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This is great. Wish list: expand this or make separate website to track prices for Chipotle, Chick-Fil-A, In-N-Outs, McDonalds and other fast food chains.

Chipotle Tacos are much better IMO. You can get 2 Tacos for about $8-$9 on West Coast.

May be time for Unionization in Tech to stabilize things and protect tech workers? There is already unionization in some parts of Europe.

Having been laid off myself in engineering leadership position towards end of 2022 so I can totally correlate this. I had FAANG offer but it was pulled back due to budget cuts towards end of 2022. I continued to interview. Got another offer in April 2023 but that was pulled back too because of indecision by leadership for more than a month. I then found a IC contracting role in the middle of 2023. The job market is even more tough for leadership positions. Also there are lot of people being silently laid off from smaller companies every month which doesn’t show up at trackers at layoffs.fyi.

I’m currently shuttling back and forth between SF and Seattle and I would like to stay in a similar pod in Seattle though. I am currently renting $1000 per month for a room in someone’s house where I hardly stay for 50% of the time.

That is one instrument to deincentivizing accumulation of more than 1 property. Increasing supply is definitely another one but as I mentioned that earlier most of those rental units get acquired by richer landlords. One can also make those investment property mortgages much higher.

I think one of the cause is we don’t tax the landlords higher for the investment property. That’s why lot of upper middle class and HNIs have lot of investment properties around the country. It’s so easy to buy and rent out properties without even seeing them ever. One of my friend who works at Microsoft in Seattle, owns 4 properties around US(3 in WA and 1 in TX). It was so easy to get cheap mortgages between 2017-21 if you had 100-200k lying around.

This article doesn’t explain why running is so good for you. Running can be good and provides some benefits to your heart, lung and joint health. Good for your mind if you are doing it in moderation. My heart readings improved significantly year over year based on lab results. But if you do too much running it can affect your mental and physical health adversely too.

I haven’t used Angular but I have used Nest and I agree with this sentiment. Java Spring’s annotations are similar to Nest’s custom decorators.

I like Will Larson’s most of the articles but this one seems all over the place. Shouldn’t engineering strategy be defined by 1. Customer’s needs first and then 2. Internal stakeholders like developers, marketing, product, analytics etc. needs 3. Company values and principles could be the next guiding principle.

I think if you work backwards engineering strategy should become more clear. That’s the part I found strongly missing in that article.

I think there should have been a poll for this question to quickly gauge. 1. When people were laid off? A. Before Q4 2022 B. Q4 2022 C. Q1 2023 E. My job is fine 2. Were you able to find a job? A. Yes B. No 3. How long did it take to find job? A. < 1 month B. 1-3 months C. 3-6 months D. > 6 months 4. How many offers did you get? A. 1 B. 2-3 C. 4+

It’s 60-days from your last pay check. I had some severance which extends that period.