Chris Heck

Finished Reading: Same as Ever by Morgan Housel 📚

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

And at a public library in Thetford Center — the most used installation by far — kids have been able to call their parents for rides home or simply to check in.

I love this!

Finished Reading: On Writing by Stephen King 📚

I guess I’m at the age where I wake up sore and in pain from bending down and working on a plumbing issue over the weekend. Looks like I can cancel my gym membership and just spend more time taking care of my home maintenance tasks. 👴🏼

I’m moving my daughter to her dorm on campus this week and I’m not confident our car has enough cargo capacity to accommodate her packing. I can either rent a larger car for the weekend or encourage her to pack less. You’re right. I better rent the car.

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report

Should you fire a personal trainer when the scale shows that you’ve gained weight? Should you fire the lab tech when your blood test reveals your cholesterol numbers have gone up? Should you go down to the post office and demand your mail carrier be relieved of their duties immediately when bad news arrives in your mailbox?

Trump doesn’t like the story being told by the lagging indicators and instead of acknowledging them and working to positively impact the leading indicators, he shoots the messenger.

Perhaps he can get someone in place who will only publish good news. But moves like this certainly make it hard to trust.

All of this nonsense is why I remain a member of the exhausted middle.

Could come in handy. Found this via Chris Martin’s The Funnies newsletter.

Currently reading: The AI-Driven Leader by Geoff Woods 📚

From a user experience perspective, it would be really helpful to tell me what the limit is rather than making me guess.

What is the expectation here? That I should enter in a bunch of different amounts until I eventually figure out what the limit is?