On: Sell yourself, sell your work

[sepositus]

All of the places I've worked at that have come close to this style of self-promotion have been dominated by kingdom builders and professional bullshitters.

[immibis → sepositus]

Is this why Stripe's one of the most hated products (that people have to use anyway)?

[nextts → immibis]

Stripe is surprising in that it feels like the assembler of payment systems. Powerful but boy do you have to roll a lot of your own stuff.

Like why can't I call an API and ask "what subscriptions is Joe on?". Why can't Joe unsubscribe via Stripe without me building something out.