The Simpsons have not been wrong yet…

I very much love the Bluesky block. Admittedly I am not there much, but still.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake_Duck

Copy/paste- pixelatedboat @pixelatedboat Twitter logo, a stylized blue bird

The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the duck is racist

Yeah everything else tracked. But they bung the last bullet.

Gold made me think of this forgotten greentext.

Grew up in Asia. The less fancy one. Used to go buy my Dad cigarettes from across the street and toss out the filters when I was like 8 lol.

*He’s been smoke free for over 22 years. The amount of disinformation from Big tobacco, at least where I grew up, was insane. He is a very educated man and still… Cigarette was a status symbol, symbol of sophistication, when he was growing up.

If I’m being honest, it looks like a badly kept hotel room.

Doesn’t yakitori exist already?

Ha. Poo poo point is a good hike. No relevance but given the community, I said it.

A duel it is then. Finishes last of my wine

Anecdotal share here. I know very few hiring managers that expect candidates to fit 100%, heck 80% even, of a posting. Those that do aren’t ones I would ever want to work for.

I look for 3 things. And that’s not a hard and fast rule or anything. Aptitude, motivation and culture fit. I also look to my peers and larger team for their thoughts along these points.

People (pleasantly) surprise you. My last best hire (I moved to away from direct line management in my new gig) was working at their local Walmart for a year after a tough layoff from a pre sales role. I thought I would get more push back but everyone including my then boss, were like yeah! They just needs another opportunity.

And for what it’s worth, they were a great culture fit and figured the rest out along the way.

Thanks. I heard that in his voice.

Is that mass effect?

White tie… It’s over 9000!!

Yeah my corpo laptop actually came with it. It’s standard on all our renewed devices now. I was pleasantly surprised. Apparently the CTO deemed it so.

Good faith response here so pardon me if it’s a swoosh moment. One of my devices is a fairly recent Mac. And it has a headphone jack. Which I appreciate greatly.

No no please. Continue.

Whoa. Can we go deeper?

I thought I was the only one. But turns out, there are dozens of us!

Really though. Just ran a Google search. Take it with a grain of salt. 100 million subs worldwide. So it’s not huge. But doesn’t feel small either.