Scot Herrick
@navigatingcorporate.com
Husband, ham radio operator, K9JY, Green Bay Packers fan. Former Cyber Security Program Manager, now happily retired.
Today's newsletter focuses on the ripple effects of DOGE and tariffs on workers. Workers are now at a much higher risk of losing their jobs.
DOGE Destruction Extends to the Private Sector
It's not just federal government employees
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March 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today's newsletter focuses on the ripple effects of DOGE and tariffs on workers. Workers are now at a much higher risk of losing their jobs.
Today's newsletter focuses on what Federal workers can do when dealing with the DOGE cuts.
Dealing with DOGE
How to keep your sanity amid the chaos
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March 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today's newsletter focuses on what Federal workers can do when dealing with the DOGE cuts.
FAFO
The End of North America
Trump pulls the trigger on tariffs
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January 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
FAFO
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Oh, but you see they only want the elections they LOST overturned on technicalities.
January 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oh, but you see they only want the elections they LOST overturned on technicalities.
Reposted by Scot Herrick
Why The GOP Debacle Is Like Pro Wrestling ->The GOP chaos on the Hill isn’t about policy disputes or even strictly ideological differences. That makes covering which version of which bill contains which provisions a bit of a fool’s errand.
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Why The GOP Debacle On The Hill Is Like Pro Wrestling
The only arm-twisting going on is the kind you see in pro wrestling, which is probably the best parallel for what the GOP’s performative politics amounts to.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Why The GOP Debacle Is Like Pro Wrestling ->The GOP chaos on the Hill isn’t about policy disputes or even strictly ideological differences. That makes covering which version of which bill contains which provisions a bit of a fool’s errand.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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If you see your role as the minority party as constantly working to save the majority party from itself and its stupidity, you are ensuring you will remain the minority party by bolstering the illusion that the majority can competently govern.
December 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
If you see your role as the minority party as constantly working to save the majority party from itself and its stupidity, you are ensuring you will remain the minority party by bolstering the illusion that the majority can competently govern.
"Instead of starting your goal-setting process today, the visualization starts today and then takes you through the rest of winter, spring, and fall, finally ending on December 31st, 2025.
Once there, the question becomes: Looking back over the year 2025, what is true today, December 31st, 2025?"
Once there, the question becomes: Looking back over the year 2025, what is true today, December 31st, 2025?"
It is December 31st, 2025. How did you do?
Visualizing what is true a year from now
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December 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
"Instead of starting your goal-setting process today, the visualization starts today and then takes you through the rest of winter, spring, and fall, finally ending on December 31st, 2025.
Once there, the question becomes: Looking back over the year 2025, what is true today, December 31st, 2025?"
Once there, the question becomes: Looking back over the year 2025, what is true today, December 31st, 2025?"
"Even if you retire when planned, it’s easy to be anxious in this season of early retirement. If you think about when you were working, you had many things going for you - even if you didn’t like your job."
Caring for Your Emotional Needs After Retirement
A little certainty and a little anxiety around retirement
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December 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
"Even if you retire when planned, it’s easy to be anxious in this season of early retirement. If you think about when you were working, you had many things going for you - even if you didn’t like your job."
New at Retirement Ready LIfe
How did you do this past year?
https://open.substack.com/pub/scotherrick/p/the-importance-of-a-year-end-review?r=9yixq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How did you do this past year?
https://open.substack.com/pub/scotherrick/p/the-importance-of-a-year-end-review?r=9yixq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
December 9, 2024 at 4:16 PM
New at Retirement Ready LIfe
How did you do this past year?
https://open.substack.com/pub/scotherrick/p/the-importance-of-a-year-end-review?r=9yixq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How did you do this past year?
https://open.substack.com/pub/scotherrick/p/the-importance-of-a-year-end-review?r=9yixq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/scotherrick/p/in-retirement-time-is-different?r=9yixq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
New from Retirement Ready Life.
New from Retirement Ready Life.
In Retirement, Time is Different
In the first ‘vacation’ phase of retirement, one of the changes I noticed was that time lost meaning.
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December 2, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
This Thanksgiving, I'm happy
This is interesting—this is the first holiday since I retired, and I am happy. You'd think this would have been true earlier, but the past holidays this year were simply holidays—a day almost like oth...
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November 27, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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My new website (still getting distributed across the internet) is about all things retirement. My fifth article:
My new website (still getting distributed across the internet) is about all things retirement. My fifth article:
Use Thanksgiving to ask about retirement
Thanksgiving in the United States is one of the biggest travel holidays of the year. The reason? People go 'home' for the holidays, whether it is their childhood home to see parents or a common family...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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My new website (still getting distributed across the internet) is about all things retirement. My fifth article:
My new website (still getting distributed across the internet) is about all things retirement. My fifth article: