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trinque: actually fuck
the shave, wildcatters grow beards
trinque: after surving all
that, man just needs a mirror and
to look once in a while
mod6: Hey, nothing against BingoBoingo. At all. He has been
through a battle,
this is
true.
mircea_popescu: the more you believe
that,
the more
the day-to-day instructions books grow...
mod6: And I agree
that
the man could be good at it. But I
tend
to believe a man when he says "hey, I need instructions, day
to day".
BingoBoingo: Well,
the strict guidance
thing was before ben_vulpes gave it a shot
mod6: But I missed what you were asking, you were asking if I was going
to promote BingoBoingo. I
totally didn't even get
that until just now.
mod6: <+a111> Logged on 2018-07-02 18:37 mircea_popescu: well... so what are you gonna do, promote in house i suppose ? << you know, when we
talked about
this a week ago... it never even considered BingoBoingo , not because i
think he's not a person or any such nonsense. But because when we started
this ventue, he said
that he needed strict guidence.
BingoBoingo: Since leaving
the noise of
the hostel
that possible reality has been easier
to hear.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and you! don't get into
that situation where halp, has not what
to eat and nothing's moving, you hear ? survival skills, yes!
BingoBoingo: mod6: A fairly hands off (i.e not day
to day situation) report
to
the board situation is fine
mircea_popescu: yes, well, and i want kim kardashian
to blow up my ass. we get what we get.
mircea_popescu: the difference between
these
two is lost on me, seeing how
the lords are at least sufficiently acquainted with
the situation and sufficiently possessed of
their own wits
to volunteer if
they feel it.
mod6: And
to
the point of BingoBoingo, he has said before
that he wants direction from a manager. As he said earlier
tonight.
mod6: I sent out personalized letters
to
two Lords asking if
they wanted
to fill
the role. I didn't sit back and kick it.
mircea_popescu: because
there's problems here, and you're not helping yourself with
the approach.
mircea_popescu: ima ask again
the
thing i asked you lot when you came up with
the batshit insane options arrangement : do you
think he's not a real person because he's actually DOING
things, real
things, scary real
things such as fucking venezuelans, and real people are only
the meditative kind ?
mircea_popescu: 2.
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-02#1831375 STILL didn't get a direct answer,
two weeks later.
this "withdraw into busywork" reaction
to uncomfortable realities may work (it doesn't work, but subjectively may seem
to work) in lines
typically well fit
to
the autistic. but as
things stand here it's at least mildly insulting
to BingoBoingo,
that he's
the dood on
the ground and you're somehow looking right
throguh him.
☝︎ mod6: I have no idea. I'm just
trying
to swim upstream here, Sir.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what
the impediment is here. looky here : 1. you want
to write a ~new~ job description, now.
the job isn't new, so where's
the old job description ? if you didn't have one
then, why would you have one now, and if you didn't
think you need one
then, why would you need one now, and if it didn't occur
to you
to write it
then why are you qualified
to write it now ?
mod6: To your question "hire someone
that what ?" :
That manages
the day-to-day
task for BingoBoingo, does accouting
tasks (reporting, invoicing, payments), can possibly lend a hand with sysadmin
tasks.
That sort of
thing.
mod6: And BingoBoingo, yeah,
that's
the plan. I'll do
the best I can at
this, but
the more I learn about what was all involved day-to-day with ben_vulpes,
the more I'm worried
that I'm ill-equiped
to do
this work.
mod6: Yeah, I need
to write up a job description.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yes hire someone, i get it, but really
that's not how hiring works. hire someone
that what ?
BingoBoingo: <mod6> I understand if
this doesn't happen right away, but eventually, position will need
to be filled.
The offer stands, even if it stands for some
time. << One way
to handle
this is...
Take over what ben_vulpes on an interim basis and hand off
tasks you don't have
time for.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And
that has been a welcome change
mod6: I understand if
this doesn't happen right away, but eventually, position will need
to be filled.
The offer stands, even if it stands for some
time.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:39 diana_coman: mod6, honestly, how do you see
this sorted ?
BingoBoingo: Well, pizarro has
the dedicated boxes
that require invoicing and
the occasional standup.
The rockchips
that require invoicing and
the occasional standup.
Then
there's
the shared hosting server which is beefy as hell and runs a very lean gentoo.
trinque: yep, delicately saying as much. activist customer is about as far as I'm able
to sign in blood atm.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't
think you have any business getting involved, fwiw. you're doing great in your line, keep doing
that.
trinque: the fact
that wallet features benefit greatly from a live and healthy pizarro is also not lost on me, which is why I jumped
to be (afaik) live customer #1
trinque: beyond
that, what's not clear is whether management means directing, or doing a lot of hands-on work on machines. it's likely I have little
time for
the former, but have absolutely no
time for
the latter.
