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$250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?

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Re: $250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?

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Post by sim7c00 »

dSebastien wrote: post #10

Learn more about Personal Knowledge Management and level up the way you learn and retain knowledge: https://dsebastien.net

second this. wife gave me a book called 'second brain', on note taking / knowledge management. definitely one of the more useful gifts i've received!

Re: $250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?

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Post by sloaken »

dSebastien wrote: post #10

Learn more about Personal Knowledge Management and level up the way you learn and retain knowledge: https://dsebastien.net

I saw your link and thought the basic info was interesting. When I went to order, I notice 'TIP' ... WTF? 20% even. I know you can turn it off, but it highly offended me, for the following reasons:

1) TIP - To insure prompt service - its an online order. What no tip maybe obtain the material through a dial-up modem?

2) It is a course ... Next thing you know my rent due will come with a TIP request.

3) You never TIP the owner. Tipping the owner is an insult to the owner.

Re: $250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?

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Post by nozzlegear »

sloaken wrote: post #12
dSebastien wrote: post #10

Learn more about Personal Knowledge Management and level up the way you learn and retain knowledge: https://dsebastien.net

I saw your link and thought the basic info was interesting. When I went to order, I notice 'TIP' ... WTF? 20% even. I know you can turn it off, but it highly offended me, for the following reasons: 1) TIP - To insure prompt service - its an online order. What no tip maybe obtain the material through a dial-up modem? 2) It is a course ... Next thing you know my rent due will come with a TIP request. 3) You never TIP t…

He's using Gumroad (which I use as well). Gumroad turned on tipping as an opt-out feature for all sellers around one or two months ago. If you had a product you were already selling on Gumroad, like I was, the tipping feature was automatically enabled for the product and you have to go in and manually turn it off.

I felt the same way you do about tipping for an info product, but I left mine on and people do use it; turning it off would be turning down extra income.

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Post by Engineering-MD »

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #5

AI Tool Testing The market is currently flooded with AI tools so you could use all $250 on one month of various AI tools and try them out for next month. Then cancel whatever you don’t like and keep what you do; using the new years L&D budget on it each month. Self Hosting (Hobby) You could buy a Raspberry Pi and try self hosting some services. Conferences Find conferences next year that have tickets on sale now and…

In your opinion which services are most worthwhile hosting on a rpi? I’m interested in it, but life always gets in the way.

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Post by thy77 »

Engineering-MD wrote: post #15
absoluteunit1 wrote: post #5

AI Tool Testing The market is currently flooded with AI tools so you could use all $250 on one month of various AI tools and try them out for next month. Then cancel whatever you don’t like and keep what you do; using the new years L&D budget on it each month. Self Hosting (Hobby) You could buy a Raspberry Pi and try self hosting some services. Conferences Find conferences next year that have tickets on sale now and…

In your opinion which services are most worthwhile hosting on a rpi? I’m interested in it, but life always gets in the way.

Hi. My Yamaha receiver no longer has net radio access, so, an rPi for my internet radio preset physical button favorites. Same theory in the car rPi to play internet radio when you hit one of the physical FM presets.
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