I think that good, unconditional friendships and stable communities teach and model self-compassion - seeing others look at us with "that's cool, I've made mistakes too" opens the way for us to say that about our own weaknesses.
What's concerning to me here is "Now the investigation is examining all his seized devices". It's possible, although perhaps slightly paranoid, that the message posting was intended to create pretext for seizure.
This may be a little far-fetched - there's likely easier ways to generate pretext - but it might be something for owners of Tor exit nodes to be aware of.
Or Google Slides - it has most of the benefits of PP or KN, but it's visible in realtime to anyone with a Google account (ok, everyone) while giving you notes and revision history.
Exactly. I used phaxio with a group-ordering side project I built a while back, there really was no better option for getting/confirming orders to restaurants reliably. Love that Twilio is doing this (even though I'm out of the food-delivery business!).
We've been looking for a better way to give and get feedback on our teams (I've been yelled at once too often for giving a candid "I'm not sure that's a good idea" to a manager).
We built this so that teams can have real input and feel safe, while managers can get early warning on problems. What do you all think?
I'm a research analyst (some competitive/market intelligence background) with experience with stats and software. It's not quite reflected in my profile/resume, but I'm the guy my teams depend on to learn new stuff and actually make things work (technical or not).
I just submitted three very different pieces of writing - a business letter, a short story I wrote last year, and a portion of my YC application. The results were freakishly consistent.
Click through to the IBM live demo, and let me know if you think they're on to something, or if IBM just knows me too well.
That's an interesting question - how do the users interact? Can you have two of the same type of people interacting (a chat/message/game site) or are you offering different value to different users (a marketplace/scheduling/discovery site)?
If you're looking for one general type of user, go find a meetup group, class, online community, or other spot where they'll congregate, and just talk to them. Bring a laptop (or send a link) for them to test out, and maybe provide some sort of incentive or game to get them interested in giving it a shot.
If you're looking for two (or more) classes of users, do the same general thing for each separately, but either 1) try and line things up so that each group is interacting with the system at the same time (perhaps by only opening up the beta for a couple of hours) or 2) pretend to be a member of the other group during testing so that you can get feedback on at least half of your product.
It depends. I trust my immediate supervisor (from experience), so I told her about my startup side project a month ago. I don't want to leave her short-handed, so I wanted her to have time to think of a succession plan.
OTOH, I officially let my chain of command know about my project last week (per company policy). I put it off as long as ethically possible because I do not have the same level of trust in them (also from experience). I do not know if there will be any repercussions.
If you trust (really trust) your supervisor, let them know. They'll appreciate it, and your team will thank you. If you don't, then don't. If you have IP agreements or other legal entanglements that they could use to destroy you, find someone with experience in those areas to advise you on a best path forward.
I like this. I would love to see it expanded to work for migrant families (maybe also a less extortionate method for sending remittances back home) too.