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I'm glad you cut back and realized that your health is more important. I haven't had a TV since I was in high school. I don't really play video games. It's the notion of "work" in …

Jobs are just one way of living. I feel like there are more efficient ways to implement prosperity. Or have less suffering keeping the level of prosperity the same. What is a job? …

Reminds me of a documentary called "Medicating Normal". Try being self-compassionate when you have unholy side effects of benzos, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics prescribed t…

Feels like we live in a society where self-compassion is not tolerated. How can we be kind to ourselves if there are mechanisms in society that keep us distracted from ourselves?

Keep Austin weird. If you don't like it, leave.

Big Pharma uses this heavily to bias research in academia for their marketing purposes. It used to be that academic research was rigorous and objective. An academic title had prest…

This heavily biases in favor of lone wolves in college. I was one myself. I'd say we are rare. Most people are social and learn by collaborating with others. It's the more natural …

Yes, this is what backlog grooming and sprint planning are for.

Agreed. How consensus is achieved varies. As an engineer, I am biased towards numbers because numbers are easy to compare. Use data to guide you on what the desired state is and ge…

State the basics about the person. It can often help to give context about who they are in the time they're in.

gRPC docs do need some tlc. Cloud providers providing support for gRPC also need to do better documenting their support for gRPC. AWS Application Load Balancer is advertised to wor…

Before you judge it, I implore you to ask whether your organization is actually doing Agile/Scrum correctly. I doubt most orgs are and I suspect most negative opinions come from do…

Yet somehow Pharma can prescribe drugs that affect the brain's functions. How do they get away with that knowing so little about the brain?

The obligatory Beej's suggestion: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/ .

To be fair, it is sometimes not our fault we are "condescending assholes". It's the environment we are in. It could be from management and/or HR not hiring for the right skillset, …

I wonder how well this idea translates to other engineering disciplines and if there is something about software that makes this idea easier. What kind of liability is there for en…

> Devs constantly hammered as not doing things quickly enough by the same people who don’t do actual work other than above checklists. I can relate to this. There's no one qualifie…

The decriminalization wave helped me find minds like Paul Stamets, Hamilton Morris, and Will Hall. Then I started asking more questions and found writers like Johan Harri, Michael …

A bird learning to fly flaps it's wings even though it can't fly. We don't call them imposters. Just keep learning.

Nope

Here are some of mine coming from a software engineering background: - Symptoms of bugs are treated, not the root cause. This one varies but there is a consistent lack of analysis …

So this must be why Bitcoin has no inflation.

Go is much easier to learn and get up and running compared to Rust in my experience. It's great for writing servers and multi-threaded applications. Rust can be used to optimize bu…

There's a growing industry of therapy clinics that are happy to continue charging patients for endless sessions. Some offer anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. However, repeated …

strict medical supervision is sometimes a terrifying experience. Set and setting matter but so does any drugs they are currently on. I would say that your experience is atypical.