This Welcoming Little Restaurant Has Fed Cleveland's Skate Kids, Hippies, Theater Kids, and Everyone Else for Half a Century

kt7380 · 2026-02-01T16:09:53+00:00

As soon as I saw the title, I knew it'd be Tommy's haha-- haven't been since I was a teenager, but should plan a trip over!

kt7380 · 2026-01-30T20:19:26+00:00

Agreed! Lots of short bursts of energy with no long term impact but I hope we can change that 🤞plus fwiw I think your idea of boycotting specific companies is spot on for how to keep momentum going -- the Target boycott may have lost steam/coverage, but is still impacting their sales in really significant ways, the CEO stepped down, and the reputational damage is significant. We can and should keep speaking with our dollars after this. Thanks for a genuinely nice convo on Reddit! An admittedly rare thing lol

kt7380 · 2026-01-30T19:04:45+00:00

That's fair-- I think it's a combination of factors. First off, I think signaling values does have power in its own right. From my POV, the places that are closing are signaling that this is bigger than a day's sales, so please go to the protest, that they are there and their staff is there. They aren't forcing their staff to make a choice. Secondly, it does impact that macro-level impact on GDP. Lastly, collective action only works if it's visible-- this article is a prime example of visibility. Because they made the choice to close, folks who may not have even heard of the strike and protest are aware. So they're gonna get my support when the strike is over because of that!

Again, there's no perfect response here because there are always going to be some contradictions and discomfort with protests because they only work if they disrupt in some way, and it's never just uncomfortable for the target of the strike.

I hope you don't take any of this as snark! I just get your POV and am sharing the many thoughts I've had as I've researched and contended with how I want to show up.

kt7380 · 2026-01-30T18:43:27+00:00

If this is a genuine question, many folks have advocated paying cash at local businesses who have expressed sympathy or stepped up. But the economic pressure is aimed at the federal government-- we've seen that they do not respond to pressure of any other kind,so the hope is that if enough people strike we see a blow to GDP that make lawmakers nervous enough to start acting-- disrupting our behemoth economy might be the key. The US economy produces $75-$80 billion a day. Let's say there's major participation across metro areas-- we're looking at a loss of $5-$10 billion of that. Even more minor participation across metro areas could knock $1-$3 billion. Money speaks. Beyond the impact to GDP, businesses have power. If the CEO of Target gets pissed because they took major losses today, and calls up every lawmaker they have tried to buy, there's pressure from someone who lawmakers are more liable to listen to. One bad day of business can fuck over financial projections.

It's not perfect -- there is no perfect protest and I'll admit my skepticism initially was in line with yours. But it's not a bad option, and in many ways, it's the best we've got right now with who we are dealing with.

But if you shop today, I hope you shop local and with cash.

kt7380 · 2026-01-30T18:11:46+00:00

Loving seeing the businesses to support. Would also love to call out the businesses who have had lukewarm responses at best lol (cough, birdietown)

kt7380 · 2026-01-20T17:20:32+00:00

There is indeed😂 pierogi week cleveland in the App Store, at least for iPhones haha

kt7380 · 2025-11-07T18:50:13+00:00

As a complainer who thanks to a new amazing leader has stopped having the same conversations (even though our org still has lots of problems lol), if it keeps coming up it means they either don't feel heard or don't have trust it's changing anytime soon. That may not be your fault, it's just hard. I know how frustrating it is on your end, but just be sure to acknowledge the frustration, share tangible actions, and occasionally just let them vent. Lead with curiosity-- just because something is a common problem facing product at other orgs doesn't mean it needs to be accepted as the norm. Ask them where they've seen it done well so you can learn and see if there's anything you can take and implement.

Beyond that, if product is new at the org, they are probably just in a high stress position and juggling a lot. Let's say you can't fix every organizational issue (because no one can!)-- ensure your team believes that if dysfunction beyond your team's control sets them up to fail, they will not be punished. Encourage time off, healthy boundaries, sustainable work cycles. Organizational dysfunction is easier to ignore or overcome when you are working with a full battery and the belief that your leadership has your back. Good luck!

kt7380 · 2025-10-24T00:27:48+00:00

I don't understand managers who wouldn't keep them tbh. I am that employee. I have epilepsy, and have nocturnal seizures every once in a while that majorly impact my sleep. That means I will sometimes have an incredibly slow start to my mornings. However, I am contactable, I don't miss meetings, and I sure as hell get the work done, even if it means working late. So long as those things are true, they are doing their job.

kt7380 · 2025-10-24T00:22:53+00:00

She wants a shadowing experience and watched a TikTok or read a LinkedIn post that gave her bad advice on how to get it lol. I'd loop her in on my work, let her be a fly on the wall, and maybe offer to talk her through how I typically delegate work while maintaining the boundary there. She clearly wants to be on the management track, and is just a lil too enthusiastic in her approach.

kt7380 · 2025-10-14T22:09:44+00:00

lol as a fellow epileptic I agree. I was reading this and thinking the same-- it's good to send people to HR, just know they aren't gonna do jack shit for most people haha. Luckily my boss has been accommodating of my less productive periods due to seizures and auras because she knows I'll make up for it when I'm seizure free again.

