reuniting for the first time
what does the entire world wear for its first day at a new school?
Summer is great; I strongly encourage everyone to have at least 50% more summer than they’re currently having.
No narrative today; just some things that I’ve been collecting.
putting this here for… reasons*
how has this not already been made into a movie? (or has it, and this is way way way advance PR?)
argh: “In contrast, fund performance was not significantly affected for managers who are fathers or women without children.”
I say this a lot but *this* really feels like a story engineered in a lab based on things that, I admit, I can’t help but gawk at: 1 part Instagram cooking personalities, 1 part hating on flimsy trendy cookware, a pinch of company leadership making office dogs the worst kind of office stressor**, and a dash of elite-kid-learns-the-hard-way-about-business (kinda. it’s a very small dash.) put all that in the Instant Pot and set pressure to high. 🍿 👀
the kids are always alright!
bad advice is now good
rageread warning: stop using facial recognition for public services!! also: where are all those personal freedom/civil liberties/don’t tread on me/blah blah blah folks with things like this?
a high-quality headline pun on rageread #2. Did you know “the IRS has a $99 million contract with Palantir to comb through data to identify tax cheats”? Ever despaired trying to figure out your likely AMT due on lottery-ticket startup option exercises, wondering if you’d be able to save for like, idk, your future? yeah.
I mean, almost certainly, Yes?
I’ve been thinking about if I had a podcast (yes; everyone has this thought. mine is powered by the lifelong shower conversation where I’m both Oprah and her interviewee, carefully unwinding the subconscious but controlling threads of my life), and I think the name of my podcast is “No Object” and the idea is I talk to people — ideally my friends with charming voices — what they’d do “if money was no object”. (that feels like not enough of a premise, so maybe then I try to convince them to go do it, right then, while we’re talking! assuming what they’d do is physically safe and not actually going to bankrupt them.) anyway, I enjoyed this even though I felt a bit guilty for spending a few minutes watching it, because, well, I don’t have a Roth IRA with five billion dollars in it.
* the main one being the weird American fascination with doing more work all the time for the same [or very slightly more] output. which is… the definition of inefficient?
** I’ve been saying this for years now: I love your dog! your dog is super cute! etc. despite all that, I generally don’t want your dog in the company’s conference rooms/open office bullpen/tastefully decorated suite/entire building! I can think of exactly one dog that I’ve encountered in an office that was remotely qualified for their role: she was silent. cute but not distractingly so. seemingly hypoallergenic. old enough that it was clear she wasn’t going to lunge/bite (and also extremely short legs so even if jumpy, risk was low). [to my knowledge] never defecated in the office kitchen (yes; this is a thing that I’ve seen happen. more than once. YES. I know. I KNOW). If you are in a leadership position, it’s sort of your job to make sure your people are comfortable at work. dogs in the office make their owners happy (usually), and occasionally make other people happy. they also make some people unhappy! those less happy team members won’t say anything about this because it’s not cooooool to be not cool with omgggg office doggooooes. pay your people enough to get doggy day care if your people need to be in the office, or alternatively, pay for your non-dog-obsessive employees to work in a non-dog facility. anyway, remote work forever and ever, amen.