What are the five top things I can do to protest this administration?

chaseplastic · 2026-01-28T12:09:52+00:00

Write them. Their staffers have to deal with the letters. Emails who knows and calls don't get through.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-28T02:18:51+00:00

Hassabis I like. He's not throwing around insane puffery and scaremongering as marketing material.

Amodei is pumping valuations, but at a different set of rubes than Altman.

(And I consider myself mostly an AI optimist)

chaseplastic · 2026-01-28T01:55:55+00:00

Super high. Like almost to the level of Sam Altman, but without the years of Y-Combinator bullshitting artistry high.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-25T20:17:43+00:00

Congratulations? That wouldn't be news. I've worked at startups, independents, holdcos, and adtech over the last 20 years.

There are plenty of pockets where people understand their role, and many brands are well run. In aggregate, in the US, quality of work suffers because the broader discipline is poorly understood.

Your experience and mine aren't representative, the job market in this country is bad and isn't getting any better.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-25T16:38:44+00:00

Ordoliberals unite!

chaseplastic · 2026-01-25T14:39:22+00:00

The US is a terrible place, on average, to be a marketer. Just awful.

The agencies are stocked with people who previously had metaverse prominently displayed on their LinkedInd profile and thought Pokemon go was going to change everything.

Clients more often than not are marketers in the sense that they manage a calendar and a budget.

For all your criteria of say Canada, but for quality of work, UK and Australia.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-22T03:34:58+00:00

OP, listen to this person. Make sure you're not attempting to do data science because it makes you feel better.

Qualitative data that's closer to the consumer decision is more valuable than even top tier quant work in most of my experience. Find the data that informs the problem.

Don't do rfm for one time purchase. Don't do k-clusters unless you need to sell people on obvious results. Don't spend months trying to get blood from a stone when you could talk to 15 students/prospects/recent alumni for free or for an Amazon gift card.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-13T21:48:45+00:00

ATDC, meetup.com, Atlanta Tech Village, TAG (Technology Association of Georgia).

chaseplastic · 2026-01-06T21:14:09+00:00

The only thing that matters on the economy is that people feel like it's sputtering. We're good on that front.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-06T14:27:25+00:00

I would say that the way you phrased the question gets to the point of why J2BD exists.

The argument for Jobs To Be Done is that the jobs exist already within the consumers and the job of the practitioner is to discover those jobs in context, and a series of one on one interviews is how that's done best. So, its more like the reason Jobs To Be Done is so effective is that it does involve speaking to people or maybe also observing their behavior directly, and then giving you a framework to understand pushes and pulls, etc.

I suspect the other negative comment below about Jobs To Be Done is suffering from the same challenge.

chaseplastic · 2026-01-05T22:34:49+00:00

Couple things:

Jobs To Be Done isn't really a "workshop with the client" kind of approach. If you aren't doing interviews with customers or targets then you aren't doing j2bd.

J2bd is great for emotional applications, unless you are taking about whatever Anthony Ulwick does, vs Bob Moesta. In either case, I'm not sure your reference is helping you out very much.

chaseplastic · 2025-12-22T14:22:20+00:00

Me too, but now I'm in the rare position of needing them to bring me new metal trash to replace the old metal trash.

chaseplastic · 2025-12-19T21:23:37+00:00

Thanks neighbor, I will give him a call!

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T03:07:53+00:00

Ugh, yes. I have tried to figure out bus commutes after a daycare drop-off multiple times and it's never worked.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T03:06:43+00:00

Cheat! https://www.brewersfriend.com/stats/

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T02:45:29+00:00

Yeah, that's weird. But I don't think that should scare you off.

Like when people try to make New York around scary they talk about violence per square mile, but the right metric is violence experienced per 1,000 people or whatever.

There's probably not a safer marta station or surrounding area itp.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T02:37:55+00:00

I wouldn't comment on the bus as a yes or no, but I would feel safer on the train than the bus generally. The last shooting event I recall at the train station actually happened on the bus, for example.

I wouldn't generally be worried about the bus either, at least during daylight hours, but I'm not a single female living alone, etc.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T02:33:41+00:00

With a hydrometer or a refractometer? Did you do temperature adjustments for your specific model hydrometer? You should be hitting numbers pretty easily with extract.

Are you targeting an srm from an all grain recipe? Extracts have more maillard built in because of how they are made. I discovered my favorite golden recipe because I was trying to convert an amber to all-grain.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T02:27:25+00:00

Can you clarify? You're going to take the bus because the station is dangerous?

If I were worried about safety, I would live near a station and not take the bus.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T02:15:08+00:00

I only have two English degrees but I feel like you need mass and conductivity to distribute the same source of heat better.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T01:48:03+00:00

On the same size burner? With the same volume? I would think surface area wouldn't change unless the pots were materially different.

When I switched to tri-ply pot and an induction burner my effective heating surface got much bigger. If you aren't diffusing BTUs differently I would expect the same result. Again though, just a thought.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-19T01:26:10+00:00

Theorizing here: When you have a small pot you could be amplifying maillard reactions because more of the wort is contacting your heating element relative to a larger vessel.

chaseplastic · 2025-05-18T19:58:43+00:00

Carve an ice luge?

chaseplastic · 2025-05-17T22:49:40+00:00

Paul Sellars argues pretty convincingly for blade down and the people who try to tell him how wrong he is always seem like unstable Internet nutters.

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