> People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.
this is funny because I met many software developers who did not have a, let's call it "Unix hacker background", who only ever used Git through an IDE. Now sometimes when they need to log into some system and use the commandline they are lost because they are neither familiar with a shell environment (readline and stuff) nor the Git commands.
I guess you can work that way but that's not for me, because I want to understand stuff. Of course I also use an IDE but I don't rely on it.
As someone who recently retired early, you really need to have a solid game plan on what you want to do with all the time you have. Spend a solid 3-6 months planning and mocking your post retirement days while still working.
The more detailed the plan the better. If you want to go to the gym, what will you do there and for how long and how many days a week?
If you want to have a tech side project, how many hours do you plan on spending on this project? And be reasonable. Don't trade one burnout over another.
If you are planning to learn something new, what are those? and don't just learn one thing. 8 hours plus is a crazy amount of time.
One of those plan should include making new friends post retirement, revolving around activities that are not work related.
It is far too easy to lose track of time without a brand new schedule to fill the void.
Even if it wasn't necessary for their survival, it's hard to imagine a world where they wouldn't try to do it anyways. I'm not someone who buys into the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else, but I do think that in the absence of other factors (e.g. regulation) it's where pretty much every company will end up.
"the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else"
!! That is literally the definition of legally-binding fiduciary resonsibility for publicly-traded corporations. There are exceptions (PBCs, B-Corps) but they're rare.
This is a completely stupid take and I have no idea why so many people repeat it. This responsibility just means you have to have to document your work understandably and have a somewhat sensible reason for decisions. It does not at all force you to greed.
Yeah, I thought Cook would stay on until the end of the Trump-admin in order to keep ‘swallowing the dead rats’ so that the next CEO would have a clean plate.
Midterms Nov, so it’s all about to be over - either trump heads towards impeachment, America doubles down on its descent, or democracy ends. Either way, not point hanging around after that. If he’s impeached there’s a fresh start. If he does well, then this regime isn’t going anywhere for the long term. If the elections aren’t free then better get used to it.
This is surely a good thing. The only thing better than this is to build a tall multi purpose structure on that same land AND THEN put solar panels on top of that structure.
People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission. Some cars even drive itself.
People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.
People used to write asm by hand. Transport Tycoon was written in assembly. But these days that would be insane.
Technological progress is an absolute thing. It produces too much convenience and wealth to ignore.
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