1. This buried bit surprised me: > [At her new job,] she would make $157,000 a year, a slight bump over her Coke salary, with a $15,000 signing bonus. She was

1. This buried bit surprised me: > [At her new job,] she would make $157,000 a year, a slight bump over her Coke salary, with a $15,000 signing bonus. She was a 50 year old chemist with a lot of expertise, and she was making less than an entry level SWE. Also, her deal with the Chinese company is described as > codifying her 33.5% stake and entitling her to a salary of 600,000 yuan per year. Which is like $85k. (A 33% stake in something that could be big is significant though.) Still, it all seems like a lot of risk for not a ton of money. It reminds me of political bribery scandals. You hear how much some politician was paid, and you're like -- "that's it? That's all it costs?" 2. I guess she aspired to be yet another Chinese analogue of Samuel Slater (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater). But it doesn't sound like she was on track to accomplish nearly so much, even if she'd succeeded. Slater had an empire by the end. 3. This just reinforces my impression that the stuff they use in food packaging must be horrendous.