Thoroughly enjoyed the writing style and the process of solving the mystery withdrawal, even though the outcome wasn’t what I expected. Consumed through an email client so the AI image didn’t bother me either.
Thanks! Just did. I didn't think of it the first time given they escalated me to someone who then asked me to verify the information I had just told them over email. Maybe this will get their attention.
Right. But now you have agreed not to tell anyone about this bug. What you've told before cannot be counted I assume.
And you have agreed not to access any information not yours. So if in n months you will be greeted "Treat yourself MikkoX" you are not allowed to click anymore.
Not necessarily trying to say you did the wrong thing. But I do hate corporate lawyers.
+1 to Mercury. And from the what I’ve seen from other founders / CEO using you all, I’m not alone!
Incredibly easy setup, great UI/UX and no nickeling and diming with fees of any kind. Makes me wonder what are your unit economics like as you obviously will be making losses from the very smallest of customers?
I'm trying a demo of it and it looks like its mainly aimed at small to medium companies. There isn't enough hierarchy.
The top level organization in Linear is a Workspace. As far as I can tell this should be what your entire company falls under. The next and only level of organization under that is a Team. It really needs something in between that.
Teams have their own Issues, Board (singular), Cycles(Sprints), Projects, Ticket workflows. That means a Team must be a very small set of people (<10 people). So for a company with 1000 employees you might have 100 Teams.
Teams are shown in the UI in a flat list in many places. Expanding the list would likely overwhelm your screen.
The Roadmap feature applies to the entire workspace (your company). In medium sized companies you'll have Organizations with many hierarchies below it comprised of dozens of teams. An Org typically has roadmaps of their own that don't necessarily correspond to company level goals. Teams below the Org will also have their own roadmaps that usually fall under the Org's high level roadmap items but again not always.
There also needs to be more company level controls over settings like workflows. A strict company wide workflow for Bugs is common so that all teams have the same expectations around SLAs for fixes.
All that said I think you could make it work with enough filters and naming conventions.
Also holy hell Linear is fast and easy to use. If I was at a startup I would 100% put us on this.
Thanks for detailed feedback and walkthrough! Just to share some context, we do have thousands of customers, ranging from early stage startups to public companies.
I also agree that we should support more hierarchy when it comes to roadmap, teams and even the workspace settings, and it's something we are working on.
> Board (singular)
Board view supported by other views too, like cycles, active issues, projects etc. The "Board" sits in the navigation for now until we can make the view settings robust enough to fully replace it.
Good to hear! Any write ups on how the larger companies organize and manage their Workspace?
Moving us from Jira/Confluence would probably take an act of god, but I could see teams going rogue and doing their internal planning in Linear while still using some part of Jira to ensure they stay connected to the rest of the company process. That way we could maybe do incremental adoption.
Is there any bidirectional Jira <-> Linear support? e.g. Someone creates a bug in Jira for us and it replicates into Linear? When I close it in linear it closes it in Jira.
There is no write ups at least publicly yet. If there are specific questions we can try answer those based on what we have heard from other companies. ks@linear.app
We do have a bidirectional Jira integration. It pulls in the basic information, and then also adds a Jira "attachment" & link to the Jira issue. If you close the issue in Linear, will also close it in Jira [1]
If you enable the Triage feature, it works nicely in a way that requests from other teams in Jira automatically come to the Triage queue and you can review them there. Same triage queue also works for customer support tools, sentry, creating issues through the API etc.
Yeah I just found it. The hard map of Jira project to a Team makes it tough. We currently do 1 Org (hundreds of people) = 1 Jira project. Teams are mapped to Jira Components. I think without some level of customization on the sync we wouldn't be able to incrementally adopt. Everyone uses Jira differently unfortunately.
+1: we use them too and they have a reasonably flexible product in terms of labelling and project definitions. The only notable complaint I have is that the search doesn't support negative filters.
I mean, they weren't LoTR-level, but they were still enjoyable. Wheel of Time ending and Stormlight 1/2 may still be his best works, but the Alloy of Law stuff was still solid, at least in my opinion.
His B-reel books are usually decent ideas, but you can tell when it's Brandon's voice leaking through the characters instead of the characters themselves. He tends to take a bit more care of his larger, mainline books.
