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While I’m sure that used to the case, that is no longer really the case with the Masons. You can find out and read through all the different ceremonies and rites online.

Unfortunately I have found that a really good Product Manager is an extremely rare thing. However the best organizations and teams I have worked on have always had strong product management. There seems to be a general lack of education and training on how to be a product manager. Too often folks from other disciplines, such as Engineering transfer into the role with no training whatsoever and end up doing a terrible job with it.

The answer is yes, and no. There are definitely a lot of the large tech companies who plan on being back in office. They are at various stages of how they are enforcing it. There are also a number of large tech companies that have committed to a kind of nebulous middle ground where offices are open but it’s up to each organization or sometimes even team if they are in office, fully remote or somewhere inbetween. Then there are a few large but especially a significant number of smaller tech companies that have fully embraced remote. Finding it to be a good way to differentiate and attract workers they otherwise would not get. Finally there are companies that still can’t seem to make up their mind and leave everyone in a limbo state of what is going to happen.

It’s not about forgetting. I don’t forget my friends, but at the same time life happens. Kids, work obligations, relationships. It’s easy to forget to reach out to friends or acquaintances. Easy to underestimate when the last time you made contact. That’s just life.

I cannot speak so much from the C# side of things. But Azure is by some measures the fastest growing cloud right now. With some analysts projecting it will overtake AWS eventually. At my current company we utilize both AWS and Azure, but are by no means a “Microsoft stack”.

In the US, companies are responsible for paying 50% of the medicare and social security taxes for each of their employees.

I honestly have never seen my login to Facebook expire. Even without enabling the remember me checkbox after logging in on iOS safari the login is valid forever unless I clear the cookies. I have never seen that level of brazen disregard for security with any other modern site.

One piece of advice. It is easy to start with an existing team, product or company and immediately find things that in your opinion are done “wrong”. One of the fastest ways to alienate yourself is to come in with a sledgehammer and start trying to change everything after only a couple of months on the job. Step back and realize there is or was likely a good reason that certain choices were made. Try to really understand the why. Maybe that will change your opinion of some of the choices. Then armed with that understanding you can suggest and make improvements in a way that brings value to the team.

Seems like a good step. Last year had to have a medical procedure done by an oral surgeon. For some reason there are no in network oral surgeons when it comes to medical insurance. Paid a significant amount up front. Painful but thought that it was all done.

Six months later received an itemized bill for another significant amount. The worst part about it is theres no way to know if the bill is correct, or if insurance should of covered one of those line items. They really could just make up whatever they want as the system is so opaque, no one knows how much anything should cost.

Agreed, which makes it strange that it’s only available as a crew cab.

This seems like a positive for the legitimization of cryptocurrency. Of course if you were trying to use it to avoid paying taxes you may feel otherwise. Hopefully it leads better forms and adoption by exchanges to provide useful tax documents.

One thing I find interesting is that individual contributors always seem to feel they are more productive when WFH. But at least anecdotally the upper management I have talked to in tech companies are saying that WFH has dropped productivity significantly. Now maybe this is just WFH w/ all the stresses of a pandemic vs. WFH in normal times, but it is interesting.

Is this really a shock? As far as I know Google never said anything about remote work being the new norm. Certainly some other tech companies like Twitter made more bold statements. But they are in the minority. Seems like most of the large tech companies are planning on heading back the office perhaps with some additional WFH flexibility.

I wonder how much of this is Nvidia getting pressure from the Gaming industry to do something about it. As far as Nvidia is concerned they are selling as many units as they can produce, so it is a gold rush for them. The gaming industry I am sure is getting concerned that for their new AAA titles already under development which require these high end GPUs, their customers won’t be able to get ahold of them. Or at least will be unwilling to pay the huge markups that the cards are going for.

If you are going to transfer your stock just make sure you are transferring it to a broker that is self clearing. Or at the very least make sure the broker doesn't use Apex. Which has a long history of being terrible.