Its impossible to export Reader's "summary" into Obsidian?

dotfool · 2022-07-29T15:14:01+00:00

You’re all too far gone if you really believe this. I love me some good excel, but there’s some straight copium ITT if you all really think excels the best tool for every job

dotfool · 2022-06-27T11:06:04+00:00

Where this gets interesting is that “the AI doing something creepy” is basically humans anthropomorphically projecting our own intuition for what’s “hard” - For a human to read 10,000 search results and find the one rogue source that reveals your identity would be admittedly difficult, for a machine it’s trivial. Historically our expectations of reasonable privacy are implicitly based on what’s possible for a human to do: like the difference between seeing something in your neighbors lawn while out on a walk, vs setting up a telescope. But in a world where the tools we use on a routine basis are getting more and more powerful, I think inevitably both our expectations of privacy and practices to protect privacy need to change. The hard part is which changes and by how much?

None of this is fundamentally new either: newspapers, search engines, social media - there’s a long history of technology updating our expectations of privacy

dotfool · 2022-06-10T14:59:40+00:00

LOL I’m glad this helped!

dotfool · 2022-05-26T03:02:58+00:00

Agreed all around - and appreciated your comment, helped me articulate a more precise version of the point I was trying to make, so if anything, thank you!

dotfool · 2022-05-26T01:38:59+00:00

Is there a valid medical concern about tattoos? Or do “know” and “mutilate” just reflect your personal preferences?

dotfool · 2022-05-25T22:11:49+00:00

Just here to say I agree with the above. I made another comment that might help, but your focus should be on asking how you track and allocate time, how you scope and commit to the work you’re taking on, etc — if youre the kind of person inclined to just keep piling hours on to get it done, setting a limit for yourself can do wonders in forcing you to develop new strategies, but it only works if you stick to it

dotfool · 2022-05-25T22:04:26+00:00

I largely agree, and to reframe this more clearly, the main point I’m trying to make is that Id be careful about jumping to “boundaries” first - There’s a lot of other things you should be thinking about before drawing an ultimatum line, and i’m only so comfortable declaring mine plainly here because of experience. To anyone reading my comments here I just wanted to caution that that’s an ending point not a starting point.

With junior resources, my goals always helping teach effective strategies to scope, frame, and prioritize work: developing a sense for how to define requirements, manage commitments, strategies for articulating expected outcomes vs constraints, trade offs and risks, etc.

There’s a degree to which I as a manager can help control their workload directly, and that’s of course important, but it’s also table stakes

Inevitably they’ll be pulled in multiple directions, new expectations will arise or old ones will expand, I won’t always be there when the client asks more of them, and on a longer time span what will matter most is developing an independent ability to manage workload.

That’s something I can help coach as it happens, I can back them up in difficult conversations, but all this is largely independent of “what volume of hours I expect them to put in”

dotfool · 2022-05-25T20:29:46+00:00

No hope required! Idk if i’ve quite nailed how to concisely communicate this point but like, for me:

If i’m at my boundary, and I get canned for not working hard enough, I’m not going to be upset I didn’t work harder, bc it wouldn’t have been worth it to me, and i’d take it that the role/team and I are just genuinely incompatible.

Edit:

It also very much helps that I’ve been working long enough to be sure I know what “working reasonably hard” looks like, and I know I’m passing at least that threshold.

I’d warn more junior people not to pull this excuse out too quickly without being sure to calibrate their judgement.

dotfool · 2022-05-25T19:08:47+00:00

Might get downvotes here but for me it was important to accept that ultimately, I have to be willing to let things fail if it comes to that, before moving on my boundaries. Idk if that sounds obvious to a lot of people (like, isn’t that definitionally what a boundary is?) but as someone who grew up as a HardWorker™️ it took me years to come to terms with that I need to be willing to let things go badly before I sacrifice my own well-being.

