others here have said, but k6 has been a really easy tool to use, with great open source tools, and a managed service with pretty competitive pricing. Creating "real world traffic" is a little more tricky, but you can easily spin up a load test for just about anything in 15min.