I’ve just discovered the Claude/Hubspot MCP and I’m thinking it could be useful for rolling forecasting on sales revenue etc which changes by the hour.
What other MCPs are yall using in your day to day?
Was going to leave the plant beds fallow this year but neighbour gifted me two tomato seedlings in June. They have now come good with the fruit jussssst before first frost. Pleased with them.
I will make them into obe ata (Nigerian dish - reminds me of home) if i can find some goat meat.
SaaS start up. Revenue lines are from B2B sales, mostly subscription based but some one-time fee. Some product lines are high gross margin & contribution. Some are basically zero margin.
Previous FP&A guy quit suddenly without handover and i need to model out next years revenue budget (to include a growth target of X% defined by CEO).
How would you approach? I am thinking work backwards from CEOs revenue target of $Xm. Split this $Xm across the various product lines - then use sales price per unit to map this back to volume and ultimately back to gross margin and profitability metrics.
Does it sound sensible? Am i missing anything obvious?
Bonus Q: i am thinking i should model in something that pushes the $Xm revenue target more towards high contribution product lines (rather than an even split across all product lines) but i cannot think how to go about this. How would you approach?
My border has a high prey drive particularly for small animals. I feel like he needs an outlet for this.
A few months back my relative had an issue with rats on his farm resulting in a leptospirosis outbreak amongst his cattle. I visited with my border and he caught 5 rats in 30 mins (he’s vaccinated against lepto fyi). This saved my relative having to put down bait which also kills wildlife around the farm (hedgehogs, owls etc) & causes a week of agony for the rats.
This got me thinking i would like to do something so that a) my dog has an outlet for his prey drive and b) if there can be a benefit to others, also great.
I however do not feel great about him hurting small animals including rats.
What can i do to satisfy this instinct in him? Are there mock ratting trials or activities i can sign him up for? Can i get him involved in ratting but train him to bring the rats unharmed rather than the traditional method?
I don’t have any men in my family so no one to ask (dad is not in the picture). I have bought us a pair of good quality clippers and want to cut my boys hair into a fade with a little extra on top but i don’t know where to start. Google isn’t helpful and says 5 different things. I know i can go to a barber shop but i really want to learn this skill and in the long run it will save us money and time.
Reason for wanting to cut hair is that he has sensory issues and wetting, detangling and combing through so much hair every morning is distressing him & me.
I have diagnosed auDHD
It’s been over a year. I can’t stop picking my feet. I pick them until they bleed and have deep sores. Sometimes i cannot walk the next day until the sores heal. I used to be a runner - I had to give that up. I don’t want to live like this. My partner hates it, I hate it. I pick all the time - we just got back from a beautiful relaxing vacation in Spain and i was picking my feet open on the sun lounger on the beach. Now that it’s flip flop season i also pick my feet in public such as at restaurants (i don’t even realise I’m doing it until someone calls me out). It’s so gross.
I don’t even stop when there is a huge risk to my health - I backpacked through India once and the next day we had to walk through a swampy area with sewage. I still couldn’t resist picking my feet until there were open sores. Of course i caught a bad infection from the sewage and required antibiotics.
I really can’t stop and it’s destroying me.
I get occasional muscle twitches across my body - some days I’ll get 4-5 an hour, some days I’ll get 1 or 2 all day.
I have been checked out and cleared by neurologists - all of them say as long as i don’t have any weakness and the twitches aren’t getting worse/increasing, i don’t need to worry. I don’t have any weakness and am making strength gains most weeks so I’m happy it’s not a medical thing.
The twitches are mostly in my hammies and sometimes my delts although i can get them anywhere. They don’t specifically follow a workout eg my hammies are at it today and i haven’t hit legs now for 3 days. Strangely i only get them at rest, never during the workout.
Water intake is good and i log at least 2L per day.
I take creatine 5g each day.
Supplements are magnesium and cod liver oil only - I’ve had my bloods drawn and my magnesium was good.
Protein is averaging 120g a day (I’m 70kg).
Any tips? It’s annoying more than anything.
My partner (35F) has extremely bad breath that is causing issues for me (40F).
When she was younger she had “permanent” braces in another country and they were left in and her teeth have kind of grown around them over time? I’ve never seen anything like this but apparently this is common in that country. The teeth are not infected or anything but you can see the braces are enmeshed into them and can’t be removed. They have been like that for 20 years.
I believe this is the cause of the bad breath as food etc can get trapped between the braces. I have asked her to visit the dentist which she has done a few times and annoyingly they have said there is no problem.
I have asked kindly for her to start flossing but she cannot floss between the bottom teeth due to the braces. She uses mouthwash now which helps a little bit, but i mean it has taken the smell from 10/10 to 8/10 so it’s still strong.
