Thankfully they are alive and doing quite well in our little forest home in Quebec, Canada. Of all the places I used to see them as a kid almost none are still vibrant and busy, but our little corner of forest here has a good population. For now…

Checkout Earth if you haven’t - Earth- Hex, or printing the infernal method

Check out amigo the devil - Half his songs are this subject matter. And he is VERY good.

Soft Play - Punk’s Dead

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tEG5uu6qLQQ

15+ years working remote. I only turn my camera on when there are new vendors/clients on the call and it is my turn to introduce myself.

Yeah the printing lines were not even sanded off the top.

I do want to thank you kindly for the offer to print one up. You Rock! But shipping to Canada would probably be ugly.

I hope to pick up a 3d printer this winter and if I manage it I will use this as a learning project.

Let’s not be silly now.

Oh man. I had so much fun on these. Great project!

What are ya building? Old motorcycles are my jam!

I’m currently rebuilding my '73 triumph for the 5th time. This time as a bobber with a bolt-on hardtail.

One-size-fits-all batman cat mask was not so one-size-fits-all

For context - This cat’s name is batman.

With consent, and with cells from someone I know/love - Sure!

Grown from my own cells? Fuck yes.

I also have severe malabsorption and can’t process most veg at all. I have been told hundreds of times that I am lying, and that I don’t need to eat meat. To some of these people it is better for us to suffer than to eat meat, while they claim to subscribe to a philosophy of reducing suffering.

Iritis/uveitis - My cornea detached due to the heavy pressure inside my eye. The most painful thing EVER.

Kidney stones - Close second

Motorcycle accident at highway speed that jammed gravel into my cranial cavity and left me looking like watermelon-head for 3 months - I’d still rather have this than kidney stones or iritis…

I think we agree. CEO should not be making decisions from a technical point of view, so they should not be second-guessing the technical people.

I’m at the stage of my career that pretty much every job I take, I report directly to the CEO. And the difference between what they should do and what they actually do is why I made my statement at the top of this thread.

Why not consult the people who actually know their stuff?

I mean questioning as in second-guessing the people who actually know stuff. Not asking experts for their honest thoughts.

Don’t you think that management could use your help and advice to make good strategic decisions in the long term?

Management is one thing - C-levels is yet another kettle of fish.

In my experience C-levels rarely want the technical answer to a question, and will be personally insulted / defensive if the answer is something they don’t understand. And they will ask their questions in such a way as to insult the expert. Two negative results that don’t help the business in any way.

But Dept heads and the PM office will often be able to explain why certain choices were made, and how that aligns with the business needs, without the complexities that cause misunderstanding between two people of such wildly divergent skillsets.

Now if the CEO can also write the code, or run the wetlab instruments, and really does want the nitty-gritty, complex technical answer, that is a different story. And rarely the case in my career.

Long term strategic thinking, experience to understand when trends and short-term solutions would be long-term mistakes, and the ability to avoid directly questioning someone with a skillset they don’t have themselves about technical or complex issues.

Go through an intermediary. Like a department head.

The developers, engineers, and architects don’t need your help, they need you to set logical long-term goals, hire good department heads, and schmooze with other CEOs in the same space.

popos tiling works this way as well.

Titus

It was actually 220 :/