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Free-Write<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a bunch of stuff written, but ended up scrapping it after a commercial completely upset my line of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to do a better job of risk assessment. There’s been a few major instances where I’ve made mistakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I don’t think a couple of those had any upside, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professionally, I made sacrifices to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With better understanding of the intricacies of health insurance, some of the bad things I experienced I probably would do differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you get your cafeteria menu, I’d say pass up as much that isn’t going to be expensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t really know, and I don’t know that I have the paperwork, still, to redo the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the thought back then that you needed to make sure you only used “in-network” providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, no you don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What else? Um, spinning into football, considering it’s Sunday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea with college, still. But I always like seeing Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFL, who knows. Sounds like the Jets have given up on Aaron Rodgers. And their coaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Saints seem to have woken back up after the Dennis Allen disaster. Still don’t like the “West Coast” offense. Sofa King Boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m reminded of Michael Dell’s dismissive take on Apple in the late-90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s really no assets to liquidate and send back to the shareholder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you try to lose more money than Space Cowboy Bezos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time for some coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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