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  1. TheKingOfMadrid

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I think this is an interesting fallacy because it gets said a lot and I can see why - it's an easy one to sell to people who've never truly rurally off-grid. My view is that most of the problems you mention are caused internally through manipulation of food, and without that some-form...
  2. TheKingOfMadrid

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I don't know where you are in Poland but this is definitely not my experience in the country...perhaps it's a Capital thing.
  3. TheKingOfMadrid

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    This pandemic/world ending stuff has made me glad i've been vegetarian for so long. I'd have found it hard to justify that we/my loved ones should be treated specially given the way we treat animals in meat farms.
  4. TheKingOfMadrid

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yeah I feel pretty bearsih about Winter across our continent full stop. Countries such as Germany have passed Mandates and depending how deep into the rabbit hole of 'lockstep' you want to go, you would expect other countries to follow suit. The main thing with Monkey-Pox is if the media...
  5. TheKingOfMadrid

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yes, it is an alarming problem - not so much because people are wearing them to feel safe - which is perfectly fine, but because many of these people also deeply feel that you should be wearing one too, and will go so far as to say so when you're enclosed and out-numbered. My fear is If...
  6. TheKingOfMadrid

    Starting a local lead gen project

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    Good luck with it Andy, a business I have seen do well in a similar space with the same model is belfix - anytime I look locally now they always manage to have an engineer or plumber in every corner of the milky-way it seems!
  7. TheKingOfMadrid

    Starting business in 2022 is a bad idea??

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    The thing with going local is competitors outside will never have the reach and connection you do - even if they hire an upwork translator and copywriter - I have been around that field for a long time as I previously ran a translation studio - and business models like dropshipping and SaaS that...
  8. TheKingOfMadrid

    Starting business in 2022 is a bad idea??

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    Yeah I saw you were from Lithuania, I'm based in EE myself, a lot of people have no idea how it works in these countries - and just how hard it is to get started. I'm originally from the UK - and don't let anyone tell you starting a business is difficult there, compared to a lot of EU countries...
  9. TheKingOfMadrid

    Starting business in 2022 is a bad idea??

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    I would say that the things you're thinking about are sensible economic factors that will absolutely impact the probability of success with your business - thinking about these things is a good sign. The problem you have, is that if you're facing all of these factors - shrinking economy, rapid...
  10. TheKingOfMadrid

    How not to cold message

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    It's true, but there have always been exceptions. The one thing i've never liked about conversing sales online is that everyone's convinced there's only one way and anything else is trash. I've mostly been in and had experience around tech and before that telecommunications & infra - so...
  11. TheKingOfMadrid

    Becoming a developer in 2022: Progress thread

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    So to reply quickly - the first point i'd say is that you're probably in the wrong kind of sales job - there are many types of sales and not all are equal - that said it's true most people don't do it forever. Just to ball-park you though, the sales guys in my last proprietary software company...
  12. TheKingOfMadrid

    Becoming a developer in 2022: Progress thread

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    Speaking personally we'd look to hire a junior to pass on boilerplate or low-level tasks and free up Senior Dev's to meet KPI's. This means at minimum Juniors should be able to come in with the ability to understand good coding practices, should have left tutorial hell and should be comfortable...
  13. TheKingOfMadrid

    How not to cold message

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    Fair point, its true. I am however quite concerned about the newer money making groups popping up where gurus groom their students to hate the poor, to trick them and hard sell them at every corner and then to justify it because 'someone else would take their money anyway' and the only way to...
  14. TheKingOfMadrid

    How not to cold message

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    A lot of the out-reach 'tactics' depress me today, it reminds me of 'pickup' and 'game'. I've had so much more success when you treat people like people, network well and make friends - rather than treat them as potential marks. And almost no one does it this way anymore - It's a forgotten art...
  15. TheKingOfMadrid

    Becoming a developer in 2022: Progress thread

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    Of course, I've also found the risk of hiring developers is also mitigated when non-hr is involved in the recruitment process - tends to have a higher probability of weeding out the people that have copied and pasted the latest JavascriptMastery videos into their portfolio etc. I think the...
  16. TheKingOfMadrid

    Question for successful entrepreneurs: Counterintuitive insight?

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    Yeah, thinking like the quote you wrote is the difference maker - I have seen so many people gripped by personal prisons that they spend all day battling against them never finding the energy to take what they want from the world.
  17. TheKingOfMadrid

    Worst investment you ever made?

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    Exactly, this also happens to be the same underlying phenomena with all modern grifters - arrogantly dismiss anything else that's trendy in your niche. Very easy to fall for black and white thinking when you're young or inexperienced though.
  18. TheKingOfMadrid

    Worst investment you ever made?

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    Ha this is too true. Back when I started I fell for the idea that these were the original OG's and therefore must have all the secrets to riches - there's basically a cult around them. Have you ever read 'taming the lion' by Richard Farleigh? That book helped me to see just how much BS there is.
  19. TheKingOfMadrid

    How do you know when to 'Give Up'?

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    Whenever there are other things I could do that would exponentially increase those areas. Value is a judgment, and you only get better at judging the value of things through experience. I might spend 500 to grow my business, or I might use it to holiday to a place where I have a network and...
  20. TheKingOfMadrid

    Question for successful entrepreneurs: Counterintuitive insight?

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    Always be in love with who you were before, and who you'll be tomorrow. What I mean by this - is that many people become blackmailable and one way or another they end up under the heel of someone else. This happens because we grow ego attached to our image of who we are when we think we're...
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