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Not a therapist, but would probably switch my life with yours in a second. I am the same age as you, in tech in a third world country and working two jobs and eighty hours a week t…

Wondrium/The Great Courses has a number of good quality courses on Anthropology taught by renowned professors from the US. I have a subscription and a passing interest in anthropol…

The last time i checked India wasnt strictly an adjoining region of Afghanistan.

In my experience a better question would have been. "Have you worked hard on something that DID pay off???" Most of the things that we work hard on never pay off except in terms of…

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I am working as an architect with about 17+ years of experience and i feel the same. However it would still be prudent to practice as mentioned in one of the comments. Things seem …

Synching up is a challenge. I am remotely managing a team of mostly young, inexperienced but highly motivated individuals at a very early stage startup. I have to spend a lot of ti…

Are you able to understand and translate the content and context of client requirements? Are you able to translate your understanding of client requirements into software and datab…

How do you ensure that your organization retains crucial knowledge of project/product requirements in the face of employee turnover?

If you want a broad overview of how RDBMS work under the hood, "Designing Data Intensive Applications", would be a good conceptual start. This could be followed by database interna…

I go for a short walk at the end of every hour. I have found my fitbit pretty useful in reminding me to do at least 250 steps every hour. The number might be small but i usually en…

What about time to learn? I am one of those older average devs stuck in small scale design and development tasks that start to feel like a burden when you are on the wrong side of …

Data Model Resource book by Len Silverstone. Would advise to read and understand all three volumes though.

Neat idea. Taking join requests?

Gerald Weinberg wrote a lot on this topic from various perspectives. Maybe you will find some of his books helpful.

Sane words. However sometimes life pressures like building a nest egg for a family while advancing in age and having to support them through a tough (non US) economy, with few jobs…

My mileage, with emphasis on the 'Handling'. The practices that I am outlining have allowed me to function at an acceptable level however, they are not a cure for depression. Medit…

Jerry was a gem. Every one of his books is worth its weight in gold.

For production code well, If (p then q) = (NOT p or q)

Consider acting as a complement to another already established vendor in the target market. Do they have a weakness in their offering that you can help patch? Are there features yo…

Having reached the stage where you are able to distinguish between opinion and fact, i would suggest reading a bit of philosophy. You might find it illuminating and interesting in …

Look into books by Gerald Weinberg and Steve McConell. Both have served as great mentors for me in the mentioned areas.

Take a look at Apache Merton's architecture. They seem to have dealt with a number of inherent issues in the problem putting together data processing pipelines of open source compo…