I feel like people consistently overestimate how widely distributed individual technologies are, even where those technologies are clearly better than alternatives, easy to implement, and have minimal downside risk or cost to reverse adoption. Also the "Go to the gym" factor.https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1011323277640228865 …
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"You are floundering right now and, without major changes, will run out of money in 18 weeks. You have expressed confidence that you will raise investment. Your confidence is misplaced because your business is, presently, dying. Don't run out of money."
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But I don't think obvious advice is the only valuable kind of advice! And this should be very, very self-evident to technologists. "Ah, you are running a website with load issues. If I say the words "3 tier architecture" do you not know what those words mean? OK, issue solved."
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(The experts in the room at this can come up with a long list of counterfactuals as to what particular permutations of websites would be in the 0.4% which are not going to have absolutely no load issues after single-digit hours of pedestrian sysadmin work implied by n-tier arch.)
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There's a lot of advice which is basically the n-tier architecture of marketing/sales/HR/etc. Rather little of it comes up in the education of well-credentialed people. (Who should appreciate that, in the grand scheme of things, they know almost nothing.)
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Yes. Considering
@bhorowitz took a co public to avoid running out of money. Ballsy, but the right move when there were few few other moves.pic.twitter.com/CuMNaYgeAy
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Although I think he should’ve cited the Training Day ref for the chess not checkers statement :), unless it was coincidental true original
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Vc @ Hbbjb.
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