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Programming is NOT meditative even the old way. Yes you can get into a flow state but that's not really meditation. In fact you're really just disassociating in a way and is easy t…

Yesss. I will never buy anything Meta so happy to see this.

I'm sorry but I just find this slightly ridiculous. Create a 'frictionless' environment as much as you want but it is never going to make you write. If you want to write then just …

This is how LiveJournal was back in the day. I have some really fond memories of people just honestly writing about their life. It seemed more pure and less performative. Then of c…

No. A properly trained therapist essentially holds space so you can find yourself. That's not something you want to burden a friend with. It's a common misconception that it is jus…

You don't go to a therapist to learn cognitive knowledge. You go to heal your way of relating with others. It's not easy and can only be done in the messy complicated emotional wor…

Struggling to reconcile this is cool with what about the insane energy/water costs. Are we supposed to stick our heads in the sand? Hope it will magically go away?

I've experienced this and I think it's due to skills matrix bingo. You're a junior engineer and to become a senior engineer all you need to do is make a line in the skills matrix. …

We need more third spaces beyond the gym or things based around alcohol. I like the idea of members clubs where people have similar values/interests and you can go there and chat t…

Makes sense. Thanks for sharing your setup. Sounds great.

You work for Canonical but use NixOS? Isn't that er a bit weird?

I don't know much about the project but as an outsider it all just seems totally insane! People writing letters with screenshots of actions really? Liking a post becomes the equiva…

Very interesting.

What's the advantage of this? Can't you use a modern paint program? What am I missing? Is it just coolness factor?

A lot of it simply comes down to management being butt hurt because they signed up for a 20 year lease on office space in Expensive City. That said, I think more focus should be on…

Then the PM comes and asks you to change the wood used on the back of the chest of drawers because they have some brain fart.

I would suggest all this stuff will arise organically if you just hire the right people and give them some good principles of what good looks like. Like actually train people in le…

Fuck Scrum. How many devs are saying this privately how much they hate scrum but have a work persona where they have to love it? It's so fucking toxic. It's just focus on doing a g…

It's not so much time, it's more cognitive load. In scrum teams, it feels like you're always talking about the future. I think it just builds on the anxiety many people have frankl…

Of course it's in SF cos the people there don't spend enough time on computers already.

Great post. Us engineer types I would say are generally too conscious. That is we prioritise the cognitive left-brain side waaaaayy too much.

Me me me. Other people exist apart from you!

I love working from home as much as everyone else here (seemingly) but I don't think people are fully appreciating how damaging not talking to people in meat space is likely to be …

You might find changing your external circumstances doesn't change very much. You might finding the frustration is still there. It could even by the source of frustration is somewh…

I mean have you considered you don't get to be Bruce Lee without being a bit er crazy?