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0x54MUR41 is pretty close to what I'd recommend as well but some other notes I'd add:

* Write a short summary of a chapter after reading it

* Don't be afraid to to write notes and highlight important lines in the book if you own it. You own it so make it yours! If you do want to avoid marking it up 3m makes some nice transparent post it's that I find work well (https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgbjrus3149/)

* Before reading the book do you have a specific reason for doing so? If so look at the index at the back and read the sections that are specifically relevant first so that you will have some repetition reading the content.

For me personally I read a lot of non-fiction and like to have the books as reference material so 75% of the books I own are physical. When I read them I highlight important / relevant passages to me and possible make notes in the side margins if I find it relates to another book I have read and remember.

After finishing the book I'll eventually type out the relevant lines I found then and put them on my personal site for easy referencing for my self. This is doubly helpful as it means I'll often re-read the book down the line further reinforcing what I've read. I do have quite the backlog for this but it equally means that if I need to go back looking for a specific snippet on something I likely have it highlighted

I'd also second the recommendation for "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler https://www.amazon.ca/How-Read-Book-Mortimer-Adler/dp/067121...

I think it could be argued we're in a recession with the smells being buried.

As a whole the S&P is at pretty mediocre growth if you take out Nvidia and the 2 or 3 other tech outliers that are propping up the index.

https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/nvidia-microsoft-apple-meta-g...

I would argue it's a mix, some need pressure from their boss while others require a sense of purpose to what they're doing. Both feed into to each other but depending on a persons internal drive one factor or another will be best in helping keep someone productive and on task.

Equally I'm finding that at the upper leadership level (c level) a lot of companies are directionless which feeds down the whole chain and makes it difficult for middle managers to convey the importance of the work to be done. I'm sure this differs for blue collar work though since the tasks are more set in stone by design documents and safety codes.

I'm personally still trying to figure out if the lack of direction from above comes from a mixture of lack of personal interest and leadership training. Or if overall leadership training has fallen to the wayside and many lack the ability to properly communicate and plan for the future.

To be fair though I haven't had any experience as a manager or c level so I very much could just be lacking perspective.

I'm not disagreeing with what you've linked said but it's pretty well documented that there are negative events that can lead to long term impacts on children. The letter you linked seems to glance over parents who are abusive, whether that is verbal, physical, or neglectful.

For those that want to dive in a little bit these are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). It's not an end all be all chance that you'll develop something with a long term impact but the more you experience the more likely you are to do so.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/riskprotectivefa...

While the child's peer group does have the strong influence on a few of those questions, it's probably worth noting that as the parent you build the tools that allows the child to develop the peer group that allows for them to be happy.

The unfortunate reality is that this groundwork is laid from around 0-10. After that it's a lot harder to correct the mistakes and the influence then definitely falls much more under peers than the parents.

Interestingly Lego just announced they're releasing a block set to help kids learn Braille. From what I can tell it comes with 5 full sets of alphabets and numbers so you should be able to form most words. But I could be misreading the product description haha

I figure it's worth throwing out there in case anyone was curious to learn it and finds having the tactile option of putting the blocks together as potentially helpful

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/play-with-braille-english...

You've pretty much got it bang on. I suspect the author of the article is referencing this concept from Brené Brown who has written a full book around it. It's definitely a great read if your interested I've found her writing style flows really nicely.

She does relate some concepts to her other books though so you may end up getting 3 books by the end of it :)

https://www.amazon.ca/Rising-Strong-Ability-Transforms-Paren...

Depends on what you're looking to get out of it but it could definitely be helpful. If you have a specific focus you can probably find a book that better expands on that specific topic. The books three titled sections are Work, Love, The Brain and the Body.

A lot of the principles outlined in the book are basically around the concept that you should learn these going into your 20's and apply them right away instead of applying them in your 30's from what I remember. It's been a few years since I've read the book though so I might be a little off.

I'm happy to give other suggestions as best I can if you're curious.

Not US but in Canada my old employer attempted to have me sign a new contract for a change of role stating I would get explicit allowance if doing any other work including volunteer work. And to note the other commenter volunteer work was specifically noted.

Needless to say I took that as a good sign to move on :)

My current employer has a much more reasonable policy that I can't work a second job when on my scheduled hours with them.

Assuming your store location is your current location just wanted to say its cool seeing another Bow Valley resident on HN!

It's worth remembering that the lack of density is what people like so much about the towns. I can say personally an apartment building makes it hard to enjoy the mountain view when you're on a stroll through the town :) The unfortunate reality is that I think the only way to truly prevent this is to only allow someone who is working in town to own a home with a percentage allowance for remote workers. The biggest step being to prevent vacation homes from being a thing. Even still I don't think this fully solves the problem as most of the positions in mountain towns are low skilled so generally aren't super well paid.

