On another note, there are services that are already scraping thousands of websites and testing them for ADA compliance. If the website fails the test, the website or lead is sold off to an attorney. The attorney will then find or hire a straw client to sue the website and the company. Its very prevalent and lucrative because a lot of the law has yet to be written and the companies being sued are settling very quickly.
So? If lawbreakers can be identified at scale, should that change the situation at all?
Imagine if this were changed to tax fraud. Now we have computers that can automatically find discrepancies and we can notify violators at scale. The horror!
What an incredible loss on so many levels. 65 is young but look at everything he did and his contributions speak for themselves. R.I.P. Paul and Godspeed
To think he was told he was going to die so many years go, yet it still never stopped him from having ambitions as large as we have come to realize today.
I respect Rand and give him a lot of credit for vocalizing his challenges. Depression is a challenge and it can be overcome.
I am not a doctor, but I can tell you that a lot of my peers are suffering from depression from business, marriage or just in general.
One thing I do know is that the world has changed a lot in the past decade. The price of everything just keeps going up and we are constantly bombarded by information. Humans are not built that way. There is no badge of honor for being under stress 24/7. It will catch up to you one way or the other.
Humans suffer from the fight or flight responses that we encounter during high stress situations. The challenge is to digest it and make decisions not based on fight or flight emotions.
The body produces cortisol when we are under duress and it is horrible for you. It screws up everything with your body and your mind. One way to counteract this is by working out, getting sunlight, eating the right foods and staying off caffeine. Try some black or green tea instead.
30 minutes of working out will combat cortisol production for about six hours. Even going for a walk helps a lot.
Most of the worlds brightest minds and most successful people suffer from depression and knowing that your ARE NOT ALONE is a huge step forward.
You can beat depression and your life will turn around!
Talking about it and seeking help is definitely a step in the right direction. Keep your chins up.
You mentioned staying off caffeine, but recommended teas that both (usually) contain caffeine. Not trying to be a jerk, but genuinely curious - is the caffeine from tea better for the body than the caffeine from coffee? Or did you mean decaffeinated types of tea?
I also agree with the caffeine thing. The reason I stay off it is not so much the immediate effect of caffeine on anxiety (I find none), but because caffeine increases mania. Ultimately mania (dealing with life frantically) causes the nervous system to respond poorly. And anxiety seems to be above all a disproportionate reaction of the sympathetic nervous system. There is also an effect on sleep regulation and a hard edge to withdrawal that can exacerbate anxiety. Incidentally, chocolate contains a related compound, but not caffeine itself. I've experimented with chocolate over what I would consider to be statistically significant periods of time, and I honestly couldn't detect any effect in moderation. Your mileage may vary.
Caffeine in tea is very different than coffee because tea has an extra substance that helps balance the negative effects of pure caffeine. This article explains it much better than me :) Personally, I've been doing Yerba Mate (the traditional way from a ghord) which has been a great substitute. I still get a good boost feeling but not the crash or jitters.
Years ago I was traveling to Oakland for business. My flight was delayed so I hit the magazine store. Bought some gaming magazines, business magazines and one copy of Havard Business Review. There was an article in it that caught my eye, "Why do dumb people succeed more in business than smart people."
I dont remember exactly the title but it was an 8 to 10 page article that went into detail comparing high IQ people to average or low IQ people and why people with lower average IQ did better in business. The article was filled with graphs and case studies and was very interesting.
But the last paragraph really summarized it best, "Smart people consistently over analyzed risk and talked themselves out of taking risks while someone with a lower IQ didnt even think about the risk and jumped in with both feet and took chances."
It gets back to the saying "No risk / No reward".
I remember that article to this day and always do a gut check when it comes to evaluating new risks. Sometimes I second voice my old European grandfather who was all about hard work in a different industry but his life lessons hold true.
Turning off the brain chatter and clearly evaluating a situation is critical but it s very hard because intelligent people, and humans in general, like to avoid risk and the temporary unpleasant pain that accompanies it.
I wonder if such studies are susceptible to bad stats of confirmation bias as many business studies are.
What I mean is whether they had proper controls to assess whether each average person is more likely to succeed than each "smart" person given the same scenario.
If they instead took a bunch of successful people, figured out that a lot of them weren't that "smart", then it could be the product of there being a lot more average than smart folk. In other words, "smart" doesn't guarantee business success such that all successful businesspeople are IQ gods, but we all knew that.
When I was a wee-toddler, I would freelance in the afternoons and nights. I used the regular job for living expenses and banked my freelance money until it was enough to make the switch. It gave me a big comfortable cushion.
I started small and all jobs were delivered before deadline and the execution is what set me apart from the rest of the competition. Work with less people and really deliver. Once you do that, existing clients will up their spend with you and refer you to other clients. Good work spreads fast.
Once you get a lot of clients, then it is time to hire someone. For me, I hired someone with little experience and trained them from the ground up. My ratio was roughly 10-12 clients per employee.
Small jobs are good when you are starting but they can also generate a lot of noise. Your time and expertise is very valuable. Price it accordingly.
If someone is trying to nickle and dime you walk away. That will most likely to be a customer who is never satisfied and will continually ask you to do things that was not in the scope of work for free or fight you when its time to pay up.
For someone who has made a first pass at making a car he sure has set the bar very high. The performance, quality and safety of this vehicle show that anything is possible.
However, on the flip side, it shows how uncompetitive the U.S. market has become. It takes vast sums of money to compete with the big 3.
I look forward to Elon pushing the limits in space and with the hyperloop.
This is not photoshop in a browser. It still runs locally, your files are saved locally, etc. The only real difference is the monthly pricing instead of having to purchase the software upfront. (There are some additional cloud features for saving your files in the cloud if you want but you can ignore those)
Yes, and the car you rent is continuously upgraded to the newest model, and for one price you get a whole range of cars, and the total cost of ownership over a few years is cheaper than buying them.
