Staffing Issue

In my field, I never had a mentor or anyone who knew more than I do. I’ve always had to go it alone.

This is incredibly hard, but also meant I learned a whole lot by necessity. And by bashing my head against it over and over again till I figured it out. I’ve often been in companies where unless I found the answer and acted on it, no one would. I was the last and sometimes the only stop.

That leads to a lot of painful but thorough education.

I achieved my wizard status by trying every spell with no guidance and no council or counsel.

Shun

The below is why many (feminist, insecure) women absolutely despise passport bros, by the way. It has nothing to do with protecting anyone. That’s complete horseshit. It’s because a lot of women want you to desire them while they remain unattainable.

Going somewhere else where women are more into you torpedoes that and also triggers women’s intrasexual competition like mad.

So of course they want to make it shunned and verboten.

To be clear: only some women. But there are a lot of them!

Mode of Clown

Many women need to get over the fact that it’s not sexual harassment if someone they are not attracted to is attracted to them. Jesus Christ, idiots.

And to keep it fair, many men need to realize that women aren’t insane or too demanding for wanting you to listen to her and make some sort of effort.

Gen Z is in full clown mode now. We did it to them, so they can’t be blamed. But it’s terrible to witness.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting.

The realities of being a pop star.

It’s fairly telling of the state of the software industry that the exotic craft of ‘fixing bugs’ is apparently worth a LinkedIn-style self-promotional blog post.

Japan’s high-stakes gamble to turn island of flowers into global chip hub.

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries.

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts.

X’s new country-of-origin feature shakes MAGA and Democrat circles as many ‘US’ accounts revealed to be foreign-run. Which has always been completely obvious. Tons of foreign propaganda operations out there.

How billionaires took over American politics.