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Reddit Sans 3 years ago

Licensing costs. It’s cheaper to design your own typeface than to license others when a platform reaches a large scale.

As I work from home (and for myself), my experience in managing myself includes:

* Doing something productive before work. Usually, this is cooking a mildly-elaborate breakfast (kale & miso-onions, zucchini, English muffin w/ a slice of tomato & saurkraut, and scrambled eggs). Other times it’s going to yoga. The point is to do something that makes me feel like I’m making progress.

* Answer emails/texts and write down a task list for the day. Oftentimes this is the same as the day before, but the act of writing it out helps me psychologically solidify what I’m going to do for the day.

* Coffee. These days, I drink RYZE and really enjoy the elevated feelings (it def needs some honey and non-dairy creamer). Previously, I’ve been into single-origin coffees from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Honduras (can’t stand the stuff from Indonesia). It was a fun (if expensive) hobby for a while. The point here is to have a ritual.

* Ritalin.

The idea of taking the team out to an airbnb (or some other communal living arrangement) in the woods or by the beach for a week or two to launch a new major initiative 1-4 times a year seems like it could theoretically be an alternative, providing that human connection but not demanding an outdated office lifestyle.

This ^ sounds incredible.

if people take Ayahuasca in a non-Amazonian setting do they also get in touch with Pachamama and friends?

Yes. I've never participated in an ayahuasca ceremony outside of the US, and I was very intimately in touch with Pachamama.

Too, simply drinking the brew likely wouldn't be enough to trigger a mystical experience. An experienced shaman is crucial for allowing such an event to arise.

This is an excellent point. We hired an engineer at the startup I work at who had a lot of Java experience but very little Ruby experience—our stack's primary language.

He was a fast learner and had no issues getting up to speed in a reasonable amount of time.

I have previously used LastPass, 1Password, and RoboForms. Nowadays, I used Dashlane -- it's far-and-away the best password manager I've ever used. Both their Android client and Chrome extension have great UX.

Also, why do lightsabers that touch not pass through one another?

Oh, and this theory is an amazing thought experiment!