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mircea_popescu: you're a good man, and i
trust you, and i know as a matter of fact my
trust's not misplaced. we absolutely have
to either adjust you
to
the
tasks you have or
the
tasks you have
to you, however, because
there's simply no way
to maintain
trustworthyness on
the long haul while capacity-activity mismatch is ongoing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: can you ~believe~ how much like something you'd read on
tardstalk "investments" your workproduct ends up ?! and
this in 2018 ? why, because you've been secretly saving it
through a
time capsule, insulated from review, all
this
time ?! god almighty, last
thing i want is
the yahoo peterl-ism of 2013 perpetuated a second past
the end of
that year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: . on
the short
term you'll have
to
take some
time off and
think long and hard and in all seriousness about what you want from
this life, because continuing on your present course can't possibly bring much beyond disaster.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes hanbot remembers
that
time fondly ; and certainly so do i. but as
things stand presently
the practical choices before you are either
to make a major committment of both
time and attention
towards living up
to
the lofty position of a lord, and catch up on
that proverbial "legacy hairball" ; or else
to limit yourself
to
testing some code here and
there as
time permits and publish
the occasional piece.
this, on
the long
term
mircea_popescu: the "sad" news, from
this perspective (though it is boldly and fundamentally
the exact opposite of sad) is
that no,
there isn't any "return
to
the grand old days" on
the
table. ~emphatically~ not. bitcoin ain't going back
to spending a summer at 2 dollars a coin ; and consequentlly you're not going back
to being
the mod6 of 2013 on
ten hours a week and lukewarm committment.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 04:02
trinque: you need
to quit circumambulating and run some ads, contact folks you
think might be good candidates for clients, literally anything
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 04:10
trinque: is
there some kind of christian purity involved in
the
tool choice?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-15 14:36 mod6: We are discussing/thinking about how
to recapitalize, get more rockchips, customers. So
this is on going. I don't
think anyone is wasting anytime by any streach of imagination.[
a111: Logged on 2018-06-13 20:27 mod6: I was
thinking
that if L1/L2 people around here want
to emplace a banner on
their blog
to help drive some
traffic
to PizzaroISP.net and earn some btc, let us know.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-31 16:21 mircea_popescu: you seriously can't be sitting
there spending hours on
this pennies
thing.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-05 22:13 mod6: I've gotta run for a bit here, maybe later when you're availble we can go
through calculating
that customer equity. i did some adding, but I came up about 50% short. clearly missing something
there.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-05 01:33 mod6: I actually didn't
think it was any big deal, as previous months I had made
these deals behind closed doors with jurov as wel.
mircea_popescu: it seems
to me inescapably
the case
that you have not been putting either enough
time or enough
thought into
this, and continuing in like manner for year upon year.
the inescapable result was accumulation, of exactly
the wrong kind : every day you personally grew a little smaller
than your image in
the forum, and compensating for
the difference drew, as any other credit, upon your capacities
to service, until eventually
the g
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to do nothing is one
thing.
to do
things
that
then someone will have
to come later and untangle... holy hell on wheels.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "we have a legacy hairball
to entangle" literally says "previous management worked for empire and against republic, created negative value we have
to pour value into
to bring back
to 0".
BingoBoingo: Whatever you do mod6 don't nightmare about
the accounting when you sleep. Have sweet dreams of Cabo Polonia,
the lobos marinos, and
the brasileras
mod6: Perhaps I can convince ben_vulpes
to help
take a look at it with us.
mod6: Ok, so I'm gonna call it a night. What I do know at
this point is
the ``surplus''
that we're seeing in
the statements goes back at least
through
the August report. However, I'm not even certain at
this point if what I'm seeing is actually incorrect, as I said earlier. Or if I just don't understand what I'm looking at.
There's a strong chance
that I just don't understand it.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: trinque: We have a legacy hairball
to untangle. I encouraged mod6
to continue on with managing
the cash account, decentralizing and in
the process creating a bigger mess.
lobbes: mod6: I also recommend getting a proper mp-wp up and running. As someone who also
tried
to stick with
the 'manual html' route, I vastly underestimated
the communicative power of a proper blogotron (the speed-up-to-post,
the catagorizing,
the deedbot announces, comments, pingbacks, etc etc)
trinque: I ftr don't see why BingoBoingo doesn't run
the
thing, as mircea_popescu has also amply wtf'd
trinque: or does
that conveniently suck
time from productive activity
trinque: is
there some kind of christian purity involved in
the
tool choice?
