charliepark

I can't speak to what others have done / are doing, but there's movement within the general "building science" community to improve the documentation around home systems. As more technical devices get added to homes' mechanical systems (PoE, ERVs, whole-home dehumidifiers), it's important that new owners (or even you, as current owner!) have access to an operating manual for the home. Maintenance procedures and schedules, numbers for service technicians, general operating instructions and troubleshooting, etc.

(Of course my mind goes to "maybe there's a SaaS opportunity here?", but I suspect that if it's difficult to get people to even gather documentation about maintaining their home's systems, it'll be even more tricky to get people to pay for it.)

I saw them at RemixConf and was completely blown away by how well they nailed it. Technical terms, acronyms, and even non-technical quirks of the speaker (like one who said “regular-degular HTML”) and the captioner didn’t miss a beat.

(Similarly no relation to them, but I passed their contact info along to our events team after seeing them in action and hope my company followed up with them.)

Small correction: you mention the Apple documentation specialist Jef Raskin, but you spelled his name with two “f”s; his name only had one.

> Are we also going to rename master-bedrooms?

Yes! This is happening! Realtors are often now framing the largest bedroom (often with attached bathroom) as the Primary Bedroom.

This is fantastic.

Also, it’s on the calendar year, not a rolling 12-month calendar. And it isn’t prorated. File your paperwork in early December? That’s $800 now and $800 in a few months.

Wait until January if you’re close to the end of the year and can afford to hold off.

I'd be curious to know your thoughts on the Foreign Service as a post-child career. My wife and I were young when we had kids, and will be empty nesting at 46. I took the sample FSO exam online this summer and actually loved it, enough that I'm wondering about diplomacy as a second career. Did you encounter anyone in that scenario when you were younger? Did they seem happy?

What kind of team are you with? And how many leetcode-style problems have you solved in your actual work over the past week?