That X comment thread feels like it’s entirely comprised of angry divorced cops.

Me looking at Trump’s latest makeup job.

Metal heads:

“Us too. Hell looks fucking rad.”

Has had several doctors release bullshit health reports.

Remember this guy?

Rub it under the table leg to balance the table.

Donut bread

I use a bidet

At the state or city level though?

I don’t know why we don’t just peg minimum wage to inflation or county cost of living metrics. Fighting over this every few years is dumb.

Honestly, the AI information might be better than most of the dog shit insights people post on that platform.

Harris knows that swing voters are not listening to NPR. They’re listening to the stuff at the top of Spotify and Apple’s podcast lists.

Trump also knows this, and he’s been doing it longer than Harris has been.

Two of his largest businesses depend on the US government being friendly to him. Space X and Telsa. The grift is in plain sight. “Please keep buying my rockets, and please don’t make life hard for EV manufacturers.”

K.

All I can say is that for many of us in people management here,

a) we could’ve paid our mortgage just as comparably on an IC track, and we do this job because we enjoy working with people and roadmap strategy, and

b) I don’t care whether you’re building a fintech bro trading app, public housing in the USSR, or are conducting an orchestra. You get enough people in one place trying to achieve a shared goal, and you need people to manage the people. Otherwise the work becomes messy and miserable.

I say this as someone who has worked for small companies, large companies, NGOs, and non-hierarchical collectives.

When you start working on something that is complex, and has a lot of moving parts, you need conductors. If you’ve got a better real-world example of an organizational model that works, I’m all ears.

Even in Leninist Russia, workplace structures had people managers in place to facilitate planning and to ensure that a team was aligned and set up to successfully accomplish a goal.

I’ve only ever seen one org structure that didn’t need some sort of people facilitation layer. And that was a tiny commune that a buddy of mine lived on. And everyone knew each other for years before they established said commune.

For those who like to comment without reading the post :/

The figures from TD Cowen say that a 256GB iPhone 16 Pro Max costs Apple about $485 to manufacture, including the components, box, and assembly process. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro Max had a so-called Bill of Materials (BOM) of $453, about $32 cheaper than the newer model.

A lot of us here work in software. Often times there are two tracks, IC and people management. Often times both of those tracks pay similarly.

The good people managers and directors are usually folk that were identified as being good at mentoring people and good at providing air cover so people could do good work.

I’m sorry you’ve never worked at a place with good middle management. It does exist in many places, and many people selected it because they like working with the people and the strategy more than the product directly. Often times these people could’ve been paid comparably by working as a staff or principal track engineer or experience designer.

Doubled tapped it no erasies.

“No, you.”

Although January’s stage wont be nearly as big as one month before a general election. An election where the price of goods is a major campaign issue.