FWIW - I found "The Bug", by Ellen Ullman, to be a really engrossing piece of fiction to read. I wasn't aware she'd authored other works. I'll have to check them out!
I think it'd be good to be prepared to show and explain what you actually did, on the ground to build the business and demonstrate that it wasn't just a side project which you threw up and hoped for the best, but something that you leaned into to make work. If asked, talk about what you learned, what you'd do differently, and how you'll carry those things forward into new opportunities.
As others have said, you can't really control what people will think about having tried and failed to build a business, but you can show them that you put in the work, took some valuable lessons and that those experiences make you a valuable candidate.
Re the odometers, in my 2018 Volvo and my Wife's 2019 XC40. They are all accurate, but for different purposes.
1. The standard "life of the car" odometer is permanently on the left gauge, top reading
2. There is one (two?) manually resettable trip odometers
3. There is an auto-resetting trip odometer - it resets when the car has been off for four hours.
You can configure which of the second two are displayed by going to in-dash "app" menu and selecting what you want in the "Trip" tab. On my car, this configures the lower displays on the left and right gauges.
Update Re: your high beams - It sounds like you have them on auto. There's a spring loaded ring on the left-hand stalk that engages auto vs. manual high beam. Twist it and the light-with-an-A sign on your dash should change to a normal light symbol. You can then use the twist knob with detents to select parking light vs. low beam and whether you want auto-on or manual on. High beams are engaged by pushing the lever (or you can pull to flash).
I'd really like to see the inverted-T cursor block back... I can almost live with the low-travel keyboard and actually kind of like the Touch Bar (especially with iTerm2 support now).
The arrow keys, however, I just can't get used to.
I've been going back and forth on this for a while as I work on a product that allows users to build applications in a drag and drop visual manner.
What I've seen is that while novices fairly quickly ramp up and get productive generating basic CRUD apps rapidly, they also rapidly hit a wall in two ways:
1. It can be hard or cumbersome to express more complex logic
2. The drag and drop interface often leads people to -assume- what the runtime will do.
Right now, I'm leaning toward feeling that visualization should be a tool to understand the _behavior_ of what one has written, but not necessarily the thing one manipulates to express a program. Ballerina seems to be this, so I'm excited there!
I also work in product management and couldn't agree more with okabat's comment. PM means so many different things in so many different places.
One thing to try... if the shop isn't probing you to find out what you want to do as a PM, then you need to be probing the shop to find out what they're looking for.
More importantly than hosting the ads natively is handling media sales themselves. I think offloading that work to ad networks and ad exchanges is the first step in giving up responsibility for what gets shown to a user/viewer.
Not necessarily. There could still be room for these bulbs if they turn out to be as energy efficient as LEDs or CFLs, but are less expensive to manufacture (leading to lower off-the-shelf costs).
In the days of friction shifting, it used to be common to mix and match components across the entire drivetrain. You could have shifters, derailleurs, chains, freewheels, and hubs all from different manufacturers.
Drivelines are more integrated now, with derailleurs, cog tooth profiles, chains, and shifters designed as a system with minimal thought given to cross compatibility. At best you could use a non-Campy/non-Shimano chain.
Although, even bicycles (at least those designed for racing) are starting to become more and more proprietary. Try mixing and matching Shimano and Campagnolo shifters and derailleurs or using a seatpost from an aerodynamic frame in another one.
I also recommend meditation. If the spiritual connotations put the OP off, focus on the mindfulness aspects. Mindfulness is really about focusing, or letting go of distractions so that you can focus.
When I switched from an iPhone to an Android handset, I found that I not only had to switch off iMessage, I had to switch it off while my SIM card was still in the iPhone. Switching iMessage off after the fact didn't seem to work.
What behavior are you looking for? I noticed that recently (maybe with a Chrome update?) that packaged apps run/show up as independent apps in the OS X task switcher.
I do sometimes declare e-mail bankruptcy and just archive/move everything to a folder for later reference. To the OPs point, if something is important, people will generally follow-up.
I think this hints at the crux of the problem. I have no problem with others working long hours, and will even put in a stint here and there when I feel it's warranted.
The problem I see is that it slowly becomes the new norm and benchmark, regardless of whether long hours are productive. These new expectations then get encoded in cultures that devalue those who either choose to spend time on other things or who are simply more efficient.
Do we just need to find better measures of output and figure out what fair compensation for average output is?
I'm working on some apps that make it easy to track time on tasks. The end goal is to be able to build out personal workload forecasts.
The whole thing is built around integrations with existing services. Today, Asana and Toggl. Tomorrow, GitHub, Google Calendar, and who knows what else!
Product management could be a great fit for the OP. However, PM means a lot of different things. Even within one company, day-to-day experiences of PMs can vary a lot depending on the nature of their product or product-area. Some PMs have very broad exposure to the company when bringing a product or feature to market. Other PMs are more marketing and sales leading, while still others focus on learning/developing requirements and writing specs.
My advice to the OP is to set titles aside for a moment and focus on what it is they like doing and where they want their career to go, then work from there to find a position that suits. It might be called product management, product marketing, or it might even be called lead architect or CTO.
The one piece of advice I'd give, though, is that for such broad ranging interests, I think one will need to relax and give up a modicum of direct control, particularly for larger more complex projects. What is it they say about product management? All of the responsibility and none of the authority? Or, more prescriptively, lead by influence.