it's a third of the price to begin with. I think readwise has a winner in reader app, but they sure do charge a premium for the same. You can get the same functionality in linkwarden or pinboard for a fraction of readwise's subscription pricing.
If there is an argument for RTO, it would be this.
Stu Sjouwerman: We were hiring a fairly specific, hard-to-find software engineer who had background in AI. We have a number of AI initiatives, and so we needed a software engineer to support all those initiatives.
Jessica Mendoza: The job was posted on online job forums, and pretty soon, resumes started to flow in from all over the country, and one candidate stood out. He said his name was Kyle.
Stu Sjouwerman: "Mr. Kyle" quote, unquote, air quotes, had experience with exactly everything that we needed. It was a very good interview. He was very open. He talked about his strengths and weaknesses, indicated where he felt he needed additional training and indicated a career path. And so, was the perfect interviewee, which made us move to the next step.
Jessica Mendoza: After conducting background checks, Stu's company decided to hire Kyle as a remote employee. They sent him a work laptop to an address in Washington State and started the onboarding process. But almost immediately, it became clear that Kyle was not who he said he was.
Stu Sjouwerman: At that point in time, our team started seeing very concerning traffic on that laptop.
Jessica Mendoza: What kind of concerning traffic?
Stu Sjouwerman: Well, Kyle immediately started downloading malware. We immediately saw that a whole bunch of things were happening that should not be. We tried to get in touch with him and asked if he needed any help. I think this was through Slack, and he said, "Yes, I am trying to debug my router and I'm following instructions from a list." And this is where it became very, very iffy, very fast.
Jessica Mendoza: The company shut down Kyle's laptop and quickly fired him. And then, they investigated. What exactly was Kyle doing? The answer took them completely by surprise.
Stu Sjouwerman: Yes, we have egg on our face because we hired a fake North Korean IT worker, but this is what happened. And if it can happen to us, it can happen to almost anybody.
Jessica Mendoza: It's kind of unbelievable that you hired a North Korean spy as one of your IT guys.
Stu Sjouwerman: Yes. That is pretty scary. And there are hundreds if not thousands that are actually, as we speak right now, in this same situation and delivering work for United States companies.
Did they not meet him face-to-face? It’s a small price to pay for confirmation that you’re talking to a real person. Even if not, you at least have someone’s face and information to report to the authorities.
Getting into manual machining is another good one. If you go into it with even a hint of a "move fast and break stuff" mentality you'll find yourself mostly just breaking a lot of stuff. It's good practice for being deliberate in your actions.
Your hand might not break, but it still really painful.
Breaking a stack of 6 with a knife hand, my wrist would usually be sore and bruised up the next day. It would take a week or so for full mobility.
I still think most people in the world wouldn't be able to break 2 pavers with no spacers. :)
Interesting. I was doing this kind of stuff in high school, never had such problems and I don't know personally anyone that did (and I used to know a few dozen people practicing various styles of karate). In any case wrist pain suggests a very bad strike technique or weak wrist muscles.
