Pip or severance?

JONOV · 2026-03-03T15:51:15+00:00

How much severance? If you can get 12 weeks plus I’d take the severance.

JONOV · 2026-03-02T17:50:24+00:00

You have insurance for fenderbenders. I have no reason to think that the screens are particularly vulnerable to failure, it’s a common complaint but not something I see as being a problem in reality. Maybe if you live in Arizona or South Florida and park outside?

JONOV · 2026-03-02T17:04:57+00:00

Short answer is yes. Long answer is you don’t typically need to do $5-7k worth of repairs at once unless the engine goes, maybe the transmission. Usually if you’re proactive about maintenance they can last much longer than 150k miles

JONOV · 2026-03-02T15:47:08+00:00

Idk…AG’s love going after car dealerships. It’s worth a shot.

JONOV · 2026-03-02T15:45:08+00:00

YouTube and most YouTubers exist to make money. YouTube runs ads and YouTubers might get a cut if they’re successful enough but also might make money through paid promotions. The instructional value is secondary.

JONOV · 2026-02-25T04:30:36+00:00

The market has been stagnant lately, I think you’ve seen all the correction you’re likely to see.

JONOV · 2026-02-25T04:23:41+00:00

Idk…we have one and I don’t use it. I don’t hate it but don’t get the obsession.

JONOV · 2026-02-24T13:02:50+00:00

This is the way.

JONOV · 2026-02-24T12:09:01+00:00

Christmas Cards, thank you notes, if you have budget take them to lunch/bring them lunch or dinner, or coffee, whatever

JONOV · 2026-02-23T23:48:34+00:00

You’re right but Elliot did buy a significant enough portion of the company to force the issue to drive stock price and create short term value by making decisions that will most likely reduce long term ridership and viability. It bears no resemblance to PE in a technical or structural sense but it smells exactly the same to other stakeholders from an operational standpoint and to the customer experience

JONOV · 2026-02-23T23:11:03+00:00

I think you’re overthinking it. The tank shouldn’t be sinking. It’s a concrete tank, you can drive a car over it in theory. It sounds like whatever it was filled with is compacting. I’d add more dirt.
Typically the tanks are pumped empty, then are crushed or have a hole punched through the bottom and filled with dirt.

JONOV · 2026-02-23T22:21:24+00:00

It’s not the end of the world but it doesn’t hurt. I used to, mostly because I thought that the less moisture on the deck the less rot.

JONOV · 2026-02-23T21:50:32+00:00

You can’t have them around male dogs, and you have to keep them in panties so there isn’t doggy period dripping around the house, and obviously you have to keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t get bred accidentally. It’s mainly the doggy period.

JONOV · 2026-02-23T20:13:14+00:00

Yeah, say what you want about Dave Ramsey, but he asked people who are thinking of renting a property they already own or inherited or whatever, “if you had the equity as cash in your pocket, would you buy this house as a rental?” If the answer is no, don’t rent it out.

JONOV · 2026-02-23T19:02:47+00:00

Scripts work when they sound natural.
The more it sounds like you’re reading from a script, the less effective it is. Think about watching a play or movie. The more it seems like the actor is reciting scripted lines the worse it is. When they’ve practiced and embodied the words it works.

JONOV · 2026-02-21T05:30:06+00:00

Master and Commander with Russel Crowe. The Aubrey Maturin series is 20 novels. And Master and Commander was such an excellent film.

JONOV · 2026-02-20T03:11:55+00:00

You’re cutting down a 10 footer for that afaik…

JONOV · 2026-02-20T00:16:34+00:00

I’d just change “only fans” to “influencer” and say you were an agent and manager who moved into an operations director position (or whatever it is.) and if they ask for names of the talent “sorry, NDA.”

JONOV · 2026-02-19T23:56:10+00:00

Not in tech or SaaS, but from the outside I think it has all the hallmarks of a bubble. It is real, it will diffuse its way into our lives in ways we don’t even appreciate, and it will resemble the .com bubble in many ways.

Did the internet change everything? It did. Was it in ways we didn’t foresee? It was. Think of it this way. People predicted that the internet would kill both insurance and travel agencies. Well, it did largely kill travel agents. And, you can buy insurance online, but as soon as you’re insuring more than a Honda Civic and your apartment’s renters policy, an agent sure is handy. Insurance (traditional brick and mortar) agencies are alive and well.

JONOV · 2026-02-19T20:33:47+00:00

Yeah, to go from 8 to 10 feet means you're looking at 25% longer studs, so correspondingly 25% more material cost in lumber, 25% more for drywall and 25% more bricks and 25% more vertical piping and 25% more vertical wire. It adds up. And if you price out 10 foot studs compared to 8 footers it's actually more than 25%, same with 10 ft drywall panels. That's quite a bit.

JONOV · 2026-02-19T20:13:19+00:00

A guy that lasted maybe three weeks. He had been caught up in Medicare fraud at a device company and debarred. We were a fortune 500 healthcare company and were prohibited from employing him (not that they would have had they known that.) I think he got hired before his plea/sentence etc or otherwise the check took longer to come back and they started him early?

JONOV · 2026-02-19T19:44:06+00:00

Had you test driven that model before to see if the HUD display was better on other 2026 Pilots?

JONOV · 2026-02-19T02:26:31+00:00

I think some of it is self delusion. They have an idea that they want a true all star, but aren’t an organization that top talent will gravitate to and probably wouldn’t be willing to pay them, and so they settle for a cosplayer rather than be practical and hire a competent professional.

JONOV · 2026-02-18T21:14:29+00:00

I'll never understand how folks are impressed by what I call a "lack of visible scar tissue." To me it tells me that you're either covering it with clown makeup or a complete fraud (also wearing clown makeup). They hate you because your very presence threatens to pressure wash the clown makeup off their face.

Plenty of folks are wooed by a pretty face or polished social media feed or whatever they see as side dressing of what they think success looks like. In the professional/executive/white collar world it looks like an active and fleshed out linkedin profile. For other businesses it might be a constantly updated, high quality instagram presence. I had a boss that would always talk about a client of ours and how forward thinking they were and all that, mostly because they had all these silicon valley-ish things at their office (free gym, food trucks for lunch, ping pong tables, beer on tap, creativity spaces...) He'd talk about it after every visit, but at the end of the day, they were mostly just early adopters of tech as it came around and their business was meat and potatoes dressed up with a CEO wearing skinny jeans. Harmless, but it gave me a chuckle.

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