Stranger Things
Game of Thrones Daily
No title available
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
hello vonnie
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
h
Love Begins
occasionally subtle
Discoholic 🪩
$LAYYYTER
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Keni
Cosimo Galluzzi
Claire Keane
No title available
Sweet Seals For You, Always
tumblr dot com
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
we're not kids anymore.
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Mexico
seen from Spain
seen from Canada
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Poland
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
@chasethefree
One of my best friends started a flooring company last year and asked me if I would do their branding. I spent some time over Christmas break finding old flooring tools, photographing them, and lea...
I did some branding work for a friend and had a blast doing it!
How to get rich in tech, guaranteed.
Today’s NYT article on how employees sometimes lose out is a great read. Employees who like that, might also like Hunter’s article from last week on (not) getting rich at startups. This is the follow up I intended to write for the latter.
I talk to people looking for their next gig on a regular basis. It’s fun to match awesome people who don’t want to found companies up with companies who need awesome people. One question I get asked over and over again in various forms is, do you think I’ll get rich from startup X?
My first piece of advice for startup job seekers is that equity, all things equal, you can’t pick ‘em. On a risk-adjusted basis, startups are likely to be about the same. If there is information that a company has significantly de-risked, it will be priced in. Despite the market often being very wrong, you are unlikely to outsmart it.
If you want to get rich, your best bet on a risk-adjusted basis is to join a profitable and growing public company. Google for short. Make $200-500k all-in a year, work hard and move up a level every 3-5 years, sell options as they vest (in case you joined Enron), and retire at 60, rich. This plan works every time.
Beyond the sub-market salary you’ll receive for joining a startup, there are no financial guarantees. Your equity is probably worthless. The whole damn thing might fall apart any time. The hours are long. A lot of shit won’t work right. Etc.
But, as far as I know, startups are the only way to get 20 years of experience in five. The reason to join a startup is because you are awesome, you’re willing to work hard, and you don’t want to wait 20 years to be making decisions that impact the business.
And if you go in with this mentality, even when startups fail, you succeed. If you put five years into building a company and team, you will end up with a great network of talented and motivated people, lots of first-hand experience, and often some management experience as well.
Worst case, your next step could be going into Google at the VP level it would’ve taken you 15 years to get to joining out of college to “inject some startup DNA,” and catch up on salary within a few years. Unless this internet thing is a fad, that job will always be there for you.
But for all that is good and holy, don’t join a startup for the fucking money.
Sundry advice on picking a startup:
Be clear on what you want. Do you want to join pre product-market fit, or post? Do you need a salary, if so, how much? Do you care about vertical or role? Location? Travel? Etc. Most people that end up in the wrong job didn’t think through what their ideal job was before looking.
Run a process. Most people fail at this. Startups are interviewing you, but you’re interviewing them too. Write down your criteria. Look at 200 startups, contact 50, do first interviews with 20, move forward with 5, pick between 2-3 good options. If you’re passive, or only talk to a few companies, you’ll be choosing between limited options. You can get 200 plausible startups in a couple hours.
Focus on good people/culture. Above all else, my observation is that when you find good people (high-integrity, smart, hard working, etc) and a compatible culture, you end up happy, even if the company fails. When you ignore suboptimal people fit because you think the product is sexy or you’ll make money, you end up sad.
Accept fair comp. Many people are unrealistic on comp. They want an early-stage experience with Google salaries. It doesn’t work that way, and startups often suck at explaining that. Talk openly with startups about what they can pay you, what they’ve raised, what your needs are, and what milestones will lead to higher salary. Keep in mind, you might be the first person to take a salary and the founders might have been working for two years. Sure, it’s a 50% haircut for you, but for them it’s a big chunk of their first round.
Expect to earn it. Some startups will hire a dev and call them CTO. That doesn’t make them a CTO. If you want to be a CXO, say so up front, but expect to earn it. Entering a startup is a lateral move with unlimited upside. Tell the startup where you want to be, and set milestones that give you what you want that make the company successful. Now you’re a CXO.
Discount the vertical. With a few role exceptions, what you’re actually making isn’t that important. Assuming the company is making something people want and you’re delivering a ton of value, most people can be as happy making enterprise cloud infrastructure as social networking tools. Business development is business development. Do it with/for people who do not suck.
Understand the basics of the business. You shouldn’t try to become an expert, but you can ask some basic questions. What is the valuation of the company, and what’s the valuation for your purposes? How much has the company raised to date? How much money does the company have in the bank, and what is the net burn rate? What milestones does the company need to hit to get to the next round?
