u/Altruistic-Doctor789

I (nonprof consultant) had a briefing last week with a family foundation that seemingly went okay< they seemed engaged and aligned around workforce development, and asked good questions about our model. What they did not do was tell me what their success benchmarks were. And i was too stupid to ask because I thought it would become clear/I could reverse engineer it. So now I'm trying to put together an impact summary for the proposal and shooting in the dark.

NOW Im asking (myself) Do they care about placement numbers, cost per participant, qualitative stories from program completers, specific return-on-investment framing? I went back through the call notes, re-read their giving history, checked if they'd published anything about their priorities. Eventually I cobbled something together that felt reasonable enough and sent it off. But why why why is this so hard to just ask about upfront? And also, why didn't I go ahead and ask rather thank think i could figure it out? To me it’s got a lot to do with the fact that those conversations always feel a little awkward. Like you don't want to show up to a first meeting and open with "so what are your dealbreakers."

But the alternative (my reality now) is spending hours trying to read someone's mind through their 990s and old press releases, which is a complete headache rn. Talking to others in the space, it seems like a lot of donor conversations stay pretty high level until you're at proposal stage and realizing you have no idea if your outcomes framing is what these hot shots want.

If you’ve been where I am, how often do you actually get clear guidance from funders on what they want to see measured? And when you don't, what's your move? Is it ok to ask directly, make your best guess, or just lead with what your org already tracks and hope it fits? Ugh i know this is hard but I just want to be good at my job. Thanks!

The automation of prospecting and top-of-funnel outreach by BDR and SDR AI tools won’t eliminate the work force but it is going to mean a massive restructuring of the sales team. Watching the ads with Jordan Belfot talking about ""firing"" BDRs to focus on ""closers"", but the broader market is seeing this as the emergence of highly specialized human roles to manage and leverage this AI ""workforce."" My point is, instead of just fewer people, the roles will shift. You’ll get people managing the AI itself, prompts, data, making sure it doesn’t go off the rails or sound like spam. You get more technical sales roles building the system behind the scenes, wiring workflows and CRM so everything actually runs. And then you’ve got closers focusing purely on high-value conversations because the pipeline is already there. So it’s less a thing of humans vs AI and more the fact that the middle layer of reps doing repeatable tasks is going to be the one getting squeezed the hardest. And then …. specialized roles will emerge around it. Stay with the program and you’ll be fine. Or?

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, ordinary human perception is compared to prisoners watching shadows on a wall, unaware of the real world beyond them. The idea raises a huge question, are our beliefs shaped more by truth, or by the limited perspective we grow up with?

I run the SM for a large food brand and we had a campaign recently that looked on point on paper. We checked - the CTR was decent, impressions were solid, early engagement totally normal. We got lots of short replies that were a little snarky as though people were glossing right over the message. But checked a week later and the funnel was clearly slipping. Our conversions were lower than usual and tons of drop off after first touch. I guess it wasn’t catastrophic but we want to move forward. Going back through the comments, we saw the problem. People weren't reacting to our campaign, they were reacting to the format! We realised it read like every other AI-assisted post they'd already scrolled past that week. This is a fairly terrifying problem to have, because you can do everything right and still get drowned out. I mean the sentiment had already changed well before the performance data caught up, and by that time we'd already lost a week. Right now it's mostly gut feel, reading comments, interpreting tone manually, trying to catch the mood before the metrics do. Which doesn't scale at all. Is anyone doing something to quantify this in a structured way across Instagam and Twitter? Tracking sentiment as a leading indicator rather than a post-mortem? Or like us rn us everyone just picking it up reactively once the funnel starts slipping?

last month i had a company schedule an interview with me and then reschedule it twice. annoying, but okay things happen.

on the final day i joined the call 10 minutes early because i didn’t want to look unprofessional. sat there waiting like an idiot for almost 25 minutes before someone finally emailed me saying the interviewer was “busy” and they’d let me know the next steps.

they never contacted me again..

that was the moment i realised how dehumanizing job hunting can get sometimes. applicants are expected to be perfectly professional, perfectly available but companies can waste your time completely and somehow that’s just considered normal.

A single assassination sparked the war, but were the tensions between nations already too deep to avoid a global conflict?

I keep seeing people say that they’re applying to 50 to 100 jobs a day and I genuinely don’t understand how.

Because If I try to do things properly like tweaking my resume, filling out forms writing cover letters (even a few), I can maybe manage 5 to 10 applications before I’m completely drained.

So how are people doing that kind of volume? Are they just sending the same application everywhere or is there some kind of system or workflow I’m missing?At this point it feels like either I’m being too slow or the whole process is just inefficient by design.

I would really like to hear how others are approaching this.

Ignorance can be harmful because people simply don’t know better. But certainty can become terrifying when people stop questioning themselves entirely. One lacks knowledge, the other rejects it. Which has caused more damage throughout human history?

!cqs

Will probably get 55-60 in Advanced Accounting, Have done almost close to nothing in Law and Income Tax (Have attended like 10% lectures) and this is my Third attempt of group 1, and I can't even focus on studying, want to confess everything with my parents who are thinking I'll pass in this attempt, The burden of their expectations is making me feel like shi and I kinda want to end myself atp,

Thought I'll tell them exams went decent and convince them at result day that I'll definitely pass in September attempt, But I just can't do this with them I've been crying for like past 4-5 hours about this, thinking I should just tell them my whole situation now crying in their arms but their health conditions are concerning me a lot

What should I do, any advice helps