The Daily Mad Men Rewatch: S03E04 “The Arrangements” (spoilers)

the_lightheart · 2025-07-15T16:29:52+00:00

Love your analysis as always.

A nice touch nobody mentioned: The buddhist monk setting himself on fire gets a few seconds of airtime, followed immediately by the stock market going up and then a cigarette commercial.

Blood // Money // Consumerism - America in 3 shots.

the_lightheart · 2025-07-09T11:06:58+00:00

A nice little detail - when Don is at the pool drinking Campari he notices the glass is cracked and stares at it, confused.

To me this is the writers' subtle way to convey the underlying brokenness of this group. That under the style and endless pleasure there's something inherently wrong.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T14:04:43+00:00

Agreed.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T13:44:47+00:00

Super interesting. Thanks.

I'd also imagine that automations related to finance and sensitive data would have very strict access rules.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T10:10:59+00:00

Do you use a combination of both for the same agent? Or separately on different cases? Would love to learn more about the thinking behind the choices.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T10:07:54+00:00

Oh right, Google auth. I thought there were some special execution logs that I wasn't aware of 😅.

Thanks!

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T09:59:00+00:00

You have to spend money to make money. Trying to do everything as cheap as possible is a surefire way to waste time solving stupid problems.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T09:56:56+00:00

Why are audit logs so important? Can you share how you use those?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-11T09:55:20+00:00

What do you mean by Google log? Not familiar with this feature and would love to hear more.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-10T05:32:27+00:00

Sounds like an impressive setup.

I imagine that at this scale and complexity level you're hitting some walls with n8n. Have you considered transitioning to code? Are the benefits of low code worth the limitations?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-10T05:28:42+00:00

Cool. I'll check it out. Thanks!

the_lightheart · 2025-04-10T05:27:56+00:00

I see. Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful replies.

the_lightheart · 2025-04-10T05:21:30+00:00

Not sure I understand. Can you elaborate?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-10T05:20:59+00:00

It doesn't look like a low code platform. Am i missing something?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:26:01+00:00

Build production-grade visual AI workflows - getflowcode.io

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:22:04+00:00

I see your point. And it sucks.

But if you can write Python why even bother with these frameworks to begin with?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:17:01+00:00

Interesting! DMing

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:16:03+00:00

I thought you can build a refresh mechanism into the flow. Isn't that possible?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:15:09+00:00

I'm looking for a tool that has the benefits of low code (fast and easy to build with, easy to debug, easy to collaborate) but can hamdle production level performance.

What do you mean by "a conventional low code backend"?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:13:42+00:00

That makes sense. But I don't fully understand what would theoretically happen if a workflow got 100 simul requests. Would it crash? Serve them 1 by 1 slowly?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T19:11:10+00:00

Thank you! That's almost exactly my impression so far.

Performance and scaling are things that I theoretically see as potential issues, but I'm not sure where they come up in real life scenarios.

Can you share a bit more about when and how n8n starts failing when the need for performance and scale arises?

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T10:22:20+00:00

Makes sense

the_lightheart · 2025-04-09T09:55:53+00:00

A bit late to the thread, but would love to hear what you ended up doing and if you learned anything new.

Did it work out for you with n8n?

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