This is good to know so you can roughly assess the business. But it’s also a great way to understand how you fit in. Can you help with the core problems the company needs to solve?
Bias towards transparency. Companies can’t be expected to share every single detail with employees, especially potential hires. But, in general bias towards companies that give employees info to make informed decisions You should, for example, know what percent of the company you own. Trust is a two way street, and if the company lies to it’s employees, it’s hard to maintain that trust. Life is too short to watch your back inside the building.
I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you’re using it very naturally. What I’ve enjoyed is when I’m just thinking, holding the Pencil as I would my pen with a sketchpad and I just start drawing. When you start to realise you’re doing that without great intent and you’re just using it for the tool that it is, you realise that you’ve crossed over from demoing it and you’re actually starting to use it. As you cross that line, that’s when it actually feels the most powerful.
Jony Ive, on Apple’s new Pencil for iPad. (via parislemon)
It’s easy to forget now, but the first modern music streaming service to arrive in America was Rdio. Like its founders, Skype billionaires Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, Rdio was awkwardly...
"Rdio taught me to slow down, let it marinate, and make my final decision the right one," she says.
In a few weeks this will go live on Spire! This project has consumed many hours of my life over the past month or so. When a user comes to the 'me' page, they'll see a time-sensitive greeting, pair...
One of my favorite projects I’ve worked on. Ever.
The culinary pioneer in Copenhagen plans to reopen his restaurant in 2017 as part of a move to position the farm next to the table.
Jeff Gordinier on chef René Redzepi’s plans to completely change (and move) Noma, considered by many to be the best restaurant in the world:
The changes at Noma are not driven by necessity. There has not been a rent increase at the original location; business remains brisk. Mr. Redzepi simply believes that the restaurant, where he has led the kitchen for 12 years, is ready for a dramatic evolution.
Ballsy move, but also probably the right one. Disrupt yourself before you’re disrupted and all that.
When a restaurant has its own farm, as Mr. Barber does at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in the Hudson Valley, it can signify a chef’s desire for “the ultimate control” of ingredients, he said, but “obviously the best kind of farming is the lack of control,” and cooks have to learn to work with whatever the earth produces.
This is the restaurant equivalent of Apple wanting to control all the components in its products.
After two weeks of waking up in unfamiliar beds & at strange hours, catching trains & planes, converting currencies in my head (very poorly), slamming double espressos, eating local cuisine (sooo street meat), taking a million plus photos, and exchanging one version of hello for another, I am finally home in the greatest place I’ve ever known 🇺🇸
@michaelbrooksjr & I saw two of our favorite people get married in Sweden last week @carolinemagnusson1 @hquinta #vikingsandmariachis 🇸🇪🇲🇽
It was the perfect ending to a dreamlike adventure with the best lads this world has to offer… And I’m already dreaming of the next one 😇 (at Geyser, Iceland)
When starting a new (re)design project:
Submitted by @cyrylski
The Crystal Wash detergent-free laundry system is truly the laundry of the future.
Every designer and design-minded person of any age would benefit from Charles Eames’s advice to students.
Jon Stewart delivered a jokeless monologue after the Charleston shooting.
“There is no nuance here,” he said, addressing his fellow members of the media.
I love this. What job do people hire your product to do?
Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don’t proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don’t hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.
Timothy Egan on Pope Francis and the art of joy.
How heartening to observe the profound interfaith parallel – this reads much like the Dalai Lama’s prescription for happiness. Then again, secular sage Wendell Berry has been preaching this for decades and Montaigne for centuries.
(via explore-blog)
Facebook’s visual identity already had a lot going for it in 2008 when I started working there. They had chosen a bold and simple color scheme, had a simple well crafted wordmark, and had thankfully avoided the glossy web 2.0 aesthetic so prevalent at the time. Still, I believed there was huge opportunity for improvement. That opportunity, along with their mission and company culture, was a major reason why I wanted to work there.
This stuff makes me so happy. You rarely see this kind of work in the wild, you only see the final version. I have thousands of mockups on my computer for that will never see the light.
It’s a joy to know people truly care about every little pixel. I’ve always thought that one pixel can make a difference and I’m glad people at Facebook felt the same way.
Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your web design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.
I had so much fun taking this course! If you’ve ever wanted to get the basics of graphic design down, this is the perfect, most stress free way to go.
Apple Watch's Digital Touch colors can be customized easily.
This video is breathtaking. Human flight is something we’ve dreamed of for hundreds of years. Sign me up. Also, Dubai is gorgeous.
