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A sad loss.
If you are an entrepreneur, I highly recommend reading his book "Delivering Happiness"

Once, I was in Las Vegas on vacation and I sent him an email saying that I'd really like to check out Zappos. An assistant responded immediately and said she would come pick me up at my hotel and show me around. I was given a tour of their offices and got to meet a bunch of interesting random people. The way he ran the company was fascinating.
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Which seems crazy, but was a super effective way of weeding out people who didn't love their job.
Also, pay was based on how many skills you had been trained for. Not what position you held. Every time you learned a new skill, you got a raise. Working your way up was just learning how to do every job in the company so that anyone could just choose to do what they enjoyed most.

After my tour, we went to Tony's apartment where I got to meet him and have a brief conversation. It was an extremely modest place. The guy was worth hundreds of millions of dollars he could have lived in a huge mansion and surrounded himself with useless things. But instead he valued people and experiences and was willing to take time out of his day to chat with a random person in his home just because I asked.

RIP Tony

www.entrepreneur.com/article/360571

Tony Hsieh, tycoon and online commerce guru, dies at 46 in house fire
The former CEO of Zappos.com retired last summer, after selling his company to Amazon for nearly $ 2 billion.
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It's extremely rare that I buy a game on release day because I am usually patient enough to wait until its on sale. But I think I might get Cyberpunk 2077 early this year. Who else is planning to play on Nov 19?

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Absolutely! —

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Bought it already. The Collector's Edition. I couldn't help it because it was so cool and has a lot of stuff in it.   —

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I can't afford it, i have to wait 6 months to a year for good sales —

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10 years ago I bought the original Das Keyboard Ultimate and it has served me well this entire time. Honestly I feel like it could last another 10 years easily. But I decided to upgrade to the new Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate. Mostly because the new one only takes up 1 USB port instead of 2. But I also like the addition of the volume control and the design of course is pretty sweet looking.
No fancy RGB for me.
Though they do have a pretty nice one for those who like that sort of thing.
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www.daskeyboard.com/products/mechanical-keyboards

Das keyboard - Mechanical Keyboard
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Hmm a US company but chose a German sounding name.... —

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Actually the LED color triggers is really cool, now that I see those options. —

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