Free-Write
I had a bunch of stuff written, but ended up scrapping it after a commercial completely upset my line of thinking.
I need to do a better job of risk assessment. There’s been a few major instances where I’ve made mistakes.
Unfortunately, I don’t think a couple of those had any upside, really.
Professionally, I made sacrifices to keep the lights on.
With better understanding of the intricacies of health insurance, some of the bad things I experienced I probably would do differently.
You get really messed over if you don’t have “employer-sponsored” health care. Even if you hav eto do things out-of-network, all hte money you’d pay for COBRA is pre-tax.
When you get your cafeteria menu, I’d say pass up as much that isn’t going to be expensive.
I don’t really know, and I don’t know that I have the paperwork, still, to redo the analysis.
I had the thought back then that you needed to make sure you only used “in-network” providers.
No, no you don’t.
Even if your provider is out-of-network, but you like him/her, stick around. You’re gonna take a hit until you’re reimbursed by the insurer, but you’ll stick with the providers(s) with whom you’re comfortable.
I do need to learn to not fall into going forward. I think I was relying on the oh-so-sage advice of people who’ve bought a lot of letters behind their names to advance in human resources.
What else? Um, spinning into football, considering it’s Sunday morning.
I have no idea with college, still. But I always like seeing Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin lose.
The NFL, who knows. Sounds like the Jets have given up on Aaron Rodgers. And their coaches.
The Saints seem to have woken back up after the Dennis Allen disaster. Still don’t like the “West Coast” offense. Sofa King Boring.
Also following with mild interest the coming MSNBC fire sale. Rumors on the internets say that Don Jr. is pushing Elon Musk to buy it. I know Elon’s got the money to do it, but why? Sister Rachel took a pay cut for her half and hour a week, but why would you want to have anything to do with that disaster?
I’m reminded of Michael Dell’s dismissive take on Apple in the late-90s.
But there’s really no assets to liquidate and send back to the shareholder.
But is there anything there worth salvaging? is there something like NeXT you can combine with it to make something better? Rogan’s network? The Blaze?
Or you try to lose more money than Space Cowboy Bezos?
Time for some coffee.