I see a lot of people on teleconferences these COVID-19 days that don’t make 
much of an effort to look professional on camera.   Bad lighting, sloppy 
clothes, uncombed hair, poor camera angle, poor attention, etc.   With some 
chroma-key software and a green wall one can look professional even in modest 
circumstances.    It is a good time to get into tech because interviews are all 
online..  $90K is called living in your car in the bay area.

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2020 6:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SavantX in SFe



On 9/12/20 6:41 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
I saw a job listing from them which led me to a SF New Mexican article.  The 
latter said they were seeking to hire over 100 professionals at an average 
salary of $90K.

I'm too old.
And I am "unemployable"... on several dimensions.

But I *am* interested in the tech ecology of the region and in this age of 
COVID imagine *some* people who previously strongly preferred the in-person 
networking of living in urban concentrations might well return to their roots.. 
 And there are many more options for telework (to solve the common two-body 
problem).

We already have enough draws for (usually wealthy) people to move here from the 
coasts or TX and distort the demographic and politic, so I'm not excited about 
accidentally becoming more of a *mecca* for high tech, but good jobs for folks 
with roots here is always welcome.  And FriAM might even attract some younger 
blood if there is a larger pool?   I don't know our general demographic, but 
I'd say an age-indexed frequency weighted average is probably near or above my 
63.  Our "youngsters" here are for the most part in their 50s?    At least Cody 
provides some sqew away from that!

I'm also interested in the possibility that perspectives such as are presented 
in books like Blackfoot 
Physics<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110248.Blackfoot_Physics> might 
have some traction, and the long-shot chance that one of my young Tewa 
neighbors, for example,  might grow up and revolutionize this domain through 
hybridization of their own cosmological perspectives and those that lead to our 
current quantum technology.

Glen dismisses many things as "quantum woo" and I myself find that a great deal 
of the "newage" (rhymes with sewage) perspective (and whatever passes for 
neo-newage) is quantum/laser/hologram/crystal/vibration-woo, but have a hard 
time dismissing it all out of hand (as does Glen I suspect).

- Steve
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