> They wrote mega defensive and very boring code
How I love boring code, and I am getting more defensive. Good-sleep-oriented-programming.
For much of my career I took technical debt on myself because I felt uncomfortable giving generous time estimations with ample buffers. I am ashamed. But now I learn to push the breaks, ask for help and escalate unexpected problems as early as possible in the project. I don't need the trendiest tech on my resume as long as the team is happy and sleep well.
I feel like the important skill to learn is learning itself, and it becomes more and more pronounced.
I think the idea of learning and adjusting to each and every company you are about to apply can be intimidating at first. The world is changing fast. Skills and tools deprecate quickly – and it is getting even faster now. It only make sense the recruiter will pay more attention to core traits such as motivation, communication, creativity and ability to learn – vs technical knowledge which is still necessary but has less weight. So having an applicant learned about your company and demonstrating why this particular match could work, could hint about the traits aforementioned.
I like experimenting with different lifestyles to see how I feel. Most of the times there are too many variables to make conclusions. Anyway, I tried going vegetarian for few weeks, then introduced fish to diet and felt noticeably better. Then, I tried remove fish and take fish oil instead. Felt absolutely no benefits. At-least feeling wise. I repeated this experiment multiple times so I am sure it isn't coincidence
Or in other words: if you're affected, you don't mind.
(I'm not even joking. If you're researching a substance to use it for others, you definitely need it to control for placebo. But if you're doing it just for yourself, you only need it to work, no matter why. Another story is if it stops working)
Placebo is a baseline effect. It's a hurdle to clear to show efficacy above the minimum any substance can meet.
I've heard this argument before, i.e., placebo is an effect therefore why not, but I cannot understand why time and money would be committed to an activity or substance that is only as good as any other activity or substance.
Placebo should signal: move along, nothing to see here!
I can relate to the career anxiety aspect. The way I want to look at it is, if AI is smart enough to occupy creative jobs such as engineers, the world could be heaven. The "only" problem left is politics. Humans will spend the rest of their unoccupied time negotiating distribution of all resources produced by robots.
> Humans will spend the rest of their unoccupied time negotiating distribution of all resources produced by robots.
I can't see a reason for the dynamics to change from what we have now - those who own the means of production will hoard the new power and those who don't will find their slice of the pie become comparatively even smaller, just as with every increase in efficiency.
And those with power will blame the Other for society’s problems and convince enough of them through media propaganda to vote against their own self interest.
Indeed. But the feeling of well-being is not absolute, but relative to you socio-economic context. The average American is manitudes better off now than 200 years ago, in absolute terms. But are they just as many magnitudes more happy? No. Depending on study, happiness is significantly less.
It's not at all clear that maximizing absolute quality of life is the best ultimate goal.
For me, the solution to work-from-home loneliness (or even loneliness in general), would be having more local work spaces where you can meet other work-from-home peers from your local town.
Face-to-face interactions and sense of belonging are as important as sleep, exercise and nutrition.
But if it’s a random collection of people then you don’t really have a sense of belonging, unless there’s fixed people over the long term. Which is unlikely in a random work space. Certainly you don’t have a sense of shared work experience, or even people you can usefully talk trash about your bosses.
I am 34 and want to say to the 23 yo regretting their high-school/college years: Learn and reflect on your past but don't dwell too much, because there is a hell you can do now. By learning from your past, you turn it into gold.
Taken NMN 500g pill in morning for the first time last week, for 4 days. I felt physically and mentally very energized. My sleep length reduced to only couple of hours at night, so I stopped completely. First night after stopping was completely sleepless. Second night was solid and back to normal sleep pattern and energy.
In the last couple of years I felt like a party pooper when I brought global warming topic and its connection to consumption such as fossil fuel, meat, etc. My personal lifestyle is obviously insignificant no matter how low in CO2. But I still express my bad feeling about it and I hope more people make the same associations, if that what will permeate the issue up to top decision makers.
