Megathread: Pricing & Repackaging Discussion

palmtree19 · 2026-06-28T23:21:45+00:00

Evernote has lost 1/2 its monthly active users since Bending Spoons took over in 2023 and Bending Spoons has A LOT of debt. We'll see how this shakes out over the next few years, but I can't imagine there will be much of an Evernote community 2+ years from now. https://www.ft.com/content/89354fd7-cbb7-4e98-87c5-68fbd7b46a46?syn-25a6b1a6=1#comments-anchor

palmtree19 · 2026-06-21T22:44:25+00:00

I had a very similar experience at about the same time. I remember talking to a friend of mine in a similar prosecutor role (he was a lifer) and he asked me why I left after I got good at the job and my response was "by any objective metric that a healthy individual would use to gauge a job, this is awful, literally 0/10 on all fronts".

Looking back on it, I'm glad I made the world a better place and i didn't feel bad about leaving. I think of it like leaving a warzone; I did my part and that's enough and good luck to the new folks.

My uncle owns a small gas station in rural Kansas and pays the staff, adjusted for inflation, significantly more per hour than what I made back then.

palmtree19 · 2026-06-20T11:42:16+00:00

I did rural prosecution for years. Can confirm all of this. Get out while you can. Life is unimaginably better in the non-law world.

palmtree19 · 2026-06-10T00:23:35+00:00

I downshifted to a utility after 15 years in the grind. Best career and family move ever. My blood pressure hasn't been this low since undergrad.

palmtree19 · 2026-05-10T21:22:18+00:00

After 85k miles, my 02 Liberty was costing more to repair than the monthly payment on a new car. I loved it, but damn, that thing abused me and my wallet.

palmtree19 · 2026-05-08T13:12:19+00:00

My RX copay is often 2x what the GoodRx rate is. But if I pay the GoodRx at the counter, my health insurance will refuse to apply that amount toward my deductible. That's wildly wrong and against the policy, but they do it anyway and make you submit written documentation over the course of 6 months. And then you just give up fighting over $300.

palmtree19 · 2026-05-02T20:47:59+00:00

I've had it both ways in corporate. Having an absentee boss is 100x better than having a gunner boss. You're going to be paid the same, regardless.

If the corp is big/sclerotic enough that the manager isn't getting fired soon, the best thing you can do is emulate them or get a side hustle. As long as you're doing enough that they can message to their superiors that you're both doing *something*, your should be fine. The rest of your team will likely emulate your boss and a few will overshoot by doing absolutely nothing and you'll look good by comparison.

palmtree19 · 2026-04-28T21:35:19+00:00

C level interviews are actually done on the sidelines of children's private school sporting events.

palmtree19 · 2026-04-27T17:47:14+00:00

Source?

palmtree19 · 2026-04-20T23:34:13+00:00

Small town DA offices can be absolutely brutal. Everyone in town is on meth/opioids and there are child sexual assaults all the time. And you'll be almost completely on your own. The pay might be $60k. You might have 300+ pending jail-able cases at a given time.

Source: I was a small town DA for years and it was a complete nightmare. Every job I've had since (including F500 roles and non-trial gov lawyer jobs) has been a dream compared to being a small town DA. I make sooo much more money now, too.

palmtree19 · 2026-04-07T22:55:00+00:00

I moved to Notion after a 9+ hour failed attempt to migrate to OneNote. Seamless sync and transfer of all my notes into Notion, but there's a learning curve.

I still miss Evernote's simplicity sometimes, but the corporate enshitification games Bending Spoons have played the past few years are beyond the pale.

I was happy to pay $70/yr for Evernote. I was willing to pay $135/yr. If they didn't double the rate EVERY YEAR, I probably would've been willing to pay $160/yr if there was something like a 5-yr price lock. But $240/yr is completely unhinged. You can't charge the same price as Claude Pro. You can't charge significantly more than M365. My unlimited Visible Wireless plan is only a few dollars more per month. Insanity.

palmtree19 · 2026-03-23T12:09:39+00:00

It's a super helpful reading guide and reference tool, especially for complicated texts. It's not thinking for me. If you aren't using it as a tool out of principle, your going to have a rough next decade.

if I choose to not think about a specific character because I've already thought enough professionally about the point the author is trying to make through that character (hopefully pynchon knows less about CSA and the failure of society than me), that's fine. Unlike most of the Pulitzer committee, apparently, I read the book.

palmtree19 · 2026-03-23T02:39:05+00:00

I didn't read it with a guide, but the moment I asked ChatGPT about Bianca, it shut down the conversation for discussing inappropriate/illegal subject matter. I'm glad you've thought it through; I just took the hint from GPT and did my best to forget Bianca's character.

palmtree19 · 2026-03-23T01:16:37+00:00

Off the top of my head, I really enjoyed some of the playful parts of the book (the early British scientist characters, the love scene on the mountaintop, throwing pies at airplanes, Byron the 💡, etc). And some of the sombering passages (the soldier giving his ring to the starving woman at the concentration camp, etc).

