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One of my biggest lessons from running a growing organization was: always have one level better financial advice than you think you need.

So, get an accountant from the beginning and let them decide and set it up right.

FWIW, I preferred zero to QuickBooks after using both.


"Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea – but new observations demand a radical rethink" (2023) < by David Wiltshire, one of the authors of this paper, aimed at non-physicists

https://theconversation.com/cosmological-models-are-built-on...


Remember that senior roles are about building teams around you to get the job done. I'm wondering if your current experience reflects what the job has to be, or whether you could shape your team so that your job gives you energy, and other people do jobs that give them energy, and together you get the job done.


Crash into a nuclear waste container, of course https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/operation-smash-hit/


"A qualitative approach was employed, involving in-depth semi-structured interviews. Thematic and content analyses were applied. Out of a sample of 47 participants using Flow, 18 participants consented to be interviewed."

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=12882...


Some thoughts, worth what you paid...

You can't share enough information here to get really good advice. If you do this you will need someone whose advice you trust, who understands your weaknesses as well as your strengths. Could be a friend, could be a coach.

As someone else said, if you can make this a win for everyone involved, that's the best and most likely to succeed approach. To do that starts with asking good open ended questions and listening to what those with the power to make this decision want for themselves, especially the CEO, and showing them respect.

People may express confidence in you now when you're not in charge. Inevitably if you do end up in charge you'll end up less popular. If part of what motivates you is what other people think of you, be careful.

Know your plan b, and c.

Good luck to you and everyone involved.


It was a breach of their guidelines to report a method of suicide, so it sounds like they were just fixing that. This is standard in the UK because of evidence showing that reporting methods can be followed by further suicides.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/harm-an...

Suicide, Attempted Suicide, Self-Harm and Eating Disorders

5.3.45 Suicide, attempted suicide and self-harm should be portrayed with sensitivity, whether in drama or in factual content. Factual reporting and fictional portrayal of suicide, attempted suicide and self-harm have the potential to make such actions appear feasible and even reasonable to the vulnerable.

Methods of suicide and self-harm must not be included in output except where they are editorially justified and are also justified by the context. We should not include explicit details that would allow a method of suicide to be imitated.


There's no definition of "responsible reporting" that involves hiding information from the public to support a policy goal.


All these guidelines are what is making BBC unreadable for me. The language they use is just so artificial. I understand why they do, and how they feel like they have a responsibility to "optimize" language for some metrics, but in my opinion what really matters is the objective reality, not the phrasing. Maybe they could report more on the NHS inability to cope with mental health patients rather than avoid using the word gunshot in a country where gun ownership is so scarce.


Agree. I thought the leverage one was the odd one out - more ego than impact. I think high impact organizations are usually made out of individually low leverage people working together


FYI it's called flash paper, plenty of sources online


I'm curious what about Fedora specifically makes the difference for you? I started using Cinnamon with Mint (derived from Ubuntu, Debian) last year and also found it a big improvement from Windows.


I'm willing to bet its more about the "Fedora" than the "Cinnamon". I was an Arch user for about 15 years with a few attempts in between to try other distros (including Fedora), but recently I've been installing Fedora on my machines because the last two versions have been really good. Its very competent, software availability has improved, they take security much more seriously than any other (normal) distro and they are always on top of the latest features and upcoming "tech" on the linux world.


Fedora is like 6 months+ ahead of Ubuntu on updates to most packages. Often with Ubuntu you get to deal with bugs that were fixed a year ago upstream.


Also curious to know this! I've been using Mint & Cinnamon for about 10 years and haven't bothered looking at an alternative.


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