jvagner

Can anyone point to coverage of crypto companies from the perspective of how they make money? I've never really dug into this, would love this decent leads.

the uncertainty principle applies here.. undocumented workers won't seek medical assistance if they're unsure of what will happen when they show up at a medical facility.

Not sure I agree.

To some extent, sure.. "Everyone knows that people can learn new things".

It's one of those aphorisms that we can probably agree on, however... if you examine how some people operate, across more than one spectrum of their life, those people may say it and yet not live it.

I believe that people have so many self-limiting factors front-loaded in their thoughts, action and speech that it can cumulatively operate as a hard coded mindset.

I've coached people, as a manager and as a volunteer CPT (certified personal trainer). Working through people's sense of self, typically broadcasted explicitly as a statement of limitation ("I can't do that...") or argumentativeness (as a coach, ask a question or dare to offer a statement of some kind, and the person who asked for coaching may well interrupt you, digressively, before you make any progress with your effort).

This can accumulate, over the course of a life, and embed itself as something that can be really difficult to disrupt, or even acknowledge.

I unfollowed all accounts, deleted all my tweets and just login periodically to see what's trending or to follow a hashtag associated with a sporting event I'm interested in. And since I do that from home, I have the twitter app on my iPad but not my phone.

Nice way to keep it but throttle it.

My current tactic: I'm reading "The Week" via Feedly/RSS only. It's helpful w/r/t with the "reload" impulse and the "casting a wider net" tendency.

I was unfamiliar.. but this made me laugh:

"Subsequent closer examination of Titor's assertions provoked widespread skepticism."

Ahh, it was the closer examination that lead to the skepticism.

I frequent Whole Foods, and I digital nomad a bit, so I visit a lot of Whole Foods-es.

Recently came back to the East Bay (SF) and the Whole Foods I'm staying near, more than the others, seems like a staging store for Buy Online & 1) Get Delivered, 2) Pick Up In Store.

There are often more WF employees shopping for pick-up orders than customers walking around the store. Navigating aisles that are full of these WF shoppers gives the store a pretty signficantly different feel than the other stores that I'm a regular at. Plus, the staging/storage area at the front for ready-orders is much bigger than at other stores.

Not as true at SF city WFs, or the ones in Reno, LA, Park City and Phoenix/Scottsdale that I'm familiar with.

I'm guessing this dynamic, plus "Just walk out" is where they're headed, at least in certain densities. And that's where some of the cashiers may be transitioned.

Maybe.. As for Transitions, I went with GEN 8.

There are 3 topics covered in the newsletter. It's number 3, scroll down.

I do own WPs, from a couple of years ago, for general use.

I walked into a WP store in the last couple of months and asked.. alas, I was told something different.

I needed progressives (tri-focals). WP doesn't do lenses like that.

My brand name frames were $200. Lenses were more than $300 on top of the frame price.

It's not just the frames.

SF BART was just as full today as it usually is. Headlines might be that big tech companies are telling staff to WFH and paying their hourly employees during this, but most people at most jobs are going about their lives per the usual, because everyone's locked into it.

So far.

There are usually two sides to this.. in some organizations, people really care about their own titles.

In other organizations, especially bigger ones, "Senior" and "Principal" and other kinds of add-ons to titles come with certain perks or responsibilities. For instance, if you're a "Senior" something at a big company I've worked at, you get a slightly bigger cube near the window/outer wall. This can only go to employees, not contractors, too.

The kind view on this is that it cuts down on disputes and disagreements on who gets what, and where, and why.