u/FlamingHyabusa

Hi all,

How are you using AI? How have you heard of others using AI? What is actually making a difference in your practice?

For background, I'm an independent at Osaic. I am relatively tech-savvy; I have used AI to create/complete some pretty incredible things outside of my professional work. I am struggling mightily to find real use cases as it pertains to my practice.

Automated notetaker, lead list generator, email editor, calendar automation, CRM data entry; Sure, those are all neat and save some time, but they are not exactly practice-altering advances. I understand that our regulatory overhang naturally limits the accessibility/usefulness of this technology, but I strongly feel there are more use cases out there than I currently know of.

Thanks.

Hi all,

I recently moved all of my qualified accounts to custom model portfolios. Ten different models, same holdings, different allocations (100%/0%, 90%/10%, 80%/20% etc.) I'm managing it through Envestnet and couldn't be happier with the simplicity and time savings.

I keep reading/hearing about model portfolios for taxable accounts. I don't understand how people are utilizing this. Most of my clients have accounts that are 20+ years old.  Absolutely massive unrealized gains built in - impossible to transition.

The approach of the "tax-sensitive" third-party managed models is generally just to realize the gains over a few years…

I guess I can see how models might be used for brand-new taxable accounts, but even then, you lose precise control over tax-loss harvesting.

How are people out there doing this?! What am I missing?

Hi all,

I'm interested in joining Open Squash at the FIDI location in NYC. I have a few questions.

Some background: I am a 28M. I'm in great shape and was a college athlete. I'm good at platform tennis and pickleball, solid in tennis. I played a bit of casual squash in college, and am now looking to take it more seriously and play consistently. Based on the US Squash rating criteria, I'd guess I'm around a 3.0/3.5 rating.

Questions for the general squash community:

Are lessons worth it to begin with? I just want to get out there and play - I'm not necessarily too caught up on increasing my rating at this point.

What is a good racket for me to buy?

Are protective glasses generally recommended? I've only taken one shot to the eye in all my squash matches - that hurt like hell, but I think it was more unlucky than a common occurrence?

Questions specific to Open Squash NYC:

How is the experience? Worth it? Too crowded? Facilities nice?

I don't know anyone who belongs here. Will it be easy to play with strangers? Is there some sort of intramural system?

Will I struggle finding people to play with at my rating? I've read that many members are former college players.

Any other advice or opinions are welcome! Thank you!

Hi all,

I'm looking for a bedrock add-on that removes the monotony of lectern placing/destroying to get the desired enchantments.

I am struggling to find an add-on that can do this without totally altering the vanilla-ish mechanics of villagers/enchantments. I tried the "Villager ++ Add on" - not at all what I was looking for.

Any ideas?