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Yeah because of exactly these two reasons, I switched to iPhone Mini. Love it so far. Now working on removing Google and Facebook dependencies from rest of my life.

Read a lot of books, start with Intelligent Investor, but also learn active trading ideas. Remember most people are selling snake oil when it comes to trading courses. Just stick with cheap books with a lot of reviews/sales. Hopefully, after a lot of reading, you will have more confidence in investing and/or trading.

I just put everything in SPY and ARKK.

Automation and high quality all around.

Also look for projects that don't need to be 100% available all the time. I use Zenfolio, they send out emails that the site will be down for few hours on a random night, I don't mind it. It is just a portfolio site.

As someone who lives in Texas, I am hoping now fellow Texan will lean blue. Hopefully, we will remember this when next elections are up.

Nine joins is not a big deal, you simply filter data before joining. And that is only if tables are fully normalized, no one does that. For example, current avatar and user info maybe in same table. Post and permission will likely be in the same table.

Of course, you will use materialized views for even better performance.

I keep hearing about consulting path, is that something you can take?

Having worked with NoSQL apps, I would say that NoSQL simply move the burden of maintaining data integrating inside the application code. I would recommend default should be SQL and NoSQL should be used only if it really is impossible to do it in SQL.

At least, now you know. Companies can choose better user experience if they want. What's your opinion about Apple vs Facebook?

OT but I have never heard of anyone saying Asian restaurant.

Red tapes created by non-doers. They have no skin in the game, so they don't care about effects of their decisions on doers. In my org, they decide that everyone should use certain component. Sure it might be better component but they never actually used it, they just read about it, maybe vendor bought them a few expensive dinners. Now developers have to implement it. They come up with deadlines based on what vendor said. And devs have to reprioritize their projects, meet their deadlines while also working on features that customers or product managers want.

The worst is when two different non-doers come up with conflicting requirements and refuse to revise.

If no-one is doing jobs that need doing, then pay for those jobs will rise until it reaches equilibrium. Greed and motivation will always be there.

Got email from IB that you cannot open new positions on GME this morning.

If you bought options, you don't have to exercise them. They could expire worthless.

This is great advice. Your company is a small consultancy though, not an individual consultant.

I read your Twitter thread. It makes sense but I am still not sure how I as an individual can get my foot in the door. It seems you are saying I should incorporate and work as a company. But my current company and pretty much every company I worked for has a process to vet vendors. They would easily see that this LLC is a brand new company with one owner/person.

My current Fortune 50 company has a policy that requires additional approvals for newer and smaller companies. My friend has 10+ years old recruiting firm, I tried to get him to work with my company as a vendor. But it was rejected because they said his company was too young, and had too few employees (it is just him and his wife). They asked him to work through one of their vendors, and all of our vendors also rejected to work with him because of his size.

I have thought about this many times. I even had consultancy once doing webdev. But now I have no idea how can boutique consultancy can succeed? Who do you market to?

Mom & pop shops are best served by Shopify or Wix.

Large corps with work with other large consulting companies or hire.

Mid size corps maybe. What would be your strategy to market to them?

I am reading a book right now, "Designing your life". It brought one good point that we don't know what we will want in 5 years or even what we want in 5 minutes.

Instead think in terms of a project where you will design multiple prototypes. You need to choose one of the prototype and move forward. Let market (your internal state) decide if choice was correct or not. And if it wasn't, design more prototypes while you are still selling the current one.

As an introvert, I wasn't as much bothered by lockdown but friends and family complaining about it was more draining than lockdown itself.

> Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can't help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities.

Or people with small kids.