totablebanjo

The hoops I have to jump through for a prescription I’ve been on for multiple years is ridiculous. My insurance will wrongly think I’ve filled it at a CVS I sent the script to hoping they’d have it in stock and then I sometimes end up paying out of pocket because otherwise I am exhausted all day and have limited capacity to do tasks.

The meds themselves have dramatically improved my life by being more capable of getting tasks and work done. Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.

It’s 8% cut per year over 5 years which is quite a bit.

“Television, he always said, is inhuman to children because it gives them answers to questions they never asked. It did this for purposes of control.” From the article - Wow

If you don’t give them the answer they might have a moment where they discover something on their own.

“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” J. Robert Oppenheimer (I read this quote today in the book, the medium is the massage, by McLuhan.)

Postwar by Tony Judt. Published in 2005, it covers 1945 Postwar Europe to ~2005. Good coverage of not just the major Western European countries like the UK, Germany, and France, but attention is paid to the Eastern European countries and Soviet Union. The US of course comes into the picture at parts, but the book is firmly focused on Europe. I found the economic development, political attitudes and party shifts, and the coverage of the Soviet Union and countries behind the iron curtain.

I am looking for a follow up and may read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, Stalin by Kotkin, or The Free World by Mendand. Suggestions appreciated

A counterpoint to your last statement is that if Zillow really knew residential real estate they wouldn’t have had such large losses this quarter.

It really calls into question their pricing algorithm, but I give them credit for actually trying to get into buying and selling properties.

Thank you for pointing out the starting course of the sequence!

Ah, that’s a fair point and I can definitely see that working out.

Do you really think you’ll be treated the same by management if you pull that?

I recommend a novel called Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips that is set on Kamchatka and a good amount in Petropav­lovsk. It is very much not a wilderness survival book, but more of a mystery and social commentary book.

What are you working towards now? How did your outlook change?

Putting aside the awful human toll... I’m looking forward to reading and hearing from demand planners/time series forecasters about how they responded. Both in terms of updating models as well and how they communicated within their companies. One idea to alleviate the future forecasting challenges raise from this would be to add an explanatory variable/flag this time period. Another challenge will be if there are aftershocks and waves of social distancing required which could lead to more panic buying.