Building a company with your own money and revenue instead of investors. Said with enormous pride by people who are very, very tired.
Bootstrapped, profitable, and I have not taken a real vacation since 2019.
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overemployed_olivia
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A model design that only switches on the parts it needs for each question. Sounds like a consulting firm; is actually efficient.
It's a mixture of experts, which is more than I can say for this meeting.
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Treating your career like a min-max video game build — stacking offers, negotiating everything, working multiple roles at once. Adjacent to being overemployed.
She's jobmaxxing: three remote jobs, four calendars, and a different mute button for each standup.
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A one-sided relationship where you feel like you personally know a creator or streamer who has no idea you exist.
He calls the streamer 'my friend.' It's parasocial. They have never once spoken.
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