This killed my company, so yeah, it's impossible to overstate how monumental a mistake it was.
Elon pulled the plug, and my company was (mostly) dead in the water.
It was a flawed business model from the very start.
Jul 29, 2022 โข 15 tweets โข 4 min read
As a woman, you have 2 viable mating strategies to secure your long-term economic survival, as you get older and lose your SMV:
1. Wait at the finish line, fuck the winner; or
2. Choose a good bet with potential, grow with him, and pray he eventually realizes his potential.
The first strategy is smart, but the biggest flaw is that the competition is cut-throat.
If you aren't competitive yourself, it's very hard to even register on his radar, let alone snag him and retain him over the long term.
Unsurprisingly most women focus on this strategy.
Jul 28, 2022 โข 7 tweets โข 2 min read
Most people are unaware of how delivery apps like Doordash and GrubHub work.
Delivery drivers get notifications whenever there's an order to pick up near them.
Each notification lists the distance and total earnings (base + tip), and drivers can accept or reject any order.
Obviously they aren't going to deliver orders where the unit economics don't add up (e.g. if the tip is only $1, but it costs $5 in gas money to get there).
So these low-tip/no-tip orders sit cold at the restaurant with no one to pick them up and end up getting thrown away.
Jul 27, 2022 โข 6 tweets โข 1 min read
When encountering people more high-achieving than ourselves, we immediately think of all the things that they must have had to sacrifice to get to that point, or they might have unfair advantages getting there.
It's a deep-seated defensive reaction that's not rooted in reality.
Even I'm not spared from this reflexive reaction.
When I encounter someone better than me, sometimes I start to hypothesize what aspect of their lives must be in total shambles.
"Ah, he must feel empty inside, he has no friends, maybe he's not getting laid at all!!!"
Jul 27, 2022 โข 6 tweets โข 2 min read
Here's a travel pro-tip for US folks:
Take Spirit Airlines for the cheap fare.
But upgrade to business class for more leg room, wider seats, and priority boarding/disembarking.
It will still come out cheaper than the peasant seats on American, Delta, United, JetBlue, etc.
It costs only $50 more to upgrade to first row, yet very few people will, because Spirit Airline passengers are all penny-pinchers.
I'm telling you, it makes a MASSIVE DIFFERENCE to your travel comfort when you board first, disembark first, and the bathroom is 3 steps away.
Jul 26, 2022 โข 11 tweets โข 2 min read
There's this disturbing trend lately where companies are itemizing surcharges that are supposedly labor costs and offloading it to the customers on a per-transaction basis.
Have you seen an Uber receipt these days?
There's a surcharge called "Driver Paid Sick & Safe Time."
It's disturbing because it's clearly not a merit-based surcharge, but a guilt-tripping moneygrab meant to tug at your heart (and purse) strings.
And sadly, most consumers would gullibly pay for something so long as it has the words "environmental" or "Covid" or "welfare" in it.
Apr 30, 2020 โข 8 tweets โข 2 min read
Part of knowing how to use Google is knowing how to use its shortcuts.
And these shortcuts have been a total game-changer in finding me the info/knowledge that I want:
๐ฅ THREAD ๐ฅ
1. + (Plus sign)
A plus sign means your search results MUST CONTAIN that term.
E.g. Twitter +automation
The query above will only return you results containing "automation," and maybe Twitter.