I love these well written, slyly comical in a dry way, articles.
Fixing Macs door to door
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#12I love this. It's written for the hell of it. Not to get likes, or people to subscribe, or buy a product or show off technical prowess. It's just writing to share - Oldschool Internet content. [Not that there's anything wrong with the things I mentioned - I just mean it's refreshing to see something not written with an obvious motive. Gah. I still sound like a wanker.]
I came here to say exactly this.. what a nice, refreshing read.
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#13Thought provoking article. I like to think I acknowledge the people I call for services, at least to the extent they want the conversation. I'm sure there are many more in daily life I don't notice but whose work makes my world go around.
The anecdotes about the rich in Chicago match the ones I hear about the rich in California. The divide is nearly complete.
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#14Well written, but man it leaves me kind of depressed. Maybe that speaks to the power of the writing.
> When I got out and realized it was dark, I started to accept something bad was likely about to happen to me.
This was the only part that really got me. I have visited a few major US cities but never really lived there, but now I’m wondering how common it is for American city dwellers to be afraid of the dark.
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#15I love this. It's written for the hell of it. Not to get likes, or people to subscribe, or buy a product or show off technical prowess. It's just writing to share - Oldschool Internet content. [Not that there's anything wrong with the things I mentioned - I just mean it's refreshing to see something not written with an obvious motive. Gah. I still sound like a wanker.]
The vignettes were the perfect length for casual consumption. Little bite sized snacks.
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#16This was eerily similar to my experience about 5 years prior. My experience was in Australia on the software side. Down to the same equipment, same style people, same style interaction with apple.
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#17mad perspectives. being a tech frontliner you saw so much. in fame, in lives of excess. amazing hearing from your perspective how the wealthy think and live. one of the best articles i've read on the web in a long time, thank you for writing it.
There’s a certain type of person who looks for enterprise type it contractors over Craigslist. A bizarre combination of money and insanity that usually makes for a fun time.
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#18Interesting read. It reminded me of "Do Things That Don't Scale" https://paulgraham.com/ds.html I just didn't get the part where he says teens are mean to him, but the only example is where a teen made his job easier... > I was always uncomfortable with these jobs, in large part because the teens were extremely mean to me. One girl waited until her mom left the room to casually turn to me and say "I will pay you $500…
A guess: The teen sized him up as needing money, intuited how much, and offered it in a show of power.
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#19He writes well. This is the blog post I'd really like to read:
> Like all of my bosses early on, his primary quality was he was a bad judge of character.
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#20That was the most fun thing I've read all year. I know we're not very far into the year but I do read a lot.
Just an example about a parent requesting tracking be installed on her daughter's phone
"One girl waited until her mom left the room to casually turn to me and say 'I will pay you $500 to lie to my mom and say you set this up'."
I was offended that this 15 year old thought she could buy me, in large part because she was correct."
Part of what made this such a fun read is knowing it's 100% all true.