I used to do some recruiting for a large privately owned company(one of the big four), so here is some advice. Filling out online forms sucks, our system... you would have to submit 2 or 3 versions of your resume... know why? It weeds out lazy people. If you’re not willing to fill out multiple forms that take maybe…

Nintendo must love losing money to scalpers.

You should read up a bit on “confirmation bias”. It is a very natural human way of thinking, where you pay more attention to data that confirms your worldview / hypothesis / whatever and reject or downplay data that does not agree. It is a trap that I fall in to all the time - it is VERY difficult to avoid seeing…

The lottery is a terrible investment, if you try to see it as such. The lottery is a quite modest entertainment expense, if you justify it as such.

Nah, you’re right on the money dude. It’s not that plenty of women don’t work, but I support a family of four on my income alone (about to be five come July), and as disgusted as I am with the current state of things, I simply don’t have the time to take out of my day to call my Senators and Representatives who…

Remember how people were saying there was really no difference between him and Hillary and millions of women believed it?

It’s funny to run across this post right now - I’ve spent 20 winters virtually alone as a winter caretaker on a remote island. I’m a photographer & have published a book on the relationship between solitude and creativity. Right now I am exploring (by producing an album of original music) how someone who’s created…

Cool yep, I hear ya! Good luck with the rough patch!

This is the deal, right here. A few years ago, I received two promotions inside of a year, with a cumulative total raise of about 35%. It was a considerable increase of income, but the first thing my wife and I decided to do, even before I got the first paycheck, was to bump my retirement savings by about double…

I meet you in the middle. My breakfasts this weekend were basically the above but with good ramen noodles under the eggs instead of rice.

I did this just the other day. Had half of a meatball sub leftover but the bread was soggy. Scraped the meatballs and cheese onto some ramen noodles for “spaghetti and meatballs.”

What we need is an open standard for all IoT devices that everyone agrees to use. So Apple, Google & MS can all use it.

I’m an Xer but have a very millennial attitude to this. It’s not like it’s highly personal information that I went to the Gap when everyone within view saw me go in. When they send me Gap ads, I always have the choice of not buying what they’re advertising. In the grand scheme of privacy invasion this just isn’t one I…

A few middle class folks will save a little bit on insurance costs.

I paid $90 for two Advil. My mom was so pissed she went and bought an xl bottle from Costco and tried to donate it to the hospital.

All over the country Sikhs were targeted for hate crimes and racial harassment after 9/11, because ignorant uneducated white people thought anyone wearing a turban must be a Muslim. You’d think some people would remember that. When xenophobia becomes rampant in society anyone with brown skin is targeted.

Right, except that’s not the news or the point of mentioning the index. The reason it’s noted is the extremes (unseen in nearly 70 years) of the index. We don’t just seem more divided, we are, historically so.

You have identified something very important. You are trying to find a way to make sure your kids use reasonable caution when dealing with the police without trying to instill a fear of cops into them.

This is outstanding. I’m actually genuinely thrilled for this and hope that he has a long, long career running the Lakers.

Tough situation. I tend to talk to my kids in terms of decisions being good or bad rather than people, but they operate in such black and white. Plus, I want them to be able to infer from me telling them the truth 10 times in a row that I’ll probably tell the truth next time, and from the fact that the kid on the…