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Just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him

Colorado, USA
Joined August 2007
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SaaS AI death spiral: Price hikes bc they can no longer rely on future sub revenue & they need a war chest. Max monetization of lock-in ASAP. Higher prices = higher incentive to replace now-commoditized systems. More competitors means more pressure, which means higher prices.
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Thinking about taking up ice fishing, but concerned that I just can't drink that much alcohol
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Google Gemini is worse than useless. It's a time and attention sink. Use Case: I dump all my property invoices & receipts into a Gmail label over the course of the year. Doing my taxes, I asked Gemini to dedupe and figure out who I had actually paid, how much, on what day.
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Result: Gemini can only analyze your inbox. It refuses to call labels anything but "folders". Repeatedly says "I can't do that." I feel like Claude or ChatGPT would crush this task if I could get it the access to my data.
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Prediction: The much vaunted "Great Wealth Transfer" from the Boomers to their heirs will instead be from Boomers to AI-enabled longevity startups. A Boomer boot stepping on a human face, forever.
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Thinking this morning about whether the continuing labor crunch, with people not returning to work post-Covid, was actually the emergence of a long-simmering malaise that's ultimately driven by decoupling of work from socio-economic mobility
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Why go to work at all if you've literally never met a person who went from your level to a higher level that you can aspire to? Management, the usual first step up, is positioned as selling out, and leads you further into the rigged system.
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All the (supposedly successful) influencers you have access to appear to have gotten there by going around the system, not up through it.
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bro got pompeii’ed
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I randomly figured out that the credits sequence for "Succession" and the 90's Michael Douglas vehicle "The Game" are eerily similar and I don't know what to do about it. I synced up the two around a very similar shot about 50 seconds in... youtubemultiplier.com/64e8d5…
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Dear @VictorOps design team: Light gray icons are for things that are disabled.
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TIL my ebay account is 25 years old.
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Just talkin' bout Taft. (I can dig it.)
Replying to @camharless
27. William Howard Taft
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How about "If you see something, ask something" instead?
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Made me smile. Thanks, Jonas. Also, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
I want to write a blog post anytime i apply "No bullshit, works every time, 100% lifetime money back guarantee" management techniques i learned from @richarmstrong . And then i realize that Rich would write it so much better. In a way that people would actually enjoy reading it.
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Echoes of Zappa: "Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read."
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I haven't shared one of these in a while but this was a total surprise. Wordle 579 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 89/99 Luck 36/99
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Wasn't Hendrix like 5'? That's a low-ass hood.
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I keep wasting money getting screened for cancers I don't even HAVE!
I once worked with a manager who asked “Why do we all need these SREs when the site never goes down?”, and I think about that a lot.
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