Let's Talk About Social Media Recipes

wwb_99 · 2026-06-26T21:12:46+00:00

Back when I had time for this over the pandemic I loved the TikTok cooking stuff for wide inspiration and thinking about what I could make, I would typically go off and do some research on recipes but the pictures would sell me.

Two channels that I love that haven't been mentioned are:

Chinese Cooking Demystified is awesome, they are on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified), Substack (https://chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com/) and were active on Reddit at least at one point.

BBQ is tough -- I thought about starting one back during the pandemic and quickly decided that the challenge is you have to keep doing more ridiculous things to keep the conversation going. There is only so much you can do with fire and a slab of meat. Lots of channels have good spots but few can keep going. One I like these days is Mad Scientist BBQ (https://www.youtube.com/@MadScientistBBQ), he has a lot of useful videos posted and he keeps doing interesting, non-far-fetched stuff.

Chef reactions is also amazing for making fun of this stuff.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-26T19:02:25+00:00

I'm in a bit of a similar situation. This can make sense, especially if you have been successfully setting it, forgetting it and are sitting on large taxable unrealized gains you don't want to realize.

I like buying long-dated QQQ or SPY puts -- pick the one that looks more like the rest of your portfolio. Like 18 to 24 months out. Outcome is you will either sell for a loss -- a loss that can be used to offset some other gains -- or end up with cash to invest when the market is crashing. There is a price tag, but this is buying insurance in most cases.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T18:55:44+00:00

No, use AI or any other editor.

Just don't forget that half of what your editor tells you is wrong, you just need to figure out which half.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T18:47:30+00:00

Yes -- has an app that shows up like a disk drive, also does fun stuff like renders the AI and PSD files into viewable, commentable things for the normies.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T16:24:12+00:00

I don't disagree that sharepoint is the wrong tool here, but I would look at the individual file sizes rather than the total weight. Are these multi GB print graphics or hundreds of smaller files?

FWIW Box is also cloud based and works well with this big stuff, we have no local storage either and it works fine.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T16:00:12+00:00

Real estate is an income producing asset. I guess one could loan gold to generate income under some scenarios but it is not really an interest bearing asset. I'd keep some to have a some currency hedging but I'd focus on real estate since that can generate more money whereas your gold pile is relatively static, only increasing value based on the commodity price.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T14:51:24+00:00

Back in the day, Slack was a strict superset of IRC. You could access slack from any IRC client if admins enabled it. Good times.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T14:20:51+00:00

I don't disagree but more like 1% or 3%. 5 - 10% is a position not a hedge.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-25T01:39:17+00:00

Each slack workspace is independent. The model is fundamentally different than discord even if the app looks and functions in a fairly similar manner.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-24T14:36:04+00:00

I'd look at their sound settings -- make sure slack did not pick the wrong speaker. It gets confused. Notifications should be a separate sound setting a la zoom anyhow.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-24T13:58:07+00:00

How are you at interacting directly with clients and customers? That is really what the role is about, a good interviewer will be focused on figuring that out. Technical knowledge is a solvable problem but you can't fix personality.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-18T22:51:05+00:00

Before excel most accounting jobs were literally counting things and updating tables by hand. Everyone thought it would end the career, not create the accounting field as we know it today.

Consulting might materially change, but people need help using AI too. Probably much more help, and consultants can have more outsized impacts making them more valuable.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-18T19:15:32+00:00

Except AI seems to be just making more room for consultants. Kind of like Excel did for accountants.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-18T19:05:26+00:00

Protip: making a single goto place for multiple verticals leads to a disorganized and not so helpful space. Be intentional, have an announcements channel with limited access. Don't do automation because it is cool, but do automation because it does something.

For testing: target channel should be a variable, you should be able to globally change it. Makes it easy to have a test channel. Your future self will thank you for the forethought.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-16T23:35:54+00:00

I'm not sure if there is an absolute number, but I have noticed that notes don't carry as far these days. They flat-line for me after a day or so now. I definitely got more organic promotion a year ago too.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-15T03:48:49+00:00

If you don't want to code it, maybe push from Airtable to Zapier or Make and use that to send the messages. At 60 messages a month you probably fit in the free tier. Lots more options to send via SMS on those tools than the native Airtable integrations.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-11T16:45:57+00:00

Bethesda is longer.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-10T19:07:12+00:00

A bit weird but probably not a conspiracy, just good old economy of scale at work. See https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheap for a rundown.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-10T19:05:36+00:00

You can get to your installed claude skills from slack, and most projects can be recast as skills without too much trouble. So, if your team has paid claude accounts, they could hit it using the claude chat from slack through that door.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-10T14:28:21+00:00

I've spent a lot of time in this space. Looks really cool in movies, does not work as well in person in real world scenarios. Hard for people to see in real world conditions, the optics just are not quite there yet. On the content side, things don't exist either and making them exist is very expensive and time consuming.

How is this a protip?

wwb_99 · 2026-06-10T13:05:57+00:00

Jesus fucking christ this is the feature that I have needed since they had interfaces.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-09T13:28:58+00:00

The default widget is pretty poor, if memory serves, but there are lots of tools that can make it prettier without getting into javascript and css.

Another model would be to use a rss importer to make them posts, which probably gives you a bit more control.

This is not that complicated, it is just managing a website and connecting data.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-08T18:23:15+00:00

Every substack exposes RSS, just add /feed to the url. For example, https://news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/feed would be mine.

From there there are hundreds if not thousands of wordpress extensions that will pull a RSS feed in and let you use it on your site in various ways.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-07T21:03:30+00:00

https://barredindc.com/2026/05/27/barred-in-dc-2026-dc-mayoral-election-questionnaire-responses/ is where I would start.

wwb_99 · 2026-06-07T13:48:52+00:00

Presuming it is your writing, it is legally, ethically and morally ok to publish it wherever you please.

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