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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • They actually turn around and will slash the cost for the uninsured the second you dispute it. They don’t actually expect people to pay that much

    It’s a weird dance with insurance companies, they say it’s costs 20k and then insurance says “ok, I’ll pay 7k” and you pay 5k

    An uninsured person might get away with paying even less than $5k when it’s all said and done. It’s not a real healthcare system








  • Find a partner. It can be a person, it can be a small business that might be interested in selling your software… You need at least one partner

    You could try to take out a business loan or keep grinding as a side hustle, but if you don’t know how to build a product (and I don’t mean architecture) you need someone who does

    And I say it as someone who has come to that realization the hard way






  • There’s diversity, where you have a lot of different types of people, and then there’s places with a high concentration of a minority group

    The first one makes people less bigoted, because you can’t avoid dealing with people when they’re everywhere. Your not going to last long in NYC if you don’t want your food touched by them. Either you deal with it and get used to it, or you’ll find it hard to eat

    The second one doesn’t force those normal human interactions. Instead, you have exposure. You see them around, but don’t have to treat them like people. You might not interact at all.

    So every time you see them, it reinforces the racism

    You see it all over the American South, people around the black communities aren’t less racist, they’re giga-racist


  • When shit hit the fan, they just super calmly looked around, and said “That’s a bit boring.”

    Yeah, that could go badly… If people think you’re not taking their emergency seriously, and it turns out it’s not a quick fix, they’re probably not going to be very happy

    I do find redirecting them calmly to be even more helpful. Just don’t let their panick infect you, and start working the problem normally

    That usually calms people down instantly, because it skips the part where they have to convince you there’s a problem, instead you just skipped to giving them what they actually want