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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Save up. Save save save.

    Moving is expensive, and any new job is risky to start. The places you’re looking at are expensive because most sane people want to live there.

    If you can find a remote job, start there: once you’re a remote worker, you can establish yourself at the job before you move. Once you’re confident that you like the job and aren’t going to get laid off out of nowhere, you won’t have to stress about paying rent while looking for a job in a new place.

    Visit a city before committing, make sure it has the vibe you want. Coastal cities all have their upsides and downsides.


  • The graphical user interface.

    They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

    They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.