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I'll confess I haven't read the OP but I find the discussion of money interesting and want to share two great books I read recently that might be of interest:

Money: a story of humanity https://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/money

The corporation in the 21st century https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300280197/the-corporatio...

The first one especially. Every night I read a chapter, and every time I'd remark to my wife how entertaining this book was.

The second was very interesting as well. I thought the author took an appropriately critical look without overdoing it, and offers a history of big business in the past ~200 years.

RIP. I think the last thing I saw him in was Widows.

I logged in to share this Robert Duvall-adjacent story, which got a chuckle from me at the time (read to the end):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/65-year-old-woma...

Replying to echo this, I also read every commit message, and review PRs commit by commit. This was common practice at my last job (a small, experienced team), and the expectation was that commits were atomic.

Yes, we griped that GitHub would not allow us to merge individual commits, but if it was ever urgent or helpful to do so, we cherry-picked a commit into a separate PR.

Everyone's workflow is a bit different, and it can be hard to redirect organizational inertia. But without a doubt, reading a clean commit history is a pleasure.

Just this week I finished reading The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and The Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq. I highly recommend it if the subject interests you. Exhaustively researched, and it relies on some more recently released information from inside Saddam’s regime.

I'd like to play, but the line numbers are following the cursor. Seems like a bug, but am I missing something? I'm not an experienced vim user but I'm normally able to navigate fine (albeit slowly).

(Tried in Chrome and Firefox)

Hi Peter, thank you in advance for considering the question.

I'm a Canadian citizen, living in Canada. In the past I've considered moving to the US to work there.

I don't have a university degree. I attended university for ~3-4 years, did not complete my degree, and then enrolled in a 3-year college program which conferred an Ontario College Advanced Diploma. I've worked full-time as a software developer since then.

I think my expertise is comparable to my coworkers, many of whom have completed university degrees (albeit in a variety of disciplines, not specifically related to technology).

Could I move and work in the US under a TN visa? I'm concerned that, because I don't have a degree, I would not qualify. Though I do have specialized training (diploma + work experience).

Or am I looking at this backwards? i.e, if a US company were interested in hiring me, they would handle the visa requirements (I'm unsure if this would be TN or otherwise).

Thanks!