Paul
@projectxlence
PL Programs runs PMO in supply chain and logistics. We help Ops teams deliver warehouse & automation wins. Army vet, dad, author. Dev & lead @ http://SimpleDim.com.
An Introduction: My background is in distribution and fulfillment operations with large retailers, ecom, beverage, produce, and 3PL. I've been an independent project consultant since 2020. Now I have a few employees in a small consultancy. Our focus is on new distribution…
Part of being in the military, for many people, is the game of extracting as much in comp and benefits as you can. Housing, various deployment and skill pays, disability, married benefits (I'd be surprised if some didn't do "gay marriage" for the various bennies), pension…
The demographics of disability forced every veteran to ask, quite reasonably: Why shouldn’t I get it, too? That’s the moral hazard at play.
great, we got our second totally unaffiliated SimpleDim trial download. lots of hits on landing page, few conversions, need to change/fix landing copy & layout.
Bro is playing squash, says he's trying to lose weight and feel better, then takes drinks a Mountain Dew between games.
ok, so this means that the *concept* of SimpleDim, CAD-lite-in-Powerpoint, has some interest. But my conversion at landing page sucks. Time to redo the landing page.
We got a drum kit in a house with a 4yo, 3yo, and 2yo, send prayers. Jk they love it and it's great (so far)
"Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past." R. Hamming
It is always a great time to buy a Honda Odyssey for the family. Odyssey-maxxing is the only way (though I do wish @Honda would put 4-wheel drive in it)
anyone watching the car market have a sense for whether it's better to buy a minivan now or in two months kinda have the impression that something is imploding but idk what effects that has assume i'm financing via my bank and my credit is excellent
Genius is by nature obvious in its field and accomplished There are people who aren't geniuses yet who will become geniuses. But before such time, they're merely smart and talented.
1) Caring about sports is orthogonal to the mission of this hypothetical university 2) iq/merit is by definition correlated to ability across many domains, unclear why exceptions for "great playwrights" or musicians or artists would have any weight at such a university
*Open: Office of the president at the new 100% Meritocratic University* President: We’ve admitted the top 2,000 applicants by GPA and SATs. How are they doing? Admissions: Several hundred valedictorians who’ve never gotten a B in their life are now at the bottom of all their...
Apparently Uber has a deal with a car rental company to let its drivers rent cars at some sort of discount. One day of driving pays for the week rental, and the risk/responsibility of repairs and maintenance goes to Avis.
The origin of these is China CCP-connected researchers just got caught smuggling wheat blight into the Upper Midwest, where most of our wheat is grown, in an act of agroterrorism They’ve also released a bug that killed 95% of the Florida orange groves This is what…
A New Tick That Reproduces Without Mating Just Arrived in Michigan The Asian longhorned tick is here, and we should all be afraid for our cattle By Tom Zandstra What’s smaller than a sesame seed, tougher than a Michigan winter, and just showed up uninvited to our Michigan…
Big milestone, first real unaffiliated paying customer for @SimpleDimApp : Big bites tonight, boys!
Wife exchange w/ 4yo today: "4: can we go to McDonald’s? W: have you behaved today? What did you do that was good? 4: well I talked to the neighbors. That was good. And I listened. That was good too. I ran over Sam with the cart, that was not good, so we’ll take that out."
I will try to explain in useful terms: we just unlocked a new tech tree in Civilization. Completely abstract in its own, but could accelerate the timeline of weird sci-fi stuff
My feature for @nature on the impact of the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture is out! David Ben-Zvi: It gives us the strongest evidence yet that something we’ve believed in for decades is true. Now we can finally ask: what does it really mean? nature.com/articles/d4158…