☟︎ lobbes: BingoBoingo: on
the other hand, we have Mocky who just returned from some serious outreaching
trinque: and more fundamentally, consider
that when you persist in doing
things
the wrong way (like, do you even have a spreadsheet for
this
thing) you're probably caught in an avoidance loop of
the "I don't even want
to be doing
this" variety
trinque: you need
to quit circumambulating and run some ads, contact folks you
think might be good candidates for clients, literally anything
☟︎ trinque: mod6: you don't need a CFO
to count
the amount of money you guys are moving
BingoBoingo: lobbes: I ask because it is clear Republican outreach has dropped since cazalla retired and danielpbarron
turned hard
towards his other cult
lobbes: I'ma be doing
the holiday
travel
thing for a week
this month and a week next month. Other
than
that, just
the usual $saltmine 9-5 and
then squeezing in republican workload where able
BingoBoingo: lobbes: How does your schedule look over
the next 3 months?
lobbes: benefit being
that over
time you have all of your various
things accounted for in different piles. Can answer business questions like "how much did I pay for water between
time
t0 and
t1?" really easily
lobbes: mod6:
the key idea behind double-entry accounting is
that for every
transaction you are involving at least
two accounts. E.g. If you pay your water bill from your checking account you'd record a decrease (credit)
to your checking account, and record an increase (debit)
to your water bill expense account
mod6: Anyway, i'm gonna be looking for
that error.
mod6: I wanted
to hire an accountant / CFO / whatever for
the work, even back when ben was working on Pizarro -- so he could focus more on sales. But no
takers.
mod6: Got a lot
to learn I guess. But
this is
totally something I've never even
thought about before.
mod6: At one point, I could balance my checkbook. Now, I don't even do
that, computer does it for me.
mod6: mircea_popescu: fair enough. ben said something
to me on
the phone, "double entry accounting". I don't even know what
that is. But, my guess is
that I'm supposed
to know.
BingoBoingo: Definitely more
than for any World Cup round
mircea_popescu: mod6
the problem with "accounting
things" is
that
they're a fundamental life skill ; i can scarcely imagine how you get
through
the days of your life without as much accounting as is here required.
think
that you're not asked
to upload in head
the many volumes of gaap arcana, but merely some very basic "this plus
that is
the other" sorta stuff, and
the complaint sounds somewhat like gravedigger's disdain of readin',
takes
tim
BingoBoingo: The familial relationship of Concubine is recognized under Uruguayo law. I am pretty sure
the icy north recognizes Shariah law (as established in Rotterdam) by now, so if
the local government frowns upon
the relationship you develop with a Chileña you can
tell
them
to respect your cultural differences.
BingoBoingo: Once
the surplus is accounted for, make your next Pizarro priority a beach vacation before fall hits and
the water gets cold. Arrive on a Friday or Saturday
to get your odinsleep, we'll hit up
the Feria Sunday and
tour
the rack Sunday or Monday. After you comfort yourself
through seeing
the hardware I'll put you on a bus
to see all
those cool beaches on
the east coast I hear so much about but don't have
the opportunity
to check out
mod6: Yeah, I'm gonna
try
to stick
to
the schedule I posted, and get some food now. When I get back, I'll work on
the accounting surplus.
BingoBoingo: But as overstuffed as your agenda is,
that pressure can't help your error rate.
BingoBoingo: mod6: With respect
to Pizarro, you probably ought
to just focus on reconciling
the cash account
to account for
the surplus. As you have
time
to spend on
that
task.
mod6: The sad part is, I was good at
the former stuff, not so good at
the latter stuff.
mod6: I remember when keeping up with
the logs +
trb + v really felt like a
ton of stuff. But
that stuff has been wholesale replaced + some even, by pizarro.
mod6: I have
the hunger
to do much. But I fear
that I've bitten off more
than I can chew -- especially with
things
that are not in my wheelhouse
that really
take-away
time, or slow down other progress.
This being accounting
things, or other management stuff.
mod6: I'd have
to say, I was just doing enough
to get us by with
the Foundation (library) stuff before Pizarro. Much less, even getting a Stanford and world-class embassy.
mod6: Normally I do
tend
to work slow so I ensure
that my work is accurate, despite recent fuck-ups, which I agree with MP, are not my normal
thing. But yes, I'm way overloaded. And it's been hard
to keep up with anything foundation related since Pizarro. Especially since Ben left.
