“Oh wow we have a photo still on file for you. Let me show you, you’ll get a kick out of it.” — learner’s permit from age 16 and then driver’s license shortly thereafter States are gonna see, I guess.
@patio11
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Security Researcher Critiques Insecure Cloud Upload Design Choices
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While convenient the residual security researcher in me thinks “Come on guys, would it have killed you to make a no-login SSL secured page to upload these instead” but they are clearly optimizing for lowest common denominator mobile usage, which means “Eh, you can do email.”
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FedEx Streamlines In-Store Printing with Email-Based Pickup System
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Because I was not exactly planning this my trip to DMV beat Amazon’s delivery of printer ink, and so I got a quick stop at FedEx, which has an interesting and much better than I remember UX for in-store printing: “Just email us the file. We will email you a code back to pick up.”
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Government Service Inefficiency: DMV Appointment Availability Crisis
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Me: Today is going to be a productive day writing about… *appointment opens up at Chicago DMV for first time in 3 months* Me: … comparative experience in retail government services!
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ChatGPT Excels at Understanding Quirky Shorthand Language
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I’m frequently pleasantly surprised how well ChatGPT works as a “my quirky shorthand” whisperer.
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Employee Retention Challenges in Tech Industry Management
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Then you get to spend your days talking to people like me and your nights grousing about how finding employees is a “pick two” situation.
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From Side Hustle to General Contractor: Building Your Business
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Keep showing up on time and eventually you’ll need business cards because you’ll need a sales process, and your more clueful friends will say “put General Contractor as your title; thank me later.”
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Career Progression for Handymen in America Management Shift
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“What do you think a handyman who is ‘promoted’ out in America ends up doing?” I’d assume a lot of it is moving into management/capital on either services or real estate.
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Economic realities of handyman work amid automation
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(I use scare quotes on “beneath” because I want being a handyman to be something with purpose and dignity, but don’t want that so much that one can’t perceive economic realities of what jobs compete with it and how.)
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Japan’s Consumer Surplus: Talent Allocation and Underpayment
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(There are many factors at play, but one reason inseparable from the consumer surplus in many fields in Japan is implicit subsidization by allocating very talented people to jobs which are a bit “beneath” their talents then overutilizing/underpaying them.)