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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • 10 years ago Intel was starting to realize that mobile phones might be popular. They had every advantage to understand and shape the future and somehow managed to not understand mobile chips and graphics cards–which they manufactured both for a long time, would be important areas of computing.

    Complete, total, utter failure of leadership and vision, product management. They finally swapped it CEO like a year ago after they’d cemented decades of sleepwalking as a company.

    It’s not sad, it’s pathetic and a testament to poor management being able to kill a company despite all possible advantages.



  • So this is a part of striking, and one of the risks, you strike and you lose healthcare. It’s gross and tilts negotiations hugely in employer favor. Instead of unions calling this out as if it’s a surprise during a strike they should continue to focus in progressive states, like they are finally, on getting legislation passed to allow for unemployment during strikes, healthcare during strikes…things that actually change the playing field?

    Alabama and other states in the south have laws like “it’s illegal for cities to pass a law making the min wage higher than the federal minimum wage.” That’s wildly regressive, yet progressive groups in OR where they might have the numbers to pass stuff don’t get progressive legislation for workers across the line.

    OR is the only west coast state without a salaried minimum wage. Our unemployment benefits could be more progressive. State paid leave is new and one of the best and is a game changer. More focus on that kind of law is where efforts should be IMO.






  • It’s a bit tricky to answer your prompt depending on what exactly you’re looking for with “better”:

    • every child is different as you know, but accepting that what other parents/kids can do at even the same age and expecting your child to manage/perform the same is folly. Your child at 3 is ages ahead of others being able to fly successfully.
    • I think of trips in terms of who they are for, and sometimes something that a parent wants or needs (which are still valid) is not something a child at x age can enjoy, appreciate, engage in, etc. if I want to go on a backpacking trip with a 5y/o, understand it’ll probably be miserable and leave them out. If you need time to photograph, be an adult and not take care of the constant needs of a little one for a few days or more, it’s OK to block out the time for an experience without them. It’s as normal as not taking them to a bar to meet your friends to catch up for a drink; it’s not for them and they don’t make sense there.
    • combined trips with kids are fun, but you have to weigh what is for them and what isn’t. We try to do a balance and sometimes are pretty successful. We have had success getting our child to enjoy things other kids their age might not, but it’s not a guarantee or a competition, it’s pretty organic and is usually built over time
    • speaking of “built over time”, one of the biggest things is to know your kid. Do they like to look at pictures on their own? Paint? Then you can probably make a museum work and can engage them in the content in some ways, but yes it’ll be very different than discussing with an adult only at the museum.
    • Whatever your vacation/trip/activity I’d just try to have in my head who is getting what out of it, and communicate/acknowledge it from the start–though frankly 3 is young to be able to have a kid emotionally appreciate “the next 2 hours at the museum for mom/Dad is because there is a great exhibit with my favorite artist” type conversations. If they aren’t ready for that, still go, but you can’t take them and expect the kid to miraculously be ready for it and not be themselves and their age. You mentioned the 3 year old not appreciating hanging out on the beach…they don’t work or go to school so lying around is boring for them while it’s vital for older people.

    Overall, know your needs and your kid’s, your kids emotional state, interests and maturity level and plan accordingly. If the child isn’t ready for certain things, it’s your job as a parent to make that call for their and your benefit. You’ll enjoy what you need and have more energy to appreciate activities with them where their needs lie when you do things in their space.