I've just come back from my first trip to Croatia, and this rings true. It's a beautiful place but the prices are high! To quote one of the taxi drivers I chatted to "all the prices have gone up, but is okay; wages have stayed same" - deadpan
Depends on what you are looking at - but yes. Wages also rose considerably, below inflation, but still I think thats the same story as everywhere else.
I think the main difference is that (in my opinion) Croatia used to be unbeatable for the price/quality of life ratio, nowadays it's probably slightly overpriced, but depends on what you value.
Is the cost of living inflation relative to income fuelling the current shift to the right in Croatian politics? This was on the international news yesterday: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz60nyp3714o
if you want to travel down this conversational path you should probably choose a better example than people going to a rock concert of the country's biggest rock star , regarding the given example there are a few cans of worms to unpack that would result in massive deviation from the question at hand
Not really - there is no right shift, Croatia is very catholic and right leaning since the civil war. But at the same time the I would say it's mostly performative and not really that extreme as painted in the article.
It is something that is not well understood about the Euro, it is a deal with the devil, with all the hallmarks of looking like a wonderful idea where wishes and imagination blind one to the details and the tricks one opens oneself up to. It immensely benefits the ruling class and the upper class, and even foreigners at the expense of the working and middle class and the indigenous.
It was also that way for the Germans who are accused of having benefited at the expense of others, when that was really more an effect of national scale, not all Germans individually. The Euro has had an odd distorting and perverting effect all across Europe; but it has always generally been excellent for the ruling and upper class that have gained access to an overflowing trough of other people’s money at the EU.
The Euro has been a kind of wealth transfer mechanism to the ruling, upper, and even foreign classes, just as it has been a tool to restore the aristocracy just as it had in the USA; the aristocracy gets the money, the people get the inflation and debt that fuels the fraud.
We shall see if it all goes off the rails and the people establish legitimate democratic rule, or if the authoritarian aristocracy can fully entrench itself again.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till they join the Euro. Housing is gonna get even more expensive. But hey at least imported knickknacks are gonna get cheaper.
> Everyone I've ever managed that was previously a manager themselves has this -- they know exactly what I need to know because they know what they needed to know, so our 1:1s go much faster
Could you provide some examples of what managers need to know?
It's less about what I need to know and more about how I need to organize it. I get the same information from all of my reports, but the ones who were managers hand it to me ready to go where the others I get it from a conversation.
When I'm talking to my team, I need to know things like:
* Anything that is blocking them (and what they think will solve that)
* Any unexpected events, fires that are about to start/have started
* Progress on their tasks and any timeline updates
* Things they've heard from meetings with other teams that might impact what they're working on or other people on the team
The ICs who were managers previously tend to come to 1:1s with this already sitting in our shared document outlined roughly like I have above when we start our meeting. E.g.
* I'm waiting for Joe Bloggs to finish his API work before I can build the user workflow for X. He was supposed to be done last week but I'm still waiting. He's being very vague about the timeline and I need to know when this will be done so I can start work. Can you talk to him for me?
* Mary was out sick last week so didn't finish the design for Y. We're working on it now and she'll be done by Tuesday. I've put my work on Y on hold until then and am focusing on Z instead. It should still be done by the deadline.
* Status of Project Foo is...
* I had a sync with the database team yesterday. Did you know that they're planning to move everything to paper tape next quarter?
All of that would come out in a conversation anyway, but having it like this focuses it and puts it in context already (which is normally what I would need to do with that info).
The real difference is that folks who have been managers before tend to have a better understanding of what will impact the larger team or project, not just their part of it. I care about the individual too, but some of my brain is always on the bigger picture.
To add on to this I like things organized as:
- things you need my action on
- things you need my input on
- things you think I need to be aware of that may need my input/action later
The "future you" aspect mentioned is exactly my rationale for blogging. I've been doing it since 2012 and one of the main reasons was because I kept forgetting things I'd done and thought I should start to note them down. I regularly google things and find my own posts with little to no memory of writing them. https://johnnyreilly.com/
Long time user of (and contributor to) Docusaurus. I use it to build my markdown powered tech blog. https://johnnyreilly.com/ It is very much a Goldilocks product for me ("just right") in that it has React support, Markdown support, TypeScript support and a good amount of customisation is possible (good underlying APIs). It also has a great community. Props to Sébastien Lorber for leading the project so well!
Hey John, thanks for your contributions! Also gotta give a big shoutout to Sébastien and the crew for creating and constantly updating Docusaurus - it's one of my favorite docs software.
Queues are great; but it looks like you're trying to solve a different problem. In my own case, the aim was to store a function for delayed execution. That's slightly different from storing typical state. The interesting bit (hopefully) in here is serialising and deserialising function calls.
Author here; this is a follow up to my post on how my SEO was ruined last year. Wonderfully, through that post trending here, a volunteer stepped forward to help repair things. And this is the story of the repairs!
