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These kinds of fees should really be considered deceptive advertising. Unless a fee is specifically required to be levied by the government or it represents something that the consumer can opt-out of, then it is part of the price and should
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This is true, and it's interesting. However, it's also important to keep in mind that there was also a lot of grinding poverty and near-starvation during the off-seasons. A peasant family might not have been working during the win
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How is this not wage theft? It's been a very long time since I've waited tables, but a company keeping tips in this way is (or at least was) in serious violation of US labor laws.
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> The losses for each WeWork member — about $5,200 per customer — are about 28 times what Uber loses per active rider. Why do so many articles compare WeWork and Uber per-customer losses? It's absurd on the face of it. Per customer
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> The double speak in your last paragraph undercut your post. :( It's honestly not double-speak. I'm a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist. Words are defined by how people use them. I consider it a waste of time to compl
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I don't think it's been deconstructed so much as it has been re-branded. Coaching has always been and remains a perfectly accurate term to describe, well... coaching. It seems to me that the current meaning of "mentor" i
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There has been a significant devaluation of the term "mentor" over the past 15 years or so. The word used to imply a mutual respect and commitment that it no longer does. A mentor's counterpart used to their "protege&quo
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That's effectively what I do as well, but we don't have a corporate Slack account. Teams is great for internal communications on long-running projects. It's well suited to that and I wouldn't substitute Slack. When used
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It is getting simpler in terms of melody and rhythm. However, it is getting far more complex in terms of orchestration. There are far more kinds of sounds and textures in an average song today than there were 40 years ago. Whether you like
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I use both daily. I think the biggest problem with Teams can't be discovered by feature comparisons and performance metrics. Teams enables a company to "secure" the application in the same way other MS products can be. That m
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I think the same basic strategy could work for any true niche podcast. But "niche" is different than "small." Two guys talking about the NFL to 3,000 listeners would be very hard to monetize, but a sports podcast that fo
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For most shows, I record 60 to 90 minutes of conversation to get 20 to 40 minutes of edited content. I try to edit down to the bone, where there is nothing else I feel I can take out. That might seem a bit extreme, but some of my guests are
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Wow. Thank you for that. I love putting the podcast together, and I enjoy it more now that I've taken the show non-commercial. I like to think I'm having an impact on the ecosystem here, and as I mentioned in the article, four Jap
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Thanks! It's amazing how fast things change.
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Here is a link to the original. I posted on Medium because it seems more people will visit Medium than a blog they've never heard of before. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/how-i-made-8000-per-month-po... I wish it wer
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Thanks! It was great to see my article posted. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It took me about six months to get ready emotionally to write that article. Podcasting was one of the best (non-financial) decisions I ever made.
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Since you don't have evidence, your "ugly truth" is really just your ugly opinion.
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> The ugly truth is a lot of 'benefits' of the scandanavian approach come from a highly (for now) homogenous society Citation needed. This claim gets thrown around a lot, but is there any evidence or actual research backing the
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> I know this person. I know how much $$$ they spend on acohol a week. I know how they got fired from their job for not showing up. I know they blew their tax return in a week. I'm not a cold hearted person but ... Well, you kind of
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> If a company hadn't planned ahead well enough to survive a bad year then they deserve to go under. Maybe, but we don't deserve to have them take the rest of the economy with them. It's hard to overstate how much of the e
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> 1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines. I've always found this suggestion a bit disingenuous. First, there is no federal law that bans insurance from being sold across state lines. What they r
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I was a professional podcaster for about a year, and I love the medium. I put this together to show how you can monetize without using CPM-based ads or Patreon. Please let me know what you think.
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How I Made $8k per Month Podcasting, and Why You Probably Don’t Want To(disruptingjapan.com)
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> People would even rent fruit bowls for portraits. I find it kind of refreshing to know that this kind of behavior did not start with Instagram influencers.
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> How do you like to make decisions? > What do you believe is the purpose of a manager? I've run several startups and done a ton of hiring interviews. FWIW, these are terrible questions to ask a CEO. They are too vague and make i
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I understand the author is trying to teach the importance of putting yourself in the reader's mind, and he's packaging that message in a kind of tough love. He's not wrong, but if you take his article at face value you'l
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Tim Cook is a supply chain expert and is positioning Apple to profit accordingly. By controlling who can sell and repair the hardware, who can sell software and at what margins, he is making a lot of MBA-smart moves. But it looks like Apple
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Subsidies and grid management are important considerations regardless of what kind of generation we are talking about. However, there is widespread agreement that the levelized, unsubsidized cost of nuclear is more expensive than that of wi
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I was commenting on the effect the renewables would have on running the grid itself. In general, the grid seems to be able to handle to increases in renewables we've seen so far and those we see coming. The pace at which we are deployi
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Grid operators the world over are screaming about it, but so far things have gone pretty well. Germany has had some hiccups, but they were extremely aggressive in bringing renewables online and moving away from nuclear. And these problems

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