Nikhil Krishnan
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Out-Of-Pocket's Ops Knowledgefest Year 3: We're So Fucking Back edition
We even made a sick promo video that you def need sound for
if you're in the operations function in healthcare, this is the place to find your people
-In SF 11/15-11/16
-Limited to 80 attendees, you have…
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lol this is an absolutely insane story
-thief steals someone’s identity
-thief gets a job in hospital it
-thief manages to get that persons birth certificate with answers from
-person who’s identity was stolen is homeless, can’t open a bank account…
In one of the craziest stories I've ever covered: a former University of Iowa hospital employee had been using another man's identity for most of his life. The other man was arrested for identity fraud and committed to a mental hospital a few years ago
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weddings are the first time you do a group project with your parents and wow is it an eye-opening experience
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Try to explain the Rahul ligma thing to anyone that’s not on this site 24/7
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definitely gonna read that 45 page pdf I've had sitting in open in chrome for the last 7 months
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I’ve literally never thought about this, but I’m currently leaning as I read it
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“We’re cutting out the middleman” - a company that is now the middleman
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Pleased to announce I’m getting better health benefits
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we are literally watching a villain origin story unfolding
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I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.
Main two takeaways
1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is…
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first they laugh at you, and so far that's as far as I've gotten
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Everyone’s always like Y combinator but no one ever asks How combinator
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@ChrisJBakke
If your accountant is opening up their laptop in august you’re def going to prison
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hoooooold the fuck up - $500 per stool sample donated???? I'm going to quit my job and just shit
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I think everyone should work at a sub 20 person company once in their life
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Never had a burger with "being content with yourself and not emotionally exhausted in an age of social media", excited to taste
McDonald's Just Rolled Out Burgers With Millennials' Favorite Ingredient
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yo how many Altmans are there, this is some pompliano shit
It’s been amazing to watch everybody realize what I’ve known my entire life — that
@sama
is one of the few people in the world who can lead an entire new industry while supporting everyone around him along the way.
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you ask people in Colorado “so what do you do” and they just say an outdoor sport
legit don’t think I’ve learned what anyone does here for work
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My goal is to never need to send out resumes or beg for a job again
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whoever figured out the whole "giving annual bonuses in march" thing to perfectly trap people into staying at companies is an absolute genius/sicko
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Does anyone else remove all the utm tracking stuff in a link before they send it to people just so it looks cleaner? Or is it just me
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@allafarce
true ny dinner is only 530 or 930 because those are the only available slots on resy
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I have one friend that trolls me by only communicating with me through LinkedIn and no other channel. I’ll text him and he’ll respond via LinkedIn. It’s by far the most cortisol raising form of trolling I’ve experienced
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Any tips on how to get everything I want and make no sacrifices whatsoever?
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real talk, if airdrop get taxed as income
what stops someone from airdropping their greatest enemy $1M worth of tokens then tanking the price so they'd have to pay the income tax on the initial drop
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we need personal finance strategies that aren't as boring as investing in low cost index funds, not as risky as YOLOing on gamestop, and more attainable than homeownership
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Lmao quitting my job to start my own thing right on the precipice of a recession induced by a public health crisis is an irony even I couldn’t make up
Plus side, I have a very flexible work from home policy now
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why do I live in constant fear of the IRS sending me to jail for doing my taxes incorrectly?
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google is seeing search eaten by
-video search (tiktok, reels, etc) which work better for things like food, leisure, experiences
-communities where people want the "real answers" from other members vs. SEO juiced pages
-embedded search tools within applications
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Tax forms are just one long roast of my personal and financial situation
Form: "Are you married"
Me: "No"
Form: "Kids"
Me: "No"
Form: "Do you have property"
Me: "No"
Form: "I mean...do you have friends at least?"
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What idiot called it "growth hacking" and not "being an insufferable spammer destroying high value channels like email for the rest of us because of some stupid playbook you read"?
