Sep 6
Rosh Hashana (New Year) Update
It’s been a busy year with a lot of changes, both Covid-related and otherwise. As is my custom, here’s my update for this circle around the sun.
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Jun 13
How I got hired at AWS
Being yourself matters as much as anything.
And be nice to the airline staff. They can really make or break your life.
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Jun 7
What the fuck are you doing there?
“Hey man,” I said in my native New York tongue, “You’re not gonna believe this, but I’m calling from Frankfurt…”
“What the FUCK are you doing there?”
It was a pretty good question.
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May 1
Apr 28
No Undoing
The joy of photography for me was never in the finished product, and certainly not the moment of capturing the image on film. The joy was in that painstaking work that it took to bring my vision of what the negative could be, into being on paper.
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Apr 25
Take your upsells and **** them!
Shove your “up-selling,” “cross-selling” or whatever else the fuck you call the endless spam. All you do is piss me off and make me want to find an alternative. Not every customer can be up-sold. Some just want a simple product to do a single thing. Leave us the fuck alone.
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Feb 14
Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that were never swept or cleaned up because nobody seems to deal with those here either.
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Jan 18
How I became “glue”
As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that “Type II misfit.” How I got there is the story.
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Apr 18
It’s not coming back
In 1945, some still expected the world to go back to familiar pre-crisis reality. They would be disappointed, as will those who are waiting for “the good old days” today.
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Feb 7
Don’t buy tech from somebody you meet in Church
If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever “we’re part of the same group, you can trust me,” then you know you can’t. Honest players don’t need to resort to that.
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