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the answer is build it again and start selling it to other companies.

the key for managers is like business owners

1) understand what success means for their area 2) assemble a team and remove roadblocks for them to achieve 1.


1 pedal braking means evs often dont need new brake pads for 150K miles

One problem they are experiencing is rust and glazing on the pads from disuse.

They are heavier than the equivalent sized ICE so have more tire wear, but dont have to be that large in an absolute sense. Most are large luxury cars.


You’re right but one pedal drive is the wrong term. Regen braking is what you’re thinking of.

One pedal drive can still use the brake pads, regen braking is what saves brake usage regardless of one pedal drive being on or not.


Slate is coming in at around 175 inches..


If your payroll ends up being about the same, after 5 years it all evens out in the sense that you will be expensing 100% of your payroll each year (but the expensing will be 20% from each of the prior 5 years).

If your payroll is quickly growing You experience the problem on all payroll growth.

If your payroll is decreasing, you get a tax benefit. Your outgoing cash is less, but you are getting deductions from prior year expenses.


Your not taking into account the time value of money. You always want to expense sooner.

Additionally, having to wait 4 additional years to deduct that 80% is a huge drain on capital.

Combine this with higher interest rates and the effect is essentially pouring sand into the gears of the tech industry.


No, it's always strictly worse because you could have bought bonds or deployed the capital in some other way with that money.


Sure if you big enough to ride out 5 years but if your a hungry struggling bootstrapped startup, this can be game over.


I have this anxiety for sure. I cant even picture her face.

Touching objects for me doesnt help, though looking at pictures does. Ive tried to get her to make scrapbooks for every year we have been together with explanations and stories, but no luck so far.

She remembers what we both were wearing the day we met.


I have aphantasia, SDAM, and face blindness.

Like the author i rely on mental models (I wrote a book called visual models for software requirements), Im good at getting to the heart of things and am constantly organizing information so I can remember the principle.

I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away. I might only remember a few things about them. But when I look at pictures I can often times remember all kinds of details. I think some of the information is there, it just isnt retrievable.

Im bad at networking, when I go to events lots of people know me, but I have no idea who they are. Im waiting for glasses with cameras that will identify people for me and go over their background.

Aphantasia is supposed to be rare, but I think many engineers have it. At least at my company it seems more prevalent than it is supposed to be in the general population.

In some ways it is a gift. I barely remember traumatic events, but unfortunately I dont really remember amazing events either.


> I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away.

Have you tried remembering how their presence felt/feels? Consciously identifying the feeling that a loved one "carried" was an important part of a recent grieving I went through.


I have aphantasia now and I miss being able to visualize anything at all.

I have the opposite of face blindness and subconsciously process every face but I have lethonomia (cannot remember people's names). Years ago, I was once riding my bicycle from campus at probably 21 mph / 30 kph and recognized the brother of a lab partner when they were completely to the side of me and 75' / 22 m away in profile after seeing a photo of them once. I'm probably not as good as I once was due to a TBI.


I have aphantasia and probably SDAM. I can barely remember my own life.

Ive been waiting for years for glasses that can scan someones face, tell me who they are, and give me interesting points about them (kids' ages, wifes name, what they do etc).

It is very common for me to be around town and have people come up to me and say my name, and I dont recall ever having met them before.

On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.


SDAM="severely deficient autobiographical memory".

I've got SDAM, I guess? Although, I object to the characterization. I view other people as being neurotically obsessed with remembering their past and their hurts. If I want to remember something, I take a picture, and write a short (or long!) note about it, and that's enough for me to remember (read: reconstruct) a narrative about that event.

I'm a pretty deep pessimist, as well, so I'm pretty happy with my life, all the time. Drives my wife bonkers.


> On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.

This is true on many levels.

4:10 @ The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price

https://youtu.be/SoxsMMV538U

Perfect Memory = Perfect Inability to Forgive | House M.D.

https://youtu.be/dohQfI3u2lc


I have experienced similar. A while ago I had some memory issues due to severe insomnia over weeks. It certainly sucked but the memory loss part wasn't so bas as I basically just felt happy often, not even remembering little annoyances.

It's kind of a double edged sword in my opinion because it's not really affordable to always be in that state.


Joan Rivers had a marvelous remedy for this.

When someone says to you "We've met" and you're drawing a blank, look them in the eye and say "Yes!... but WHERE?"

... and they'll take it from there.


when you punish drug use with prison, it is better for it to be legal.


I have mostly kindle books now, around 600. I sort them by recent and reread the oldest. It takes me about 10-12 years to go through all my books.

I still have about 50 or so physical books and Im starting to convert the ones I can to kindle.


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