The housing market is a bit broken: either expensive private housing or affordable publicly managed one, but very hard to get. People often cannot relocate.
Big debt.
Security, with addicted errands in some districts.
A few years back, well ok maybe almost ten now, but regardless- a recruiter reached out to me about a role at a "series G" company like it was a selling point, and I was just kinda like ok maybe thats signaling its relatively stable and can raise money, but at the same time, that's a lot of rounds to have preferences ensure unprivileged shareholders get nothing, and also to have most of the hockey stick growth already tapped out.
This was in the middle of the boom when companies were fighting over talent, so I found it odd.
Do you have more details on which aspects of Epictetus' philosophy are related to hating to outsource mental work? I'm not familiar enough with stoicism. Thanks
(I could ask chatgpt, I ask you instead =p)
PS: Claude 3.5 Haiku take on it: "For Epictetus, the process of thinking is more important than the result. By outsourcing mental work, people surrender their most valuable tool for self-improvement - their own mind."
Interesting product. We would use that as a backoffice that would be self hosted, fetching from and pushing to backend APIs. Is that use case on your roadmap?
Basically an alternative to Google sheet with JS macros in it. Gsheet is no good for us because we have data protection requirements.
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