I'm a big fan of the Stormlight Archive where all main characters have some form of mental disorder. That said the last book was getting a bit repetitive, always waiting for the same character to snap out of his seasonal depression in order to save everyone just in time. I'm still a fan, I even watched some of his lectures on creative writing but there is definitely a formula to how he works.
Not OP, but it felt less polished to me than his others. Part of it was also that he was intentionally tweaking his style for the series (inspired by pulp Westerns). No dramatic difference, but enough to be slightly off.
Hate to say but I'm glad I'm not one of his kids. He wakes up around noon and then writes for five hours, and _then_ he hangs out with his family. So basically his kids don't see him all day until shortly before they go to bed.
Compared to what? "Dad goes to work at an office 9-5, then has a commute to come home, then focuses on his own hobbies"?
Frankly, this sounds like a lot of focused family time:
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At 5:00 I stop, and 5:00 until 10:00 is family time for me. And that is walled off. I don’t work on books, even in the back of my brain. It’s got to be a really steep wall for me to make sure I am there for them. And I have to mentally say, “You are there for them.” When your kids ask you to do something, that’s the time you say, “Yes, I’m going to go do that.”
"""
I literally have never met anyone who spent that much time daily with their family while also having an intense job. Taken at face value it's nothing short of marvelous.
No, the context is WFH covid times. This sounds like my dad sleeping in until noon while I ran around the house, had brekkie, etc, and after waking up he locked his door and didn’t come out until 5pm.
But sure yeah, that’s some good focused time at the end there.
I thought young kids go to bed really early, like 6:30 to 7:00ish pm for the very small ones, and some of that time would be taken up preparing and feeding them dinner.
> He wakes up around noon and then writes for five hours, and _then_ he hangs out with his family.
This sounds like an awesome schedule. Sleep in, work for a very reasonable number of hours, and then have plenty of energy left to hang out with your kids (somewhat earlier than most commuters get home).
Fair enough. I was assuming the kids’ perspective in my comment. And the context of his description is Covidtimes when everyone is at home. They miss him in the morning and all day, all the while he’s behind a closed door in the house.
I probably shouldn’t express my personal opinion here. To each their own!
Almost certainly more than 100% bigger in two to four years, if Gartber predicts 50% growth for 2022-2021 alone. And many project more.
What’s more, the growth will likely pick up each year as more and better EVs become available, and more people start considering them as a real alternative.
What percentage of consumers purchase new cars on a < 5 year basis? People who take out leases do, so there could be an uptick of these folks getting into EVs, but the majority of existing car owners aren't likely to hop over just to get on the EV train, I don't think, and the second hand car market is / will continue to be massive. I can't see a significant decline in gas vehicles for a decade or better, probably likely two before a significant portion of gas vehicles are off the road.
You might want to look into tools like Wingspan to save up some time with the 1099s. Even Gusto's contractor plan might work depending on your use-case.
That looks pretty cool, I like the "invite your CPA" option on wingspan. I have a couple entities though, for now I think I can manage it. Its just 3-10 1099's a year.
Gusto Contractor plan does look good. Just the right price.
How does someone fall into a rabbit hole of such hot garbage?
From the outside, you'd think that a successful tech founder would have some qualities that help them to avoid falling for such blatant misinformation. He would have needed to research the market, competition and investors, but apparently the same rigor didn't need to apply here.
At the very least, you'd think he would have been smart enough to keep his opinions to himself. Like, he starts with email saying that the recipients "will think I’m crazy after reading it", and still decides to hit the send button.
He's probably been saying only slightly less unhinged things for years and years and years, to pretty much the same people. Yet none of the people now "outraged" every said anything about it, or acted like anything was amiss.
Probably not explicitly racist stuff, and perhaps not to the Gov directly.
But it's a safe bet he was probably sending out lower-key versions of this kind of stuff to an ever-expanding circle of people. Until he felt, you know, "safe" enough to finally let his freak flag fly.
Being a founder seems to coincide with confidence, not qualifications.
I worked at a computer repair company in Sacramento where the CEO was openly racist and regularly verbally abused employees. Both he and his HR manager gave me death threats. HR manager also made an insanely racist remark about my Mexican wife.
I tried suing them after being forced onto permanent unpaid leave for all the laws they broke plus my in writing equity statement for a startup i was forced to work in while there. They hired the biggest defense first in California and stalled it out (they knew I was with a pro bono lawyer because they paid like shit)
