My aunt was a coder her career and retired a few years ago. She lives comfortably, travels and has plenty of retirement funds. I could never imagine her a manager, and I never heard her ever say she'[d] choose another path.
Many restaurants do this already. However, its a lot of overhead to synchronize menus between a restaurant and the marketplace apps. Raising prices to make up for commissions means making prices higher on every item and choice. Then there are the customers who do not like to see different prices in different places — pre-covid this would not have gone down well. All these news articles at least raises awareness to help mitigate the customer backlash. That being said, a customer won’t want to pay a 30% up charge plus delivery and service fees. Maybe 10% which can be ok for restaurants that have more than 20% profit margin, but that’s not where many establishments are.
I think about it like this — if I ask a question, someone needs to be interrupted to make that happen. Even if they were on slack anyway, or between tasks, if it’s not something they are otherwise working on, it may take them off their task. If my thing is critical or blocking others, I raise a flag. If it can wait, I wait too. Disruptions are probably one of the most costly time investments of our trade.
Another ADDer here. I have two modes of operation: hyper focused or not. Things that require focus, like deep reading mean I need to switch operating modes. I have oodles of ways to address this issue so I only chose a few. Maybe one helps.
Ways I do that:
1. Be really interested in the content — not sure if this works with a non add brain, but it really doesn’t matter where I am, if it’s interesting I’ll jump right down that rabbit hole. Not sure that helps you but maybe can create some parameters for experimentation (like is there a pattern with your interest level and if so how can you mitigate that)
2. Meditation - specifically working with the breath. It takes 30s-3min for me to reboot my brain between tasks. Not much of an investment and in my experience it works.
3. Printing stuff out — i find it much easier to read deep if I have it on paper
4. Copying into an editor and editing — this is my goto for boring reads because it uses a different part of my brain that reading alone
5. At the end of each paragraph I ask myself “what was the point of that?” This is a habit that takes time to develop. At first you may get through an entire article without asking but eventually you can catch yourself sooner.
You might be on to something with your different ways to focus.
I'd love to use a tool (in-browser perhaps? or an app for tablets?) where I could:
- load/import reading material from various sources (typically web articles or ebooks)
- efficiently edit in-place (with a trace of the original content, google-docs-like),
- annotate words or paragraphs,
- classify the content for future reference (a sort-of Mendeley bibtex builder, as opposed to simple bookmarks)
- auto-formatting for "pretty-printing" (thinking about the reader mode in browsers there)
- perhaps with the option of sharing that content, or allowing for comments on my annotations (here I am thinking about goodreads and how authors themselves can answer questions about the books directly)
I hadn’t ever considered actively editing the content I’m reading. That sounds like a great idea. I’m going to try it out on some technical docs today!
"The mind illuminated" is a very good introduction to meditation. It is unique in the formal system he used to make sense of the various levels of practice. Very practical and low-BS.
My kids district is doing well all things considering. I look forward to things settling in and becoming more consistent. For the most part it is google classroom assignments. No lessons or zoom sessions. No one on ones with teachers to connect with each kid to check in. Several emails a day from various teachers with directions that sometimes are for me, sometimes for my kid and sometimes for both. It’s a lot to process, especially working full time with more than one kid. We’re getting by though and overall it’s pretty amazing how technology is pretty miraculous in giving us all opportunities from home. Hopefully some of the tricks the teachers and schools learn during this time will yield creative New teaching practices.
Hubby and I own a coffee shop. We closed up on Monday. We have cash reserves to pay our staff and rent for a month (As if they are still working). Praying we’ll be able to increase online bean sales to cover payroll before then.
It might be better to lay them all off right now, and let them collect covid unemployment benefits. Maybe give them a bonus on the way out the door if the math doesn’t work out well enough for them.
That way, you’ll have the cash reserve left over to reliably reopen (and rehire them) after the crisis.
I have no visual memory. I’ve spent a bit of time thinking about how I remember people and how they move is a big part of it. I know a man who is very still. Like abnormally still. He was married to a dear friend who passed away and use to regularly visit a place I use to work. I never remembered him. I knew I was supposed to know him but got it wrong every time, until u realized he was really still and when I saw someone who was still, I knew it was him. Not just walk, but breath. I thought it was pretty neat the first time I read about identifying people by their gait.
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