I was seriously looking into purchasing a dumb smart phone, a la Light Phone 2 or Punkt MP02. I want some messaging, audio, maps etc but keep the slot machine apps as far away as possible. This simple guide saved me at least € 300 on the purchase of a new phone... for now.
Looked into this category specifically and Light Phone 2 is actually an e-ink touch phone with Android as its underlying OS. I may reconsider my choice later on, but for now these solutions will do.
Actually over the years Craigslist has been a great resource for making a few extra bucks. There is always the usual adds asking for expert programmers to make the next facebook or twitter and I have never replied to them, but atleast once a week there is a person looking for help that is willing to pay a fair price for pretty easy work.
I just checked the Craigslist adds in my old city (I moved up to Northern Canada and am building a farm) and I found a perfect example of someone looking for help with a pretty easy job. (Im not replying to it as I'm focused on other projects)
I can add to this that some languages have an active and passive voice to express oneself. Clear thoughts are expressed and experienced by the listener/reader by using an active voice.
Example:
I have written a comment on HN and I have been feeling good ever since. (passive) vs.
I wrote a comment on HN and I feel good ever since. (active.)
The active sentence is both clean and concise.
Any English native speakers please chime in with better examples. (:
You're right that the second sentence is simpler, but both of the sentences are in the active voice. (The difference between the two is in verb tense: the first sentence is in "present perfect" tense and the second sentence is in "simple present" tense. The first sentence places more emphasis on the writing as a completed action than the second sentence.)
A better example of the passive voice here is "A comment on HN was written by me".
Twice (starting new enterprises) if it weren’t for a couple lucky breaks I’d have needed at minimum 18 months. As it was, I burned down about 6 months worth the first time before starting to break even. The second time it both took off and crashed quickly and I didn’t burn much cash during the enterprise itself but did spend 3 months after unemployed and looking for a 9-5 job.
A third time (joining an early stage startup as a late founder) 6 months would have been a decent contingency if it went under fast, 12 if it withered away slowly. (Also caught a lucky break on that one and had a soft landing.)
Once (walking away from a bad job and looking for one that was a stretch), 6 months would have been plenty because if the gamble didn’t work out I knew I could reset my sights lower after a few months of looking and be employed somewhere within 6 weeks.
So the answer is very much “it depends on the circumstances”.
