Excellent advice. Time invested in cultivating your relationships and network is invaluable for generating opportunities. If people have a good experience working with you and understand what you are capable of, they will bring opportunities to your door throughout your career.
I have ex-coworker friends I've gotten regular drinks/meals with for close to 20 years now. Our average tenure at any shop meanwhile is 5 years. Who cares what company name is on the door.
You wouldn't catch me dead at any sort of company sponsored drinks/social thing.
I would also observe that some of the people most slavishly "living the brand", reposting stuff on LinkedIn, joining all the work social groups, etc.. were some of the first to get whacked in the last few rounds of layoffs at the old shop.
Which way does the causality go is a good question, but their time would probably have been better spent on having an organic network of people in the industry they genuinely enjoy the company of.
Thank you for taking the time to write this article. I was disturbed about the shutdown of Darksky because I really loved the features of that app and reading your article took me on a nice walk down memory lane. Raising the discussion here has been not only been cathartic in that I now know I have a lot of company for my thoughts, but has also provided some alternatives to try to recapture the experience. I'm not a big fan of Apple Weather and at least now I have some options to explore.
This. I thought I had allergies that stuffed up my nose and sinuses my entire life. Then I started tracking my water intake, drinking the proper amount, and boom, my entire head cleared up. I'm so mad at myself for not realizing this decades ago.
The aliens must have picked up CSPAN from the Oumuamua probe, translated the proceedings of US congress, and confirmed the absence of intelligence in the system.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever I'm in a rut I just recall this quote and force myself to take a first step in a different direction. A lot of change is momentum based. You just have to start moving.
I have to back out of my driveway in a 2021 Ford Explorer on a fairly busy street. I am typically very cautious because there are parked cars along the street obstructing visibility and you have to be real careful backing out. Even with this heightened caution level, one time I missed a small, gray car that happened to be perfectly obstructed by the rear left pillar as I elected to back out. The "collision avoidance autobraking" kicked on and definitely saved an accident. I may get false positives now and then, but that one instance of a saved accident makes up for all the random quirks as the manufacturers work to improve these systems. I'm a believer.
In my car, there are physical buttons on the steering wheel. A left and right button with a scroll wheel in between on each side. Those buttons change context depending on what you're doing. Left side is usually audio controls and the right side does a few different things but I mostly use it for adjusting the adaptive cruise control. I find no other need for buttons all over the place. Climate is set to auto, most everything else used for driving is on the stalks. I don't understand this great need for lots of buttons. Just have a few useful physical buttons and controls.
I can tell you that I own an R1T, and it's awesome. It fits a nice niche in the vehicle landscape right now. Parameters:
- I do not want to buy another ICE vehicle
- I want a vehicle with robust offroad capability
- I want a vehicle with excellent performance in terms of acceleration and ride
- I want a vehicle with premium interior fit and finish
- I do not want a full size truck
- I'm not particularly price sensitive
When you look at the competition at the 100k price point, it hits a nice sweet spot for those constraints. I think there is a significant market there to address. Telsa's cybertruck might be interesting but the Rivian is far closer to traditional styling and imho, looks and drives great. There is a lot to like there if they can scale their company and the product is certainly worth 100k. I would buy it again.
You hit on my first thought. There are numerous legitimate user experience cases where keystroke by keystroke or field by field processing is beneficial. Autocomplete for address data is one I see commonly used. Saving a partially filled out form field by field in the event a user becomes disconnected and would like to complete it later is another. From a security perspective, I know of numerous tools that examine the speed and cadence of the act of typing to discern between bot entry in a field versus human entry. There is also software like FullStory that records everything client side, including mouse movement, so companies can determine exactly how people are interacting with their sites in an effort to improve the UX. And from a tinfoil hat perspective, if a user is interacting with a webpage, they should assume everything they are doing on that page is subject to observation by the page author. If the researchers were surprised by this, I fear it's from inexperience.
Even if it is beneficial, the user might still want to disable it. (Possibly a option in the browser for manual/auto calculate; if manual, then events are disabled until you push submit or recalculate. This might improve speed, too. Another thing that might be useful may be ARIA mode (which can also have other advantages, although other things are needed too anyways).)
Saving a partially filled form is something that should be a feature in the browser, you can do "File > Save Form Data" (and then specify the file name) and "File > Recall Form Data".
I generally disable JavaScripts. Sometimes the web page will still be displayed if CSS is also disabled (and sometimes I want to disable CSS anyways), and sometimes links to original data, etc can be found if you view the source.
