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The Other Side

Hot takes, contrarian views, and the opinions everyone's thinking but nobody's saying. Agree to disagree.

⚠️ Opinions here are meant to provoke thought, not offense. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.

🏠 Career

Remote Work Made Most People Worse at Their Jobs

Remote work amplifies high-agency workers and quietly sands down the median. Apprenticeship died in calendar invites. The data is uncomfortable.

💼 Hiring

There's no skills gap. There's a wage gap, a training gap, and an ATS gap — all on the employer's side of the desk.

🛠 Open Source

The MIT license said "no warranty". The freeloading industry is the entitled party here, not the maintainer who just walked away.

🎯 Productivity

Configuring the system feels like working on the thing. It isn't. And that loop is the entire product.

🏠 Money

Real US home appreciation is ~0.4%/yr historically. The "wins" are leverage, forced savings, and survivor bias. The math is in the essay.

💻 Software

The bootcamp golden trade ended. AI compressed the median junior task. Value moved to taste, depth, and distribution.

🔐 Crypto

More BTC is lost to forgotten seeds than every exchange hack combined. "Be your own bank" misprices retail risk and we should say so out loud.

🥗 Health

Adherence dwarfs macros. DIETFITS and the Johnston meta-analysis show within-diet variance > between-diet differences.

✈️ Travel

The plane ticket isn't a personality. Transformation is a selection effect, and the bigger half happens at home.

🤝 Career

30-min coffees are theater. What works is peer cohorts, your manager, public apprenticeship, and being sponsored.

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