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>The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done. Is there a skeleton crew to run grocery and fuel?
OP was talking about white-collar jobs, not service industry.
I'm 13 years into my career and I haven't taken more than 5 days off in a row. That's usually a family reunion. I think 4-8 weeks to recharge and reset would be helpful. What's the research say?
Wow thats depressing. I went to japan and took 14 days. I went to Iran and took 14 days. I went to canada and took 4 weeks. I went to Mexico and took 3 weeks. Don't you want to do things with your life? Experience them properly?
More to L-I-F-E than "I".
This is pretty cool! Your note about cycling power meters changing the way you perceive effort matches my experience as well. One other bit from my experience: I'm a runner and a cyclist, and I've always lusted after having cycling style data and prescribed workouts for my running. When Stryd launched I was all in, but... all it gave me was power numbers. It didn't have the tribal knowledge that came with my cycling…
Aye, author here. Pleased it's getting visibility ofc, but ABSOLUTELY not expecting to get traction this early. Please pardon the AI-generated placeholder images and some of the text at https://intensity.systems , I'm still very actively working on that.
I'm curious about the units -- watts doesn't really seem right. It seems like joules would make more sense, right?
So how does the power meter itself actually work? How do you know the output is accurate? How much power is lost from the measurement due to dampening? How do you know it will hold up to cycling in such an aggressive environment? That's kind of the interesting thing here, but there's no mention of it in the article.
Agreed. I was disappointed at the overall lack of engineering content in this piece. Lots of general talk about how there were issues and that they were overcome. But what? And how? I feel like most of the content could apply to almost any project.
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A sabbatical is half a year or a year in germany. NO one would ever say this nonsense of 'four week sabbatical'.
Sabbaticals, paid or not, seem to only be somewhat common in western Europe. I'm glad that you're able to able to experience this but recognize it's quite a privilege globally. It's not just the USA that has this "nonsense"
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Wow thats depressing. I went to japan and took 14 days. I went to Iran and took 14 days. I went to canada and took 4 weeks. I went to Mexico and took 3 weeks. Don't you want to do things with your life? Experience them properly?
I, I, I, I... More to L-I-F-E than "I".
And I brought it up to show the stark difference.
Did i heart your feelings? Are you also only working and calling that a living?
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Not bleak for most people. I've never worked anywhere that offers an earned chunk of time off like that (besides standard PTO days).
If by "most people" you mean "most Americans." That is pretty standard in Europe
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Minimum vacation days here in Germany are 20 with many companies offering 30 so the idea that you can't take of at least a couple of weeks for a vacation is just crazy to me. How do you travel and see the world like that?
> How do you travel and see the world like that? Wait until we're old enough to retire and then can maybe afford it.