BingoBoingo: When I started helping mod6
transition out of
the intermin management responsibility, I erred judging
that keeping mod6 in charge of
the cash account would distribute stress instead of amplifying it. My bad.
mircea_popescu: given
this articulation, i agree with asciilifeform , it's a wonder you can keep functioning / managed as long as you have.
mod6: #6 Yes, what I did is in
the blog-post
there.
mircea_popescu: mod6
the
two prongs of
the problem seem
to be, principally
that you have a lot less
time available for
this
than ~most everyone else, by a factor of 2 or more ; and secondarily
that elementary
tasks
that should
take an hour or
thereabouts
take you multiples, by a factor of 3 or 5 or who knows.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 00:33 asciilifeform: mod6 i marvel
that you are able
to do anyffing! mine consists largely of 'eat','sleep','fuck','xx hours at console'
mod6: # 5: Yes,
that's pretty much accurate
BingoBoingo: The accounting issue is mod6 has more Pizarro cash
than
the October draft statement calculated by applying
the net change
to
the previous month's cash account says he should.
mod6: for #3 Again, yeah, I'm sure I did it, may have been an hour. More or less.
Those
two days (6th and 7th), I recall being pretty busy, but other
than
the usual stuff, I can't really what I got distracted by.
mircea_popescu: is
this
the "accounting issue"
then ? or was
there more
to
the mystery ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: My inclination is
to wait and ping when we send
the next round of invoices, but
the man is overwhelmed
mircea_popescu: i seriously ate hours of your combined
time because forgot
to send a v ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You have an open invoice for
the S.MG
test machine
mircea_popescu: now about
this missing payment... did i not pay something ?
mod6: for #2: We keep
the notes so we know what's going on with all
the customer accounts, our ledgers, and general information about on-goings of
the business.
This is necessary so we don't have
to log-spelunk everything. Logs don't work all
the
time, like right now,
the logging for #pizarro is down.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it seems a necessary
that you're overwhelmed, if your
time budged
to do
TWO board jobs AND logs is about half what people use
to do just
the latter part.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what's anyone's experience btw ? cca how long does it
take
to ~keep current~ with logs on a weekly basis ? << I do anywhere from 2
to nearly 4 hours a day on logs when rabbitholing is factored in
mod6: So usually
that leaves 30min-1hour per night, sometimes more depending on
the size. Sometimes I fall down a well in
the logs if i'm looking for something specific related
to any number of
things: pizarro, foundation, ada, ffa, who knows.
mod6: Well, as for
the logs, I read what I can on
the
train.
mircea_popescu: what's anyone's experience btw ? cca how long does it
take
to ~keep current~ with logs on a weekly basis ?
mircea_popescu: how you manage
to cram a week's worth of logs in an hour and a half for instance is anyone's guess, god knows my girls don't manage -- it eats in excess of 10 hours weekly, and noobs such as
the bimbo are well over
the 25 hour mark week in week out.
mod6: #1 was halfhour. i remember it being not 3 seconds because I had
to look up
the bot commands and
try
to get
that correct, etc. despite
the fact
that I made it for
the wrong amount.
mircea_popescu: because it'd seem
to me your week consists by
this logic of 12
to 13 hours of, making
the
timetable (15%), reading logs (13%), and it's not clear
to me what (75%).
mod6: Let me work
through it here...
mircea_popescu: at ; 8. 2 hours preparing and publishing some data
to give base
to future rescue op.
mircea_popescu: so
to summarize : 1. one hour (!?) wrangling with auctionbot on
the 4th (the result still wrong) ; 2. 2 hours handling
three conflated processes (why do you keep notes as an intermediate step ?) on
the 5th ; 3. 1 hour reading logs on
the 6th ; 4. half hour reading logs on
the 7th ; 5. 1.3 h mostly brainstorming on
the 8th ? ; 6. half hour doing... i don't know what on
the 9th ; 7. 4 (four ?!) hours doing i still don't know wh
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For example if you want a PPC machine
to
test big endian, all your choices in Uruguay are notebooks with old firehazard batteries. Argentina has "Mac Mini G4"
BingoBoingo: And on
this note at
the end of
the month girl will be visiting her
Tía in Argentina. Anyone have shopping list items
they want investigated?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> yes but oddly he can never seem
to source anything locally. << Slowly improving
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
there were quite
tall piles of iron at
the flea market, and nobody was buying ( i walked for ~4h and it appears
to have moved not an inch ) << asciilifeform has a hell of an eye,
the local ebayazon suggests richer variety of golden junk in Argentina