Jack Cornes

Our crawlers climb on (almost) any surface and can carry (almost) any device for inspection or maintenance

Someone asked what's the most underappreciated quality in startup founders. I realized I could answer this by asking what's the most underappreciated aspect of startups. That's easy: how hard they are. So the most underappreciated quality in founders is sheer toughness.

@TheHatCraftsman @ribpx no - claiming not their fault

@ribpx Did godaddy acknowledge? They have not updated their status page

Anyone else having GoDaddy DNS issues right now?

@TheHatCraftsman yes

Nuclear waste really isn't a problem.

@jasonlk @lennysan Would that mean you'd advocate for those first 2 reps to be fed primarily by marketing led lead gen? As opposed to building a full stack cold outbound process?

@cornesjack @lennysan They probably at some level need to do all of that But very very few reps will really do much other than focus on top inbound leads Full stack is close to non-existent in practice

"Start with 2 sales reps hitting quota, closing deals, before you're ready for a head of sales. A VP of Sales' job is to take you from 3-300 reps." @lennysan + @jasonlk

@abemurray Very well put

Back on the equity discussion: individuals owe the world nothing other than to do their best to be net-positive (ie don't be a drain on society if you have the ability not to) ie communitarians are wrong when they say you *must* do anything for anyone else - this is "each to the best of his abilities" communist thinking We are each responsible for ourselves, and when we've made the commitment, for our families. Parents are obviously responsible for their kids until they are adults. Long thread below where I get into it - but I've argued against folks who claim they have obligations to their parents or society for "all they have been given" - this is factually incorrect: - A parent's joy is to have children - A parent's obligation is to take care of children - This is never a "debt" incurred by the child - Society spends resources on us, yes, but ... - Work & pay taxes → pay this back trivially in 20s Individuals should aim to at a minimum take care of themselves from that point on - be net contributors to the world, or at least not a net drain I ran the math in my 20s, after a few short years of professional work I'd paid enough taxes to offset all my years of schooling, and generated enough profit for society (through my company's profits, and their customer's value capture) to be strongly net positive as a human And for folks who can't wrap their heads around "muh muh you owe your parents for existing" (which is a dumb take) it still is fine because the dollars your parents spent on you are small and you can also 'pay it back' trivially (but what kind of asshole parent expects this?) All we owe the universe and society is to not be a drain on others. Do I raise my kids to aim much higher? Yes! Do I frame it as an "obligation"? No. I frame it as an opportunity to have great purpose, feel better about themselves, do the best with the talents and abilities they have been given. But for themselves and their future families, not for some broad societal obligation. It gets trickier though as you think through 2nd, 3rd, 4th order effects. I am working today, long after I am required to work, because a) selfishly I love it but also b) to ensure society is as great and strong and wealthy as it can be. And ultimately because c) this delivers a better world for my kids, their future spouses, my future progeny etc etc. But this is a game I play by choice, by intelligent thought, not by obligation. Obligations are the wrong way to frame this. /end rant

@MattRedler Yeah i assumed deliverability would be hit. In our case we have a super visual product and in my own non 'at scale' outreach, my emails with images always got higher replies. Wonder if there's a sweetspot where higher reply rate out performs the lower deliv.

@cornesjack Not cold-in-mass, it’s horrible for deliverability. But yes for replies to replies

@MattRedler are you guys planning to allow images to be sent in emails?

"Startups"

@Gatwick_Airport No thanks. I just want my bags to come out quick

@cornesjack Hi, I am sorry to hear about these difficulties. Please contact the airline you originally flew with directly, as they employ the ground handling agents who manage their operations here at London Gatwick. Kind regards, Max

@Gatwick_Airport has to be the worst airport for speed of baggage collection

My number 1 use case for AI is brainstorming. Discussing plans, asking for feedback, 'challenge my thinking', and strategising. It's kind of therapeutic

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Phenomenal thread. Do things that don't scale is something I live by.

As a consumer, I scroll through pages like this super quick just to see the cool movements but register 0.0001% of the content and then leave the page and never think of it again

It is crazy difficult to get honest and up to date ratings/ pictures of a hotels gym/ spa facilities. It’s always a big factor in my booking decisions Although I actually think you built something to solve this!

@abemurray 100% agree. ‘My life is shit because of someone else and all I can do is moan’ vs ‘my life is shit and Im going to do something about it’

@cornesjack I mean I can't think of a worse or more fitting pejorative for folks who want everyone else to be worse off than (or equal to) themselves (vs. living in a world where we are all collectively better off)

I love seeing that most humans made the right choice here We are a group species, a cooperative species, and the vast majority of us understand that we are better off when we are all smarter (And the 1/3 who got this poll wrong - they are the jealous folks who want to tear the world down just so they can feel superior - socialists and the like I'm guessing)

@rorysutherland Carrying anything more than small personal luggage, the journey from arrivals to rental car at almost any airport is hell Bar some small regional US airports that have walk up rental car lots

Weird discrepancy. If you book a £60 taxi from an airport you are met at arrivals and your luggage is carried to the car. If you book a £500 car rental, you have to queue for 30 minutes and then find your own car 700 yards away in some Ballardian hellhole basement garage.