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Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover is my most life-changing book as well.

My life is much more peaceful now.

Often referenced in TTMM, is The Millionaire Next Door, which is also excellent. The common conception of millionaires completely wrong.

In an argument with a loved one, “winning” is often losing.

You have to let go of trying to win and instead try to understand. As soon as you stop trying to win, that’s the moment you find win/win.

For boring but sound financial advice, I recommend Dave Ramsey. His book “the total money makeover” changed my financial life in my mid 20’s.

I sleep much better being completely debt-free and knowing that I’m on-track to retire well even if I never hit it big or get another raise in my life.

I migrated from iCloud to FastMail about 5 years ago, and I'm very happy with FastMail. They do support YubiKeys, as well as TOTP.

Forwarding everything from the old account to the new account made it pretty easy so I only had one inbox to check, and I could take my time migrating all of my accounts to the new address. I also created a rule to sort things coming from my old account to a folder so I knew which accounts and subscriptions and whatnot I still needed to update to the new address. To this day I still have the old email forwarding, and occasionally something real comes through on it.

Fastmail also makes it easy to add other addresses on custom domains, so I have several email addresses that all deliver to the same inbox, with rules to sort them into the right folders.

It's probably because it's a business account and Google and LinkedIn have sold my address, but fwiw I receive about 100x more spam in my work gmail than I do in my personal fastmail account.

I don't think this was a bad approach; it may be better than the alternatives.

The "rip the band-aid" approach, while impersonal, avoids days of ambiguity over who is impacted by layoffs and who is not. I have been through a mass layoff; the most stressful part was waiting to find out who was impacted. I'd much rather know immediately, even if that means notifying me with everyone else at the same time, in a Zoom call.

As long as each employee receives a 1-1 follow-up call with someone in HR to review the details and get a chance to ask any questions, I think this was a sensible way to approach a horrible reality.

The problem is it's impossible to schedule 900 layoff meetings to occur at the same time, so you end up with layoffs ongoing for multiple days or weeks. Of course everyone knows what is going on within the first hour, so then there is a long period where all productivity stops while everyone waits anxiously to find out whether they should keep working or just pack up.

Whether leadership deserves criticism for getting to a point where such a huge layoff is necessary is another topic altogether.

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I'm confused... clicking on the PDF source data (Data through Jul 16, 2020 verified as of Jul 17, 2020 at 09:25 AM), it clearly shows a 13.4% overall positivity rate. Where is the 31.1% coming from?

How long have you been subscribing to Stoa? Have you been able to stick to it, and do you find it beneficial?

There was a period circa 2014-2015 that LastPass was pretty glitchy on Firefox in MacOS, but for quite a while I've had no problems at all with it - it just works. Even my non-technical wife has no issues with it, and sharing secure passwords is a breeze.

lastpass; office 365; fastmail; digital ocean; wallabag.it; you need a budget; twilio & spaghetti detective for 3d printing notifications; backblaze;

Unlike carpentry, the quality of our tools (keyboard and monitor, specifically) don't affect the quality of our output.

I think in many cases, people hide the fact that they're not competent with high-cost professional tools, because laymen use it as a proxy for talent that they cannot evaluate.

I think that's also why many exceptional programmers just use a 5-year old laptop -- they don't need to compensate.

A day-trader having 12 monitors mounted on the wall doesn't make him profitable.

I had a 34" 4K monitor in 2019, and it was a mess in Windows 10. I sold it and picked up an ultra-wide, 38" 3840x1600 (~109 PPI) and I couldn't be happier. I agree that a "good" monitor is a necessity, but I disagree with OP that "good" = 4K 120 Hz.

With any legacy application, and even many modern ones, UIs were either fuzzy, or tiny, or a mix of the two, even with all of the Windows per-program custom high-DPI settings tweaked. The UX was not consistent enough to be enjoyable, so I ditched it.

My observation:

Have you ever been convinced to re-read a horrible book you were forced to read in school, and discover that it's /brilliant/?

Have you ever been forced to re-read one of your favorite books on a strict deadline, and discover that it's a slog?

I've been paid for doing my hobby a couple times, and it quickly becomes work; I don't even enjoy those hobbies anymore.

My 2 cents:

Anything, when forced, is less enjoyable than when you're doing it just for enjoyment.

Don't kill a hobby by turning it into work.

Find tasks, types of work, etc. that you enjoy, and find a job that lets you do those things. It's still work, but most of the time you don't really notice it, and you don't kill a fun hobby.