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Several managers where I work say they are having trouble filling positions because as soon as the candidates hear it isn’t a completely remote work job they bail on the interview. Those who think that they can fight this are in for a rude awakening in the next few years. As someone said above, workers have had a taste of work-life balance and they aren’t going back to the old grind if they can help it.

I resisted buying a 12.9” iPad Pro because I was worried that it would be too big and lose the portability and convenience factor that I like. However last year I finally decided to switch to the larger size and I’m glad that I did. The biggest advantage to the larger screen size is multitasking is finally practical. And it turns out that the larger size was nothing to fear as it is still very portable; in fact, I can’t imagine now how I used to get by with the smaller sized tablet.

I manage an app for the company I work for. When I took over the app it had been around about 4 years and only had about 30 ratings, with the average in the low threes. I oversaw a major overhaul of the app that launched in 2018 and I hoped that the improvements would cause users (roughly 20K active users/month) to leave more reviews (hopefully positive). Instead we only got a handful of new reviews. Then in 2019 I had our vendor add a review prompt. Within 24 hours we had hundreds of reviews. In a few months we had over 5,000. Average star rating was 4.7.

There is nothing shady about adding a review prompt. When I did it, I had no idea if it would 1) work, or 2) increase or decrease the rating. In fact I was taking a gamble because those thousands of new reviews could have been negative. And unless we are accusing Apple of doing something shady behind the scenes, they were also taking a gamble and in this case won.

My wife’s iPad Mini 4 was long overdue for replacement, so we got this model as soon as it was available. She is very happy with it.

I remember when Apple used titanium in the PowerBook G4, or as people called it, the “TiBook”. I remember I was excited to buy it, but it flexed badly and scratched easily. If you held the laptop by one end, it would actually bend because the metal was so flexible. I also heard that its thermal properties were not great. When Apple went to anodized aluminum for its laptops I thought it was a huge improvement over the titanium models.