While I’m sure that used to the case, that is no longer really the case with the Masons. You can find out and read through all the different ceremonies and rites online.
Masons [have been known to] occasionally change certain things to keep known secrets to stay secret: 'letter and begin', for example.
Duncans Ceremonies is the most famous revelation of Masonic secrets, but no dues-card and not being 'in the book', ultimately counts for nothing, as you won't even be able to properly converse with a mason, nor enter a lodge, without either.
Unfortunately I have found that a really good Product Manager is an extremely rare thing. However the best organizations and teams I have worked on have always had strong product management. There seems to be a general lack of education and training on how to be a product manager. Too often folks from other disciplines, such as Engineering transfer into the role with no training whatsoever and end up doing a terrible job with it.
I don’t think some thing can be trained. Product managers usually need to do the most varied things in any organization so they just need to be quick learners/able to “understand everything” while making good decisions and having good taste. Certs and degrees don’t really help that. In fact “Product Management Certificate” sounds like the biggest smell imagineable for working with a PM
To bridge off of this comment, has anyone found a particular Product Management resource or training that is an effective on-ramp to doing the job well?
The answer is yes, and no. There are definitely a lot of the large tech companies who plan on being back in office. They are at various stages of how they are enforcing it. There are also a number of large tech companies that have committed to a kind of nebulous middle ground where offices are open but it’s up to each organization or sometimes even team if they are in office, fully remote or somewhere inbetween. Then there are a few large but especially a significant number of smaller tech companies that have fully embraced remote. Finding it to be a good way to differentiate and attract workers they otherwise would not get. Finally there are companies that still can’t seem to make up their mind and leave everyone in a limbo state of what is going to happen.
It’s not about forgetting. I don’t forget my friends, but at the same time life happens. Kids, work obligations, relationships. It’s easy to forget to reach out to friends or acquaintances. Easy to underestimate when the last time you made contact. That’s just life.
Agreed. Sometimes life just gets in the way and if something isn't urgent or can be put off for a few days in order to handle the immediate and now it is easy to forgot what isn't right in front of you.
I'm sure most have the best of intentions that they will reach out to friends and keep in touch, but the best laid plans of mice and men...I don't see why having a system to do this so bad?
I cannot speak so much from the C# side of things. But Azure is by some measures the fastest growing cloud right now. With some analysts projecting it will overtake AWS eventually. At my current company we utilize both AWS and Azure, but are by no means a “Microsoft stack”.
I honestly have never seen my login to Facebook expire. Even without enabling the remember me checkbox after logging in on iOS safari the login is valid forever unless I clear the cookies. I have never seen that level of brazen disregard for security with any other modern site.
One piece of advice. It is easy to start with an existing team, product or company and immediately find things that in your opinion are done “wrong”. One of the fastest ways to alienate yourself is to come in with a sledgehammer and start trying to change everything after only a couple of months on the job. Step back and realize there is or was likely a good reason that certain choices were made. Try to really understand the why. Maybe that will change your opinion of some of the choices. Then armed with that understanding you can suggest and make improvements in a way that brings value to the team.
Seems like a good step. Last year had to have a medical procedure done by an oral surgeon. For some reason there are no in network oral surgeons when it comes to medical insurance. Paid a significant amount up front. Painful but thought that it was all done.
Six months later received an itemized bill for another significant amount. The worst part about it is theres no way to know if the bill is correct, or if insurance should of covered one of those line items. They really could just make up whatever they want as the system is so opaque, no one knows how much anything should cost.
Most of the gas F-150 sales are crew cab models, so it makes sense not to target that relatively small niche.
The long-bed was popular back when people owned a truck as an extra vehicle/work vehicle only, now many use their truck as their main vehicle and have need of carrying others.
If you look at the creature comforts of older bench seat trucks (bare-bones) and the trucks sold today, a truck today will have everything an SUV will have in terms of comfort and maybe more.
"The long-bed was popular back when people owned a truck as an extra vehicle/work vehicle only, now many use their truck as their main vehicle and have need of carrying others."
My favorite configuration is:
- 8 foot bed
- extended (not full) cab
- rear doors are "suicide" doors
Our ranch truck is a Silverado 1500 in that configuration and it is nice to have optional seats but not lose the 8 foot bed. Suicide doors allow you to open the entire vehicle up with no pillar in the way and I love that.
Chevy no longer offers this but I think Ford does, currently ...
I've got the same but the 6.5 bed. That just means I can park it at Home Depot somewhere near the entrance to the store. The 8 foot bed does have its allure.
My selection of vehicles agrees with you but friends who are new parents were shocked to see that child seats don’t fit in the back of Tacoma or I presume f150 supercab
Serviceable, sure. But the crew cab has a cavernous rear seat area. I used to drive a BMW 5 series and now drive an F-450 w/Crew Cab (my wife and live full-time in a Fifth Wheel RV, otherwise I'd never own such a large vehicle). I was astounded when I saw just how much more rear leg room the truck has compared to the 5 series.
I have a supercab and I am happy that I have the 6.5' bed to go with it, I can lay 4'x8' sheets flat with the tailgate down. Combined with a backrack/hitch extender I can get 16' long lumber.
The backseat is passable with my dog and kids, but barely. If they were able to take some room from the front where there is no engine and give me both a reasonable bed and a crew cab I would be happy.
A lockable frunk is pretty attractive though so that you don't have to worry about leaving tools in the bed.
The vast majority of pickups these days are sold either for work or family, and both benefit from additional people capacity. It makes sense to go after this huge market first.
Yeah, this is a bummer for me. I don't really like crew cab (either how it looks, or how it compromises bed length vs. overall truck length), and this really doesn't need it.
Indeed; I was trying carefully to not imply that this was some unique advantage of the F-150, but rather an interesting property of the electric truck category in general.