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no idea how people do the whole "taking over the family business" thing, it must just be an insane amount of phone calls with no documentation anywhere about how things work
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having pre-meetings for other meetings has to be the funniest large company shit ever
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someone once said to me that the closest thing we have to UBI is being on LinkedIn's product team and I haven't stopped thinking about that
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Twitter made me smarter because it redirected my curiosity from the lives of others (facebook, instagram, etc.) to ideas and topics
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20 person startups when a new RFP drops that they might qualify for
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Startup: We need $100M
Softbank: You will get $200M
Startup: No, we just need---
*forcible God's Plan starts playing*
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my replyguy naval responses are getting more degenerate
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when people talk about loneliness or the difficulty of making friends they focus on 1:1 connections - however the harder problem to solve but one that I think people are actually yearning is the formation of a squad
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Interested to see what happens when people whose entire life revolves around tech move to places where no one gives a shit about tech and social currency no longer revolves around which VCs you raised from or how much you raised
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if you send me a microsoft teams link for a casual catch up I'm literally never going to talk to you again and I'll personally pay for your psychiatric care
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it turns out you actually don't need a billion productivity tools, you just need to say no to more meetings or cancel them completely
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I love vanguard's commitment to making sure their clients are value investors by having a website where the login works 25% of the time for some reason and the UI/UX is so horrendous I wouldn't even know how to impulse trade stocks if I wanted to
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Having:
1) a job/career you enjoy
2) that also aligns with something you’re good
3) that’s also is lucrative enough to support a comfortable lifestyle
Is such a massive stroke of luck and causes so much less friction in every other aspect of life
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lol pre-seed investing is wild there are angels just chucking $100K+ into companies with the same level of fucks given that I chuck $5 into getting a nicer cup of coffee to treat myself and these people just don't care about financial return how do I compete with that
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This is some IMDb level shit and truly god tier trolling
The sheer will power required to not break character in this exchange…
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I cannot believe I live in a timeline where Kanye west is explaining the genesis of SAFE notes
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I’m genuinely upset at how nonchalantly people in New York are taking this situation, especially people in my age group. I don’t know how to make it more clear to people that this is urgent. I’m sad people are still out
People are going to for real die because of this stupidity
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does anyone actually buy LaCroix with their own money or is it an entirely B2B beverage?
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I’m trynna do more squats call that backend development
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Might fuck around and wrap my identity around my career
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I don’t trust people who don’t drink coffee, you really just go into the day raw?
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remote first makes it hard to make friends at the companies you work at. This is half the sell of startups, and the thing that can get you through otherwise painful/grueling times you'll inevitably go through
having friends is also why people stay, so I expect retention drops
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When you find out people are betting scooter companies to be the last mile transportation option
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man I wonder how different my life would be if I got super fuckin hype about something easier like e-commerce or workplace productivity software, instead my dumbass brain picked healthcare to enjoy
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I like how every startup pitch deck does the 2x2 quadrant for competitive analysis and they’re literally the only logo in the top right lol seems legit
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good NPR episode about a hospital that tried to replace pagers with encrypted text messaging and failed
basically the encrypted texts meant the friction was so low to get a consult that people started bombarding the on-call residents and they essentially stopped responding to…
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So uh, I wrote a children's book for adults about how clinical trials and drug development work
You should buy a copy here
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a new guy raz podcast called "how I botched this" with founders that do post-mortems of their companies
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Find someone that looks at you the way the tech industry looks at new email clients
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@anothercohen
Posting content on twitter about posting content on LinkedIn based on content that was originally posted on twitter
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Fully remote companies will never happen because I refuse to buy a printer
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maybe bezos will tackle healthcare once he sees how much COBRA costs
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My portfolio is down 39% this year so far.
S&P 500 down 24% so far.
This is due to my access to outside information.
When this emergency is over, my financial acumen must be investigated.
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The sad part of doing zoom happy hours (...or power hours) is closing the computer and you’re just sitting in your apartment drunk
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ny rent going absolutely banana-land - have heard a few friends mention 15-20% increases in their lease renewal and others who straight up can't find an apartment at all because supply is so constrained
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This is probably a dumb question but why is the goal $15/hour minimum wage flat across states instead of $15/hour that’s then geographically adjusted for cost living
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fuck personal finance teach me real, practical skills in high school like how to send an email that has a firm tone without looking like an asshole
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At Cigna every employee has to personally deny one claim each month and collect the tears of that patient
employees are upset
DoorDash is making employees including the CEO to do one dash a month and employees are upset
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In New York the divergence in where people are in their lives at 30 is crazy
I had one friend tell me they were pregnant and in the same night someone texted me at 1130
PM asking me “what’s the move tonight”
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I don't think any of this WFH sentiment is going to stick. If anything I think this is giving people a really shitty experience of working from home that's actually going to taint the remote work movement going forward
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how the fuck do I turn social capital into financial capital without degrading the social capital???
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I think the updates to my dating app profile are going well
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If I hear about the following things again, I will commit seppuku
-how Starbucks points are a bank actually
-costco/Kirkland and the business model or hot dog story
-how [X company] is actually an advertising business
-the dominoes turnaround story
-the pieces of technology…
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when am I supposed to remove my college graduation year from my LinkedIn so people are ambiguous about my age
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Everyone wants to have a newsletter until they realize how much work it is to consistently write stuff for a newsletter
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Men will literally fund therapy startups instead of going to therapy
We are thrilled to share the news that Lyra has completed a $200M funding round. With this new funding, Lyra plans to accelerate its delivery of evidence-based mental health benefits for companies with employees located around the world.
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To translate for New Yorkers, oracle moving from sf to Texas is like if sbarro’s moved to Texas
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