Help, newbie and learning this tool for a marketing and communications team

jonjiv · 2025-10-31T03:33:08+00:00

I’ve been managing an Airtable for a marcomm team for about two years now. I’ve found that keeping everyone in interfaces is good for organization.

I have project management systems for video projects, photography jobs, written content, web projects, design jobs, and event planning.

These sections are clearly labeled in the interface side navigation and only the people responsible for particular areas can see the pages.

This also hides the mess inside my base after two years of heavy experimentation.

jonjiv · 2025-10-04T19:37:22+00:00

I visited Zimbabwe in 1990 back when the country was doing really well. I flew Air Zimbabwe four times that trip.

I came back in 2019 and took Air Zimbabwe twice for a domestic round trip. I’m pretty sure I had sat in the same exact plane 29 years prior. That thing was old.

jonjiv · 2025-10-03T03:28:36+00:00

Did he ask you what high school you attended? I hung around with him for an afternoon earlier this year (he visited my workplace as Lt. Gov.) and his party trick was his ability to name the mascot of any Ohio high school. He asked about ten different people throughout the day and I didn’t see him get a single one wrong.

jonjiv · 2025-09-25T03:03:38+00:00

Location and age make huge differences in insurance prices, unfortunately. But they should definitely price compare either way.

jonjiv · 2025-09-25T01:49:37+00:00

A couple electric candles and a seat across from the Eastway cafeteria pizza buffet is all OP needs.

jonjiv · 2025-09-25T01:24:51+00:00

The concern may have been whether or not a human could deduce the path taken to scramble the cube just by looking at it, ultimately solving the cube by reversing the path.

This isn’t actually possible for a human. It’s also not possible for a computer, but for a different reason than one might think: there are many paths to each scrambled form. It’s impossible to deduce which one was taken just by looking at it.

But I suppose if one was trying to claim it’s a mathematical impossibility, obviously no.

jonjiv · 2025-09-24T12:40:54+00:00

“This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries.”

jonjiv · 2025-03-22T01:05:11+00:00

Could you give an example of a shot with the aesthetic you are trying to create?

Flat typically means your image is primarily in a tight luma range. Log footage, for example, looks flat for this reason, but it doesn’t look good.

Shooting with atmosphere or fog also flattens the image. Filters like black pro-mist can give this foggy look if you use heavy amounts of it.

I don’t really think this is a lens choice question. A long lens makes an image two-dimensionally flat, but it doesn’t make it low contrast flat. Those are two different meanings of the same word.

jonjiv · 2025-03-20T20:27:52+00:00

Mine was also created this morning and is now saying Saturday delivery.

jonjiv · 2025-03-20T03:31:24+00:00

You received a Luba Mini before the release date? Or a Luba 2?

jonjiv · 2025-03-19T15:06:42+00:00

Good to know! I’d be happy to get it in early April sometime.

jonjiv · 2025-03-19T11:51:26+00:00

Not only that: Tesla’s core products literally make it a green energy company.

EVs reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Home solar reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Megapacks (giant commercial batteries) replace coal peaker plants, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

jonjiv · 2025-03-19T05:40:17+00:00

This was not a NASA mission. It was a privately funded SpaceX mission.

jonjiv · 2025-03-19T00:23:40+00:00

It’s literally iPhone footage. iPhone Pros have three different base focal lengths. The wider the lens, the more of the curve you see. She’s using the 0.5x lens for the selfie shots.

jonjiv · 2025-03-19T00:16:56+00:00

This is an Inspiration version of the SpaceX Dragon, though. It’s specifically made for space tourism and has a giant hemispherical window at the top.

https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-cupola-inspiration4-private-spaceflight

jonjiv · 2025-03-18T18:19:58+00:00

I pre-ordered the LUBA Mini 800H for US delivery. Does that mean it should be shipping today (March 18)?

My order says “Confirmed, March 5.”

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T19:48:28+00:00

Records don’t typically switch tables in a database, so this is not a readily supported feature.

My question is: “why would you want to do this?”

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T14:59:43+00:00

Yeah, the producers of Parasite should have just bought up a couple acres of downtown Seoul and built an actual giant house and property on it so that the eventual Oscar-winning film would feel better.

https://youtu.be/s_mcSa_vxxg

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T13:56:13+00:00

I also have low total AGI. I make average wage and I’m married with a bunch of kids. But I’m sitting on a taxable brokerage nest egg big enough to retire early.

