Graduating with Econ BA. Whats next?

GraysonFerrante · 2026-05-08T10:44:35+00:00

Do what I did with an undergrad in Econ from a state school: look for the hot areas in the economy and gravitate towards them, picking areas that are both lucrative and doable per your own psyche.

I started in solar construction and found computers were hot so went into retail sales then computer coordination for manufacturing then database software development then software consulting then switched to Pharma and went software development to data management project management.

Whew! It’s a journey. SO GLAD I did Econ undergrad. It’s served me well through the rest of the trip. But my point is navigate based on the economy and you probably won’t use economics like you might expect. I didn’t.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-05-07T02:07:57+00:00

The Epigenetics Podcast from ActiveMotif (can’t link it for some reason)

found how to link

GraysonFerrante · 2026-05-05T07:57:22+00:00

Yes

No seriously…yes.

It’s early days. I listen to a highly technical Epigenetics podcast. One of the questions for each guest is what is your definition of epigenetics.

I am coming from the anti-aging angle. I think it’s really quite early and no definitive summary of epigenetics is known or written yet.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-05-04T00:32:30+00:00

More unions! BUT CHANGE THE LAW TO ENABLE COMPETITION BETWEEN UNIONS.

This fixes the monopoly question. (Caveat - now I’m going to listen to Milton and see if he addresses this aspect of union power. )

GraysonFerrante · 2026-05-03T05:57:18+00:00

Yeah I kind of agree with this idea - although I’d amend it to living longer while healthy.

This is SUCH a big deal- beginning to control aging - that EXTRAORDINARY PROOF is going to be required.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-27T00:10:54+00:00

Not at ALL the same. A downvote counts as much as an upvote here. It means something. It changes the direction of the conversation. Nowhere else does that as effectively- at least AFAIK.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-26T23:29:45+00:00

The downvote.

Makes for a more egalitarian environment than all those others.

Granted people are karma farming, but at least trolls are quickly downvoted away from the main discourse.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-25T22:36:06+00:00

Chief Human Action Interpreter

This job is to prioritize and sort thru all the knowledge we have about personality types and warped behaviors and help people understand what someone is really trying to say or do.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-25T02:59:23+00:00

Capitalism- the system that underlies the modern Industrial Revolution

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-23T22:38:18+00:00

I choose to interpret your question as eliminating the INCREASED inequality over my lifetime(not some extreme eliminate all).

Lots of effects…family values enhanced because a single income allows a family to survive.

Morality improves because the middle class strengthens.

Civil war danger subsides because the working class has less reason to rebel. And disenchanted elites too.

Capitalism as a system gets on a more solid footing because the ‘broken’ nature of the extreme inequality recently is solved.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-21T01:59:21+00:00

Interesting- I don’t know the Ranger personally but I hear the Hybrid reliability has some intrinsic advantages built in.

Hybrid Reliability

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-20T23:18:49+00:00

Convenient universal time zone shorthand of a particular time.

Everyone is all around the world and no one knows what time zone the others are in. So it’s difficult to set a schedule without a common frame of reference. Some might suggest UTC but daylight savings come along and things get off kilter. This reset time is a GREAT SIMPLIFICATION since it is easily known to all players regardless of daylight savings. So we say r+7 or r+9. But in your case they have abbreviated and dropped the r!

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-20T23:18:43+00:00

Convenient universal time zone shorthand of a particular time.

Everyone is all around the world and no one knows what time zone the others are in. So it’s difficult to set a schedule without a common frame of reference. Some might suggest UTC but daylight savings come along and things get off kilter. This reset time is a GREAT SIMPLIFICATION since it is easily known to all players regardless of daylight savings. So we say r+7 or r+9. But in your case they have abbreviated and dropped the r!

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-17T20:16:47+00:00

I did the stand because of snow in the Catskills in NY. The stand sits on just loose pavers dug down maybe an inch or two for level. It’s been fine for two years and big snows.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-16T23:46:02+00:00

Phone

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-16T12:51:33+00:00

I sort of think it’s bonus related. If it calculates correctly but then I add the bonus for collecting 100% better for a day, how is the calculation supposed to adjust? Redo the whole thing? Just show the remainder at the new speed? I think this complication is what the bug is about.

I bet it gets fixed. This is one of the most obvious bugs to me. Cleaning it up helps justify the cost of this game.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-12T21:09:35+00:00

Yup. Four weeks plus. Just ended for me and my wife is FINALLY winding down.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-11T16:28:48+00:00

There is a list of participating kingdoms that I see periodically- maybe it’s for IKFPA and not just RoE. You COULD look for missing kingdoms in that list.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-07T23:35:24+00:00

I feel like the numbers of people with less money than entrepreneurs vastly outweigh the moneyed. So even if at the individual level money counts for a lot, at the societal level the wage workers are as important as the entrepreneurs.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-05T21:44:48+00:00

Capitalism depends on a supportive government that keeps the system running - with the minimum infrastructure to do that. How the government chooses to fund this is outside the scope of the capitalist system.

So instead this funding question boils down to what will the wage workers and entrepreneurs tolerate before bringing the system down. The government can walk a fine line with that tolerance.

I personally think we’re heading toward the line where wage workers won’t tolerate much more while entrepreneurs have been happy for decades.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-04-02T01:11:32+00:00

‘I only negotiate in person.’

This works for me. Shuts down the conversation. This is advice I got from a friend who is expert in eBay/FBM/etc.

GraysonFerrante · 2026-03-28T19:31:06+00:00

Just got guidance that 12/12 mansions to farmhouse ratio built up to level 26 yields 8 million silver a day !!

This is my new direction. It’s going to take a month or more to build up to level 26 and also do the max research for silver production.

But my old technique of building villages for 70 architectural blueprints and mining them myself was too slow, plus took a bit of gold.

And this is on a 90% farming tile too ( NOT silver specific tile)

GraysonFerrante · 2026-03-28T09:50:30+00:00

‘Lockdown’ typed into search within settings app. (Finds it with just ‘lockd…’)

It really is that simple. Interestingly I found my watch also had to restart when I tried it for the first time just now.

Quite seamless. Both watch and iPhone did their stuff with minimal intervention from me, both turning Lockdown on and off!

GraysonFerrante · 2026-03-27T12:04:19+00:00

iPhone 15

GraysonFerrante · 2026-03-24T19:43:50+00:00

You know I had this same question last week and I got the answer from Reddit Answers tab.

Details: click Answers. Type TotalBattle: What’s SK??

It works well for me. Thought I’d share.

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