When I was a new manager, I had a problem employee. He was very bright, but very lazy. He wasn't self-motivated and was always doing everything in a mediocre way.
I ignored the problem for a long time, which caused friction within my team.
I eventually had to fire him when the situation got very severe.
The mistake I made was not addressing it right away.
I think that now, how to fire (or better stated, "manage up or out") your first employee as a new manager is one of the most important things you have to figure out how to do right.
The next time I had a problem employee, I got on it right as soon as the problem was clear. Saved me and everyone around me lots of grief.
Every time I drive on highway 17 I always notice how many black bumper swipe marks are on the median barriers. I think: every single one of those marks prevented someone from heading straight into the oncoming traffic lanes!
I'm on my third foreign language. I believe you have to have a "multi-pronged" approach.
I think the most common mistake people make is to study a lot of grammar at the beginning. Mostly at the beginning you need pronunciation and vocabulary. Grammar should come a bit later.
I use:
1. Duolingo. I also pay for it and practice my mistakes the following day to build in some time spacing for memory retention.
2. Anki (spaced repetition). I use both a frequency dictionary of flashcards from the Internet and also make a second deck with a small number my own cards
3. On-line lessons from Verbalplanet. Surprisingly affordable!
4. Occasional consumption of media in that language. (Trying to read news in that language or watching TV shows in that language.)
This article was interesting because it described how Sabre and Amadeus came about in the first place, but (from my perspective as a consumer), they've done nothing incredible since the seventies. They did nothing but sit on their duopoly.
Even when the internet became popular, the first search engines (like Travelocity and Kayak) really sucked.
It wasn't until ITA Software came about that there was an honestly good and useful travel search engine. ITA is really the "technology that changed air travel" in the internet age.
These things come in cycles. It's been a party for the past fourteen years. Finally the Fed is taking away the punch bowl. Sometimes you can just smell the recession in the air.
He said, "We're going to jawbone a lot about inflation and make some token steps, but not actually do what will solve the issue. Who do you think I am, Paul Volsker? We're in debt trap and more worried about springing the trap than about persistent and high inflation. Don't worry, young whippersnapper, in the future you'll own nothing and you'll be happy!"
Wasn't it the great economist Milton Friedman who said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"? Or was that someone else who said that?
In all seriousness, the way the west (and California in particular) price water defies logic. All this talk about senior and junior water rights doesn't make any sense: it only benefits the entrenched incumbents. A properly setup market would simply price out water uses whose utility was materially less than demand of the produced product.
I also own a couple of Brother black and white laser printers. They are quite durable and cheap to operate. Way way way better than any inkjet.
The only complaint I have is that after a large number of pages the printer will insist that the toner cartridge needs to be replaced and will just stop printing, even if the printer output darkness is still acceptable. Quite annoying if you need to print urgently! Fortunately I found a youtube video with a work-around you can enter into the UI on the printer.
True, but it's much easier to roll the middle class and small business. They don't hire expensive tax attorneys. Big corporations and billionaires hire tax attorneys to bury the IRS enforcement effort in legal processes.
It makes me think of all those reports that claim that having a single glass of wine per day makes you healthier.
It's probably the case that people who have just one glass of wine are drinking socially, and therefore have friends, and having friends is an indicator of having status and health. The alcohol itself is poison but one glass is more than offset by otherwise living a good life.
I think that modern cars have electronics that keep you from starting the car without the clutch pressed. Cars I owned in the 80s and 90s would engage the starter when you turned the keys. Cars since then won't engage the starter unless the clutch is in.
I can't understand why all the OTC pills seem to come in doses of 3-5 mg. It's really unnatural and probably messes with your system.
Did you find pills with your 500 ug dose? Or do you cut them or use volumetric dosing?