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This pub is a bit of a gumbo - it's got a little bit of everything and lots of somethings special. It reflects my tastes. My hope is that it is always well seasoned and spiced... every pot is different. And not for all tastebuds...I like okra in mine By Ama of Nsu Coaching & Consulting · Launched 8 months agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmimo6qwsLrSrqOtoZ6ce7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D

I loved my conversation with Jack Farley. Here is how he summarized it. After correctly calling the “everything bubble” in 2021, here’s how Fabrice Grinda quiet legend of Venture Capital (VC), is viewing things: the VC bear market of 2022-? isn’t over but has created excellent opportunities. valuations for AI companies are “ludicrous” while valuations for non-AI companies are reasonable”. Fabrice sees compelling opportunities in defense-tech as well as autonomous driving (very unloved right now).

Amazon conducted layoffs on Friday that included a significant number of Alexa staff members. Daniel Rausch, vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, wrote a memo saying the company would cut several hundred jobs. Synthedia has learned that over 150 positions were in the enterprise groups, with Alexa Voice Service being particularly hard hit. An estimate published in Blind is around 300 in total. Synthedia investigated and found that some of the Alexa groups were hit harder than others—some groups even gained headcount.

Welcome to Saving Money with Andrew! I normally wouldn’t write an entire post about the shipping options of a single retailer. But Amazon represents over 12% of all of our household spending. And we order from Amazon almost daily, so even small opportunities to save money translate to big household savings for us.[1] One of my favorite small Amazon tips is to maximize the amount of “No-Rush” digital credits we get. We use these credits quickly on TV shows and movies (generally for our kids), so they are almost as good as cash savings.

"This is not Kindergarten. You have to color WAY INSIDE THE LINES. Sometimes I forget that I am actually attempting to communicate with other grown ass adults in this case, the way that I have to hedge everything that I say because people in this case are so vitriolic and the way this community gets so toxic, but at the same time, y’all need some tough love." Just for this line alone I wish I could like this post multiple times.

When our two sons were going to Hebrew school, preparing for their Bar Mitzvahs, one of them asked the Rabbi, “What if I’m not sure that I believe in god?” To which the Rabbi replied, “It’s unimportant that you believe in god. What matters is that you search for god, look for the sacred, and learn to recognize what is holy.” And with those simple words, my kids were not only liberated from their fear of trying to maintain a lifelong devotion to a single, abstract, static “belief,” but they were also given permission to put their faith into their own actions and efforts to be kind.

For a while now, I have been very interested in the European story of Doctor Faustus or Faust, and how this tragic myth can help explain much of the United States and the westernized world. The story of Doctor Faustus has been popular in Europe since the 16th century as Europe left the Dark Ages and moved into the Enlightenment, yet as the Dark Ages faded away Europeans still believed that the devil presented an earthly threat.

When Danny Casolaro sold Computer Age magazine he thought the purchaser would offer him a job and keep him on. This did not happen.  He now decided to turn to journalism.  As the Netflix film American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders notes, he began to talk a lot to Bill Hamilton about the INSLAW case. By the time this happened, around the spring of 1990, things had changed in the status of that case.

Hello. You’ve reached Time & Temperature. American Primitive dropped last week and the vibes couldn’t be better. I’m out on the road with the 97’s rocking town after town, night after night, and folks are responding, which is something you always hope for but don’t always get. One of the only complaints I am hearing is that I didn’t include the lyrics on the liner notes of the album. I underestimated folks’ interest in reading the lyrics!