Keen enthusiast of women’s footwear | Currently building City Footwear (leading footwear trader) | Shit posting about everything under the sun especially F1
Every year like clockwork, the footwear market crashes in May-June-July. Sales drop to 40% of normal months. It’s the most brutal quarter — the whole market’s on its knees. Still surprises me how consistent this slump is. Anyone wanna guess the reasons?
Our CEO called me in a rage because his Zoom calls kept dropping.
He said his video was freezing every 15 seconds and asked if we were under a DDoS attack.
We weren't under a DDoS attack.
I was manually throttling the executive Wi-Fi network down to 128 kilobits per second.
I told him we were suffering from acute packet fragmentation due to an outdated routing table.
I explained that the incoming data packets were colliding in the local cache and tearing each other apart.
He asked how long it would take to rebuild the routing table.
I told him the only way to stop the fragmentation was to authorize my pending $85K budget request for a new fiber-optic firewall.
That request had been sitting on his desk for 3 weeks.
He pulled it up on his iPad and signed it while still on the phone with me.
The second the DocuSign email hit my inbox, I removed the bandwidth cap.
His Zoom feed instantly snapped into pristine 4K resolution.
He audibly gasped and told me I was an absolute miracle worker.
I told him I had to manually reroute the packet streams through a secure secondary tunnel.
I used the phrase "dynamic latency overriding."
He sent an email to the entire company praising the IT department for our rapid crisis response.
The new firewall budget is actually going to be used to build a private Classic server for my World of Warcraft guild.
I don't solve problems.
I manufacture minor technological hostage situations.
Bandwidth is just leverage.
"When reels replace textbooks & algorithms become teachers, an uninformed generation turns into a national security risk"
- Palki Sharma Upadhyay, Indian Journalist
The biggest mistake first-time founders make:
They try to become manufacturers.
The best brands don't.
They partner with OEMs that already have the machines, engineers, certifications and supply chain.
You don't win because you own a factory.
You win because you own demand.
Bisleri is selling 3 litre water for 54 INR
Bisleri is also selling 8 litre water for 80 INR
If you buy 10,000 units of 8 litres packs and sell them in units of 3 litres, you will end up making risk-free 13.45 lacs in 24 hours
This is how arbitrage trading works
Apple chosing not to fund bottomless pits of AI capex but instead bottomless pits of sci-fi movies will be remembered as a hero of this era 🫡
Thank you Apple !