I initially thought he was great. Their cloud business was booming, it looked like they were converging their tools, windows 10 had its flaws but was pretty good. But now the tools are an enormous mess because they have changed their minds 5 times over, Windows 11 is complete dogshit and all the tools that are actually handy are paywalled behind expensive licences. Copilot is being forcefed to unwilling users and every single one of their tools is becoming worse.

So yea, I think he’s a business illiterate because there is no strategy behind this mess.

I just checked and of course the stock went up.

Listen mate, the capital of Greenland is literally Nuuk. Isn’t it always winter there? As if it were a man-made nuclear winter? The Americans merely built the bomb, but the Greenlanders are the bomb. Don’t open your mouth against the Inuit or they will intuit a nuke into it.

Seriously though, cabbages are always too big. We always buy the smallest we can find and maybe use 2/3 of it, and we eat a decent amount of cabbage.

When I started in IT as a greenhorn, they gave me 2 trainings: a basic explanation about enterprise networking and a training on how to troubleshoot effectively.

That network training was forgotten quickly because it would be many years before it became relevant to my job, but that troubleshooting training was absolute gold.

I have given similar trainings many times since, because it’s one of, if not the most important aspects of problem solving.

And it applies to anything really, not just IT. I look at medical doctors and I see them basically troubleshooting their way through the issues their patients have. Lawyers troubleshoot their way out of legal quandaries, politicians out of embarrassing situations, etc…

It’s a skill and a highly valuable one.

Get a cat:

Not that I’m advocating being a dick, but very few if any persons from antiquity are remembered for being kind. Case in point: Ea Nasir

It enforces putting your money where your mouth is, rather than someone else’s money so I’m perfectly fine with that.

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Those are not their actual names, just when we forget them for something. Like I will do a cuddle tour in the house, but forget one, then my wife will say “Is she (or he) from gypsies?” because I suppose they were a historically neglected group. Hence they all received a gypsy name.

• Our tabby cat: little satan, little angel, rollka jambo
• Our white cat: Azog, little pig
• Our gray cat: lynx, master hunter, little moon
• Our male cat: Dyson, chunky chonker, the opera singer, sweet boy, moomoo

They also have “gypsy” names. Respectively Jessica, Jennifer, Esmeralda and Kevin

It is definitely a magazine that looks at everything from an economic point of view, which makes their target audience people who have a stake in the economy. So yes, that of course means millionaires as well.

They do often have a very neutral point of view, which I really appreciate. That being said, when it comes to opinion pieces or sometimes general reporting, I don’t always agree with their premises, lines of argumentation, conclusions or any combination of those.

Their data driven articles are very insightful though and I think you understand a lot of geopolitical and economic issues better by reading the economist.

Scaterpillar

Horses?

Reminds me of a new colleague. She’s quite pretty, but last time I saw her (after like 2 months) I didn’t recognize her at all because she had the skin color of a pumpkin.

In one year? This has been a decade in the making. Europe was hoping the US would get its shit together, they didn’t and now the final realization of the new reality has finally hit home.

I doubt they will get riled up over this, but what might get them riled up will be their inability to vote in the upcoming midterms.

What year is it in your head? 1825?

Facilitator is actually a pretty decent feature. It works pretty well for recurring meetings with a set agenda. The message shown is not very useful, but the automatic notes and summary are usually fairly good.

5/7 perfect snack