Category: <span>Linked</span>

Your Gen-Z Employee Isn’t Fooled by Your Compliment Sandwich

By Jay Torres

David Yeager in the Wall Street Journal (Apple News link):

Alex was trapped by what’s known as the mentor’s dilemma: the fact that constructive criticism, which we hope will push young people to do better, can crush their confidence and sap their motivation. Leaders end up feeling like they are stuck between two bad choices: put up with poor performance (but be nice) or demand better (and be cruel). Both mentors and mentees often leave these interactions frustrated or offended.

I have never felt more seen.

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Looking back: Night of the Panther

By Jay Torres

Michael Steeber on his Substack newsletter:

Back in the days when software could be weighed and measured, the release of a new operating system was as big of a deal as any other hardware release. But let’s not forget: updates weren’t free. Mac OS X Panther, released on October 24, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., cost $129.

This was shortly after I left Apple Retail, but looking at the pictures from this era brings me back to that time.

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Kuya Lord Chef Lord Maynard Llera Wins James Beard Award for Best Chef: California

By Jay Torres

It’s so awesome to see Filipino food and Filipino chefs honored for their achievements.

Kuya Lord has received numerous accolades over the past two years, including landing on the Los Angeles Times’ 101 Best Restaurants and Bon Appétit’s 24 Best New Restaurants for 2023. As one of the highest-regarded restaurants in Los Angeles’s expansive Filipino dining scene, this award puts Kuya Lord on the national map alongside Chicago’s tasting menu restaurant Kasama and Seattle’s Musang.

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Obvious travel advice

By Jay Torres

I love lists. Some good tips on traveling.

30. Time seems to speed up as you get older. And you wonder—is it biological, or is it because life had more novelty when you were a child? Travel partly answers this question—with more novelty, time slows way down again.

31. My favorite part of of travel is the perspective it gives on “regular” life. Why do I live the way I do? Is the stuff I do for work what I want to be doing? Should I blog about a “topic” instead of whatever shiny object last caught my eye? These thoughts seem healthy but also… not particularly related to traveling? If you designed an experience to create this kind of perspective, what would that look like?

43. Travel reveals the value of stability, roots, routine, community, relationships, and cooking at home.

Number 43 is so true. After a few days away, nothing feels better than coming home.

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Vitsoe vs USM shelving

By Jay Torres

Fatih Arslan has a Vitsoe 606 set up and talks about the differences between Vitsoe and USM.

Someone asked this question on Twitter recently. Both are great brands with great products that have been used for decades. They are iconic and still used after so many years. This is a subjective comparison; obviously, they are very different regarding looks and usability. I have an extensive Vitsoe 606 setup but plan to extend certain places with USM. Some friends use USM, and I’ve seen them as well.

Come for the information, stay for the beautiful pictures.

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The Technium: 101 Additional Advices

By Jay Torres

Kevin Kelly with another list of great bits of advice.

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I had a whole book of bits. That book was published a year ago as Excellent Advice for Living, which many people tell me they read very slowly, just one bit per day. In a few days I will turn 73, so again on my birthday, I offer an additional set of 101 bits of advice I wished I had known earlier. None of these appear in the book; they are all new. If you enjoy these, or find they resonate with your own experience, there are 460 more bits in my Excellent Advice book, all neatly bound between hard covers, in a handy size, ready to gift to a person younger than yourself.

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