Thank you for posting! This was the first venture down posting more relevant and real world use cases not having to use third party hosting for builders.
Thank you for posting! This was the first venture down posting more relevant and real world use cases not having to use third party hosting for builders.
- Dog usually is up by 830-9. Take on walk and get sunshine and fresh air to help wake up for about 20 min.
- Jump on morning standup calls. Some are active and some aren’t so use the secondary ones to start breakfast consisting of eggs, protein, and some fruit.
- Make coffee. I wait 90-120 minutes before I drink any caffeine from waking up.
- Work on short higher priority items that I noted from the night before until noon and hit the gym to break up the day.
Being in a desert during an El Niño season is a poor decision. It does rain occasionally and I don’t think people going to camp with a days worth of food in small tents understand the risk of a desert climate.
Also, it’s not that remote. Diplo and Chris Rock walked 5 miles out of the site and got picked up and driven back so while the situation does suck, it’s not like they are alone in the great white north 100 miles from civilization. It’s off a road only a few miles.
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Basically use the old website on a laptop once every few weeks now and never engage with any content anymore. Mostly check news, click a link maybe, and move on but has been replaced by other information sources.
Forget inflation data. Companies are not doing raises and a lot are not doing bonuses. Is anyone honestly saying they spend less now than a few years ago? Would love to hear the back story.
Do you have data to indicate that companies are not doing raises or bonuses? or is this your opinion based on anecdotes?
We don't spend a lot more than a few years ago. Mortgage is fixed and we work from home so we don't drive much, so gas prices don't affect us much. Groceries and eating out is certainly more but wasn't a high percentage expenditure before. We get a lot of our groceries from Costco, who seem to pin the prices of certain staples, so we really aren't paying much more for milk, eggs, and of course rotisserie chicken.
overall inflation is entirely dependent on your personal "basket of goods" so some are affected less than others.
Most hacker news people aren’t experiencing any positive effects from inflation, since the tech industry is fundamentally about future growth rather than present income. Higher interest rates means less funding for ventures.
According to the economic stats, the average US worker is receiving raises that are slightly above cpi. Most workers aren’t professionals whether in tech or not.
The current situation is monetary deflation but price inflation. The same amount of money will buy more of the long term hard assets, but less consumer goods. That weirdness is due to government policy; large deficits on the one side drive up demand for consumer goods, and industrial policy constricts supply of consumer goods on the other side. Then in order to reduce the impact of these policies, the federal reserve constricts the money supply causing monetary deflation. So there’s less money, but prices are higher anyway.
Of course since there’s less money available for long term investments, at some point in the future the price inflation will worsen due to a reduced supply of consumer goods unless there’s countervailing effects.
I am spending less, but only because I am cutting back like crazy on certain items (storage unit emptied and put into spare room etc.).
Prices on food have certainly increased - 10lbs of Quaker Oats oatmeal at Costco went up about 15% , and the organic 5lb bag went from about $8 to $10.99 at the same time. Meat also, the Angus ground beef patties are $5/lb from Costco, up from I think $4/lb a year ago.
I’ve been in the contact center consulting space for years and unfortunately, some industries just know there aren’t many alternatives or the effort to move somewhere is so high they really don’t need to strive to make the customer feel special or welcome.
Airlines, internet providers, larger companies like Amazon and Meta can run on such low quality support because face it, most people will continue to use them.
Coinbase even offers “24/7 priority support” if you subscribe to their monthly plan.
The industry is a mess but companies are starting to move the traditional contact center as you mentioned focused on just limiting the complaints and placing a bandaid on the problems to make them go away and turning into a fully personalized experience where calls and feedback help feed the entire customer experience. Metrics typically looked at such as higher hold times are not as highly weighted as the reasons and how often someone is calling and helping really drive a lot of companies in a positive way.
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