Tag: money
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trying your best properly rated
widely accepted reading of the-west-wing, as such, is that of a liberal Fantasia, not because it depicts the Bartlet administration as being liberal, but because it depicts a world in which the best possible thing you can do is to try very hard to do the right thing — and the liberals, or really the…
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“Feminization” and Deming
The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,”[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work. There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful – proven by a…
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money dysmorphia – To individuals, the economy is everyday, re-occurring costs and income, not stonks. // “When people talk about ‘the economy’ usually that’s a proxy for wages versus housing costs, healthcare costs and student loan debt.”
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Software is cheap
And software is valuable You want to maximize the amount of weird stuff you’re doing across the business to generate asymmetry with your competitors, with the admittedly serious caveat that the pathway to this particular ancient ruin is littered with skulls. Pay attention to the skulls. (From the HST or tech.) Software costs very little…
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Notes on Spain – Matt Lakeman – “Not only is there a €1 coin, but a €2 coin too, in addition to 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent coins. So if you pay for a €2.65 bottle of wine with a €10 euro note, you had better prepare yourself for the hail of…
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Living with “a self-styled countess and her companion, a blackmailer, alchemist, magician and thief”
# Well, that was weird… If you need proof that “money is not real,” I submit this chart: I mean, sure, money is “real,” and I’d prefer more than less of it. But, with a fluctuation over such a short amount of time as this, I’m kind of like “really? Try harder, money!” At one…
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🗂 Link: The Myth of Making It
I don’t want to add patriarchy to this whole thing, but why not. It’s the part that genders success so that Dunst complains about recognition, while men complain about money. It makes sense if you think about what guys are traditionally supposed to be: powerful breadwinners. Source: The Myth of Making It
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🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print
> The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company pretends that everyone reads them and makes an informed decision to accept their terms. If you’re the company sending out the contracts, it seems kind of risky to undermine that convention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a…
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