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I've just started getting into SDR - what receivers and transmitters are you using? Would love to give a similar project a go at my place!

The best use cases for me have been when I'm stuck trying to word something in an email to a customer or in an internal presentation. I give it a prompt and the results are usually good enough to get my own thought process going.

I also write a fair number of scripts just to do some data analysis and chatgpt saves me a bunch of time that would have been spent looking over stackoverflow posts.

On average, I'd say it saves about 2 hours a week for me. Not a lot, but it's not nothing.

Probably Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

The message of choosing the better story is at the heart of the book, and I apply it in so many areas of my life.

I think you mean Matt Levine, rather than Adam Levine of Maroon 5. Though both do have great tone and enthusiasm for their material.

There's one called Technically Food by Larissa Zimberoff, where she talks about food and food technology. I'm not involved in the space anymore, but I used to sell CPG food and it's fun to read about what's happening in that space.

Money Stuff by Matt Levine - he's great at explaining what's going on in the financial industry.

Ridgeline by Craig Mod - Guy walks around Japan and takes beautiful pictures and writes about it.

Life on Air by David Attenborough is one of my favorites - it's narrated by the man himself.

Any books by David Grann are great to listen to but I particularly enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon and Lost City of Z.

I'm planning out a home/garage gym now. Is there any equipment you recommend? Or ones that people should stay away from?

ha this is really cool - has anyone paid the $100 for a call with you, with regard to recruiting or sales spam?

I recently moved to the twin cities. The bike paths are absolutely amazing, and given that the whole state is pretty flat, it's not hard to get around the city for work or for fun.

Bike paths are plowed in winter, but biking in -10C weather doesn't sound pleasant. I haven't tried winter biking yet, and honestly, I'm a bit scared to.

What brand/model did you get? I've been thinking about getting a small under the table one, but the reviews I've seen are pretty poor for many models.

I really like buttondown, but I stopped using it. The main issue was that mail would go into spam more often than other newsletter providers (I checked this against substack, mailchimp, revue, and tinyletter).

Any reason why buttondown in particular would be more affected by this? Or maybe it's just me.

I don't know if this is non-obvious, but only one other team I've worked at or with has done this.

Creating a team playbook. This would document processes and responsibilities that were otherwise institutional knowledge.

One person on the team knows how to grant access to a particular tool? Add it to the playbook.

One QA is in charge of the test automation jenkins- add it to the playbook.

Everyone on the team knows how to build the app - doesn't matter, add it to the playbook.

The idea being that if

* there's some action that people in the team do over and over again, or

* if colleagues outside your team repeatedly ask your team to take care of something,

writing it down helps spread the knowledge on how to deal with that issue AND it helps establish a centralized, consistent set of actions to address the issue.

fwiw, in my current team, I use it to document processes that folks rely on my team for (access requests, data pull requests, common customer support problems).