Sean Abel

If you're going to sell my data, I want my cut.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Billionaires control nearly a third of all American wealth and pay a lower tax rate than pretty much everyone else

Pretty weird hearing politicians saying we can't afford stuff without including this minor detail

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Don't tell me the legal profession is so much more complex than the tech profession to earn a billing rate of 3-4x. Bullshit.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

@12tonevideos are you talking about a performance? a song they wrote? an arrangement they have done? or a mix? or a master? these are all different things.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

I think there are way more lazy freeloaders at the top of the economic pyramid than at the bottom.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #42: Being forced to choose between was better for someone else's company and my personal compensation and/or health. Again and again and again and again.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #21: Those hundreds of business trips that chewed in to my personal time that I was never compensated for.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #7: That time I spent 10 days in New Jersey doing a data migration for Bristol Meyers-Squibb and there were no decent vegetarian meal options the entire trip.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career Lowlight #22: That time in 1997 where I had to take 6 trips to SV (Palo Alto, Mountain View) but then had to take a 7th because I had no time on any of those trips to visit with my friend who lived there.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #53: Every conversation I have ever had about realistic compensation in an environment where I held <51% of all shares.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #5: Last Thursday where I had a stress attack during a google hangout call and had to go lie down.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #4: When I was 27 and was so stressed out I developed acid reflex and thought I was having a heart attack and was on meds for a year.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #74: Last week where I worked 58.25 hours for no fucking good reason.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight number #3: 2007-2014 where my average daily commute was 2.75 hours.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #2: That time in 1997 or 1998 where I spent 18 hours in a data centre in Milwaukee trying to get a massive data migration completed.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Career lowlight #1: That time in 1999 I worked ~110 hours in a single week to (fail) deliver a custom ColdFusion ecommerce sight with ERP integration on deadline.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

Everyone talks about career highlights on their resumes and on Linkedin. I have been thinking about "lowlights" recently.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

@mcmuffinsinger @its_adamneely danke schon (sp?)

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

I think 2 bad things happened to music production in the '80's. 1) a bunch of new tech that sounds bad now 2) cocaine. Lots of cocaine.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

@nikitharai_ To fuck around is human. To find out, divine.

[Sean Abel @Sean_Abel]

@justinbaragona Modern Republicans lie, lie some more, and then double down on the lying. I think it's because the "ultra-wealthy are important and do good in the world" false narrative is collapsing (finally).