BingoBoingo: I am comfortable
taking
tech direction from alf. If mod6 wants
to
take
the purse from ben_vulpes,
that's a board.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:41 asciilifeform: phf,
trinque , danielpbarron ^
BingoBoingo: I have one a localbitcoins account, started flirting with
the alt-alt, and do have
this lengthy list of items
to push on
mircea_popescu: did
the clickbank account ever stand up ? etc etc, i dunno how executing on
the lenghty list of items in
the log
these pasts month could put one behind.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nothing, updates from
the funnel mines should be starting
mircea_popescu: trinque's provided a
turnkey accounting solution, you do a !!ledger once a month, reconcile it with ops list and
there you go, accounting's done.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in practical
terms, you got a place
to sleep and an internet connection. what specifically is keeping you from building up sales funnels ?
BingoBoingo: lobbes et al: I'll keep
taking stuff on my plate, but
the reason Pizarro isn't BBISP is... A need for more direction.
mircea_popescu: i'm about as impressed of
this autistic waste as of pete_dushenski's latest lists of important bitcoin posts he
thinks he's made, and whatever other monkey-emperors of "all
they survey".
mircea_popescu: because
the moron utterly has
to
http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/ ; can't simply come fucking here, register a key, do something useful as ordered. no, none of
that, business school produces more special cuntlets
than miss america competitions, he gotta sing his own fucking
tune. because
this is actually possible, every dick,
tan and harry can come up with marching
tunes.
lobbes: asciilifeform: oya, I've squirreled away
that link
to
the
timer patch you dropped earlier in
the logs. I'm
thinking I'll apply it
to my node once I get auctionbot2.0
through
the conveyor, after which I can publish more concrete data.
mircea_popescu: (large part of
the problem being, of course,
that management folk are very disused
to any sort or kind of actual work ; matter-of-coursedly display bizarre remunerative expectations on one hand and middling skills at busyworking/clockwaiting doubling an appetite for actual work verging on nil.)
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:39 diana_coman: mod6, honestly, how do you see
this sorted ?
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:36 diana_coman: in practice one single person has only 2 hands,
that's
the
thing
mircea_popescu: turns up
top of
the search if you
try and find "zil fridge"
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:26 asciilifeform: we had a 1950s 'zil'
that still worked in '92 when we left.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 21:11 asciilifeform: incaphilia,
turns out, afflicts not only elderly greybeard profs.
lobbes: seemed
to hit
the wall right around height 350000
a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 00:06 ben_vulpes: stand by
to slow down
lobbes: seems like
that's what mod6 and BB are missing: "bandwidth
to do X"
lobbes: to my (admittedly, untrained) eye, it does seem like BingoBoingo is
the ideal fit for
the role; not only is he literally closest
to
the venture, but he also has sales experience iirc. Maybe what is needed is just a
trusted "assistant manager", i.e. someone
to handle
the minutiae on a day-to-day basis under
the direction of a chief strategist.
mod6: (at
the end of
the month, invoices will be sent)
mod6: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : Give me a
thumbs up if you believe
the box is ready for you
to do your
testing, and I'll invoice mircea_popescu.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, well, I'm full
time at s.mg as it is
diana_coman: asciilifeform, well, who exactly do you
think would fit
the bill anyway?
diana_coman: mod6, ok, but
this doesn't strike me like a position
that you can interview for exactly just like
that, you print
the ad in
the newspaper and interview applicants or something
mod6: No,
this isn't really for me. And more-over I have
too much
to do already.
diana_coman: mod6, BingoBoingo aren't you
though in
the best position
to work
this out?
mod6: I'd like
to remind everyone here
that Pizarro still desperately needs a manager, please inquire within if you're interested.
diana_coman: in practice one single person has only 2 hands,
that's
the
thing
☟︎ mod6: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : Ben and I have been pouring over
the numbers (as i'm getting an education here), and
the prorated cost for
the rest of July for UY3 will be: 0.03542985 BTC
diana_coman: not
that much; I can make such clothes just like I can still make bread by hand; but
the
time needed
to make
them....
a111: Logged on 2018-07-05 22:14 asciilifeform: and on subj, not long ago asciilifeform repaired, for relative, ancestral clock, what looked like cheap alarm clock but is actually an enlarged sov copy of ~swiss~ movement , made
to 'cosmonaut' specs, believe
diana_coman: eh, I have some *clothes*
that are older
than me and look better
than new stuff, what can I say
diana_coman: the sad part being
that really, it's not *just*
tech stuff
that used
to work for ages, it's ~everything
diana_coman: heh,
that's grandparents', yes; next generation basically