From the FTC rule finding (1/2023): https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

> "About one in five American workers—approximately 30 million people—are bound by a non-compete clause and are thus restricted from pursuing better employment opportunities. A non-compete clause is a contractual term between an employer and a worker that blocks the worker from working for a competing employer, or starting a competing business, typically within a certain geographic area and period of time after the worker’s employment ends. Because non-compete clauses prevent workers from leaving jobs and decrease competition for workers, they lower wages for both workers who are subject to them as well as workers who are not. Non-compete clauses also prevent new businesses from forming, stifling entrepreneurship, and prevent novel innovation which would otherwise occur when workers are able to broadly share their ideas. The Federal Trade Commission proposes preventing employers from entering into non-compete clauses with workers and requiring employers to rescind existing non-compete clauses. The Commission estimates that the proposed rule would increase American workers’ earnings between $250 billion and $296 billion per year. The Commission is asking for the public’s opinion on its proposal to declare that non-compete clauses are an unfair method of competition, and on the possible alternatives to this rule that the Commission has proposed. "

Cash is king-many, many times.

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of admins was cut in half again in the next 10 years.

DIY contracts are the best to sign because they are such a mess.

"section blah blah does not apply to residents of the State of California."

So 49 other state residents are getting a bad deal but California residents are getting a better deal, yet the company is doing just fine. Hmmm Maybe that section isn't needed anywhere?

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So I write blog posts as a way to reduce my effort.

Lots of software I write just has to be "adequate" because the consequence of failure is minimal.

The only thing in my house that gets access to the internet are my computers and phone. Nothing else. If I turn it on and it complains about no internet - it gets returned as defective.

I have a car charger (Juice Box) that have a smart app to control it. Nope not for me. Last thing I want is a hacked device fucking with my car's charging.

This is honestly basic management technique. It is called the "Auntie/Uncle" problem.

Read "The Alliance" by Reed Hoffman.

My best advice:

- weekly 1:1s - accept that you will not be as knowledgeable about everything (lack of time) - establish expectations at the very beginning - start off with realizing that no one will retire from the current company. Let your directs know that at some point you expect they will move on. This is so liberating.

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Rebase is very useful:

* pre-processing step to a merge. The developer can see that the merge to main will be successful.

* when the branch has cherry picked commits from main, those cherry picks will disappear from the feature branch's commit list.

* rebase also includes the ability to combine commits (get rid of all those WIP commits)

* rebase allows reorder of commits.

rebase is so so much more than just rearrange commit pointers in some "bad" ways.

Failure to include functionality just invites my old fallback when a rebase fails badly.

git checkout main;

git checkout -b new_branch;

git diff -R old_branch | git apply;

git add -A ;

git commit

Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap.

It is in the interests of Intuit to make the tax forms seem so so scary.

In reality, most spots get a 0 entered. Very simple math is involved.

Before you made this comment, did you actually try looking at the 1040 form?

* print out the pdfs * fill out * mail

Takes less time and effort than installing magic software and trying to figure out "wizards"