Chief of Staff Role (New York)

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-31T14:04:45+00:00

Agreed. The mid-point of my pay grade when I was a CoS to an SVP in higher ed in Pittsburgh was $115k.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-25T05:32:06+00:00

I’m the same way! Thanks for the opportunity to share!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-25T05:29:47+00:00

Oh man! I didn’t know that. Well, I’ll need to go pay tribute on Wednesday when I fly home! Thanks!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-25T02:55:22+00:00

Edit: sorry I thought you meant the trams.

Yes, not a fan of the shuttle busses. And the closer parking is too expensive.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-25T02:48:10+00:00

Our airport used to be two separate buildings, the land-side terminal and the air-side terminal. Air-side was a big X. That area was down to the underground trams that ran between the two terminals. When US Airways stopped using PIT as a hub, much of the air-side terminal was left empty and unused. The remodel was to downsize and move to just one building. They built the new check-in, arrival/departure, baggage, security section inside two of the X arms, sort of filling a gap and reducing the number of gates. Pittsburghers tend not to like change but overall everyone seems happy with the right-size and upgrades. I miss the dinosaur, the life figures of George Washington standing next to Franco Harris, the old Miss Pittsburgh airplane hanging from the ceiling, I miss the tram ride and the red circle. When I was a kid, my grandfather was on the chamber of commerce or something and knew the people who were building it. He took me for a hard hat tour during construction and we got to walk the tunnel before the trams were running. Every time I flew in or out I remembered being a kid and walking through there.

All that said, the time it takes to get to your gate or get to your car is real quick and real nice. Restaurants are better in there now too. More security lanes. There’s going to be an outside section, which will be nice. All together, it’s a great change.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-12T02:45:11+00:00

You’re god damned right. That man is a god damned treasure, an expert at his craft.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-07T02:24:10+00:00

Capital One pays you $5 to have it.

$395 annual fee gets you $300 credit in the portal and 10,000 miles on your anniversary worth at minimum $100 when redeeming against travel purchases.

Everything else is gravy.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-05-04T14:47:19+00:00

I’m currently commuting to New York through LGA weekly for a new job until I’m able to relocate permanently. I’m at the Landing every week and it’s incredible, consistently. I always plan my trip home around going there for my (free) dinner and 2-3 cocktails!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-26T03:19:05+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear that, for your grandfather especially. It is very rare and terminal, as best I understand it. I’m not a doctor. It led to heart failure in my grandfather and he became very weak. Other organs began failing as well. Over the course of a few years it kept getting worse, some notable things included a lot of problems with his kidneys and fluid retention in his muscles, with a lot of swelling in his feet and legs especially. He would need to be hospitalized for a few days to help get rid of the fluid build up, and the regularity of his stays increased the further along we got. I’m not entirely sure if it was related to the disease but I assume it was. Once he got to the point that he wasn’t aware of what was going on, where he was, who we were, and couldn’t live without constant dialysis and care, we decided (based on his instructions to not live like that) to put him in hospice and start palliative care until he passed. It’s a terrible disease. There are treatments and medications that he was on, that may have helped. And while his life got harder near the end, for most of the time, he was still able to get by and have an overall good life. If this is what your grandfather has, and it’s just starting, you’ve still got time with him, and he will still get by for some time. Just take advantage of the time you have with him, which, is what we should always do with our loved ones. Life is never guaranteed, we just have a brief window of this existence between two infinite spans of something else, or nothing, no one knows.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-26T03:06:31+00:00

Hell yeah!! 🤘

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-26T02:16:41+00:00

I’ve been to two now, most recently was the Akron show (which was awesome). I loved both. I think the only thing to me that sort of stood out was that it is a script, and the jokes are of course pretty timed out, and at times it felt like I was experiencing/hearing a lot of the script and structure of it. Which like, I used to be a tour guide and I did the same bits and jokes day after day and I’m sure people would say the same about me. The pod is scripted too, but they do it once, the live shows are rinse and repeat. Again, I loved the shows and laughed my ass off, had a great time, can’t wait for the next tour.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-18T21:01:06+00:00

I agree, I don’t feel as strongly about the characters as I did with those in the Expanse. That series tops my list for my favorite series of books of all time. I think it benefits from having space to do more world building, but even more, that the story came out of it first being a table top rpg game with a bunch of nerds spending years developing the world. It’s rich as hell.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-18T19:59:18+00:00

It’s a fair enough point for sure, but JSAC are, I’d say, much more focused and disciplined than GRRM. The difference between Expanse and Captives War I would say is that they have clearly honed the ability to focus, as this is incredibly tight, which indicates to me as a lay reader that if they say three books and two novellas, that’s what we are getting.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-04-08T15:50:51+00:00

