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> I'll think back to the conversation, realize I don't actually think or believe what I said I can absolutely relate to this, it was a very common occurrence for me when I felt pre…

The problem is that there is a “yes” policy, a sort of social pressure that you must say something. The opposite “no” policy is also not something to aspire to. Both are artificial…

It’s a good word of caution and to be clear I’m not suggesting intentionally going mute. The paradox I mentioned is that not rushing to fill the silence actually allows conversatio…

I’ve been on several silent retreats now and one of the most surprising discoveries was just how much speaking is unnecessary. Without the pressure to speak amongst others, it beca…

Ah wow of course, I think you just made something click for me. It's strange how we take interest on cash as a law of nature, when the original intention might have been nothing mo…

> While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. That this is seen as a problem tells you everything about business today. It has …

It's not at all caused by the train company hiking their fees while neglecting maintenance to increase profit margins to railway shareholders

Paraphrasing Nate Hagens, at the end of the day the modern economy just turns megalitres of oil into microlitres of dopamine

Haha this is excellent, I believe you’ve just invented a new genre - Garbage Collector fanfiction. I have no idea how reading this people would jump to the conclusion that you have…

Would you be willing to share it again here? I love reading these personal things - especially the things that people publish in spite of being told they're crazy. In my experience…

> the alternative is too grim The problem is, reality doesn't care whether you think it's grim or not. I think the environmentalism movement faces this - it's easier to believe tha…

From the title I thought this was gonna be about software (like MacOS updater) giving users an “Update now” and “Maybe later” option but no “don’t show this again”. I’m still holdi…

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I can totally relate, funny enough I find myself drifting back to really appreciating old school interfaces and pixel fonts lately. I've been enjoying using the old IBM DOS font [1…

She just didn't see the point in them, she enjoyed a simple life, grew up with little but had a full life and didn't see the need for more. She would ask me as a kid "you've been p…

Unfortunately there are plenty of highly legible metrics that make the world a worse place ("engagement" might be among the worst)

> The scary part now is people denying its happening right in front of them. I wonder if age is a factor. Those of us who have been around for a while have seen all the promises an…

Same here, picked it up a week ago and haven’t touched git again. Probably my favourite thing that has really changed my workflow is being able to write empty commits in advance th…

The second environment I was describing fits what you’re describing more than “yak shaving idealists”. We were working on control systems for large industry that had to work reliab…

> they’re often put to work making the boxes more blue or sitting in meetings with PMs for hours Haha, this is exactly my experience. I'll never forget the best candidate I ever in…

I've worked in two different types of environments - one where what you said is absolutely true (most of my jobs), and another where it's not true and the quote holds up. The diffe…

My hypothesis: we are social creatures and have an innate instinct not to hurt others, but we’ve been trained to various degrees (through upbringing/trauma/school/work) to disassoc…

I tend to agree, I’ve been thinking a lot over the years that this is the way we get out of this mess - lots and lots of smaller independently owned forums that splinter off onto s…

I’ve been using the offline version of Options+ that somebody recommended me a while back, it removes AI and auto updating and has done the job for me. It’s kind of hidden on their…

From an article [1]: We can build out discreet systems of brain cells and use them for the purpose we want. They're not going to have traits like consciousness, and we're able to t…