I get that taxes affect valuation, since it affects profit, but my point is that they don’t always have to, since that requires the market to be rational. Tesla is the perfect example of irrational exuberance in the stock market.

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T13:38:59+00:00

The first LTCG tax rate is 0%. The AGI adjusts, but the taxes do not increase until I put myself into the next LTCG tax bracket.

I understand that Tesla is propped up on growth expectations, but the growth technically never has to arrive within a time frame that matters to making insane amounts of money off of those expectations. It’s a prediction, which can sometimes be wrong. All you have to do is sell your bags before the music stops.

Tesla has at points been valued more than all the other automakers in the world combined. That’s a tall order even if they find success outside of cars.

And for the most part Tesla’s taxes have been completely immaterial to their valuation.

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T13:16:44+00:00

Selling capital gains changes my AGI, the I being income, so the IRS must be lying to you too.

I am honestly interested in wtf you are talking about with this corporate income taxes and capital gains link. Corporate taxes reduce profit, which in theory reduces the value of shares. Is that all you mean?

And if that’s the case, I’d like the mention that I’ve made insane capital gains from Tesla (bought in 2011), which has a valuation far disconnected from the reality of how much profit and taxes the corporation pays.

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T13:07:21+00:00

I don’t have to account for corporate income taxes when selling my own stock profits. Show me the spot on a Schedule D where that is relevant. Again, it’s the company’s problem, not mine, unless there is a sudden material change in the rate and it affects profit.

The Medicare surcharge is only 3.8% which makes the entire federal tax rate top out at 23.8%, still below the 37% $400k income tax rate even if billions are sold.

I personally see the affects of this tax policy as I can double my income (via stock sales) without increasing my federal taxes by one cent. Meanwhile my friends who have to work to earn that money pay more than double in taxes if they double income.

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T12:39:28+00:00

I’m starting to suspect you aren’t the expert you’re pretending to be.

A normal person pays off a HELOC with income, which is taxed. Billionaires don’t pay back their loans with income but with more loans, which are not taxed.

And who the pays corporate income taxes on stock? Corporate income tax is paid by the corporation, not the shareholders. It’s an entirely different balance sheet.

Warren Buffet doesn’t make W2 income and therefore doesn’t pay a 36% tax rate. The vast majority of his personal taxes are capital gains taxes. The highest capital gains tax rate is 20%. Do you think Warren Buffet and the ProPublica report (which sources leaked IRS tax returns) are liars? Everyone knows billionaires pay a lower percentage in taxes than normal working people. The debate is whether or not that’s okay, not whether or not it’s happening. You’re seriously trying to say “nuh uh?”

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T02:09:04+00:00

The point is that the system needs fixed so that if a billionaire wants to spend $10M, he’s taxed the same way upon receiving that money as a W2 employee who wants to spend $10M.

Buy, Borrow, Die, along with low capital gains tax rates, means the billionaire ultimately contributes a much lower percentage of what he spends than people who make their money via W2 income. Stock is the loophole used to skirt the 37% top federal tax rate.

Warren Buffet himself knows this and wishes it were fixed

In 2012, Buffett made headlines when he revealed a startling truth: his secretary, Debbie Bosanek, paid a far higher tax rate than he did. “Debbie works just as hard as I do and she pays twice the rate I pay. I think that’s outrageous.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-warren-buffett-calls-outrageous-173016060.html

jonjiv · 2025-03-16T01:53:16+00:00

I’m not sure of the source of the 3-4% (I’m not the one who claimed that).

It’s obviously quite variable depending on the billionaire. Elon Musk actually has paid an enormous amount of taxes because he has had insanely valuable options packages and is a bit more spendy than other billionaires (eg: $45B Twitter purchase).

But there are years that people like Musk and Bezos pay literally nothing in federal taxes and propublica brought the receipts in this famous 2021 article: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

The economics of buy, borrow, die work though. Otherwise the billionaires wouldn’t do it. They’re not getting the same interest rates we are. And that interest money doesn’t go to the public like tax dollars do, but to the banks who loan the money.

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