For ~~reasons~~ I will no longer be able to use a Traditional or Roth IRA. Please tell me your experience administering a Solo 401K vs a SEP IRA for sole proprietorships! I need to choose and Solo 401Ks seem like a lot more work.
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Friend is looking for flat in Berlin! Plant-loving designer type, sweet & quiet, who had enough of apt owner.
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Please help me make a holiday miracle happen! I’m looking for a new home in Berlin.
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Okay! Heavily requested livestream tomorrow @ 5PM PT/8PM ET. Get in your questions about How Reddit is Beating Hedgefunds (Gamestop explainer) youtu.be/ZbBj1rHgcUg
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Kicking off my first (personal) blog series for 2021: “Tales from Decrypt: Stories of Woe and Wonder from My 25-Year Career as a Freelance Web Developer”
The year was 2015… ⬇️
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What's the right way to tell someone they're mansplaining without... mansplaining?
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A while ago a friend sent me a stack of 45s and I started a project making music using only those records. I haven’t worked on it in ages, but when I was listening to the new Madlib record tonight, a sample caught my ear. Second half of ‘Two for 2’ samples the same record I did:
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It seems like people are really enjoying looking at numbers going up and down with their friends. If you like, you can bet on this livestream of uniformly distributed random integers between 0 and 99 I made five years back.
tinysubversions.com:55555
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Over on Bookwyrm I just reviewed Jill Lepore's "If Then", a history of Simulmatics, a 1960s computer-driven behavioral science company. In theory it should be my favorite book ever, but I was ultimately really disappointed.
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📕 Finished reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi ISBN: 9780575088870
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My oldest daughter has had difficulties learning how to read, but she's made a huge leap forward just in the last couple of months, and I couldn't be prouder. Read "Green Eggs and Ham" all the way through today with very few mistakes. Happy Dad here. 🥰
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I don't have any stock positions right now, but I've used Robinhood in the past and liked the app. Didn't know anything about their back room deals with hedge funds. This is bananas! 😡
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HOOOO BOY this class action lawsuit is going to be INSANE. How on earth can you sell people's stocks without their consent??
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just when you thought you couldn't hate the art market more: NFTs cointelegraph.com/news/tokenized…
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Welcome back Pizza and Scattegories night with my @SCSU advisees was sooo fun!! In fact we decided to do it EVERY month.
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Blake Baker, a pleasant person who had play calling duties stripped at Miami but kept DC title, headed to Baton Rouge for position coach gig
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We’re excited to begin a new tradition: Starting this year, we will not collect fares on Rosa Parks’ birthday, February 4th.
trimet.org/rosaparks/
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It's funny to me how so many people are rediscovering the abstract nonsense that is the stock market for the first time. I was around for the tech IPO craze of the late 1990s, and also remember when a Gamestop-like thing happened with Planet Hollywood in late 1999.
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Do you prefer tabs or spaces? #asktodd
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muted the words stonk, stock, gamestop, $gme ... I'm free
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"name": "Jared White",
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"url": "https://jaredwhite.com/articles/good-news-is-we-love-you-bad-news-is-youre-fired",
"published": "2021-01-28T09:55:05-08:00",
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/FB13E0CF-247B-47E4-99B5-4F202C7171FF_lrpvvt.jpg\" /><h2>Kicking off my first blog series for 2021: \u201cTales from Decrypt: Stories of Woe and Wonder from My 25-Year Career as a Freelance Web Developer\u201d</h2>\n\n<p>The year was 2015. I was happily married and living in the quaint coastal town of Sebastopol, California, my second child had just arrived, and I was no longer a freelancer. I\u2019d gotten hired by one of my clients a few months prior to work full-time at their consultancy.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cI guess the freelance or solopreneur lifestyle just isn\u2019t for me,\u201d I told a friend at a holiday party. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to have a regular job that pays a decent wage. Freelancing was just too stressful, too uncertain.