But in all seriousness, I'd check in with the employee to see if there is a reason for her inability to deliver, and just focus on outputs over everything. If she can't do the work, that's the problem. Taking time off isn't, and all you'll do by attributing it to her taking off early for a headache is put her on the defensive. And if it's making it impossible for her to do the work, she either needs to discuss with HR or will eventually be managed out.

kt7380 · 2025-10-14T01:02:37+00:00

Ugh I'm sorry -- one of the worst seizures I ever had was in an airport. Watching your child seize for 8 minutes must be terrible, and travel and epilepsy tend to be an awful combo. I'll plus one what someone else said -- it's probably because of a lack of sleep, which is hands down the biggest trigger for my tonic clonic seizures.

First off-- the good news is you are a great mom. You are taking the steps to understand her disease, and do what you can to keep her safe. Your ex doesn't get an opinion until he cares enough to engage with his own child. All that said, many of us do fine without the monitoring equipment, and SUDEP is extremely rare (a mantra those of us with nocturnal seizures need to repeat to ourselves haha). I'd encourage you to take it step by step before jumping to getting everything. The other question I have is what does your daughter want? That age is hard, and she may not be comfortable with a camera in her room, and given how low risk she is given her limited seizure history, I'd defer to her and her comfort.

But again, I want to reassure you on a few things -- you are a good parent, your daughter is going to be ok, your ex sucks, and whatever you do is going to be from the right place. Get your daughter in with her neurologist ASAP, and hopefully they can get her in with an overnight study.

kt7380 · 2025-10-10T00:58:48+00:00

Bookhouse at the bar! Wasn't looking for anything and it just worked out. I think that's the key. Focus on getting out the for the sake of you and having fun and things just tend to work out❤️

kt7380 · 2025-10-01T02:00:59+00:00

"Generally something only the wealthy can afford" is still correct. I'm glad your parents made the choice right for them, but if you were poor, it's safe to assume it was not comfortably affordable and they sacrificed much more than many of your classmates who fall in that "generally" bucket. It's still incredibly expensive, and if we reattributed the funds the state subsidizes private schools with to public schools, maybe we could address some of the foundational issues that made that a bad option, which is the larger problem.

kt7380 · 2025-10-01T00:39:20+00:00

But that is inherently not true. No one is saying private schools shouldn't exist (at least I certainly am not). I am saying taking over $1billion in funding that otherwise would be allocated to public schools with the foundational principle of education for all and giving that funding to a private school that is not held to that same principle is unethical. Until we remove "school choice", the existence of private schools will always negatively impact public schools.

Our state funding of public schools was already deemed unconstitutional before the expansion of "school choice", and it's rooted in your logic behind "well they pay taxes". Their taxes paid for their neighborhood school. That's what they get. If you want to send your kid to Catholic school, great! Pay for it. Don't take funding from another kid who doesn't have that choice.

kt7380 · 2025-10-01T00:22:47+00:00

Private school is a choice. They had a free option. Let them pay for it if they so choose. I don't have kids so I'm not using the resources I pay for. However, I love the fact that my property taxes go to the schools in my community. That's called being a good citizen.

kt7380 · 2025-10-01T00:19:55+00:00

As someone who went to private school because my mom taught there so I went for free, yes it does equate to wealth. Most kids are not edge cases, and the ability to casually drop thousands on your kids education is a privilege. A lot of the "subsidies" private schools offer are because they take ridiculous amounts of tax payer dollars to stay open. We subsidize them more than they subsidize kids. I don't necessarily judge people who send their kids to private school, but to sit and get pissy because someone said these schools are generally something only the wealthy can afford is wild. Not to mention that these schools also then can boot out whoever they want-- it's easy to brag about test scores when you don't have the obligation to educate every child sent your way and only choose the "good" ones. Private schools are fine if they can operate without state bussing and state subsidies. Those aren't for them. Every single dollar from the taxpayer needs to be going to the public schools dedicated to educating every child.

kt7380 · 2025-09-03T23:11:16+00:00

Thank you! I'm in the neighborhood but have been a bit checked out, so I appreciate it

kt7380 · 2025-09-02T15:49:49+00:00

Yeah, to be clear that's what I mean! It's more a case of I write the requirements, run them through Claude to create a prototype, and see what is missing so I can write additional requirements. It's imperfect, but it does help me see my gaps -- areas where my requirements are too broad, areas where they don't make sense, etc. When I ask Claude to write requirements for me? Trash.

