ericravenscraft
Eric Ravenscraft
ericravenscraft
Eric creates video essays as Lord Ravenscraft on YouTube. He's also a freelance writer with bylines in The Inventory, Wired, The New York Times, and a former Senior Writer for Lifehacker.

I define poor as the inability to take advantage of opportunity due to the lack of access to the resources needed to improve your situation. Read more

There’s also the problem of food deserts- that is, areas where getting inexpensive, nutritional food is basically impossible (generally this is urban areas with low incomes). Read more

Here’s a selection of Albert Burneko takes, in headline form (culled from non-NBA/Dad/food prep posts) Read more

I do temp work to supplement my freelance writing income, and there’s a lot of overlap between doing that successfully and interning/entry level. I’ve got a couple of clients who consistently call me back for more work because as one of them said “where can I find another one of you?” (nicest thing a supervisor ever Read more

And how long do you think they should freeze the price for? A year? Five years? Ten years? Forever? Do you really expect us to be paying $8.99/month for Netflix in 2030? Read more

Sometimes your phone will kill the app and while the chromecast keeps playing the video, your phone disconnects from the chromecast. It doesn’t happen to me too often, but definitely enough to annoy me. I’ll have to open up the netflix app, conncet to the chromecast and then finally pause it just to get it to stop. Read more

Apropos of nothing, here is the character sheet for Jesus the Nazarene, known to many as Jesus Christ:

Except there already is a Prime Video app, which is distributed through the Amazon App Store and not the Google Play Store. Chromecast support would not change anything there. Read more

I saw Craig Ferguson’s standup routine a few years back and he totally nailed the essence of this:

I suppose “shut up baby, I know it” isn’t a valid response?
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I’m more worried about the mass shootings, lack of renewable energy, unsustainable economic models, and global warming, personally. Read more

I agree with this. You need to spend a few minutes thinking about the person you’re delivering feedback to and tailor the message so that it can be best received by that person. You should always be honest, and part of being a good manager is understanding how to best deliver feedback so that your team members will Read more