"You're hurtling down a snowy mountain. A dangerous ravine is to your right, a dark forest is to your left. You have a decision to make. Are you on skis or a snowboard?"
"Here's a phone number and a passcode. At the beep, leave your best idea of what a dodo bird's mating call sounded like."
"A cursory check of your profile indicates that you're unaware of reverse image search, along with how wildly inappropriate it is for someone in your position to send dickpics unsolicited. What do you believe is an appropriate charitable donation to offset the harm you cause?"
"At what point during this riddle series did you realize that you could have bypassed this entire process simply by messaging something more original than 'hey' to @kyliebytes?"
"Judging by your dating profile, you seem to have conflated 'interests' with 'a personality.' Name three things about you that apply to less than 1 million Americans."
"Imagine that you go on a first date and hit it off. After a whirlwind romance you marry. Years from now, @kyliebytes tells your grandkids about how you met. Would you like to buy a $10 @kyliebytes Gold Redo Credit to take a better attempt than the horseshit you just sent?"
"The global pandemic means that 'let's grab a beer' isn't happening right now. We're back to old-fashioned wooing. Bust out the iambic pentameter and write @kyliebytes a sonnet in an attempt to demonstrate your ability to bang two neurons together and create a spark."
"Relationships are all about compromises. What compromises would you be unwilling to make in a relationship with respect to Twitter?"
"Your message says 'you read @kyliebytes's profile' and while basic literacy is indeed necessary, it's also not sufficient by itself. What is the largest full grown animal you legitimately believe you could triumph over in a fight to the death?"
"Congratulations, you have passed Screener Level 1. You now move on to Screener Level 2: @bequinning."
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So I've had a few people ask me to opine on how to find your first client when you set out on your own.
My initial inclination was "people aren't going to want to hear this," which means it's probably rife for:
A thread.
Let me start by talking about my first client when I set out on my own.
"Corey, I have this problem. You know how to fix problems like this. You just left your job; you've probably got some spare cycles. What do you say?"
In a very real sense, my first client found me.
In time, that first client and I kept hiring each other back and forth for a bunch of things, until it got to the point where we were just passing $X000 back and forth.
It just got silly, I asked @mike_julian to run my company, and here we are today.
And now, a small thread on what to do in your first two weeks of starting a new job.
Begin with reasonable boundaries. Otherwise putting in extra time upfront makes it look like you're slacking when you drop back to "only" 40 hours a week.
Set a timer for 4:45 to begin wrapping up.
Figure out whether the things you were told in the interview are actually true or a pack of barefaced lies.
So a kind member of the audience gave me access to their @awscloud bill for livetweeting purposes. I tore it apart live on Twitch last week, but now comes the tweet thread.
The bill's from last month but uses the @awscloud logo from yesteryear for no apparent reason.
The bill cost $2K in actual cash, and another $31K in applied credits. People generally start caring a whole lot more about the bill once the credits run out.
The @okta news is super great and all, but every time I hear their name I’m reminded of the time I had to sign an agreement not to attempt to hire their staff for a year in order to enter their office to speak at a meetup.
This was their “doorway NDA” and is almost certainly unenforceable, but it annoyed me something fierce.
Years ago I had to turn a meeting at @AppDynamics into a meeting at the nearby coffee shop for the same reason because I was at that time actively counseling one of their staff to leave.