Me: Oh I wonder if you actually cover what I care about.
Warren Buffett: Well the contract is three pages and we show it to you upfront but if you have a question ask it to the licensed insurance salesman who will call you halfway through typing things into the website.
Me: Oh?
@patio11
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Insurance Industry Criticized for Opacity and Deliberate Complexity
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Product Manager role mirrors reporter duties but earns significantly more
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See also the equilibrium which happens when all tech reporters get exposed to this conversation repeatedly: PM: I love your work!
Reporter: So what do you do all day?
PM: *explains*
Reporter: Wow that sounds like my job.
PM: In many respects?
Reporter: Do you earn $80k?
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Tech Industry Talent Recruitment Strategy and Internal Workforce Development
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It is somewhat unfortunate that tech sees in its best advocates collections of skills/etc that tech could make more productive use of if they were inside the house, but tech sees in its best advocates…
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Reframing Skill Development as Engaging Rather Than Grinding
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In particular, attempt to develop a willingness to view Getting Good as a valuable, perhaps perversely fun, necessary activity rather than the default POV that it is a soul crushing grind.
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Structural Barriers to AI Adoption Beyond Decision Maker Age
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I don’t think it is primarily age of decision makers which functions as a barrier to it. Mostly structural factors.
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Building National Capability: Converting Competence Into Websites
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We should develop the capability, as a nation, to turn competence into websites. It seems like a persistently useful thing to have.
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Washington D.C. Culture Fails to Convert Competence into Digital Solutions
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Note that in the culture that is Washington D.C. something can be important to an agency with a multi billion dollar budget, and a “critical” resource, and simply not be made, because the culture that is Washington D.C. believes that it cannot turn competence into websites.
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E&O Insurance Risk Assessment for AI Business Practices
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Hilariously this is possibly +EV from an underwriting perspective because anyone incapable of doing this most basic bit of business is probably a terrible E&O risk.
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Strategic App Approval: Agent Persuasion Tactics
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This is Plan C, but there is a cost of an hour or two for me to get another app in front of another underwriter and so I’m in “arming the agent to sweet talk the underwriter” mode.
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Insurance Challenges for Payment Processing Companies in 2026
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Having one of those mornings where I’m trying to put my best salaryman face on via an insurance underwriter who is convinced I am uninsurable because I process credit cards.