[FRIAM] SavantX in SFe

[Marcus Daniels]

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 <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2020 6:09 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
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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