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[Paul @hrimiuc]

@martindonadieu @marclou Excelent recommendation. No other place beats Madeira, even for city life.

Maybe on taxes, yes, every 3 months I discover a new named tax.💰🇵🇹

[Paul @hrimiuc]

Don’t know the question and answer. But did you ever assumed it actually read and vetted the response?

How would you know if the answer is right if you don’t got his skills? 😂

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My accountant I pay a lot of money every month just replied to a question I sent him with a 100% AI reply explaining something

The answer was helpful though so I could've just asked AI myself

Of course you know what I'm thinking now, if I can just ask AI everything since he is forwarding everything to AI any way, why not replace him with AI

I guess he should be doing the opposite of AI, sell a premium service for a high price (he already does) and keep answering with humans as accounting is something I'd prefer to actually get a human in the loop

Anyway it's interesting

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.

It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone spend much time on the topic, or even bring it up in conversation, on a conference stage, or behind a podcast mic.

There is, however, lots of discussion about achievement in business. A company can achieve product market fit, operational efficiency, influence, revenue goals, or, ultimately — and hopefully — profitability.

But I’m not taking about those things. Those are the obvious things, the common talking points. And to those you can add the vanity metrics of achievement — social media followers, traffic, views, impressions, open rates, press mentions, gross this or gross that.

All those are what they are, but they aren’t where it’s at.

What I’m talking about is optionality. Achieving optionality is where it’s at.

Optionality is a hearty mix of profit margin, small size, independence, attitude, and freedom. You’ve got to have all of it to have optionality.

If a board is calling the shots, you don’t have much optionality. If your margins are thin, or non-existent, you don’t have much optionality. If the public owns a piece, you don’t have much optionality. If you’re too big to change direction quickly, you don’t have much optionality. And if you’re afraid to speak your mind and stake your point of view, you don’t have much optionality.

Optionality lets you do things no one would give you permission to do. It lets you write excellent software and give it away for free if you choose. It lets you do things that don’t make sense in the current climate, but will long-term. It lets you be early while eventually catches up.

Optionality is ecstasy. It’s making it up as you go, without making excuses. It’s openly changing your mind without having to save face. Optionality is equanimity, the corporate equivalent of enlightenment.

So, entrepreneurs, ditch the bullshit. Abandon growth-at-all-costs. Reject conventional metrics. Scorn hollow acceptance. Instead, hunt for optionality. It's freedom. It's power. It's everything you crave, wrapped in a single, potent package. Chase it relentlessly. And when you get it, don’t let go.

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

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[Paul @hrimiuc]

Unpopular opinion about climate change:
The planet is fine with everything. Saving our-self would be wiser.
#climate #Opinion #planet #selfimprovement

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@RevolutApp Don’t use @RevolutApp, if they mark any of your transaction using their wrongly trained AI you’ll endup without account, in agony and 70% chances to not get the money back. It’s in their ToS

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@RevolutApp Thank you, I’ll PM immediately.

Tomorrow I’ll be moving out of country so I really need my account working. Thank

[Paul @hrimiuc]

Hey @RevolutApp what happens, I sent all the docs for Income check, and after it was verified still can’t use my account. Can you check it out?

[John Schindler @20committee]

FYI -- "Snowden is a patriotic whistleblower who had no choice but to flee to Moscow" is as true as "Ukraine's Jewish president leads a Nazi junta that's genociding Russians," in fact they're both invented by the same people.

[Easlo @heyeaslo]

No-code is the future.

Here are 10 no-code tools every startup should be using in 2022:

[Curious Paws @CuriousPawsCo]

@stephsmithio Just gonna leave this here...

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:

💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.

What are the generation-defining stats of today?

I'll post a few to kick things off...

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@kristiyan_d @Prathkum True, not every dev got time for this every day, therevare things to do. But I think it’s the only indistry where you can build entire engineering architecture without spending a penny. And tht’s crazy when you think about it

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@kristiyan_d @Prathkum Well, almost everything you ever used in your apps contains at least one open-source library, which was build by other devs in their spare time. And contributing it’s a way of saying thank you!

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

Ever wonder if the hidden-in-plain-sight truth that makes most of human history finally make sense is simply that children were masquerading as adults through most of it?

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@mrousavy There is esbuild, and my opinion is that will replace webpack in the future

[Paul @hrimiuc]

@CryptoByKsquare It’s promising, let’s see when they remove the 20 min waiting barrier, that would the change the entire crypto show