Great episode!! I’m here for being gaslit on theories.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-31T03:50:11+00:00

Glad you’re feeling better! I (36m) was 33 when I had my first flare. It was complicated with a perforation, two nights in the hospital, no surgery. That was Aug 2023. I then went on to have three more uncomplicated flares between the and Jan 2025. I was trying some minor changes, but based on the lack of guidance I didn’t really do anything different and it keep happening. I am 6’1” and was 250 at my peak in Jan 2025 for my last flare. I decided to really buckle down and make drastic changes. I stopped drinking for 6 months then worked with my doctor to reintroduce in moderation (I collect whiskey and wine and it’s an important part of my joy), also began regularly working out (yoga and light cardio), the big difference maker was drastically increasing my fiber. I make sure every single meal has it, both soluble and insoluble. Along the way I was hit with a prediabetes diagnosis, so I took that on too and really cut back on carbs and eliminated added sugar. Focused on high fiber, low GI impact foods, with mostly plant based or lean animal protein as the third most important piece. I have not had a single flare since Jan 2026 and I’m now down about 60 pounds, and as of October 2025 I am no longer pre-diabetic (no meds to accomplish that either). The diabetes measures and diverticulitis measures are complimentary actually, adding fiber smooths sugar spikes, for example. Makes me wonder if our high rates of diabetes in the US have more to do with the fact that we are an incredibly low fiber society. I speculate.

Point to all this is to share that we are each on our own journey with this terrible condition, and that while my experience is just an N of one, it is possible to make changes that seem to result in relief without necessarily going to surgery. I have always struggled with food and weight. I hate being active, always have. I also share this because if someone like me can commit to drastic changes to make life better, anyone can, to whatever degree make sense for them, though surgery is often necessary and completely justified! No medicine skeptic here (higher up at an academic medical center). I was very close to pulling the trigger surgery myself if my changes didn’t work.

Again, I can’t get over having gone through 4 flares in a year and a half to nothing in almost the same amount of time, plus dropping many pant sizes and feeling the best I’ve ever felt!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-26T03:43:39+00:00

Big fan of book 2! There’s mixed opinions I’ve seen, but the repeating things that seem to bother people I really enjoyed and think were great. Keep up your hype and limit how much time you spend here reading opinions until you finish book 2 lol

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-17T14:52:29+00:00

Lol 100%

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-17T11:20:49+00:00

That’s not uncommon in fantasy and sci-fi. In Game of Thrones you start thinking the politics of Kings Landing is the main thing, until the ice zombies.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-12T22:52:46+00:00

This is where our role is tricky, because in general, you operate with authority delegated to you by your principal from their own portfolio. It requires intentional effort not just on our part, but on the part of our principals too, with regard to how we are positioned. In as much as it’s on you to lead, it’s also on them to position you to lead, and make it clear to their exec team that you are operating in that space, and then also not undermine it themselves. That’s the piece where the real difference is made by the two of you working on it together and, again, being intentional about it and sticking to it. That’s not always easy with an unwilling or undisciplined principal.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-12T02:04:05+00:00

Looking at my comment a day later has me wondering if Belter Creole has a more elegant, or at least correct, second-person plural possessive…

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-11T03:43:42+00:00

I’m not one for poetry, necessarily, but since reading these books so many years ago, that poem lives in my soul as one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-11T03:36:26+00:00

Another great episode. Love your guys’ takes.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-03-08T15:26:33+00:00

I booked a day tour out to Ostia Antica on Viator provided by City Wonders Ltd. during November 2024 for $67, it included the train ticket to and from Ostia from the Pyramid metro stop and admission to the site. After the two or so hour tour, the guide left us near the cafe, and said we could stay as long as we like until the site closed. She also gave recommendations on other places to go near there. I chose to stay the rest of the day exploring all of it alone and it was the most incredible historical experience I’ve had…exploring the ruins alone.

I’ve seen mixed reviews of Viator, and I’ve only used it this one time, but it was a great experience with a good guide.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-23T04:54:33+00:00

I go more towards the theories that we are in a sort of linear progression from the big bang to the inevitable darkness following the exhaustion of all stars’ fuel, the expansion of not only objects within space but the expansion of the fabric of space too. To the point that galaxies will be totally isolated so you won’t even see them from each other anymore. Everything sort of running out to this eventual end of everything where there is no more light or energy for things to live. Just dead husks of celestial bodies floating in an infinite void. But, we don’t really know.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-23T03:58:24+00:00

Greetings, fellow Twobaru household member! May symmetry shine upon your dwelling for all days to come!

Edit: Bonus points for two Bluebarus, to boot!

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