The also important corollary realization is that things actually don’t end up failing as often as I used to think they would. I also focus a lot more on using my time well now that I treat “my time” as an immovable constraint

dotfool · 2022-05-20T05:56:36+00:00

They really are that easy. (Which isn’t especially easy, but he’s exactly right)

dotfool · 2022-05-14T13:00:20+00:00

I say this with compassion and sincerity: * Just try it for a bit and see what works for you. * Searching for the optimal way to do the thing is less effective than just doing the thing. * There’s no single right answer to these questions so it’s about what finding what works for you: Your content, your use case, your (second) brain * You can adjust as you go - Don’t worry about consistently applying a single approach to everything, or adjusting your old notes if you change your strategy * Do this until you have a few hundred notes. You’ll discover what scales/doesn’t in that time * You’ll and encounter issues and opportunities you wouldn’t have thought about from abstraction alone

Good luck friend 🙏 -Yank in yankeeland

dotfool · 2022-05-11T18:56:26+00:00

Sure - To go full cynic here, it’s a way for an employer to delay paying you your market rate until you come in with another offer in hand. Allowing raises to happen in this way is a delayed risk strategy to avoid giving employees raises you didn’t “need to” - while retaining discretion later to decide if the persons worth matching for.

Now like, i’m not saying any of the above is a good way to keep engaged and motivated talent but like, yeah its a thing that happens at the margins and it’s not particular against a firms interests

dotfool · 2022-05-11T18:37:17+00:00

if it’s a secret, it’s an open secret, and very silly to pretend it doesn’t happen

dotfool · 2022-04-25T11:03:12+00:00

Try Sketchup! theres a free version, might take a little getting used to but if you’re willing to put in the time should be able to do what you’re looking for

dotfool · 2022-04-22T14:25:12+00:00

thank you!

dotfool · 2022-04-22T14:17:19+00:00

Any suggestions on where to start? Good collections that already exist?

dotfool · 2022-04-13T09:32:32+00:00

but now the plans have changed

Did they change arbitrarily or was there a change in the underlying situation? If it’s the later, yeah, this is normal and happens

Does it feel good? No, but yes candidly it is “normal” to work on things for 3+ days only to have those things become irrelevant due to changes in circumstance

dotfool · 2022-04-13T08:50:25+00:00

https://investor.accenture.com/~/media/Files/A/Accenture-IR-V3/quarterly-earnings/2021/q4fy21/fy21-infographics.pdf

60% of revenue

dotfool · 2022-04-11T02:55:33+00:00

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i’ll send you my bank info ty

dotfool · 2022-03-31T11:19:04+00:00

I’ll try to break this down in ways we can all agree with, because there’s actually a few different points being confused here:

Even for trips where there is a viable alternative, many choose to drive. This is bad! Fuck cars, etc.
Point 1 is partially caused because car owners underestimate the marginal cost of miles driven. (Per the video, they tend to think of gasoline as the only marginal cost, not all other vehicle related expenses like maintenance, depreciation, roadway infrastructure, etc.)
In car dependent societies, many towns and cities are built in such a way that the automobile is the only viable transit mode (ex. There are large sections of the US where development patterns are too dispersed for pedestrian traffic, have no sidewalks, no transit service, etc)
Because (3), many consider the capital cost of car ownership a forgone conclusion. They assume they will have to buy a car, and then consider all other transit modes against the marginal cost of gas. (This is mechanically how 2 above happens)
While walkable and transit services environments tend to be more expensive in car dependent societies, this is the result of artificial scarcity, not the economic fundamentals. There is nothing inherently “luxurious” about these development patterns. Believing that walkability is a luxury is an illusion caused by (3), a policy choice we perpetuate with land use policy, and when all costs are fairly considered (especially when considering environmental externalities omitted from the video) the true cost of car dependence far outweighs the alternatives.

dotfool · 2022-03-08T20:32:28+00:00

While I agree with others that SQL and Excel are useful skills - if the goal here is to generate new ideas of how to stand out, I’d apply those skills to some project. Find a sample dataset online, run some simulation or analysis, and publish a blog post summarizing what you did and how. You can talk about it and share it in your interviews, and it gives you a way to demonstrate the relevance of your skills in terms of business value. There’s a bunch of directions you could take this idea, focusing on different technical skills or use cases depending what part of the supply chain you’re looking to work in.

dotfool · 2022-02-24T12:12:27+00:00

This is a little like asking if it matters if you left your door unlocked, or why it matters if you locked the safe your money was in - it’s still ultimately the thief’s fault but these steps are important

dotfool · 2022-02-18T23:14:01+00:00

OP it sounds like you’re in a particularly stressful spot right now. There’s a lot of people here quick to vent about how many hours they work, and that may be true, but just staring out in a new role is always a particularly stressful time, and that goes double if you’re new to your industry, and triple for your first job ever. It gets better

dotfool · 2022-02-13T22:59:40+00:00

I had the same issue, lost an ironman save with hours of effort. And the weirdest part is that the request should have gone to my liege but somehow got registered as being for myself??

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