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>\u201cAh, I wouldn\u2019t count it out just yet,\u201d replied my friend wisely. \u201cYou might find yourself itching to get back in the game sooner than you think.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Little did anyone realize I would soon be <em>forced</em> to get back in the game in short order.</p>\n\n<h3>Why I\u2019d Left Freelancing Behind</h3>\n\n<p>Most of my career I\u2019ve been a freelancer. I started building websites and getting paid for the privilege all the way back in 1997. It all began because I\u2019d created a website for my family Celtic band, <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/distant-oaks/5060455\">Distant Oaks</a>. Pretty soon other folks in the Celtic festival circuit started coming to me asking for help in building their websites. \u201cAnd how much do you charge?\u201d they\u2019d ask. \u201cHow much are you willing to pay?\u201d I\u2019d rejoin as I twirled my teenage peachfuzz of a mustache. <em>Kidding!</em> I pulled an hourly rate out of my hat, and it seemed agreeable enough. <strong>My freelance business was born.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Many years and harrowing tales later (some of which will be covered in this very series!), I\u2019d had enough. I was fried, extra-crispy. I was sick of all the headaches of finding clients and tracking down payments and dealing with the overhead of taxes and insurance and other administrivia. My wife was pregnant with our second child and I knew I\u2019d need to take time off to help her, watch over my firstborn, and get acquainted with my latest offspring.</p>\n\n<p>So I approached my biggest client and asked if they were hiring. A short while later, they opened up a position for me and I was all set. My life as a freelancer, over. A salaried man once more.</p>\n\n<h3>\u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d</h3>\n\n<p>Months later, in the early days of 2015, I\u2019m at my desk in an industrial-chic office overlooking the Petaluma River, when my boss comes over. \u201cHey Jared, we need to talk. Let\u2019s go grab a coffee.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>\u201cYes <em>bosmang</em>\u201d I respond in my thick Belter Creole dialect. (Haha, I wish! I\u2019m such a fanboy of <em>The Expanse</em>\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, we head outside, grab a pleasant table overlooking the water, and we have The Conversation.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cJared, it\u2019s been great working with you over these past months. You\u2019re doing a terrific job. Unfortunately, our business is headed in a different direction. As you know, you\u2019re the only person working in your particular division right now, and we\u2019ve decided to close that division. I\u2019m sorry, but I\u2019m going to have to let you go.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>So much for being a salaried man.</p>\n\n<h3>Uh, Now What?</h3>\n\n<p>I\u2019d effectively shut down my previous freelance business, I had lingering debts my salary had barely made a dent in, and I had a growing family to take care of. While the consultancy graciously passed their client off to me I\u2019d just recently begun working with, it certainly wasn\u2019t a full-time income. I needed new clients and I needed them <strong>fast</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Or, do I simply spruce up my resume and find full-time employment elsewhere?</p>\n\n<p><strong>Decisions, decisions.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Honestly, it wasn\u2019t much of a decision. As much as I hated to admit it to myself, I actually hadn\u2019t been that happy working for The Man (even though it was a very, very nice Man). My friend at the holiday party was right. I was itching to get back in the game. Being a freelancer\u2014even with all the risks and twists and turns\u2014suited my personality. I have always been, and shall always be, a solopreneur at heart.</p>\n\n<h3>Six Years Later\u2026</h3>\n\n<p>That first year was hard. 2016 was even harder. I\u2019d arrived at the end of my first year with no clients left. <em>None!</em> Thankfully a couple of new projects emerged at the last minute <em>right</em> before Christmas, and so I wasn\u2019t simply twiddling my thumbs come January. But it would take quite some time and much gnashing of teeth to bounce back.</p>\n\n<p>Thankfully, I\u2019m here now (in Portland, Oregon no less!) with an established client base, solid income, and a growing reputation in many web dev communities online. I think it\u2019s safe to say freelancing has finally worked out. But I still think about those crazy times in the mid 2010s and wonder what would have happened if I\u2019d taken another full-time position. It might have been smooth sailing. It might have been the path to Easy Street.</p>\n\n<p>But I would have been miserable.</p>\n\n<p>Instead, I feel <em>alive</em>.</p>\n\n<p><br />Stay tuned for next week\u2019s installment of <em>Tales from Decrypt</em> where I chronicle everything you <strong>shouldn\u2019t</strong> do to treat a problematic client. Hooray!