The findings in this book are a bit misleading because they don't account for base rates. Of course most millionaires live in suburbs and drive pickups. Most humans live in suburbs and pickups are the most common work vehicle in the US. Nassim Taleb did a good critique on this I believe.
In A Family Argument, If It Turns Out You Are Right, Apologize At Once! -- Lazarus Long
Anyone worth being around does not argue because they think they are wrong, but because they think they are right. That means there must be a rational way to believe the opposite of what you do. To solve the argument and find a path forward requires considering from their viewpoint. The questions I ask myself are: what assumptions might we differ on? What differences in value of outcomes do we have? Usually it is a simple misunderstanding, but it can take some work to find it.
For boring but sound financial advice, I recommend Dave Ramsey. His book “the total money makeover” changed my financial life in my mid 20’s.
I sleep much better being completely debt-free and knowing that I’m on-track to retire well even if I never hit it big or get another raise in my life.
I migrated from iCloud to FastMail about 5 years ago, and I'm very happy with FastMail. They do support YubiKeys, as well as TOTP.
Forwarding everything from the old account to the new account made it pretty easy so I only had one inbox to check, and I could take my time migrating all of my accounts to the new address. I also created a rule to sort things coming from my old account to a folder so I knew which accounts and subscriptions and whatnot I still needed to update to the new address. To this day I still have the old email forwarding, and occasionally something real comes through on it.
Fastmail also makes it easy to add other addresses on custom domains, so I have several email addresses that all deliver to the same inbox, with rules to sort them into the right folders.
It's probably because it's a business account and Google and LinkedIn have sold my address, but fwiw I receive about 100x more spam in my work gmail than I do in my personal fastmail account.
I don't think this was a bad approach; it may be better than the alternatives.
The "rip the band-aid" approach, while impersonal, avoids days of ambiguity over who is impacted by layoffs and who is not. I have been through a mass layoff; the most stressful part was waiting to find out who was impacted. I'd much rather know immediately, even if that means notifying me with everyone else at the same time, in a Zoom call.
As long as each employee receives a 1-1 follow-up call with someone in HR to review the details and get a chance to ask any questions, I think this was a sensible way to approach a horrible reality.
The problem is it's impossible to schedule 900 layoff meetings to occur at the same time, so you end up with layoffs ongoing for multiple days or weeks. Of course everyone knows what is going on within the first hour, so then there is a long period where all productivity stops while everyone waits anxiously to find out whether they should keep working or just pack up.
Whether leadership deserves criticism for getting to a point where such a huge layoff is necessary is another topic altogether.
I'm confused... clicking on the PDF source data (Data through Jul 16, 2020 verified as of Jul 17, 2020 at 09:25 AM), it clearly shows a 13.4% overall positivity rate. Where is the 31.1% coming from?
There was a period circa 2014-2015 that LastPass was pretty glitchy on Firefox in MacOS, but for quite a while I've had no problems at all with it - it just works. Even my non-technical wife has no issues with it, and sharing secure passwords is a breeze.