There's a few compounding factors that the article touches on but doesn't really put much emphasis. I'm up in the Canadian Rockies but I have friends spread out among a few of the towns so I'll try and give some perspective across the areas.

Lake Louise: Not really worth commenting on this as almost all homes are owned by local businesses due to national park rules.

Banff: Limited due to how land ownership works within the national park as well as limits the Federal government puts on expanding the town. Thankfully due to the land ownership constraints it avoids the vacation property issue some what although not entirely.

This town also pickups spill over from Lake Louise.

Canmore: Catches the remaining spill over from Lake Louise and Banff further constraining holding it's own workers. This is the closest town to the national park so lots of people own vacation homes here. This town is surrounded by a national park, provincial park, and by Aboriginal land so it has no room to grow. The town has put limits on where air bnb's can be run but they're so profitable people eat the current fines.

An interesting side note with this town is that at the start of the pandemic a lot of the people with vacation homes went here overloading the local grocery stores ability to supply things. The shelves were extra bare for weeks which was quite frustrating.

Fernie: Was doing alright before the pandemic but was feeling the squeeze a bit. As soon as working from home was the norm for people houses disappeared in a flash and what was left almost doubled in price over the two years. In those two years my friends got priced out of the market.

A lot of developers here got burned in the oil crash in 2008 which will probably slow any quick growth to expand the town.

Golden: Don't have any friends here but from what I've seen there's been lots of aggressive development but more on the nicer vacation home side. Nothing that would fit as a good starter house for a family.

- Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Really like this one. I'm finding I'm hitting this wall at work quite often. While not a safe way to handle things it's probably the better way to manage my sanity with some balance.

Weirdly enough I live the next town from this one. The construction they're talking about is twinning up the highway which requires blasting out the mountain to make room for the road, so it's not to surprising they thought it could have come from there.

I was affected by this as my plan was set to renew on the fourth. I was able to contact support and get my plan going again on the discounted rate. They ended up having to cancel my subscription and probably set some sort of flag for me to get the discounted pricing.

All in all while it was a bit of a pain I don't think any malice was meant in this. I'm betting they had just set the end of the renewals on the subscription to April 2020 and figured if the service is still going they would update the end date.

Off the top of my head I would say open a Shopify store and find a module that creates a unique order code(Assuming Shopify doesn't do this already). From there build your products for different gift card amounts and then have people redeem the order in store. Most POS f&B systems I assume will let you keep a note for order customization's. In that field I would enter the order code after verifying that the order hasn't been marked delivered in Shopify.

The note keeping isn't super necessary but it can be helpful when trying to track down the order being given to a customer.

In this I'm also assuming Shopify lets you mark orders as pending, delivered, etc. I've only used competitors to it so I'm not 100% sure.

I'm right in that age category and use both Reddit and HN. I would say your guess is right that most people my age use Reddit as their Slashdot. Both provide good insights but I feel the discussion is usually more useful in HN, although this depends on the subreddit.

Generally I go on reddit when I'm looking for a quick distraction and HN is for when I'm looking to read things a bit more deeply.

I don't have the app installed but I'm assuming you can record video in it to post on Reddit? If that's the case I can see why it requires access to the microphone. That's the only way I could look at justifying it.

Just getting into having a personal site. Wanted to try out a static site generator so I've been slowly poking at getting something going with Hugo. Hopefully over the next month or so I'll develop my own theme.

Over time I think I'll end up with an interesting mix of things on here.

https://www.timmermans.dev/

Any chance you can expand on what kind of life lessons you found in the Travels book? The description of the book makes it sound like it's just a collection of adventures.

Looks like if you look at his profile it's linked there. I've put it below for simplicity.

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073CPP581/

I'm not sure why he included it in his list. However I do think that it does a very good job of bringing to light that your customers/users may not be appreciative of buggy code. They want something that "just works" and to not have to deal with vague error messages.

I started reading the book about a year into my first development job and it really brought to light the frustrations my users were having as I was seeing as it was just another interesting problem to me. As I said in my past post I haven't been diligent in reading it so I'm only a quarter of the way through but here's hoping I'll get more insights out of it when I pick it back up.

I do think that what this book talks about can be discovered in other ways, but for people who are just starting in the technology field it's a good primer to be aware of how others experience what you implement.

I believe he was talking about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (https://www.amazon.ca/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry...).

It's a nice fiction book that goes into how different people view the world. At least that's what I've gotten out of it so far, I'm only about a quarter of the way through it so I might be missing some of the things it covers.