Very interesting. What do you think of metrics like valuation or # of employees?

Honestly? Not much

you can have a 500 person "startup"

or an 8 person "not startup"

also: "startup" != "small business" (and vice versa)

size has very little bearing on the relative "startup-iness" of a business

"Encroach on your ability to WFH" - you perfectly summed up the reason for the vitriol from remote-only people, IMO:

They are fearful that people with your stance will give companies a better argument for less remote-work. It's one thing when executives talk about it, because they're "not on the ground" and "just want control" or "don't understand individual contributors", but when peers like you support non-100% remote, it's a real worrisome prospect for them.

Sure, but it’s also a worrisome prospect for those that have had serious issues with WFH for a company to decide to go all-remote. Still doesn’t give them the right to be assholes. :)

I have a dumb question, tangentially related to this:

Can you set up a non-profit as long as fees and/or donations are limited to expenses (not compensation)?

It's damn near impossible. I admire your restraint :)

You're absolutely right. People do NOT want to hear it, but this is the reality in most cases.

If you search, you'll find that many are not disclosing numbers.

And among those that are, a decent number are finding ways to sidestep the requirement. For example: I saw a bizarre post for a single senior-level tech role. The range was outrageously broad, but the specific numbers were exact, something like $112,899 - $242,782 base salary.

Good point! So that eliminates the coffee shop - what other spots can accommodate you outside of home?

There's probably money to be made by setting up a bunch of sound-proofed cubicles and renting them by the hour.

You might have a problem with them being rented by junkies and prostitutes, though.

There's an existing kind of business that has privacy booths, maybe they could branch out.

Are you referring to the private booths available at co-working spaces?

Side note: I remember reading that inappropriate behavior occurred between coeds inside the WeWork booths. Sigh.

No, I was referring to private booths in certain adult-oriented businesses.

One interesting, but unsettling statistic: the RATE of deaths per miles driven has increased by nearly 25% in 2020.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34240145/2019-2020-traffi...

"When you factor in an important aspect of that change, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), you actually see that more people died this year, on average, than last year. That's because VMT was down a dramatic 16.6 percent (or 264.2 billion miles) in the first six months of 2020, which pushed up the fatality rate per 100 million VMT, a metric the NHTSA uses to more accurately compare vehicle and road safety over time. Using this number, the NHTSA discovered that fatalities per 100 million VMT climbed to 1.25 in 2020, up from the 1.06 in 2019, despite the same three-year decrease that the agency saw with fatalities-per-VMT that it did with overall fatalities leading into this year."

Wow, this is made for me. Youtube's own "view transcript" tool spits out a small side window with about 5 words per line. For me, that's a pain to read.

This transcript is displayed in paragraph form, nearly as readable as a typical article.

One very specific question: is there a way to get it on Instapaper's mobile app? While it transfers well on the web version, clicking on the transcript through the app takes me to the web version.

Thank you for this contribution!

Glad you like it! I am not sure why it wouldn't work on mobile Instapaper. I hope you find a workaround.

Groupon reached a valuation of $30 Billion at one point...for years, the hype was how smart they were in rejecting that Google offer!