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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Money machine goes rrrrriiiiiippppp

JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If you are managing a team, and are not in 2003, and need to ask for an email summary of what each person did last week, then there is a significant problem and it’s not with the employees.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NASA is an acronym, because we pronounce it “NASA” FBI is an initialism because we pronounce it “F.B.I.”

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

An acronym is something that uses the first letters as a word that is pronounced. An initialism is something that uses the first letters as something that’s said using each letter.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Watched the new Bob Dylan biopic with some friends tonight and the topic came up of who is our generation’s Dylan The (surprising to me) consensus was Sufjan Stevens

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The whole process took about three hours, and entirely consisted of giving paper printouts - of documents that they already had in digital form - to the agency that had already issued them to me.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

They charged me a small fee, but I had exactly what I needed now, and went back into complete my application with the government agency, which accepted it quickly and everything was completed.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I’ve walked in and explained the situation to them, and they said yes, of course - then handed me a printout of the front of the card of every foreigner work permit.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

So I had to find a shop that could print it for me. I left and after walking around for a little while, I found a shop that advertised printing government documents for foreigners.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

But because I didn’t have a printout of the front of the card (again, exactly the same as every card in the country - and a card that was issued by the same government department that was requesting it) my application was rejected

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The front of the card (again, that they issued to me) is generic - it is EXACTLY the same for every work permit card in China, with exactly the same text Think of it like the front cover of a passport that is exactly the same for everyone (pictured for reference)

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The back of the card (a little plastic card the size of a credit card) has all of my information - picture, name, date of issue, etc.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I arrived and gave them the paper printout of the card (again the one they issued to me) They rejected my application because I had only given them the scanned copy of the back of the card…

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The document they needed was: A paper printout of the scanned copy of the card (that they had issued me)

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I recently renewed my work permit here Then received a call from the government social insurance department that I need to go, in person, to give them an update about that same work permit - issued by the same government…

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

China has a reputation of having a big data surveillance system with an overarching system of monitoring everyone in the country But here’s how I spent my afternoon in Shanghai:

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Shanghai Snapshot - deliveries come in from trucks, and are sorted into piles and left on the sidewalk, probably thousands on this block ready for the final delivery I imaging in other counties these would be ripe for looting, but not here

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Shanghai Friendship Store, 353 Nanjing Road, c.1958-1960 (Shanghai Municipal Library)

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

They usually come out around Christmas because of subliminal messaging - Ballad of a Thin Man is a remake of You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch. You can’t miss that kind of IP stack and all the A-Listers want to be involved…

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I remember giving a training to lawyers a decade ago that included Styles in Word, Slide Masters in PowerPoint, and Macros in Excel… It was like they saw a magic trick - something incomprehensible that they desperately wanted but didn’t seem possible

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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/12/2024

China's Communist Party must ‘turn the knife inward’ to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials and those who corrupt them reut.rs/3VC5oMv

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China's Xi calls on party to 'turn knife inward' to end corruption

China's Communist Party must "turn the knife inward" to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials and those who corrupt them.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

That reflects what I’ve been seeing with law firms in China - although it seems like a lot of the switch is because of market forces where transnational M&A projects have significantly decreased, leading to lower demand for foreign lawyers

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Christian Petersen-Clausen @memostothefuture.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Breakfast with the Asia boss of a large advertising agency: "20 years ago we employed more than 300 foreigners in China. Now it's three and I'm one of them." They have more than a thousand employees in China.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

An (incomplete) list of actors who played Bob Dylan in movies: Timothee Chalamet Richard Gere Christian Bale Heath Ledger Hayden Christensen Cate Blanchett Ben Wishaw Is there any other person who has been played by so many A listers?

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That’s sad to see, a real staple in Shanghai

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good call, looks like it’s blocked now

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bluesky now appears to be blocked in China

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Images and videos don’t load in China but all of the text does

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tonight at dinner with a friend here in Shanghai they asked me about Bluesky and then told me that the uptick was from China - because it’s the only big outside (of China) social media not blocked in China and so normal Chinese people can access it. Interesting to see how long that will last…

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A key reason I joined BlueSky is because of how criminally under-appreciated this post was on Twitter; that was the moment I thought - there must be a better place…

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One of the biggest lies of my undergraduate education was preparing to use the phrase “false dichotomy” in most of my everyday conversations

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here because of @mmasnick.bsky.social and his great interview with Ed Zitron about the mission and system setup at @bsky.app podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/06/2024 · 54m

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