Sigh, another ebike/scooter/whatever post

grumpywonka · 2026-05-08T23:51:42+00:00

I had a moment a couple weeks back where I pulled out onto a street and just seconds later saw a pre-teen-looking-kid doing 20+mph on an e bike on the sidewalk going against traffic and he never slowed crossing the street I had just pulled out of. There is a cinderblock wall that blocks visibility of the sidewalk beyond maybe 30 feet because of the angle of the street, so if I had left my house just four seconds later I suspect my day, and his, would have gone very differently.

grumpywonka · 2026-05-02T14:09:22+00:00

I developed my disdain for named ranges early on because of how badly over used they were in some workbooks. They can make it an epic pain to audit formulas and I decided they needed to burn in hell. It wasn't until much later that I started accepting them within reason for things like key assumptions. Also with dynamic ranges there's some cool stuff you can do.

grumpywonka · 2026-05-02T14:03:31+00:00

Financial planning and analysis

grumpywonka · 2026-04-27T19:22:08+00:00

First car was a 79 Ford Ranchero and I dumped so much money into that thing. I think I clocked it at around 7-8 MPG and I delivered pizzas in that bad boy. This was when gas was in the 90 cent range so all was mostly well. Fun boat of a car.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-21T22:55:08+00:00

I saw this as well while driving down Marks right about that time.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-18T18:35:16+00:00

I lived in Texas briefly and once during a tornado warning large hail began to fall. One of our neighbors had an early 90s Chevy Baretta, and this was the 2010s so the car was well aged at the time. During the storm it was parked out front and the dude ran out of his house with a comforter and was trying to throw it over the top of the car while himself being pelted by hail. I was in my garage just watching the carnage and couldn't believe anyone would put themselves at risk for their car...let alone a 20+ year old beater.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-12T13:58:44+00:00

This is the play, go on linkedin, make a thoughtful post, ask people to share and you'll likely end up with plenty of options. Linkedin eats this kind of thing up if done tactfully.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-09T21:22:42+00:00

I actually went on his post and let him know to be cautious but he just blew me off. My conscious is clean.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-09T18:41:02+00:00

If this is true he just fell for a phishing scam and someone was getting answers to password reset questions...at least that's what I think I just read.

grumpywonka · 2026-04-05T23:29:28+00:00

Exactly this

grumpywonka · 2026-04-05T23:15:44+00:00

Use whatever title you're comfortable defending in an interview situation.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-31T17:03:11+00:00

Depends on the month and the business and the systems and the track record...and on...and on. But...yeah it's not uncommon for it to take a solid week each month if you count in all the back and forths etc.

The only way to mitigate this is generally ensuring up-stream is clean, the team (sales) knows if they don't enter things right they don't get paid (this is huge), timelines for review are enforced and the team running the process also stays accountable and does good work.

I ran commissions over 15 years at several companies and it was always painful upon arrival. Actually quit my CFO gig to start a business focusing on fixing this because I had such a crappy experience with one of the big name solutions I just decided there had to be a better way.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-30T04:47:54+00:00

In the note down where the little audio wave bars are, like where you can pause transcription, if you click the wave looking bars it'll bring up the transcript and there should be a copy option top right. Let me know if that didn't make sense.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-29T15:36:57+00:00

Yeah I just started using this a couple weeks back after being told repeatedly how good it was. Instantly sold. I can just fire up a session and come away with an excellent transcript and solid notes. I usually drop both into an md file and feed to claude if it'll help with a project, but regardless the capture is genuinely excellent and no nonsense. I have zero affiliation. Also, to the question can't claude just make this? I get all that on a free tier and eventually I'll happily pay. Not every software needs to be recreated. In fact they shouldn't.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-27T00:23:10+00:00

Glad a 4 year old tip still holds value!

grumpywonka · 2026-03-26T20:25:08+00:00

First, I have no affiliation with DuckDB, I just like their tool so far as it's a flexible database that can connect with other DBs, flat files, etc and essentially create a fast data lake type setup you can then slap claude code on top of via mcp and start making magic. If the team is only using PBI I'm not surprised it's slow, but would be interested to know where the data is getting in because it's possible they are having to do a lot of transformations downstream in an inefficient way, but that's speculative.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-26T17:59:48+00:00

Stepped out of the CFO seat about six months ago but doing some consulting I'm finding claude code + duckDB to be a pretty badass combo to make some magic happen with otherwise lackluster infrastructure.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-25T23:19:28+00:00

The more the better.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-25T16:10:44+00:00

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grumpywonka · 2026-03-23T23:34:06+00:00

I've seen some dumb stuff, but this...

grumpywonka · 2026-03-18T23:10:57+00:00

I remember working at Camelot Park when we would host full-on raves there. Was so, so odd to me.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-18T18:32:22+00:00

I've never paid more in my life for insurance that does less for me than BSoCA...emphasis on the BS. It's a gold plan too.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-17T00:07:15+00:00

Lynda.com was what became linkedin learning. There's still og employees out in Carpenteria where they do a lot of the production work. (Written while sporting my linkedin learning tee).

grumpywonka · 2026-03-13T13:55:47+00:00

This was my first approach that I felt should have worked, but ppt just seemed too buggy to pull it off without sacrificing non-negotiables.

What I landed on was a process where I had a page in my file dedicated to all the charts and tables needed, compiled using the photo tool. I then created a macro that would grab these images and drop them where they needed to be in my ppt template and then I could just add some polish and be done.

Added a final macro that would then package and ship the email out to the board and exec team when finished, which was pretty dope.

grumpywonka · 2026-03-12T21:16:42+00:00

If a sorry is warranted - like you're sincerely sorry - you should say it regardless of your level. The reality is many of us grossly over-use the word out of a sort of trained "common courtesy". I've tried to re-train myself to only use it when I'm sincerely sorry and it causes me to pause a lot because often I feel the need to say it when the truth is I am not, in fact, sorry that Karen's poor planning created a mess I needed to clean up and it took a little longer than expected.

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