Liminal Man

Given the uncertainty of the times, "The Last Economy" is the best book I've read that addresses the accelerating changes we all face. Its modelling of our current world problems is excellent, although I don't agree with its given solution. Blog Post here: salba.space/sections/blog/…

Lots of people talk about wealth creation via compound interest in a positive manner, but never in the negative: you can reduce spending, and bank the surplus monthly to increase wealth. If the cost of labor marches to zero, credentialed rat-races and signalling schemes are ngmi.

@BuildBoost The fear of "Jackson Electrodynamics" is warranted.

Having designed and manufactured a ton of antennas it became obvious very quickly that a lot of antenna Co's either dont understand what theyre doing or, more likely, know their customers dont understand what theyre doing

@nathan_k Prices differ significantly between Amazon, eBay and abebooks. Amazon has algorithmic pricing. Example: I once bought an older edition of a book on filterr technologies for $8, price shot up to $100 because of low supply.

I am sorry? why on earth would an ebook cost $475?

@KJB_4_3 @TheLege2 @rationalaussie "warm bodies" and "mushroom management" anti-patterns at work.

I wouldn’t care so much. My work is just operations so most of it is done by just me with no real overlap with other departments My bigger issue was that the 23 year old didn’t have the operational background to ask relevant questions I think these companies are hiring young people at lower salaries and putting them in more advanced positions and hoping AI can fill in the gaps Cheap, dumb labor

I'm hearing on the grapevine that trying to get a job right now if you're unemployed is like trying to get through the Strait of Hormuz in one piece. Does anyone care to share some anecdotes?

My colleague received this in the mail- unfortunately throwing it out before we could see what’s on it.

@radio_research "176IQ....holey grail or crackpot". I'm sure "holey grail" is a quadruple-entendre the common man cannot grasp.

@radio_research I used to work in a physics department. The number of crackpots that used to contact quantum/particle physics profs was comically high. At least one of the crackpots vandalized the building, including throwing bricks through windows.

@loomdoop Somewhere out there, a child has had to choose between "MS Access 2000 for Dummies" or "Mastering Windows XP Group Policy", on a boring summer day. Soul-crushing.

Putting outdated coding books in the Little Free Library should be considered illegal dumping, and carry a sentence of 100 hours community service.

@cryptotriv With regards to self-help books, there will be multiple phases throughout one's life - with the understanding that the returns diminish with each additional phase, as one gets older.

Everyone needs to have a "book" phase where you read self-help or educational books that talk about higher level concepts that depend on very basic concepts that apply everywhere. Your "book" phase ends once you understand those basics and can apply them everywhere.

@thesamparr Companies that cannot increase market-share must maintain profit margins by cutting costs. Large swaths of product/platform decay stem from executive decisions based on ideas in Corporate Finance.

Why do 1980's Sesame Street books look so much better than modern versions? Look at the first 3 images vs the last. The first has warm colors, tiny details in background, imperfect shapes, background is packed with cool things to find. In the 1970s and 80s an illustrator Joe Mathieu drew many of the Sesame Street books. I was gifted one of his books and read it to my kids each night. I fell in love with the drawings so I've been buying all his work on eBay. Some of the books cost $200! But look at the illustrations. It's all done by hand. Watercolor and colored pencil. Imperfect edges, the pigment pooling in the corners, that's what makes it feel warm. Compare this to modern Sesame Street books. Colors from a digital picker, cranked to max saturation, more perfect shapes. Its like the book is a screen. They hurt your eyes. Somebody sat at a desk with a brush and made the old ones. That's the difference.

@oliverbrocato Mushroom management is real - your hypothetical B+ employee fits it like a glove.

The B+ employee pandemic is real. Always "on it." Calendar blocked. Slack green. Never misses a deadline. Company still not moving. Bc they're all professional seat warmers. No edge. No urgency. Never fixing any gaps. They won't push back on anything. Just smile, execute, cash checks. Founders love them because they're "low maintenance." But what they actually are is low impact. U can have an entire team of B+ employees and wake up a year later in the exact same spot. Congrats, you’ve officially normalized mediocrity.

@chercher_ai "I've taken the time to take a subject-object view. Have you?"

how do you say "actually I'm under no obligation to accept your frame" in normie?

@DamiDina Part of it seems to be that you have a group of people who's end goal is to sit in a deck chair with a drink, lamenting about the good life and how they are the right sort of person to achieve this, all while haranging white strivers and supporting immigrants for brownie points.

I just realized I’m probably right about Canadian culture being about boxing people into a corner and also lack of ambition I moved to Canada when I was 12. And I had already lived in 3 different countries prior. Just crystallized more that ppl here are stagnant

@leahprime so the end result is navel-gazing.

therapy culture has produced the most self-aware, least accountable generation in human history

@libriscent Negate the statement, and be free.

it doesn’t have to get done, it just has to be perfect. - the ADHD proverb

@orphcorp Narcotising Dysfunction.

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

I'll say it again: I can't wait for degree mill institutions to turn into dead malls.

@vox_sara @RVAwonk A lot of the misery seen on job websites was going on under Biden (fake jobs, ghosting, doing the work of others in interviews, etc). The decision to make candidates jump through many hoops to apply, and cut back on the labour force is largely a corporate one.

@RVAwonk It’s sad that as a country we decided to wreck the economy Biden had worked hard to repair post COVID. It was obvious Trump’s policies would do this but it’s the path we chose.

It’s hitting middle-aged people, too. I’m 40 yrs old, have two masters’ degrees, a PhD, 10+ years of experience, and am often cited as a “leading expert” in my field (their words, not mine). I’ve been out of work since July.

@rob_mcrobberson signs of increased SNR. enjoy it.

i’ve muted so many people that about a third of every post I see has an invisible reply on it now 😂

@redaction Narcotising Dysfunction

A lot of people seem to be operating under the assumption that accumulating knowledge literally makes them smarter, as opposed to simply becoming dumb but knowledgeable