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Exposure therapy over years. I don’t think I’m done, so I’d say I’m still at it. But not how you think. I was fortunate to have a major career change thrust upon me.. it was too go…

I feel the same. My theory is that I’ve learned from my past mistakes of being a shut-in due to social anxiety, which led me to spiral downward when things inevitably went wrong in…

Running a server means installing, configuring, and maintaining an OS and stack of software. Spotify running a server in the background isn’t what Moxie means.

I spent a lot of time working on myself, first. For me, that looked like understanding past trauma, and then doing the work: meditation, journaling, fixing diet and exercise, sleep…

I find it funny that the comments here split across: “I have no doubt that life emerged from an RNA first world” and “I have no doubt that life emerged from a metabolism first worl…

I don’t understand why “pre-made sandwiches” are a common occurrence. Occasionally necessary, sure. On an average day, if I don’t have 5-10 minutes to wait for a freshly made sandw…

My wife is a bonafide small business owner. She runs an interior design business as sole proprietor with a handful 1099 contractors on staff to help with errands and junior design …

My reply is probably too late, but I'll post anyway for people referencing this later. My own journey over the last 20 years has been a slow migration from a technical contributor …

Enterprise software sales has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, largely due to the shift to SaaS and the shifting strategy from land big to land fast. If you look around t…

Every strong engineering team needs someone with real security chops.. not just someone who can fix SQLi after it's been pointed out, but someone who gets security at the infrastru…

I haven't tried Very Old Barton... but I will. Based on your comments here, we may like some of the same whiskies. I'll add a few to the list: Four Roses Small Batch 90 Blantons 93…

The challenge is to provide more value than the alternative. Enterprise SaaS works where it makes sense, and it doesn't where it doesn't.

What about adding additional tags or attributes so we can filter by length of time, date published (vs date submitted to your site), publisher (npr, radiotopia, etc), guests (i.e.,…

Yep, agreed. It's probably a lot of work to build these relationships up front. It's probably easier to allow the user to make their own relationships. In other words, when I searc…

I actually use these sites (mostly Yummly, but I always try new ones), and I have a comment that applies to all of them. It has to do with the variability of the underlying data. D…