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Re: To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor

petekazanjy — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:47:23 -0000

What are you talking about? You mean like the millions and millions of dollars of SF payroll tax that every single tech company that has employees here pays that then goes to SF, and then pays to run MUNIs and such?

MUNI is getting its act together (slowly) but in the meantime, what's the problem with an practical solution?

You're also welcome to move somewhere where there are fewer people. 😜

Re: To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor

petekazanjy — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:42:12 -0000

Are you serious? If these busses didn't exists a. Caltrain would be even more slammed, b. These bus riders would be bidding up parking spots to $500-$1k a month - paid for by their employer.

Anyone who parks in SF because they drive somewhere not served by shuttles, or who rides Caltrain should LOVE these busses.

Re: One Month In, How Are The New N-Judah Shuttles Performing?

petekazanjy — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:39:46 -0000

That was because a women seized and fainted on an N ahead of yours and the train stopped for 10 minutes or so while emergency medical took her off and got things sorted. The MUNI staff were awesome in taking care of business. It sounds like it had a ripple effect, because we were delayed only about 10 or 15 minutes.

Re: FIFTY24SF's Building To Be Demolished, Replaced With Commercial Space, Housing

petekazanjy — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:58:23 -0000

The apartment building over Edo is six stories.

Re: FIFTY24SF's Building To Be Demolished, Replaced With Commercial Space, Housing

petekazanjy — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:50:26 -0000

And? Pretty sure that the folks who can't afford SF anymore and are moving to Oakland would be ok with something marginally less "human" (what does that mean? Is New York not "human"?) so they can remain.

Re: FIFTY24SF's Building To Be Demolished, Replaced With Commercial Space, Housing

petekazanjy — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:49:14 -0000

4 units in there at $1m means four less people who can pay $1m bidding for that 100 year old flat on Waller.

More inventory is good as it lowers prices for everyone (or reduces price growth).

But you're right four stories would be better. Isn't the apartment building over CVS four stories?

Re: Petition Aims To Increase Affordable Housing Minimums Along Divisadero

petekazanjy — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:22:40 -0000

In a nutshell!

Re: Petition Aims To Increase Affordable Housing Minimums Along Divisadero

petekazanjy — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:34:52 -0000

The best way to reduce rents (or slow rent growth) is to allow for higher volume of building, and taller buildings.

Below Market Rent units are best created not through new building, but rather by reducing demand for existing housing stock by creating new high end units that draw higher income renters up-market.

The more NEMAs and such there are with shiny new Viking ranges, the fewer high-income renters there are lining up to bid at that Victorian flat on Broderick. Tall glass towers by the ballpark help create de facto BMR units throughout the rest of the city.

More NEMAs, and more mini-NEMAs on Divis, please.

Re: Three Injured By Hit-And-Run Driver At Fell And Scott

petekazanjy — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:11:08 -0000

Yup. East side of Scott.

Re: Three Injured By Hit-And-Run Driver At Fell And Scott

petekazanjy — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:52:56 -0000

The two lesser-injured ladies are ok, aside from some bruises, and are sitting on my front porch right now, fully provisioned with ibuprofen, Luna bars, and water.

But they're a-ok thank goodness.

Re: Local Muni Shelters A Target For Persistent Anti-Tech Graffiti

petekazanjy — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:55:39 -0000

C- for reading comprehension.

The fact that people want to live here is good.

The negative consequences are largely driven by an inability to plan accordingly are clearly not good, and should be minimized.

The best way to minimize those negative impacts is build to suit the demand, so prices stop rising so crazily, creating all sorts of unfortunate side effects.

Also, can you explain this notion of "locals" to me and why someone has been here for 20 years they have more of a right to live in the city than a 22 year old who just graduated from University of Texas, and wants nothing more than to live in San Francisco?

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:48:13 -0000

Welp, that sucks.

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:45:54 -0000

Cool! Glad that someone else got that vibe. My wife and I always comment about that.

I don't know what's blocking more like that, but it's a bummer.

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:44:46 -0000

Or that. Better than parking spots.

Re: Local Muni Shelters A Target For Persistent Anti-Tech Graffiti

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:27:01 -0000

This is so lame.

If they had paid attention in econ, they'd realize they should be pissed (as is EVERYONE who has signed a lease in the last four years) at SF building constraints that artificially constrain housing supply in the face of rising demand.

And that rising demand is great. People want to live in an awesome city. That's a good thing! And when they come here, SF can pay for more police, sidewalk de-shittifiers, etc. The city has a bunch of people who want to be its customers. This is an unqualified good, and only bad if it isn't designed for / built for.

The irony of all this "anti-tech" worker BS is that, at bottom, it's an "anti-immigrant" narrative.

"Don't come here and disrupt my ecosystem, because I'm happy with how it was, and my right to status-quo trumps your right for personal development."

So yeah, you're ideological buddies with Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin now.

I bet that blows your anarcho-communist mind.

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:13:40 -0000

Totally. But this at least allows for BBQs and plants and things - which I think gives an exterior "lived in" effect.

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:12:58 -0000

The unit sits on top of Church St. MUNI station, a 22 stop, and the J, and Uber/Lyft has great density in the area.

Probably would be better to turn those parking spots into more housing units.

