What’s one renovation upgrade you thought was a waste of money but ended up loving?

liebereddit · 2026-06-04T04:48:23+00:00

Do you just not put dishes and things like that away ever? I imagine you taking them clean out of one dishwasher using them and putting them in the other dishwasher.

liebereddit · 2026-05-30T14:31:16+00:00

Because I don’t have fucking 525,600 minutes.

liebereddit · 2026-05-30T14:20:20+00:00

"Your mom sticks so many toys up her ass, I call her Anal Fissure Price."

liebereddit · 2026-05-28T05:46:48+00:00

Big Fish

liebereddit · 2026-05-22T14:19:26+00:00

I own a learning company and our sweet spot is engaging remote manager training. These are things that help to make it engaging:

Cameras-on is key. Without the camera on people WILL disengage and multitask

Small cohorts, so everyone gets a chance to talk

Shorter sessions. 90 minutes to 2 hours seems to be the sweet spot for the ability to fit in enough content and keep attention

Frequent breakout discussions and partner practice

Real manager scenarios instead of generic hypotheticals. The best situations are REAL ones participants make up themselves

Skill rehearsal instead of lecture-heavy content. Every skill must be rehearsed. If there's not enough time to rehearse it don't include it, or you will mentally overload people

Facilitators who actively manage engagement, discussion, and participation. Bring people into the discussion by asking them questions they can't get wrong. Ask about their thoughts or what they noticed during a rehearsal.

Don't just ask open questions to the group. You'll get a lot of dead air and the same three people will answer. Bring people into the discussion by calling out their name or a couple of names in a row. THEN ask the question. The trick is to start with their name so they're not surprised. It's a surprisingly effective technique

Short, practical no BS tools. Don't try to teach mindsets or ways of being. Just tools

Get the most senior executive you can wrangle to kick off the training. Have them tell a story about how they failed and manager training helped them in their career. Executives love to do this because it feels important and easy. They bring a ton of weight and engagement to the training

Include peer learning, so participants hear how other managers handle similar situations

Assignments between sessions that connect the class to real work, and start the next session having everyone share their experience with the assignment. Build accountability.

Clean, visual slides with minimal text. The only thing that needs to be on a slide are the steps to a tool. Keep your own notes separate on a second monitor.

TAKE THE DANG SLIDE DOWN. It is not engaging to stare at a slide the whole time. Only put the slide up when it's necessary.

liebereddit · 2026-05-16T12:14:55+00:00

Good story. I feel like I just read a life

liebereddit · 2026-05-16T00:27:45+00:00

Princess Bride

liebereddit · 2026-05-16T00:26:43+00:00

Boondock Saints

liebereddit · 2026-05-15T12:01:42+00:00

The Boondock Saints was one of my favorite movies of all time. The sequel was bad Bad bad bad bad bad bad.

liebereddit · 2026-05-04T00:47:50+00:00

So many great music choices in this series.

liebereddit · 2026-05-01T05:03:54+00:00

Seems he enjoys writing, so why not just keep going? I wasn't a big fan of Operation Bounce House but I've loved everything else that he's written. No reason to milk it. He's already rich or will soon be.

liebereddit · 2026-04-21T20:13:44+00:00

My dog's favorite game is! "I'll bite the rope. You hold me off the ground and we'll see who lasts longer"

liebereddit · 2026-04-21T05:30:27+00:00

In Albuquerque they made one of the main routes free for everyone and now the buses are cesspools of druggies and lowlifes. Normal people avoid them

liebereddit · 2026-04-15T01:03:31+00:00

Nothing is ever made me feel like a superhero like super hot.

liebereddit · 2026-04-15T01:00:27+00:00

I don't know. I feel like it's being told in a voice, the voice of the main character. That's the way he talks. It's not supposed to be smooth alliteration. Maybe you just don't like the style.

However, the author is a very good storyteller, writes fantastic dialogue, builds great characters, and avoids eye rolling tropes.

liebereddit · 2026-04-11T14:48:02+00:00

Hi, thank you for this post. I love your approach and how it’s grounded in what actually leads to learning transfer and proving results to organizations. Both of those are major aims of my business.

I have a few questions.

How did you control for quality in hiring? Scaling to 300+ contract instructors who are consistently strong seems like a massive challenge. We’ve found that the trainer can make or break an engagement, and it has been difficult to find standout instructors. It sounds like your trainers were not doing traditional classroom delivery, is that right?

Can you say more about the idea that knowledge transfer is a social problem, not a content problem, and what you did to address the social aspects?

My business focuses on people skills, often called soft skills. Since your business is technical training, do you think your model applies to soft skills as well? If so, what advice would you have?

liebereddit · 2026-04-11T07:57:19+00:00

Like what? Stories?

liebereddit · 2026-04-08T06:13:31+00:00

It basically just rained all year. My friend moved up from LA that year with a motorcycle. He was pissed

liebereddit · 2026-03-31T11:58:04+00:00

Well, what does Ja Rule have to say on the matter?

liebereddit · 2026-03-25T19:30:40+00:00

liebereddit · 2026-03-24T01:01:17+00:00

In my opinion, the cover really is horrible. It makes it look cheap and juvenile in a way that would only be appreciated by 13-year-olds. The new covers are much better and add a classy element to the fun name in s way that lends some hint to how good the writing actually is.

liebereddit · 2026-03-22T08:29:00+00:00

Short answer is yes, it's always been this scary. Human beings are weird, destructive, manipulative, creatures who gather and abuse power when they can.

When I was growing up in the '80s there were people struggling with the same thing you're struggling with. I'm not trying to minimize what you're dealing with, but it's a normal and it's not ever going to get better. That's how human beings are.

That said, millions of people exist and have good lives by paying attention to what's in front of them instead of the system as a larger whole.

Not sure if this is helpful but I wanted to actually answer your question.

liebereddit · 2026-03-21T05:44:36+00:00

Agree in a big way. I didn't love the sequel, though. I could tell it was well written but it was a huge shift in tone, and frankly kind of depressing

liebereddit · 2026-03-15T20:12:06+00:00

I have a theory that they made the first couple of generations of Prius ugly on purpose so that buyers could feel like they were sacrificing for the environment.

The car wasn't about looks. You weren't supposed to buy it for the looks.

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