When someone tells you their business is generating "seven figures," it's totally fair to ask between which figures the decimal point appears.

I read a lot of complaints on LinkedIn and elsewhere about how silly the job-seeking process is: Filling in three different forms with the same info, general lack of transparency about salary/benefits, etc. I'm interested to read the explanation of WHY it needs to be like that. Who's defending this?

The 1980s Missouri teenager in me is screaming, “Schools are closed for THIS?” Winter storm, Carolina-style.

“The problem is complex,” says only developed country in the world that hasn’t solved it. The US is to health care what I was to my 9th-grade algebra class.

And not a minute too soon.

How did this poster get hold of a picture of my desk from 2001?

Adjust your eyes to the twilight A career, and the times that change it

some Sunday night metaphors: futureelder.substack.com/p/adjust-you...

Attn @malleycat.bsky.social

One of these artists is not like the others. #SpotifyWrapped #music

To our readers: Make supporting local news part of your Giving Tuesday plans - Springfield Daily Citizen On this Giving Tuesday and as you review your year-end giving plans, I hope you will consider supporting your local, independent online news outlet: the Springfield Daily Citizen.

The folks at @sgfcitizen.bsky.social are doing some really, really good work, work that is worthy of your support. sgfcitizen.org/springfield-... #GivingTuesday

Hicks: Are we really going to argue about Confederate monuments again? Look away! Look away! Heritage groups are fighting to re-install a historical marker to Robert E. Lee in front of a Charleston school. The Civil War general didn't cotton to such.

Good read here from the Post and Courier’s Brian Hicks. Nut graf: “First, and I say this with no small amount of envy, some people simply don’t have enough to do. “ www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Kant, Thomas Paine, all those guys were basically “influencers,” right?

Ultimately, this is the way. And it still does not necessarily preclude the idea of offering premium content at a cost. But the danger of keeping vital information paywalled while letting venal misinformation roam free is now incredibly evident.

#media #nonprofit

Ask the Org - Tap into the Poker Community's Collective Wisdom A Q&A platform to share unique insights and quality answers. Ask and explore poker knowledge from authoritative experts and passionate contributors.

If you like poker, I know a cool place online where smart people are talking about nothing but poker. Worth checking out: www.poker.org/ask-the-org/...

Any chance we could start calling it the Affordable Care Act and stop calling it Obamacare? Just asking.

Been a year since my dad died. Youngest kid came over for dinner tonight, and we got to comparing genetic quirks (she’s left-handed, can’t roll her tongue and hates cilantro). It gave me an opening to talk about family and re-tell some of the good stories. Very therapeutic. #family

I’ve been keeping my drafts in @notion.com for all my social posts — helps me keep track of what I’ve posted where, and bonus — I no longer accidentally post or post something unedited. Has really helped me slow down a bit and think before I post, too

Kathleen Turner and Brad Pitt were the vanguard. Y’all never suspected a thing and now EVERYBODY wants Andy’s Frozen Custard.

You’re ALL stuck at the stoplight at Glenstone and Sunshine now.

How a $6 Bass Pro Shops Hat Became a Fashion Trend You don’t need to fish to wear this hat, in fact many of its fans have never touched a fishing pole. “You can throw it on with anything.”

(Paywalled, but the WSJ story to which I referred: www.wsj.com/articles/bas... )

Acting Teacher - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

youtu.be/Wow9jcwsfrg?...

This SNL skit from last night name-checks my hometown’s O’Reilly Auto Parts. Between this, Chappell Roan, and that story a couple years ago in WSJ about Bass Pro trucker hats becoming a celeb fashion accessory, the Springfieldification of America is now complete.

Sad. For 2,300 people, they could play at McDonald Arena and put a super-nice (and probably fairly lucrative) parking deck on the Great Southern Bank Arena site.

Bears outlast Tulsa in triple-overtime thriller - Springfield Daily Citizen When Dez White splashed home a 3-pointer with 4½ minutes remaining, it seemed a knock-out punch for Missouri State against Tulsa.

My takeaway from this story of what appears to have been a great game between a couple of pretty good mid-major hoops teams: The attendance. 2,364?? @lscranton.bsky.social that’s a Weiser Gym crowd. Where is everybody?

sgfcitizen.org/springfield-...

Good tip for veteran journalists too.