We recently invested in these new hire welcome kits and the feedback was embarrasingly rough. Apparently the tees shrink after one wash and mugs feel like dollar store quality. It was supposed to make a good first impression but it's doing the opposite. We hire 4 to 6 people a month so I need something repeatable for onboarding gifts.
Curious what pushed people to commit to a specific digital calendar because I feel like most people have a pile of abandoned apps in their past. I've been on the same calendar for a long time and it does what I need but I've never had a moment where I felt like it was definitively the right one, it's just the one I happened to start with. Did anyone switch because of something specific that finally made them move?
Hey all. I'm finally thinking of switching my dog off kibble and onto something more natural because it seems to be causing digestive issues more than usual. I suspect it could be an intolerance but I'm not sure. Even if I switch to something else, the options are too overwhelming. Not looking for a breakdown of the category, just want to know what specific brand you switched to and whether you felt like it was the right call? Looking for something that made a real difference.
My daughter is 6, finishing first grade and she's behind on reading. We've been working on it at home most nights. The problem is every session ends in tears. Sometimes hers. Sometimes both of us.
She gets stuck on a word, I prompt her, she gets it wrong, I correct, she shuts down. I try to stay calm and patient on the outside but I can feel myself tightening up internally and I think she picks up on it. By the end of a 15 min session she's emotionally done and so am I and neither of us has learned anything except that reading time is the worst part of the day.
I've started to wonder if my involvement is actually making this worse. Like maybe my anxiety about her being behind is more disruptive than the gap itself. Maybe the right move is to back off and let school handle it and just read to her at bedtime without any expectation, but the school isn't closing the gap either and if I do nothing the gap widens.
Has anyone navigated this from the psychology angle? Where is the line between productive practice and reinforcing a bad emotional association with reading? I'd appreciate any advice I can get.
PM at a 60 person company. We live in Notion for docs and ClickUp for execution. My experience with most AI notetakers is that they either dump a transcript link into a comment field or treat the integration as an afterthought. Action items from meetings end up nowhere useful.
What I want is meeting outputs that show up as proper structured tasks in ClickUp with owner and due date, plus the meeting summary auto filed in the right Notion database. Not a Slack message with a link. Please suggest notetakers that handle this part well. Need both things done smoothly
My boa's still a juvenile but she's growing fast and I can already see where this is going...a large constrictor eating appropriately sized rats every couple of weeks adds up, and buying them a few at a time at retail is going to get painful.
So I'm trying to plan ahead and figure out whether committing to bulk frozen rats now makes sense, and how people actually handle the storage and cost side of it long term. The two things I'm weighing are freezer space, because a chest freezer is an upfront cost but probably pays for itself, and whether buying a large quantity at once risks freezer burn before I get through it.
For those of you feeding adult boas or other big snakes, did going bulk genuinely save you money once you accounted for the freezer and any waste, or is it one of those things that looks cheaper on paper than it works out in practice?
First hire that's getting equity starts next week and I'm the one setting up the option grant. Never done this before. I've got the offer letter with a share count on it but I genuinely don't know how to handle the strike price, the vesting schedule, the board approval or where any of it is actually supposed to live so its not just a number floating in an email.
The spreadsheet I use for the cap table feels way too flimsy to be the system of record for someone's real compensation. Anyone who's been through issuing option grants as a first timer, what's the sane way to set this up so I dont create a mess that I'll get stuck unwinding?
So I'm looking for shows whose music soundtracks make you fall in love. For me it has been shows like Vampire Diaries and Greys Anatomy. The right music in the right scene amplifies the watching experience, and those are the scenes that you end up being unable to forget. They stay in your heart. You go in for the show and characters, and you come out with a whole ass playlist of beautiful songs.