Re: New Designs Submitted For Church And Market Development

petekazanjy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:11:18 -0000

Totally right. It's a bummer that this is the aesthetic that seems to be the default. Compare to the condo development at 15th and Dolores that is welded to the victorian next to it and blends into the neighborhood. https://www.google.com/maps...

I wonder if it's in an attempt to look "modern" (which, as you point out, simply translates to "dated" in a few years, like all the 90's and 00's build), or if it is simply covering for the fact that this aesthetic is actually less costly, as compared to a more victorian-like approach (so this is cost abatement masquerading as "design").

Re: 10 HR Tech Influencers to Follow On Twitter

petekazanjy — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:21:59 -0000

Matt, did you link to your former employer from you Twitter handle to be ironic?

Re: What Should You Say When Messaging a Candidate?

petekazanjy — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:40:55 -0000

Good test! Thanks for sharing the data!

While I think that seeing what drives responses is good, there are other tools in the recruiter toolkit that might lead one to include links, in that candidate engagement with messaging can be measured in ways other than pure "responses."

For instance, in this case, one could make the case that the reason why people responded was because information about the req was hidden...and as such, people who could not self-disqualify responded, in the end creating more work for the recruiter to later screen them out.

(Of course, if you have other reqs for which the candidate could be pertinent, then any response might be good, because now you've got a live one!)

So the real metric would be the EVENTUAL CLOSE RATE of these folks.

Relatedly, there are other ways of instrumenting candidate engagement.

For instance emails can be instrumented to track opens, link clicks, and so on, and aggregated over time. We've built this into TalentBin's email system, but things like Yesware for Gmail (and others for Outlook), can do something similar.

So, for instance, if you include a strong call to action like "Based on what I see on your resume / LinkedIn profile / Meetup profile / Github profile, I think that this role for XYZ could be a really interesting fit for you because of ABC. You can see more about the role here: <hyperlink> Check it out!"

If that hyperlink is instrumented, when you reach out to 100 candidates, yes, 35% may respond to you, but another X% will click on that hyperlink. And moreover, they may click on them multiple times.

A candidate that continues to open your emails and click on that link (they open it first on their iphone and click on the link, then in Gmail on their browser, keep it in their inbox, and then the next day click on the link again) is demonstrating huge engagement with your outreach, and should be targeted for a second, follow up message.

This of course isn't to dismiss Jan's observations, but simply to point up that there are other ways to track prospective candidate engagement than pure responses, and that it's good to consider the other tools in the toolbox!

Happy Purple Squirrel Hunting!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

petekazanjy — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:11:12 -0000

Blam.

Re: Buy This T-Shirt | Haighteration

petekazanjy — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:27:38 -0000

Done. Thanks DSF for organizing.

Re: Winning is easy if you get everyone to finish

petekazanjy — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:46:04 -0000

Jesus. This is so applicable. I was just talking about this today. "When you think you're finished with a task, think about the downstream implications. Are there next actions? Do them. Are there those that you can't do? Who needs to know about those?" Etc. It's a mindset that isn't natural, and needs to be trained. But coached for, folks can get there.

Re: Ten million users is the new one million users

petekazanjy — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:11:23 -0000

Chris! Stop that!

If VC A round expectations are reset to 10m instead of 1m, how am I going to spend my seed money acquiring users in third world countries via Facebook ads, and running them through spammy viral acquisition loops to juice my AppData standings in advance of my next round!

Can't you just leave well enough alone?

Re: New Site TalentBin Merges Social Media Info Into Sourcing Profiles

petekazanjy — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:58:02 -0000

Hey there folks! Pete Kazanjy, one of the founders here. Wanted to provide some responses to see if might be able to add some clarity.

Jordan: Thanks for the questions, Jordan!

Regarding "background" checking, and so on, the idea of using consumer credit information for background checking is indeed a serious space. As such, we have purposefully avoided that, in that we believe that the promise of what we're doing is less about "checking someone out" and more about discovering candidates that would make sense for you.

That is, we're more concerned about answering the question for recruiters of "Show me all the iPhone developers in the Austin area, based on their online activity" and less about "Show me which of them is better and which of them is less so."

Consent / Misinformation: We are also very concerned about this, which is why a. this is not a substitute for a resume or a screening and interview process -- post-ATS activity, that is -- wherein hiring / passing decisions are made, and b. all the information we crawl is freely available on the open web. If Google can see it, we can see it. We just are more focused on structuring the information in a way that makes it searchable for recruiters, in a way Google is not set up to do.

Keith: We provide all available contact information that we can find for a candidate. That means their email address, twitter handle, and also the ability to contact them on the sites where they've been discovered, like Facebook messaging, LinkedIn InMail, Quora in-messaging, Meetup messaging, etc. etc. We don't have *all* for every profile, but it's just like a clever sourcer who kicks out to Google after discovering someone on LinkedIn, and tries to find their other means of contact. Except we do it algorithmically.

Kathryn: The matching system is a lot more robust than just matching first-name, last-name, as you can imagine! That's where a fair amount of our engineering time is spent, to ensure that the Kathryn O'Brien from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Meetup, and so on that is matched together is actually you, as opposed to that other Kathryn O'Brien. And of course we always provide links back to the sources, so you can verify!

Thanks everyone for the great comments / questions!