Probably better designed than some of the embassies I’ve been to.
For a single family home, this is kind of overkill. For a family compound, it’s much better than the Kennedy or Corleone abodes.
NEVER, EVER, pay to pitch.
That’s of ‘consultants,’ ‘investors,’ and ‘incubators’ taking advantage of unsuspecting startups and first time entrepreneurs. They’ll couch it in language like ‘mentorship,’ ‘access,’ ‘experience.’
It’s actually predatory and evil.
With a viable path and hustle, you can get money. And money is important. But the people you take money from are on your team, for better or worse, so you don’t want just money. You want a motivated teammate.
And some asshole who charges you a month of runway ($250-$750) to show up for a 7 minute pitch isn’t that. Angel groups in particular are notorious for this.
Some angel groups are awesome. Comprised of motivated entrepreneurs and the likeminded who got together to enhance their opportunities and yours. That’s cool.
Others not so much. Here’s how those look:
Some prick, usually a finance type with maybe an MBA and no entrepreneurial experience (or worse, owns 7/11’s), corrals people who want to invest but feel like they need assistance/experience/companionship. People with $200k+ income earned with minimal risk. Corporate executives, doctors, etc.
He charged them (predatory) and then turns around and charges the startups who want access to those investors (predatory). He makes a tidy sum, gets plugged into the middle of a hot/sexy community, and doesn’t care that 90% of the companies he raped die.
Dealflow is what keeps the lights on, not success.
Using Evernote to coordinate some quality research work.
Works fine as a personal tool. Nice to have stuff sync across the Mini, iPad, and iPhone. It’s missing a dedicated todo function though. Would be nice to have folks on the team assign stuff directly in there. (Mailbox and Orchestra are owning that.)
Anyway, it’s pretty cool, but Evernote is a total pain in the ass when it comes to shared workflows.
First problem. I create a notebook and want another user to have access. I’m expressing a degree of trust that is the basis for our shared work. The software should reflect that.
Evernote lets her add, change, delete the notes within the folder. Great.
It does not let her ‘tag’ the contents therein. I have to define the tag taxonomy, and then he can use it, but he can’t add tags to it. So now I have to spend time processing what he puts in rather than letting him do that for me. Or no one – in which case we all use the search function, a dirty solution.
I mean, fair enough. There’s a workflow where that makes sense. One notebook/product owner. Fine.
But there’s a dozen cases where it doesn’t. Why force a notebook owner to manage a taxonomy/notebook if they don’t want to?
That kind of friction is how pretty software with baked in flows turns into a stupid infodump.
More annoying is the stubbornness of this. There’s little hope of adding an option that corrects this massive flaw (their forum has had this requested, repeatedly, since 2011 with the CTO just repeatedly brushing it off).
Second problem: That manager-dictated-taxonomy only applies to a specific notebook. I have to recreate/create a new one for each additional notebook. And there’s no sub-notebooks on shared notebooks. So I’m either forced to use one notebook for the entire business and just fill it with thousands of documents that I have to manage the tags for, or a few dozen notebooks where I have to manage tags for each, share specifically.
Krishna: A Journey Within by Abhishek Singh
The art in this graphic novel by is absolutely stunning – moreso because the creator did every aspect of this book. The writing is over the top at times – “The dawn of my childhood was nestled in a cradle of dreams” – though the story does not suffer for these indulgences.
That said, I wish there was more: when Krishna gives the two sides the option of either him or his army; Balarama leaving the battlefield; the lifting of Govardhan. These are major moments in the Krishna story that are inexplicably missing. I mean, edits have to be made somewhere, I get that. But I really, really, would have liked to see those scenes.
Major props to Image for putting this out. Indian mythology needs more reimaginations, more variants. It’s ossifying and dying, which sucks, because this stuff is rich and amazing and can be formative. (It was for me anyway.)