Tbh bulk beans and basic spices cut my chili cost in half after that same mistake.

Hold up though, I gotta push back a little. I've bought those cheap fine-tip packs before and some of them work great for doodling or quick notes where bleedthrough doesn't matter. The trick is to use them in cheap notebooks with thin paper, then you're just asking for trouble. I keep a separate cheap sketch pad for testing out new pens before I trust them in my journal. Your Pilot G2 is bulletproof though, no argument there.

Man it's just a TV show, not that deep.

you can tell so much from how someone acts when theyre not on a screen" - that part hits hard. Ive had too many zoom calls where people are clearly multitasking or just waiting to talk instead of actually listening. In person you get the real vibe, the pauses, the body language, all that stuff you just cant fake. I dont care how good your camera setup is, nothing beats sitting across from someone for a real conversation. People forget that business is still about people at the end of the day.

Oh boy, that line hit me right in the gut. I spent years thinking my resume was just a boring list of tasks I did, like a grocery receipt nobody wants to read. Then I realized my best stories are the ones where I embarrass myself, like the time I accidentally emailed the whole company about a party I wasn't invited to. Once I started framing that mishap as a lesson in paying attention to details, suddenly my coworkers wanted to hear more. It's funny how a little vulnerability can make a career sound real instead of like a robot wrote it. That Phoenix guy really knew what he was talking about.