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searls / market_research.rb
Last active September 18, 2018 03:21
Was chatting with @mfeathers about retaining Ruby's chained Enumerable style, but finding a way to inject names that reflects the application domain (as opposed to just littering functional operations everywhere, which may be seen as a sort of Primitive Obsession)
# A little toy file demonstrating how to build chainable
# data transformations that reveal some amount of intent
# through named extracted methods.
#
# Kudos to @mfeathers for giving me the idea to try this
#
# Copyright Test Double, LLC, 2016. All Rights Reserved.
require_relative "marketing_refinements"
@yossorion
yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active July 12, 2025 14:53
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would