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One thing AI should eliminate is the "proof of work" reports. Sometimes the long report is not meant to be read, but used as proof somebody has thoroughly thought through various t…

(This is a total digression, so apologies) My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明( https://en.wik…

Has there been any progress or effort on solving the underlying problem? I'm not entirely sure why AI knowledge must be close to a year old, and clearly this is a problem developer…

I've always wondered why we don't make student loans similar to other loans; IE, dischargeable in bankruptcy, and thus force lenders to evaluate credit risk when making them. That …

SoFi offers 4.00%, and vanguards prime MMFA is 4.64% 64 basis points isn't nothing, but I think that qualifies at close - and I didn't go digging, those were just the first two tha…

There are many situations, especially as a middle manager, where you are incentivized to play organizational games more than actually deliver. We (I'm a middle manager myself) Aren…

This is a really good article on the subject. I like the 6 factor model. It's really easy to see hours as the only real problem. But they really aren't. Another article I read talk…

Yeah, in 1918 the sort of car centric sprawl that is ubiquitous now would be unheard of. It's doubtful that removing school would have removed social interaction the same way it do…

It smells like privilege. That isn't to say that the OP was protected regardless. But the mindset that lets you do this is a mindset that comes from a background of abundance. Wher…

Figure out what motivates you and what drains you. Do you feel drowsy every day regardless of what's going on, whether it's a work day or the weekend? Do specific things or tasks t…

I can't speak to being a CEO - I'm just a middle manager - but a lot of this, especially the loneliness, resonated with me. Did I choose management? Yes. Do I have a choice to stop…

Can't upvote this enough. I think the origin of "Staff, Senior Staff, Principal" came from an attempt to create an IC track. You've been around a while, and you can execute stuff w…

Me, my friends, coworkers, etc, are all broadly on the same side of this political situation. I do feel bad the things that are happening. However, there are many people who I can'…

I'm definitely feeling closer to burnout than at any previous point in my life. Since COVID started I've slowly been losing myself into workaholism. It feels like there is nothing …

To be clear this isn't lines of code. Nobody is that bad. Somewhat hilariously my boss was looking at number of commits. His complaint was that there were weeks when I made no comm…

I am financially comfortable (though not at 'fuck you money'), but also, personally, really want to be an EM. My passion has been people, process, and management for a decade or mo…

This is another big part of the problem. While at my current company management is a separate track on paper, many still view it as a promotion (including my lead). But if that's n…

Engineering Manager / Individual Contributor.

(*: For clarity - EM = Engineering Manager, IC = Individual Contributor) I recently transferred to a team with an explicit intent for me to be an EM on that team. A few months down…

As a lifetime weather nerd - I think if you could smooth the trend there would be a trend towards worse hurricanes, but there's huge variations from storm to storm and season to se…

Junior-senior pair programming is different from managing one report, though the line is quite blurry. When I had a solo report it felt much more like a junior-senior pairing than …

The post talks about Google supposedly persecuting LGBTQ employees for speaking up. But the linked articles only talk about them (possibly) getting retaliated against for protestin…

Was surprised when I visited NYC to see California stamps on products my friend had. I assumed another friend had brought them from California, but it totally makes sense that it's…

What's the difference between NMN vs NR? I take NR and they're chemically similar and I thought both are sold as anti-aging?

Not only is HGH regulated, it even is specifically addressed under law (in the US) that lead some to believe that even prescribing it off-label it is illegal. See: https://en.wikip…