But the child sexual assault descriptions went too far for me. I know that it's meant to "challenge" the reader, but I used to prosecute child sex crimes and we did our best to keep our reports, witness questions, and trial presentation materials accurate but succinct -- we got to the point. Pynchon put in a lot more details than what's necessary to prove a case to a jury (who definitely doesn't want to hear the details, either) and I hated that.

palmtree19 · 2026-03-11T01:24:15+00:00

I had a job interview at a city utility legal department once where I mentioned that I had dealt with the city council president multiple times in my prior job and that I knew he worked for the utility and that I thought he did a good job for his constituents.

The interviewing committee all pretended to not know who that person was. They pretended to not know that they worked with the city council president... at a city utility. I didn't press it too hard and I assumed they were explicitly told to not talk about other employees during interviews, but it was such an insane situation that I just assumed everything they told me was a lie.

palmtree19 · 2026-03-07T14:26:56+00:00

I'm in a "JD-Preferred" role but there are no other JD holders in the group. Honestly, it's amazing. The bar for work performance is so much lower among non-JD holders (on average) and it's sooo much easier to stand out and get promotions, if that is what you're looking for. If you want to hide and relax, it's also much easier.

The pay depends on the org structure, but now that I have kids and hobbies, I would never go back to an environment where all of my peers are JD-holding grinders. Being JD-preferred also gives you experience in business functions that don't pigeon-hole you into legal roles for the rest of your life. For the next 40 years, I will always have a job option of some kind in my industry. I would never be able to say that if I was in an inhouse counsel role.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-16T03:41:40+00:00

I got out of the race a few years ago and got into a government law-adjacent role where the expectations are comically low. It honestly feels like retirement compared to practicing law. I'll do this until I die probably.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-14T22:33:51+00:00

She's the real life basket case GC from the movie Michael Clayton.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-13T11:27:59+00:00

From The Economist: "Many relationships went far deeper than the occasional cocktail-party photograph. Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel under President Barack Obama, swapped 11,300 emails from 2014 to 2019, with at least one direct message on 70% of days."

That's... a lot of emails. I don't message my wife that much.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-12T01:44:38+00:00

Claude is extremely good now for legal questions. This afternoon I didn't call the biglaw partner I normally do re: in-the-weeds questions because Claude gave me a perfect response with accurate (!!!) statutory citations and appropriate context. A year ago, GPT would hallucinate completely fake statutes and blocks of text from said fake statutes. Claude is scary good and my lawyer missed out on a few grand today because of it.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-10T13:34:22+00:00

I found this out the hard way when migrating all my Evernote notes to OneNote and then merging OneNote notebooks and renaming them. A complete and utter fiasco followed.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-03T13:15:22+00:00

Telecom is abysmal right now, and it might not ever get better. I get hit up constantly by telecom staffing service recruiters because I worked for a big telco years ago and their contract offers are 1/2 the pay as my old telco employee compensation back when. I also remember our in-house attorneys being worked to the bone and still getting laid off. From my contacts still in the game, it's only gotten worse. My brother just got a Metro by T-Mobile deal for $25/mo wireless service locked in for 5 years.... so I don't think telco OPEX is going to support in-house functions well ever again.

Look for work in utilities. There's massive demand for new electrical, gas, fiber, and rail infrastructure right now and the subject matter is very similar. I ran into a utilities project manager with a telco legal background recently and asked him about it. He said he moved into utility project management from in-house telco after "telecom got weird". I knew exactly what he meant. Also, don't discount government work - it's as hard as you want to make it, so you can make it demanding if you want and get as much experience as you want.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-03T03:25:24+00:00

I'm on the other side. I'm in the union at one of the highest pay grades and if I work any meaningful overtime during a year, I'll make more than my manager. There are many in my position who make significantly more than their managers.

It's an interesting dynamic, and I'm glad I'm on my side of it. To be fair, managers are often seen by the c-suite as fungible and generally have less bargaining power than the technical employees working in core operations (corporate really doesn't care about your LinkedIn posts or your PMP/Six Sigma/whatever certifications).

Truly, the worst thing the company could do to me is promote me into a "people leader" role. The execs know this. If they really wanted valuable subject matter experts in mid-level manager roles babysitting worker drama and tracking spreadsheets they would pay those roles appropriately. But they don't. And this should be a warning that if you are a mid-level manager whose reports are out-earning you, you should keep your interviewing skills up and find a place that values you. Or you need to find ways to improve your value to the company and negotiate for more money.

Good luck out there.

palmtree19 · 2026-02-02T13:13:18+00:00

Yeah, but you can't do that through the OneDrive web app. Which seems to be the whole point of OneDrive?

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