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I'm glad to hear how well this worked for your cousin! I don't eat breakfast often enough. I specifically wanted to touch on the cycle of trauma & ADHD that's discussed in the arti…

I really disliked The Body Keeps the Score. But at the same time, I think it's probably useful for people who have been traumatized to make sense of their experiences. I also think…

what happened to employees at companies that were broken up in the past? do they generally just leave to competitors?

Seconding this - I loved 155, 255, and 251 from Professor Boneh. He's very talented and was one of my favorite instructors for multiple years; great at explaining concepts.

Autosell is a way for employees to automatically sell their Google shares as soon as they vest

I got lucky in that I joined early enough to get an annual raise + performance evaluation while being under a year in. This is a pretty standard offer at meta/google in NYC or the …

1 yoe, ~200k big tech in the bay area. 40-45 hrs a week, more around deadlines

I can definitely agree. I used to be very skeptical about how fun or healing volunteering could be. I started volunteering at an animal shelter and beyond being incredibly relaxing…

I completely stopped using the app after his choice to elevate blue check replies instead of relevant ones. The app genuinely made me angry and it felt like my curation was pointle…

Most people are not willing to move away from all of their family, friends, and career. Software engineers are uniquely privileged in that we can work remotely, many, many other ca…

Experiencing adverse childhood experiences is correlated with increased risk of diabetes, heart attack, and lower perception of overall health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art…

Many of my peers do not code in their free time and have done very well in their internships and now in their full-time jobs. I have periods of my life where I don't code at all in…

On days I don't work from home, I try to always use the bathroom at the office instead of at home because the bidet makes it so much nicer. It's a small thing but it makes me feel …

Anecdotally I definitely agree with you -- I'm Gen Z and most of my SWE friends from outside of work have very similar perspectives. Don't think anybody actually cares about their …

I think this is a big part of why I believed 6 in 10 to such a massive number -- I grew up in southern California and then moved to the Bay, and it feels like most people I knew ei…

From the context of a black person in the US who grew up and went to school in a majority Asian (70%+) area: My understanding is that many first-generation Asian immigrants in the …

He hasn't played in over a year it seems: https://www.op.gg/summoners/jp/TSMFTX%20SBF is his account and https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1407924282865246215?ref_s... has evidenc…

Do you have any information about the size of the layoff / when it will be? I'm a new grad who started two months ago and is very anxious about this.