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This is for a part-time gig. I charge a set amount per month up to a max number of hours worked. If I work 1 hour or 10 it doesnt matter. Usually I only work 2.5 hours a month henc…

I stopped charging hourly, now just monthly retainer. Making around $800 per hour, depending on the month.

https://amyunger.com/blog/2020/09/10/staff-engineer-at-herok... Based on how time is being spent that sounds an awful lot like an EM role to me? Like EM responsibilities minus actu…

In order to be successful on a new team or at new company I recommend The First 90 Days. You could save time by simply reading and distilling this blog post: https://www.ricklindqu…

Background: I have climbed for 3 years. This is the route: https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106261545/freerider 30 pitches at 5.13a. That is very very difficult. Keep in mind:…

More like an ultramarathon where you do 100 pushups every mile.

Theres a great documentary about Offwidth climbing for the uninitiated (trailer for Wide Boyz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3QzIibtsw

> but options are more fluid Not always at medium-big startups. It is fixed depending on the position. I have worked at like 6 different companies now from 20-1400 people. Smaller …

You can try to negotiate but the options bands are usually predetermined and approved by the board of directors. Trying to get an exception passed through can be difficult and usua…

How does this inspire founders to startup a company in China? Does this inspire me to invest more money in China?

https://www.nomadproject.io/

Totally anecdotal, but speaking as someone with Anxiety Disorder + occasional intense panic attacks, once I started Rock climbing heavily and Trail running 2x a week, my anxiety an…

There are tons of Ruby jobs: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?tl=ruby&sort=p https://hnhiring.com/technologies/ruby

So Zingermanns has several restaurants. The Deli is overrated IMO, but the Roadhouse, Roadshow, and Miss Kim's are really great.

Yes, black bears in the northern Lower peninsula and the Upper peninsula. Also likely cougars, but the DNR wont admit it.

I have worked remotely from Ann Arbor for 7 years. currently work for a large SF based startup. AMA. Michigan is great in a lot of ways, depending on your interests.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/internships/

Have you not heard of "How to change your Mind" by Michael Pollan? Or the Research of Roland Griffiths? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=rol... I am not sur…

Another option for investing in Robotics is to just seek out funds that focus on that domain like https://ark-funds.com/arkq

At my prev company we generated keys and split them using `ssss-split` and handed out shards to specific individuals via a keybase exploding message. Our system required at least 3…

Async issue review. Code reviews. Read and respond to customer input.