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My $0.02: "You are complicating this" is an accusation of the recipient. In my opinion, offering the alternative you see as simpler can make the dialogue more productive, e.g., hav…

Unfortunately, I found that Hide My Email complicates unsubscribing. I tried unsubscribing from Jumba Juice many times unsuccessfully, only to realize that the email that I entered…

The conversation starter needs to be chosen carefully though. If it's a question about a project, it may be easily construed as dissatisfaction on the progress of the project, when…

Sorry I just noticed your question when I'm browsing through my comments. I haven't used note-taking apps extensively, I use Google Docs to write things done (not exactly 'note-tak…

Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, by Richard Courant and Fritz John. This book clearly explained many of the motivating examples of the concepts in Calculus, which was importa…

This book broke down a hard and mysterious topic (operating systems) for a new CS student like me into everyday analogies, which almost eradicated my fear of the subject matter. It…

Nice! Some observations: * Good job integrating with WeChat, which significantly lowers the inertia of note-taking for many Chinese users. * Google Keep is similar but it doesn't h…

I remember I read in HN somewhere that, people _want_ to feel useful in code reviews and one way is to leave comments. So one strategy is to send stuff out early with some small im…

I'm of the opinion that happiness shouldn't be a goal of my life, for different reasons. Perhaps I don't fully understand the word "happiness", but I've always considered it to be …

My experience with the book and its patterns has been that there's an issue and some developers recognize that it could be best resolved with x, y, or z pattern. Then the developer…

Seriously, I feel you should write a blog post about this types of reporting strategies that describe the work that are both accurate and palatable to management (and perhaps most …

I think I'm in a similar situation and try to find out how to cope with it. The strategy I'm thinking about is - realizing what's happening (as you have articulated wonderfully), a…

> with no motivation to do anything Do you have some sort of goal in mind? I guess if you're asking this question, probably not? Then set some, just for the heck of it. Last year, …

Thanks for this sharing this article! Much of it is really about alternative framing to take away the moral connotation of particular actions, which is I believe is helpful for sel…

I've had very similar thoughts and feelings - before wfh started, some people in my cube would always say good morning etc when they arrive, and I started panicking that I didn't s…