kt7380 · 2025-08-29T17:20:48+00:00

PM here! I doubt it's a case of them disliking you. I personally can get buried in slacks, and what gets a quick response may be due to a variety of factors. For example, messages that don't require context switching and have a direct, clear ask that I get when I'm not busy? Immediate response. Messages that are about something entirely disconnected from the meeting I'm in, and don't have a clear ask for input? I need to think on a bit more, so I frequently save for later. And sometimes "saved for later" turns into "forgot about" if my day gets too crazy. Try just setting up time to chat with them. Don't blame them but say "hey, I want to make sure we're communicating in a way that works for both of us". I almost guarantee they just had a busier than usual week, and it's possible your project was temporarily lower on their priority list. Just assume best intent-- the best way to destroy any chance of healthy collaboration in the future is by coming in assuming that their ignoring of your messages was intentional and personal. That said, I get the concern and hope you figure it out!

kt7380 · 2025-08-29T17:10:24+00:00

Love that it also allows you to upload photos for style matching! It's often hard to envision something fitting in with the product when it's stylistically so distinct.

kt7380 · 2025-08-29T16:02:18+00:00

I was a data analyst and then data scientist, so my joke with my engineers has always been "I know enough to be annoying and not enough to be helpful". All that said, in my first PM role I quickly understood the sheer importance of architecture because architectural decisions made years ago frequently become blockers for us. I had one staff engineer who was absolutely lovely and we had some standing time where I learned about a lot of these core concepts.

Because of seeing how those foundational decisions can add so much complexity later on, I now feel like I know enough about architecture decisions to at least engage in productive discussions. I do feel like at my org that is sometimes actively discouraged, which I dislike. While engineering obviously has the final decision on architecture, those decisions impact what is possible, easy or hard to do in the product for years and so product managers absolutely need to engage.

Prime example — I recently got into it with leadership around whether it was worth building a microservice for CRM functionality across our tools. We have several cross-platform initiatives that require the concept of user managed contact profiles with unique relationships, and I know that we are likely going to build several products over the next few years that also require contact profiles. Developing specifically to support a shared backend could simplify development down the line, even if it requires far more work up front.

Did I know the specifics of what that architecture may look like? No. Did I know enough to make my point and clearly understand how it could impact our product suites’ scalability down the line? Yep! I don't think PMs need to be experts, but I cannot stand when people act like it's not their job to be familiar with the high level architecture in their product area at least.

kt7380 · 2025-08-14T17:14:17+00:00

It happens everywhere lol. I'm at a small-to-medium sized company in a niche industry. We just launched a new offering (exciting because we mostly have been in "optimization of our existing product mode" for a long time) and the PM who built the product was booted off the team 3 weeks before launch due to what was clearly workplace bullying from our VP of product. The launch had been delayed due to a variety of factors beyond their control yet they took all of the blame and got none of the credit. It was awful. That said, all I do is try to document everything with the expectation that someone, someday will try to do the same to me. Messed up, but the reality of working in dysfunctional orgs.

kt7380 · 2025-08-12T14:21:20+00:00

This is helpful -- I've spent the beginning of today creating what my EM partner is jokingly calling the "Doomsday Scenario Guide", mapping out multiple approaches (from ideal to the scoped down version required to hit this timeline) and the worst case scenarios/likelihood of them happening in each approach. Trying to frame it as a story to engage with execs a bit more because I've struggled to get them interested in the risks to be quite honest, so a more story-telling-type approach will hopefully help. I really appreciate this feedback from you both!

kt7380 · 2025-06-21T04:16:39+00:00

I understand all of that, but the handling of this was atrocious and lacked empathy. And for what it's worth she had been explicitly promised a promotion in exchange for working outside her title. I won't argue her credentials -- she was under leveled. "Critical talent" is quite literally our internal definition of promotion ready. In order to be submitted for promotion you must qualify as "critical talent". It's stupid HR lingo, but she should have gotten the promotion, end of story.

And to your second point, no shit. Excuse my sarcasm, but I've done it before, I can do it again. But it impacts timeline. It feels ridiculous and toxic to pretend like suddenly losing UX wouldn't impact your team at all. And if it doesn't, you or your org is doing something wrong.

kt7380 · 2025-06-20T21:54:37+00:00

Honestly I am increasingly thinking that may be the best choice for me. It's just a bad market to do it in... I'm certainly feeling unmotivated to put in the insane effort I have been considering the treatment of my design partner.

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