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by m741
Mon Mar 03, 2025 2:27 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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February 2025 Update

Some small updates for this past month.

In terms of finance, I'm basically flat over the month, in the realm of random noise. I did take action, though. I set target allocations for NVDA stock and my company's stock, and sold some of each, trying to bring my portfolio into a ...
by m741
Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:34 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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@loutfard - Backblaze looks promising! Pretty cheap, $6 per TB per month is reasonable, and it seems like I get charged less if I use less storage?

@delay - Dropbox is on the pricier side, otherwise I'd have gone with them.

I've read most of the classic books (though not "Where Are the Customers ...
by m741
Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:54 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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Views: 246336

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Sorry for the loss of your cat. She is not alone in hating medicine. When I visited a care home I noticed many old people hated their medicine. According to the nurse, they would hide the pills beneath their tongues, and later spit them out. The nurses had instructions on how to force them to ...
by m741
Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:59 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Jacob's gaming journal
Replies: 188
Views: 20590

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A historian would very likely have a very different experience/take-away from playing EU compared to a naive HS student cosplaying their hegemonic fantasies.


Incidentally, one of my favorite blogs is an ancient historian who looks at how games reflect (or don't) our understanding of the ancient ...
by m741
Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:21 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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2024 in review
I went an entire year without posting an update. I'd say 2024 was a crap year for me, and this dissuaded me from updating. But here goes.

Work

I'll start with a work update. I think about a week after my last update in January 2024, I was laid off from my job. It's a long story ...
by m741
Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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2023 in Review
I'm not updating as much as I used to, but I figure it's worth taking stock of things at least a few times a year!

Life
We ended up buying the land that I mentioned in my last update. It's on an island near Seattle that's pretty accessible, and as I said it's 10 acres - about 300 ...
by m741
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:04 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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January-June 2023

It's hard to believe that it's already June - I thought I'd just skipped one or two months. Well, the infrequent updates at least mean that each update is meaningful.

Work

My team has continued to grow - I'm managing a bit over 30 people at this point. That's something I ...
by m741
Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:51 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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2022 End of Year Roundup

Looking back at my journal, I see that I disappeared for 8 months So rather than an monthly update, I'll do an annual one. I'm still around, but ERE has not been a focus since a lot of things are on "auto-pilot."

This year was much of the same. It was busy - mostly with ...
by m741
Sat Feb 12, 2022 2:18 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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Life
LIfe is... fine. There's really not a lot of updates. I got into fishkeeping in November and it's not the best hobby from an ERE perspective. If I could snap my fingers, get a refund, and move on, I probably would. I do really enjoy the hobby, but I worry about the little guys, and it makes ...
by m741
Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:57 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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2021 End of Year Roundup

Work
Work is going well. At the start of the year I was managing about 9 people. I'm now managing 13 and by the end of January will be managing 19.

I don't mind managing but I don't enjoy it as much as programming. I think it was a good career move for me and I don't ...
by m741
Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:19 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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October & November

Work
Work is going well. I'd expected based on some hints to see some additional responsibilities headed my way. And that's happened - I'm going to be absorbing another team, taking the number of people on my team from ~13 to ~20. It's an exciting team and although I don't ...
by m741
Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:14 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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I don't log in that often anymore and didn't realize there were so many responses. I'll respond before giving my latest update!

@Gilberto de Piento - my company is actually offering coaching courses to managers and I signed up. I'll probably start in December/January. It was a good idea ...
by m741
Fri Oct 08, 2021 12:48 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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July, August, September

Work
Work is going well? I guess?

My boss really likes me and I've found an area where my balance of diligence and pragmatism is good (there are *many* areas of software development where I would be a terrible fit and my style of development would simply be too ...
by m741
Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:53 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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June, 2021

Work
So far, work has been going better than before. My team (now 14 people including myself) seems to be happy with me as a manager. We've suffered from no attrition, even as other teams have had difficulty. I don't know if that's because I'm a good manager, a lax manager, or random ...
by m741
Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:28 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: DutchGirl's journal
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Views: 310533

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Hi DutchGirl, glad to see you're continuing to make progress on your FI goal! Sounds like you're really close.

I like sporadically working hard, it helps me enjoy the status quo when things are less hectic. I guess like your rabbi :). It's like the reverse of hedonic adaptation.
by m741
Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:54 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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@DutchGirl -

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm tossing a thousand here and there into the mortgage as a way of "diversifying," since it's early in the term these should have outsized returns in reducing interest paid.

As for moving this post by authoritarianism and WWII expert Timothy Snyder, which ...
by m741
Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:37 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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April-May 2021

Work
Has been pretty interesting overall. In the past two months or so, I've gone from 7 direct reports on my team to 13. Ironically, so far that's been *less* stressful, because I've been forced to delegate more. With 7, including some people who weren't that active, it was ...
by m741
Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:33 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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January - March 2021

I was meaning to post over the past few months, and I think I had a draft that got lost in February. But here we are, well into 2021 and I ahven't posted yet!

Gilberto and DutchGirl were right - all the plants started returning to life in February, and things are green again ...
by m741
Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:37 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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December, 2020

I could have sworn I'd updated this journal after August, but now it's December and here we are! Another year, almost in the books.

Work
Quite a tumultuous few months at work. About two months ago I was hit by some pretty serious burnout. The manager position is stressful to me ...
by m741
Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:19 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: m741's ERE Journal
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August, 2020
Work
I guess not much has changed since my last update. Still stressed out at work. We're entering the period where performance reviews start. I think it's part of the whole end-of-year compensation discussion. Understandably, this is more work for managers. My impression is that ...