I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
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Re: I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
#2Charpy would like a word.
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#3I could see this becoming a tiebreaker or ranking device for lumberjack competitions.
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#4Now I have Peter Gabriel in my head.
Re: I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
#5I'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?
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#6Is anyone else bothered that this was run through an LLM before publication? The tone is a distraction for me.
Re: I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
#7I'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?
Wish I could do that too. But sabbatical is usually reserved for the elite engineers in elite firms.
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#8I'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?
Wish I could do that too. But sabbatical is usually reserved for the elite engineers in elite firms.
"After five years at Shopify, employees get a paid month off to do whatever the hell they want. I took mine in April 2026. Thanks Tobi!"
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#9Is anyone else bothered that this was run through an LLM before publication? The tone is a distraction for me.
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#10Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical.
> a paid month off
that's not a sabbatical anyway, is it? i thought this was 6-12 months, not one?
https://intensity.systems/ is currently unstyled.
Post also has some LLM sniffs, so I'm unsure how much of the content is true.