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jfil
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A Marketing Operations / MarTech person in Toronto, Canada. I created this account in order to stop lurking and start connecting. Feel free to reach out to me at my first name at jacobfilipp.com
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- This reminds me of the single conquistador with a cancer-prone gene, who's responsible for 1 in 300 Brazilians carrying that gene (https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article-abstract/doi/10.1158/1...)
- I'd be curious to read that whole story of Google putting the conpany out of business. Would you consider writing about it in a post?
- > We shouldn't have to choose between principles and food on the table.
I am increasingly convinced that these are the only true kind of ethical decision. Painless/straightforward ethical decisions that you make every day - they probably don't even register on your radar. But a tough tradeoff does.
- I encourage you to get clear on your goals for a project like this. There is a political and social dimension to this work aside from the technical challenge.
For example, ordinary people already know whether they're being squeezed or not. They don't need a CPI report. If you want them to believe your CPI report over the government's, then you have to do a lot of marketing. On the opposite side, government decision makers are generally moving away from a "technocrat" data-driven approach to decisions, towards a "great man" theory of decision making: giving them better CPI data won't suddenly make them care about using data again. A lot of people are putin in work to dismantle American government capacity, and there are worse problem than inflation tracking.
My personal opinion is that it doesn't make sense to create a community-driven CPI as a direct alternative to the government CPI. But it does make sense to collect a lot of this data for other uses (ex: to highlight illegal collusion among merchants, archival).
From a technical perspective, here are some thoughts from a Canadian lens: * CPI calculations are already fairly transparent. You can read about the work that goes into them (click TOC on upper right: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/62-553-x/62-553-x2023001...) * Government-collected raw data is not open to the public, because merchants wouldn't have give the govt' access to their POS data if it were otherwise. The Canadian government made a tradeoff: it gets very accurate data, in exchange for it being hidden from the public. * As WheelsAtLarge mentioned, data collection and analysis takes effort and money. Especially when you're doing it for the long term. You'll have to think of funding and keeping people motivated to do the work. * Scraping data might be a lot harder than you expect. I compile the largest open dataset of grocery prices in Canada, and have 20 months' worth of data. Its very difficult to average prices across merchants (because many don't reveal product UPC codes). And prices vary by geography. None of this is insurmountable, but it takes effort and money. Go ahead and play with the data to get a feel for how easy/difficult this is (https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/)
- "Jedi Blue" - the 2 big menaces, working as friends!
- Palantir
- I'm a marketing technologist, and it was a 3-year search that you can read about: https://jacobfilipp.com/job-search-with-figures/
- In terms of a blind date, an escape room is a large time committment with no built in "out" in case a participant is not feeling it. Try to create an environment with escape hatches.
- I'm going to second this: if a book doesn't grip you and get you to be curious, then this indicated it is badly written (applies to both fiction and nonfiction). Give yourself permission to skim books or stop reading halfway - life is too short to read something that's not enjoyable or useful.
- We desperately need a high-tech solution to disengage from the torrent of AI slop. I have found a form of photosynthesizing plant that grows in the soil of many places where humans live. Apparently, touching this with the palm of your hand creates a kind of protective endorphin effect that coalesces conflicting versions of reality into the one you're actually experiencing. It'll take a lot of money to advertise this to the general population, but I'm fundraising as hard as I can: this approach will be called "Touch Grass" and I hope to see you all when we do it together.
- 4 points
- I looked around for you - the best I could find is a listing for the magazines at the British Library at https://www.bl.uk/. It appears that they have a copy of all the issues and they are available by request for physical viewing.
- Very impressive, especially the interactive chats! I encourage you to make even more projects like this.
I think the actual experience would be more kafkaesque - less acqnowledgement that "there is a problem", ineffective for-profit middleman agencies that only exist to collect a government grant.
- Have you ever battled an 87-year-old wearing mechanized battle armour? They're crazed, hopped on speed, eyes goggling in their sockets
A pack of 3 oldies burst through our perimeter one winter night... the screaming woke me up. Outside my tent the forest was lit up red by our laser blasts, trying desparately to take them out.
We thought that a revolution would be a good idea, but an upside-down population pyramid is a hell of a thing when you're on the bottom.
- You are a prime candidate for Structured Procrastination (https://structuredprocrastination.com/) Some of my best work was done while procrastinating on my main hobby project!
- You will always carve out time for yourself – ego and selfishness are so powerful. That’s why you must force yourself to do something nice with – and for – others.
I feel this acutely as someone who has niche interests and the ability to dive deep into them. I could spend all my time alone, curl up into myself, like some sort of autistic auroborous.
So, quite frequently, I have to interrupt my own work. To turn from the computer and listen to my daughter explain how she got stickers for making it a quarter of the way to “100 books read this year”. To look at the circular rhinestones, glitter hearts, and rhinestone butterflies (!?) arranged around the number twenty five. And to answer the fateful question: “Which one do you like the most?” It feels wrenching – to interrupt the flow, to break the experiment, to sever my line of thought.
I am so goddamned privileged. I have been pushed along by an unbroken line of survivors, smart-alecs and hustlers – and I’m lying there making splashing sounds, saying “Look how far I’ve come! I must be an Olympic swimmer!” My parents spirited me away from two countries that aggressively turning their men into mincemeat and soiling their souls with war crimes. Every day, I have to remind myself that I am a faintly ridiculous man. A man who has not chiseled from rock, or carved wood, or moved a couch under his own strength.
Ironically, the best way to grow as an individual is to tear away from what you want to do – to force yourself to be fully present with friends, family, even strangers. To look beyond your interests and obsessions. And maybe, through grudging practice, to enlarge your soul.
And once you have broken away from your own narrow interests, you’ll be rewarded with a wider field of vision. Insight into others’ worlds and others’ challenges you never knew existed. A world of curiosity.
There’ll always be something more that you can do for yourself. It’s possible to live a whole life that way – believing that you are the protagonist of the whole story. The whole thing! But my oh my, what a circumscribed story that would be…
- 3 points
- >>seeing day old job posts on linkedin with 100+ applications already.
Don't believe for a second that these figures are real. And I recommend that you apply on the business' own site, never through Linkedin's own process.
It's great that you and your wife are healthy and in a good place! Keep going.