I’m curious why anybody would choose Pandora over either of the other two. My experience (although I haven’t really used it in a couple of years) was that the library was tiny. Every time I created a playlist, I’d hear the same 20 or 30 songs on repeat. With Google Play Music, the playlists truly feel random, and I…

Thanks for this Soundiiz tip! My wife and I just signed up for a GPM family account a couple of months ago, and I was wondering what I’d have to do to transfer all of the playlists I’ve created, if we have to switch to another service.

I really like this idea. I, like you, can never seem to get the old bar to stick to the new one, and it always ends up as a broken mess on top of my drain. I may give this a try.

I’ve always tried that and it always just ends up breaking off. Maybe I’m just not trying hard enough.

I try that every time, and it inevitably ends up just breaking off... The corners always get caught on my loofa.

Serious question though. My wife and I use bar soap, but I always feel like I’m wasting the last 15 or 20 percent of it because it gets too thin and just breaks. What do I do about that?

This title feels very click-baity to me. The author of the twitter post never said that one of these things was “better for you”. Simply that one has less sugar and fewer calories. What about the fat content? Or the protein content? Or the glycemic index? Or the fiber content? How full is one going to make you feel…

I’m most proud of living a life where I’m not constrained financially, even on a fairly low budget ($55k for my wife and I). We are comfortable with our situation (decent 1BR apartment in a fairly expensive city) and still spend plenty of money on things that matter to us (adventures, visiting family, nights out with…

“There’s a contingent of personal finance obsessives out there who’ve branded themselves as FI/RE, which is short for Financial Independence and Early Retirement. They’ve cut their day-to-day living expenses to the bone, while earning and investing aggressively, all with the intent of retiring well before the…

I’m surprised at how many people DON’T use some sort of cloud storage at this point. It’s stupid easy. I have a folder in Dropbox for all of my grad school files, so if I create a new file for any class, or modify an existing one, it is automatically backed up.

I’ve heard horror stories of past students losing their…

I suppose this is how I am paying for my desire to read useful life advice (well this and the terribly annoying ads that pop up). I have to read stuff like this that is really better suited to Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media site where people are actually interested in the author’s opinions.

I don’t recall reading the word “indefinitely” anywhere in this article.

Agreed. I am in grad school, and some of my professors say it all the time, and it drives me nuts. And I’ve even found myself saying it when I teach. I have to catch myself constantly.

“you can’t hold people hostage by threatening to automate the shit out of their jobs because you don’t want to pay them wages that are actually in line with today’s cost of living.”

It’s not “holding them hostage”... It’s economics. Businesses are going to find the lowest-cost way to run their business, and if that…

This is something people tend to forget. And it’s already happening.

“Every state increased minimum wage ever enacted has demonstrably boosted thats state economy. Every fucking one!”

I’ve been there. I had the perfect closet in one of my apartments to keep my carboy. I left a fresh batch in there, and came back 12 hours later to a blown airlock and sticky carpet :/

I don’t know about your field, but in my field, plenty of people self-fund their PhDs. They all have some source of outside funding, such as a job, an external grant, or simply savings or a spouse. But we all have to option to forgo an assistantship and pay tuition.

I think the idea with not immediately responding to every email is that your employees don’t become as dependent on your feedback and input. In other words, they become more autonomous. Whether that’s Tim’s philosophy, I don’t know, but I’m imagining that if it only requires a 15 second reply, maybe it’s something the…

To most people, (I would hope that) a big pile of cash isn’t going to make them happy, until they find a meaningful way of putting it to use.

If someone handed me a million dollars today, sure I would be grateful, but I wouldn’t be all that much happier until I found a way to use it to make my life (or someone else’s)…