Yet another reason to steer far clear of anything Meta.

Their own.

It's been slowly getting better though. Nowadays they have a working search function, pasting works most of the time, and it's much harder to break the input area. Took them several years, but for pretty much all of 2023 it has been an acceptable chat software

I don't think it is unique to CA, I've never heard it any other way in other parts of the southwest.

Makes sense to me, I hear the definite article prefix far more often in SoCal than NorCal/SF Bay.

Back in IL nobody did this, at least not when I lived there over a decade ago.

Illinois is weird in this regard. In Chicago most of the big freeways have names as well as highway numbers that are used with articles in spoken language far more often, even on the TV news. So it’s “The Kennedy, the Ryan, the Edens, the Ike” instead of say “I-94” or “94”.

A notable exception is Lake Shore Drive (US Highway 41) which everyone just calls “Lakeshore” in conversation with no article.

That's true about the named highways near Chicago.

I grew up out in the west suburbs, everyone just said "88" "53" "59" "355" "i80" etc.

I've lived here (Chicagoland) since 1965 and most often called LSD as well as "Outer Drive".

Everyone I talk to calls it LSD.

I’ve lived here nearly 50 years, and even had a Lake Shore Drive address for a few years. LSD isn’t very common at all in my experience. Cabbies in particular all say “Lakeshore” or “Should I take Lakeshore?”. Same with traffic reports on WBBM etc. Everyone who lived in my building said “<numbers> Lakeshore” when asked where they lived.

The economy of two syllables instead of three wins I guess.

Seems like a very niche market - I think they may have increased their supply a little too much.

I'm sure there are some cases where Airbnb is a good solution. I've never really understood where a hotel isn't a much easier option for most. Plus many HOAs have banned short term leases like Airbnb.

For me, I almost always pick Airbnb. Basically because it is more interesting. I like meeting locals, I like to experience a different house or apartment or whatever. Hotels are uniformly boring and staffed by, well, boring people.

I've stayed in quite a few shit hotels. I don't think I've ever really stayed in a shit Airbnb, and I'm usually going for the budget options.

Hotels do a terrible job of catering to families. If you need more than one room, there's no way of telling if the rooms are joined, on the same floor, or if you an get two rooms with an adjoining door.

For us, it’s a combo of having a kitchen and being pet-friendly. Plus having a bit more living space if we’re staying a few days.

I hate HOAs so I'd prefer the city just zone them out of existence. It's ridiculous to live in a neighborhood and have to deal with hotel behavior.

How? You need a legal entity that manages the property and all the governance, financial, and operational issues that go with that.

Healthy for everything else though

A turning point for the better? It certainly doesn't seem like it.

DNT has always seemed pointless to me, you really don't know if they are even abiding by it.

I'm still mystified why companies hire a firm like McKinsey - they have no actual experience, but are telling people with experience what they should do.

For example, they advise executives to do what they already want to do (layoffs and increased executive compensation) and thus justify that decision (blame outsourcing).

A more generous take: when a business or project is stagnating due to bad management and communication, almost any advice that leads to change improves the situation. Especially when the situation is such due to some "principal actor" type issues, introducing more actors with different inscentives can rebalance things in the short term.

The most common one is that leadership wants to make a change but some people won't like it so it's easier to have a consulting firm work out the details, make the recommendation and then leave. Even when the outcome is predetermined, the details still matter, and McKinsey adds credibility.

Also, you can obtain more information about what your competitors are doing in that area, not like illegal levels of information, just, more than you have without them.

Make no mistake, these are all valuable services that large companies will pay a lot of money for.

The obvious point of comparison is security consultants. A security consultant knows a lot less about your product than your engineers do, but that's precisely why they're helpful - they bring an outside, generalist perspective that isn't bogged down by all the arguments you've accreted over the years about why X component has to be structured in Y way and there's no need for a security boundary around Z.

Probably because management can CYA by claiming to have done due diligence to their higher ups. "Well, we consulted McKinsey and took their advice, so if they got it wrong, then the industry is getting it wrong."

(These are the same guys that tell countries with successful agricultural sectors to embrace corporate farming. Cui bono?)

I had a manager once who reminded me that “no one ever got fired for following McKinsey’s advice”

For certain problems, it will be people having looked at the same problem many times/speaking to industry leaders frequently, the junior people drawing slides etc. are not why you'd hire them.

Don't forget "intel on if/how your competitors have solved them"

McKinsey's product is McKinsey services.

Imagine all the effort that goes into marketing, networking, and greasing the wheels of business that goes into selling this and you'll more readily appreciate why McKinsey keeps appearing in spots they have no business being involved in. Their product isn't a good or sound outcome, it's paying the fee to be able to append "McKinsey said..." onto a decision.

Same reason kings hired bishops.

It's not mentioned in the article, but I'm curious if they have the same plans for Marcus.