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- Coronavirus.
- NY lockdown extended until May 15th. There is an opening plan in place. Restaurants, gyms, movies, stadiums can open first with social distancing. Bars will come later, after an assessment period on the hospitalization trends.
- >20m people are now unemployed in the US, ~14% of the workforce.
- Gilead is testing a promising drug, Remdesivir. They jumped 13% in premarket.
- How much of this is real? Not sure.
- Portnoy lives over in south chelsea, 333 W 14th St.
- “The code is read much more often than it is written.” – Guido
- Went through the first few peps again. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/. Remember 8 is for style. The first handful are all process. Pep 20 is the zen of python.
- Work.
- As remote work accelerates in the professional world, we’re going to see changes in education as well. Classes will move primarily online. In-person attendance will fade. Universities, ivy prestige, degrees, much will become more widely accessible. This should have great benefit for the cost of education as well.
- Promote the people that aren’t just doing their job well, but are lifting their colleagues up to do their jobs well in addition.
- The manager should focus on outputs, the engineers should focus on outcomes.
- Housing.
- Spoke with Peter, started going over the board package. He’ll basically send me applications and documents. I’ll sign and submit the ones I can, and the more complicated ones (financial statement) we’ll go over together.
- https://www.boardpackager.com/buildings/305_East_24th_Street.
- The commitment letter from BoA will likely be the long pole here.
- Homeowner’s insurance varies by state, premium is about 1000 in CA and 1300 in NY.
- Started working on the board package. It’s ridiculous. Co-ops are so stringent, even more than the lender. Next purchase will be a condo.
- House rules. Contract of sale. New rider about claw back. Cover letter to board. Consumer report release. Tenant fair chance, for disputes. Tax returns, pay stubs, offer letter. REBNY financial statement, source of funds, and all supporting documentation (account statements). Old landlord and rental history. Renovation policy. Seller had to declare no bed bugs and no lead paint. Emergency contact (Eric). Pet disclosure. Acknowledgement that a washer/dryer requires inspection and installation, $250 beyond raw unit costs. Carpet must cover 80% of main areas for noise.
- The only real new info I had to supply for this one: 3 business references and 3 personal references. 6 total references, and I’ve been told this is on the low end compared to the average co-op. What a bold request for other people’s time.
- Really want to start writing some new apps in go, rust, julia, but don’t have a ton of bandwidth right now. My next personal project will be forced to a new environment.
- Fax (machine) is short for facsimile. Never knew. Weird.
- “One and only” companies usually do quite well. Netflix, Skype, etc. Post-acquisition, you can see them reduce in popularity, like Skype -> Microsoft.
- Eric bday.
- Call in morning. Dream car changed from shelby cobra to gt40. Ford sold the rights, and the classics go for >1mil, but you can buy kits for under 200k: https://www.superformance.com/factory-models-gt40.
- It’s called a gt40 because it’s 40 inches tall.
- Zoom at night with everyone.
- Started JRE 1459 with Tom O’Neill about manson, mk ultra, acid, mind control. So silly. It’s funny how uncertainty works in the mind. People outside out tech have wonderful imaginations for stuff that happens inside of tech. I wonder if I have similar ignorance/conspiracy about other professions without realizing it.
- I am excited about the (real) future of brain interfaces like the ones neuralink is working on. Being able to simulate sensory input, or trigger physical output, based off an electrical signal that a program controls.
- Speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY.
- Start with promise of empowerment. 11am best time for a lecture. Cycle back. Have stopping points for wanderers to hop back on.
- Don’t end with thank you or a contributors slide. Wrap up with something bold, stand out, say something conclusively. This IS the thing they’ll walk away with.
- Headhunter for Amazon FinTech reached out.
- They’re not doing FinTech in the pure sense, it was a bit misleading. Not writing trading/analysis apps or using quant strategies to move positions around; it’s just the software team that builds tools for the internal accounting/billing/automation/compliance/finance.
- There is an AI/ML aspect in how budgets get allocated, but it’s small.
