That is excellent news! I have friends impacted by T1 and being able to pay for insulin is a regular part of their life planning. I hope it eases things for people in CA a bit.

Love it - that feels very do-able these days. I’ll be out there in my political attire and holding a sign. Hope others are able to make it too!!

Yeah, typo. It was like 4am. 🤷

We keep costs low by doing an evening paid training “try before you buy” model - so we can see how people work and they can see how the job is with relatively low commitment. Our work culture isn’t for everyone, so we want them to try it out without disrupting too much. We bring on people who are trained, like the job and ready to generate revenue. All staff are paired with a mentor and manager so they learn how to produce client-ready work.

We only promote managers that can do both technical work and people manage. In companies past, this will scale to about 300 people in our line of work. It helps that we only promote from within.

I do work lots, but I am an owner, so that seems fair. I work from home and with family, so I’m able to double up some of my work life balance. But we have also automated pretty much all business operations, so realistically it is 1-2 hours per week. Training at night is a pain in the ass, but again I’m m an owner and this seems fair to me.

I’m the owner of a small business, so I am deeply familiar with this equation. The way we solve it is to “look for talent where no one else is looking” (actually strategy), then train the shit out of and mentor them (informal strategy). My managers are expected to be better than and train the staff to do their work - from technical skills to knowing what good looks like. Then as staff move into management they are expected to pay it forward. Is it a lot of work? Yes - but it’s also how you don’t end up with a knowledge gap at the top.

Edit: I hold myself to this same standard, which makes it easier to expect it if others.

It’s because they put the bean counters in charge. Boeing is a screaming example of why you don’t do that. It’s sad to see that software company move away from innovation and creative problem solving.

Managers should be engaged and skilled enough to do any direct team member’s work in their absence or train any person in the role. Their team should be used to scale the capacity and capabilities. If this isn’t being done, the business model is broken and eventually will cause issues - perhaps that’s what you are experiencing.

Totally. Good managers should be engaged enough with their team’s work that they understand the team’s input and be capable of covering for one of them if they are out.

I can tell you why the “kids coming out of college and younger people, minorities, are having a hard time finding jobs.”

Climbs onto soapbox

Leadership at most businesses have decided it is easier to hire experienced workers rather than grow and develop the next generation workforce. I hear things from leaders like “I don’t have time to train anyone new.” It’s lazy, fucked up, and wrong. AND ensures that we as a society will have a generational skill gap problem.

Utilities have one of the most glaring examples - the impending loss of irreplaceable institutional knowledge and critical skills as large numbers of workers retire, which could have been prevented with programs to bring in and develop early-in-career team members.

AI exasperates that problem because you need both an expert in how to setup and manage the Agents/supporting tools, and an expert who can review/adjust what is s coming out of the AI machine. They need to be the same person because you have to know the job well to effectively design the AI Agents for it. People entering the workforce are at an extreme disadvantage without a training, mentorship and ongoing support. Also in 2 decades the economy will be at risk without a workforce that has been properly skilled. If you think we are living Idiocracy now… just wait.

My general opinion of business leadership is not high, but this situation really exposes the depth of their laziness and lack of forethought. If you own or lead a business, now is the time to figure out how to hire and rapidly up skill incoming team members. Young people are generally hard working, loyal, and bring a valuable fresh perspective - if you put a n the elbow grease to help them develop.

What doesn’t he just get a “WE’VE LEARNED NOTHING” tattoo on his forehead?

Fact. But do the voters understand it enough to vote for an alternative to mainstream Democrats (that actually know how to fix stuff)? Like, the foundational issues are lack of term / age limits, how campaigns / candidates are funded, and lobbying. You canot fix healthcare, for example, without fixing the system that allowed our current state. Having any discussion before the foundations are fixed is an act of futility.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone would want to sleep with Miller.

Wait. Isn’t the current administration the enemy within? Do you think anyone in that room interpreted the message that way?

To be fair, Harris was a reasonably unlikable candidate. Maybe AOC has similar baggage. I hope not. I’d love to see her at the top of a ticket.

I’m not too plugged into his platform or track record. What makes him particularly bad?

I dunno… The whole make buses free so they run faster is not well tethered to the reality of bus travel. It’s stuff like that that makes me worried for Mamdani.

I consider assembling the right team part of the leadership position. 🤷 If there are structural problems where a leader cannot remove underperforming or undermining team members, then success is unlikely.

I worry that poor execution or bad decision making is what will sink the progressive movement. People assume that Johnson’s poor performance is due to inherent issues with democratic socialism, when in fact it he’s just not good at his job. Not all progressives have the right disposition and skills to do great things - and if progressive voters can’t or won’t distinguish between policy and performance, then the movement is likely to fizzle out.

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I’m sure she does. Who wouldn’t in her position?