Pure coconut oil is one of the things that actually make my lips more flaky. I feel it might help in hot and dry climates but not so much in cold climates.
I've had someone in a team implement feature engineering using tsfresh. It lead to a malignantly under-performing, complicated heap of spaghetti that was a nightmare to get into production. Weird API, slow code, little added value over simple features found in a day of manual exploration.
Person doing the implementation wasn't a rock star coder so we couldn't fix the performance and complexity issues in time; it was left it out of the releas. Maybe with more expertise, tsfresh can add value. The experience was pretty off-putting for me, all in all. Maybe others have different experiences?
I've tried it a number of times, and had a similar experience. The whole stack is orders of magnitudes slower to compute compared to "simple" features (i.e. rolling averages), without showing real predictive improvements.
Actually, I had a similar off-putting experience with tsfresh. I just thought it was due to me not understanding how to use it properly. The API is indeed pretty weird.
I'd recommend avoiding it. Its a rather harmful book about some guy's ramblings, ignorance, and religious beliefs. Its the same book that states that Hitler started WW2 because he could not start on a new canvas, as well as the book stating that mental-heath disorders were made up by marketing companies to sell you stuff. I really dont know how you could recommend this for self-help.
Alcohol also helps a ton with foreign language speaking. Are there any parties at work or events where you could have a drink or two? The confidence boost and positive speaking experience could have some carryover to sober work life. Other than that, give it time, push through until you don't care anymore, you will get there.
With that title you spoke my mind and coincidentally I am of similar age. Maybe the internet didn't change so much, maybe you just got tired of it? Ultimately, I think doing things is more fulfilling than being on the internet so it might be actually a healthy reaction that you become depressed.
I think the cutting off that you experience is also caused by the audio lag in Zoom meetings.
What somewhat works is to start your sentence with a "So... " (or something similar). That way you can easily pull back if the other one was not finished and on the other hand you gently signal your desire to say something to others.