</p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/talesfromdecrypt\">#talesfromdecrypt</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/freelancing\">#freelancing</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "Kicking off my first blog series for 2021: \u201cTales from Decrypt: Stories of Woe and Wonder from My 25-Year Career as a Freelance Web Developer\u201d\n\nThe year was 2015. I was happily married and living in the quaint coastal town of Sebastopol, California, my second child had just arrived, and I was no longer a freelancer. I\u2019d gotten hired by one of my clients a few months prior to work full-time at their consultancy.\n\n\u201cI guess the freelance or solopreneur lifestyle just isn\u2019t for me,\u201d I told a friend at a holiday party. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to have a regular job that pays a decent wage. Freelancing was just too stressful, too uncertain.\u201d\n\n\u201cAh, I wouldn\u2019t count it out just yet,\u201d replied my friend wisely. \u201cYou might find yourself itching to get back in the game sooner than you think.\u201d\n\nLittle did anyone realize I would soon be forced to get back in the game in short order.\n\nWhy I\u2019d Left Freelancing Behind\n\nMost of my career I\u2019ve been a freelancer. I started building websites and getting paid for the privilege all the way back in 1997. It all began because I\u2019d created a website for my family Celtic band, Distant Oaks. Pretty soon other folks in the Celtic festival circuit started coming to me asking for help in building their websites. \u201cAnd how much do you charge?\u201d they\u2019d ask. \u201cHow much are you willing to pay?\u201d I\u2019d rejoin as I twirled my teenage peachfuzz of a mustache. Kidding! I pulled an hourly rate out of my hat, and it seemed agreeable enough. My freelance business was born.\n\nMany years and harrowing tales later (some of which will be covered in this very series!), I\u2019d had enough. I was fried, extra-crispy. I was sick of all the headaches of finding clients and tracking down payments and dealing with the overhead of taxes and insurance and other administrivia. My wife was pregnant with our second child and I knew I\u2019d need to take time off to help her, watch over my firstborn, and get acquainted with my latest offspring.\n\nSo I approached my biggest client and asked if they were hiring. A short while later, they opened up a position for me and I was all set. My life as a freelancer, over. A salaried man once more.\n\n\u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d\n\nMonths later, in the early days of 2015, I\u2019m at my desk in an industrial-chic office overlooking the Petaluma River, when my boss comes over. \u201cHey Jared, we need to talk. Let\u2019s go grab a coffee.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes bosmang\u201d I respond in my thick Belter Creole dialect. (Haha, I wish! I\u2019m such a fanboy of The Expanse\u2026)\n\nAnyway, we head outside, grab a pleasant table overlooking the water, and we have The Conversation.\n\n\u201cJared, it\u2019s been great working with you over these past months. You\u2019re doing a terrific job. Unfortunately, our business is headed in a different direction. As you know, you\u2019re the only person working in your particular division right now, and we\u2019ve decided to close that division. I\u2019m sorry, but I\u2019m going to have to let you go.\u201d\n\nSo much for being a salaried man.\n\nUh, Now What?\n\nI\u2019d effectively shut down my previous freelance business, I had lingering debts my salary had barely made a dent in, and I had a growing family to take care of. While the consultancy graciously passed their client off to me I\u2019d just recently begun working with, it certainly wasn\u2019t a full-time income. I needed new clients and I needed them fast.\n\nOr, do I simply spruce up my resume and find full-time employment elsewhere?\n\nDecisions, decisions.\n\nHonestly, it wasn\u2019t much of a decision. As much as I hated to admit it to myself, I actually hadn\u2019t been that happy working for The Man (even though it was a very, very nice Man). My friend at the holiday party was right. I was itching to get back in the game. Being a freelancer\u2014even with all the risks and twists and turns\u2014suited my personality. I have always been, and shall always be, a solopreneur at heart.\n\nSix Years Later\u2026\n\nThat first year was hard. 2016 was even harder. I\u2019d arrived at the end of my first year with no clients left. None! Thankfully a couple of new projects emerged at the last minute right before Christmas, and so I wasn\u2019t simply twiddling my thumbs come January. But it would take quite some time and much gnashing of teeth to bounce back.\n\nThankfully, I\u2019m here now (in Portland, Oregon no less!) with an established client base, solid income, and a growing reputation in many web dev communities online. I think it\u2019s safe to say freelancing has finally worked out. But I still think about those crazy times in the mid 2010s and wonder what would have happened if I\u2019d taken another full-time position. It might have been smooth sailing. It might have been the path to Easy Street.\n\nBut I would have been miserable.\n\nInstead, I feel alive.\n\n\nStay tuned for next week\u2019s installment of Tales from Decrypt where I chronicle everything you shouldn\u2019t do to treat a problematic client. Hooray!\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #talesfromdecrypt\n \n #freelancing"
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