I dread coming to bed after she’s asleep because when she sleeps with her mouth open the smell in the bedroom is overwhelming. I also am unable to kiss her and i feel so sad about that.
Any ideas?
I would usually eat a large bag of chips around 8-9pm. I’ve set myself a rule that if I’m feeling snacky, I must eat a plate of seasoned veggies first, and then if im still hungry 30 mins later i allow myself the chips. I’m never still hungry after. The chips have sat unopened in my pantry now for 3 weeks.
I don’t even count these calories - just the 5g butter i use with the seasoning. Seasoning is tajin sprinkled liberally all over.
I will go first. 13 years and counting - i have two exams left to pass. Rose through the ranks in my first company and am now CFO on good money. Got comfortable and started a family. Priorities changed, workload increased, free time decreased massively. Hope to sit those final exams this year but is tough with CFO workload etc.
Can anyone beat me?
I have some historic data that we do not want to set up in our new ERP chart of accounts. I have heard that we can create a canonical data map between the old system and the new ERP to allow for analysis and reporting on this old data without bringing in redundant nominal codes into our new CoA. We are taking 20 redundant codes.
Can someone explain in practice what that means? Really break it down like i am a dummy please
Our kid is 5yo and auDHD (so am I). We haven’t told her this explicitly but she has been assessed as such - she has a further assessment next year to formally confirm it. She has some behavioural issues at school and home which is what pushed the diagnosis.
We have been supporting her as best we can but lately she herself has started saying: “my brain is different”, “my brain makes me shout” and “(friend)’s brain is normal, my brain doesn’t think like his”.
I’m thinking to get her some resources to explain the concept of ADHD to her. What ones do you recommend? She is gifted in reading (reads at an age 7-8) and enjoys it, so I’m thinking stuff she can read herself.
I have muscle twitches which comes and goes - I’ve been fully checked out & cleared by 3 different neuros as being totally fine and it just being one of those things.
Anyone else?
My daughter is 5 and verbal with autism and ADHD. She is gifted in reading and math & attends a mainstream school, but has very extreme behavioural issues & proprioception issues as well as all of the other things that come with being autistic.
We are on a wait list for professional help (uk) and like many autism parents i am struggling badly.
The other day at school she got very badly injured in her face due to her proprioception issues and low safety awareness. She required stitches. I was venting about this to a friend and she said “oh she will grow out of it, they all do”. I asked her what she meant and she said eventually my daughter will figure stuff out, and that because she is gifted in math, her autism isn’t really an issue like it would be for a “truly” autistic kid that was non verbal (her words not mine). She implied that at least in time my daughter could get a high paying job and slot into society.
I find this so dismissive. My daughter struggles a lot with her behaviour and the impact it has on her (eg not having friends due to outbursts etc). She is also speech delayed even though she is speaking, which causes her distress. She has a lot of social anxiety and upset due to her condition. She cries often because “no one likes me” and kids at school make fun of her. She has major tantrums with kicking and screaming and self harm due to seemingly insignificant things (eg street lights coming on, the “wrong type” of squirrel being in the garden, a friend saying “hello” instead of “good morning” etc). These tantrums last for an hour or more at least twice a day and she is completely exhausted at the end. Depending on the trigger, sometimes she is genuinely terrified and hyperventilates and requires reassurance and calming.
As well as this, she has hyper-mobility and proprioception issues and injures herself frequently.
I just find my friends take so insensitive when we are both struggling so much.
FD wants us to GRN everything (or SRN for services). Reason being it improves forecasting and serves as approval to pay.
AP team do not want the extra work.
What do you guys do? I’m in a SaaS company if that helps.
As per title. Particularly interested in SaaS industries.
Guys please help me meal prep high protein meals.
I’ve started a new job after working from home for 6 years and i now need to be onsite 3 days a week. The canteen on site serves junk so is not an option. I can bring my own food but i am picky. Any ideas that meet the following:
- cannot be red meat
- cannot be cold like a salad (sensory issues sorry)
- office does have a microwave so can be re-heated
- i do have a thermos so I can cook something & it can be stored hot in that
I need both lunch and breakfast ideas. If i can batch cook it even better.
For breakfast i tried protein oats (whey + oats) in the thermos and it turned into a brick 🥲. I think the whey curdled.
Current schedule is below - each is 3-4 sets of 10-12 with the last set being to failure.
Let me know if there is any doubling up or redundancy built in please. Also i would like to swap one of these exercises out for OHP - which one makes sense?:
- Bench press (barbell)
- Incline bench press
- Seated shoulder press (machine)
- Cable fly cross overs
- Tricep rope push down
- Single arm lateral raise