Pam

Smart, sometimes. Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks

[Pam @thesobertomato]

A particularly tough day.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

The incompetence of wedding vendors is infuriating. And they have the audacity to charge price premiums.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

If the boss gives feedback on the deliverable during a meeting when your screen is shared, and you do the edits live (instead of taking feedback notes) and you are done by the end of the meeting = ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I have saved myself a few hours of pain.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

The GenZ folks in the office have gone to Siargao/LaUnion for Labor Day, and here I was in bed battling the start of the flu with endless naps.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Felt the need to rant about apartment renovations today. The most immediate calendar meeting is the boss 1:1. So here we are talking about exactly that on a Friday afternoon.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

This adulting is exhausting. Please stop the ride I would like to hop off now.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

Any amount of intelligence can be overridden by ego, insecurity, immorality, bad incentives, or impatience, usually in that order.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Like the Christmas holidays, half of the city is now on its way to the airport to vacation in Japan.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

@HomoArchipelago Shall we throw another at 10 years?

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Fitness and diet philosophy - do not do anything you cannot do indefinitely. It’s working. We keep going.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

On Sunday nights, there is time allocated to send reels to the same set of people to grumble about Mondays.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

At Facebook, I coined a term called Filipino Product Market-Fit:
Every year a product manager would observe their new product getting intense adoption in the Phillipines and proclaim their idea was working. Directors would quickly staff the team and alert their VPs of the newfound discovery—only to find out that the pattern was not reproducible in other countries.
The Philipines has one of the highest time-spent online in the world and they will try literally anything for a few days.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Owns too many handbags. But always wanting one more.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

New coffee shops are taking much longer to take your order. Is this deliberate to pace the barista? Or just slow service?

[Pam @thesobertomato]

More like: Rich parent bankrolls their child’s startup attempt which loses money every month.

[Stephen Olmon @stephenolmon]

A hilarious reality: Rich spouses bankroll their partner’s pet project which loses money every month

We’re mainly talking clothing, kids, and pet-related boutiques in expensive retail areas with high median income

You walk in, quickly walk out, and ask “how do they stay in business?”

ANSWER: They *aren’t making money. Someone cash flows the losses.

If the check clears, landlords (typically) don’t mind.

I was visiting a friend in a major city last fall and we walked through an area with multiple stores just like this.

He said “Most of these lose money every month..it’s a hobby or passion project and someone else is paying for it all to let them have something to do.”

A good reminder that not everyone is playing the same game

In related news, my kids clothing store opens next week - each article of clothing has a dad joke I personally came up with

[Pam @thesobertomato]

My mid 30s are a set of chats all talking about who woke up with a headache / upset tummy / other suboptimal symptom.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Youth is truly wasted on the young. At that point where I get what it means.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

Wise client words: Sometimes you’re lucky, sometimes you’re actually good.

[Pam @thesobertomato]

When at a sold out arena with tickets in the five digits, you realize that’s a lot of rich people in the Philippines.