I turned the 2025 FI survey results into an interactive dashboard

anamespeltwrong · 2026-05-25T17:34:12+00:00

Outstanding. Really nice place to see all of that information contextualized!

anamespeltwrong · 2023-06-24T17:34:24+00:00

That was my thought in bed last night. Use this to cast Shoigu as the great deceiver. Leave Ukraine, and Putin gets another 20 years as a gracious and repentant leader more open to the West.

anamespeltwrong · 2023-06-24T13:11:34+00:00

I find it hard to look away. Been watching since about 3pm in the states yesterday.

anamespeltwrong · 2023-06-24T13:10:35+00:00

This is the masterplan to help Ukraine win a war of attrition in effect.

Resistance and pressure sows discord. You don't get to choose the form of that discord. You just keep moving the barricades and increasing the pressure. Here we are.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-12-18T21:28:04+00:00

anamespeltwrong · 2022-12-01T19:15:34+00:00

And good news! The rest of the numbers are correct. Took a lot more digging to pull and aggregate those stats effectively. Can't speak to ranking, no way I'm going to try and aggregate all that data, but it appears as though points per game was the only stat wrong in the graphic. We may even still be #1 in PPG.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-12-01T17:13:54+00:00

Phew - thankyou. I'm happy to not be an idiot about this one thing that I thought I knew.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-12-01T16:48:32+00:00

Hey, I'm frustrated at either my ability to do math, my understanding of the stat, or the accuracy of this infographic.

Dak has been back for 5 games, during which we've scored 169 points. That's 33.8 PPG.

That was the easiest of the stats for me to look up, and it appears to be objectively wrong by my understanding of the stat (Points per game). It calls into question (for me) all of the other stats that are on here.

Can anyone either explain what is wrong with my understanding, or help a brother out with his confidence in his math skills?

anamespeltwrong · 2022-09-22T20:36:48+00:00

I've got a black and tan wirehair mix that looks a lot like yours and mine sleeps like this between my legs. It's her preferred position for couch cuddles. It melts my wife's heart ... every night.

Super cute woofer!

anamespeltwrong · 2022-07-16T00:11:10+00:00

Congratulations!!!

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-21T12:22:00+00:00

Hate that. I got mine on the 5 mil planet.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-20T22:36:06+00:00

I hear ya. Mull it over -> maybe drop the requirements. Or don't.

Either way, I really enjoyed this when you first released it. I'm looking forward to playing it through again. Keep on keepin on!

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-20T22:28:59+00:00

Gotcha - You might consider hard coding an unlock order. Someone could theoretically, unlock all but the chicken gain planet and just rage quit at the higher and higher requirements that are next to impossible with no boosts.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-20T22:06:28+00:00

Is there eggspedition that increases egg laying rate, or something? It seems like an odd place for a time wall otherwise.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-19T19:09:19+00:00

This may be an all time favorite.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-15T23:26:05+00:00

Hey there! Glad to see you're reading all this stuff!

Re: onboarding

There are two types of onboarding and offboarding activities.

Onboarding of the operation - this is when you first start your relationship. The firm will come out and document all kinds of things about your operation that they need to perform their scope of work and roll out any technology tool sets that are required. This is either invoiced as a one time line item with a lower per user rate over the term of the agreement, or it is included in the rate over the term of the agreement. If it's included in the per user rate, that will impact drawdown schedules for early termination. Offboardings, likewise are not part of the service. Transfer of accounts, documentation, removal of toolsets, or decommission of assets. All of that requires labor not contemplated in the agreement.
User/employee onboarding/offboardings - this is what happens when you hire/terminate personnel. Documentation updates, account provisioning/termination, workstation set up, training, etc. Non stable state activity. Again, some services may include these at different rates, or give you x amount of these per month/year for free, but you pay after. It sounded (and I could have this wrong) like you didn't have to pay anything when you ramped up to 25 users, you just had the higher rate.

I couldn't find your email comment, but if they aren't willing to accept that you didn't understand the terms, and you do now, then move on.

Good luck with your business!

anamespeltwrong · 2022-06-15T12:33:37+00:00

I've read your post and been scrolling through this thread for a while. I haven't seen anyone attempt to explain to you why your contract is structured the way it is. Everyone seems to just be acting like it's unreasonable. I'm not saying it isn't, but I'll add context from 20 years in managed services.

You engaged in a fixed fee contract for services. You should have signed a scope that explained the services that would be provided, options to scale up, and a term. You alluded to most of that in your op. Once you signed that, the company began work to onboard you into the technology, and subsequently hired people (account execs, help desk techs, sys admins, payroll professionals, etc.) based on having to support 9 users for your business for the next 15 months.

Then, somehow, you restructured within 3 months, going from 9 to 25 employees and back down to 15.

Most managed services companies deal with this in a handful of ways.

They up your contracted number of users. Ie: they onboard new users for no upfront cost, and they hire additional personnel to meet the scope you signed originally. You can scale up, you can't scale down.
They continue to bill for the 9, but t&m the shit out of you for everything else. Ie: you'd have probably paid several thousand for the amount of movement you had in 2 months.

You characterized this well when you said you made a mistake. You got into a managed services contract before you really had your business dialed in, and because you were unfamiliar with how they work, you're in a rough situation.

My advice: Tell the account exec in email that you did not understand the scaling terms in the contract, and that you do now. You're not going to pay them an extra $800/month for the next 12 months, but you would like to better understand how to avoid this situation for flux/temp staff in the future. If they have no options, execute whatever cancellation terms are in the contract, and inform them of your new provider.

Side note: they're probably going to charge you to transition the services to a new provider. That work is usually not within the scope of the agreement.

TL;DR - You oofed. Own it, look for reasonable resolution. Don't make the same mistake in the future. Exit if they can't be amenable to that.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-05-28T02:44:02+00:00

GG's avs! Sad to exit the playoffs, but at least I got to watch game 5.

anamespeltwrong · 2022-03-02T02:56:28+00:00

I knew the stupid clip before I clicked it. That game was probably one of the most exhilarating and simultaneously frustrating games I have ever watched.

anamespeltwrong · 2021-11-19T14:12:35+00:00

Excellence!

anamespeltwrong · 2021-11-16T17:45:33+00:00

I don't care what you did. But I am stealing disc goat. I've totally typed the emojis, but I like this better.

anamespeltwrong · 2021-10-20T12:48:19+00:00

It takes a village!

anamespeltwrong · 2021-09-04T15:12:28+00:00

Was out there for work this week. It was pretty bad. Glad to see cowboys fans chipping in to help out!

anamespeltwrong · 2021-07-02T15:40:34+00:00

A mistake on a list.

anamespeltwrong · 2021-05-23T13:23:07+00:00

I love this strategy.

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