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I had the same experience and feeling.

I've also experienced this elsewhere. TIAA was essentially sending me marketing emails I couldn't unsubscribe from. My financial manager with sympathetic and communicated my frustration to the business, but I don't believe it lead to any changes. As a result I have marked my emails from TIAA as spam, which now means email is not a reliable source of information from them, and so I unsubscribed from all email communication and instead receive paper mail. Sad.

I can name others using this pattern. Very frustrating. It's a lot of work to sever these relationships. I guess they know this and so think they can get away with it.

I recently came across the idea of Universal Basic Capital (UBC): "granting every person a meaningful ownership stake in productive assets from birth." UBC would be enormously difficult to implement, as well as have its own weaknesses. It doesn't seem realistic, but introduces a new idea into the conversation.

https://www.digitalistpapers.com/vol2/autorthompson#:~:text=...

Using the Gemini CLI the first thing I tried to do was "Create GEMINI.md files to customize your interactions with Gemini." The command ran for about a minute before receiving a too many requests error.

You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits.

Discouraging

"Inspired by recent cellular neurobiological evidence linking neocortical pyramidal cells to distinct mental states, this work shows how models (e.g., transformers) can emulate high-level perceptual processing and awake thought (imagination) states to pre-select relevant information before applying attention."

"This model works by pre-selecting relevant information and identifying the most salient parts of it before applying its full attention to it."

There's a link for Linux at the bottom of the download page, which directs to the releases in GitHub

This question came up on Soft Skills Engineering[1]. To cut through the noise it's more important to have a blog or a project you contribute to which you can point to. And then yes, whiteboard type of questions which unfortunately are not reflective of day to day work.

[1] https://softskills.audio/2025/02/03/episode-446-wading-throu...

I can't help but wonder whether the problem is subjective, to each person and what they need to accomplish at the time. What is cognitive load and indirection to one at one time is a simple abstraction to another at another time.

And so I wonder if a solution to this is for editors to be able to represent the code differently, depending on what the person's needs are at the time.

One of my favorite pieces I've read. I keep revisiting it throughout the years. I feel it deserves to be shared again. It is perhaps even more moving and relevant today.

I also looked into this topic for several years due to my insomnia issues. Ultimately it took forming a new relationship with sleep for me. To let go. Easier said than done. An online CBT-I class helped me make this shift. I later read the book Hello Sleep [1]. It shared information similar to what I learned on my journey. I recommend the book.

1: https://drjadewu.com/

I was a paying user to both Standard Notes and Proton. I, however, moved away from Standard Notes and my subscription renewed without notice. I contacted them and they reversed the transaction without hassle. I continue to pay for Proton. Depending on how the products are incorporated I can see myself moving back to Standard Notes.

Good to know. I'd like to learn about the process you had set up and the number of moving pieces it required. Have you written about this process? Can I read about it somewhere?

When we focus on our differences does that lead us to feeling lonely? Is that a reason for the trend in depression? If so does it mean we need a more balanced view, one that also reveals to us what we have in common with others?

I struggled with the same. I tried all sorts of practices, "sleep hygiene", supplements and devices. What I eventually learned is that frequently what's need is changing your relationship with sleep. I couldn't find a CBT-I[1] psychologist in my area. So I ended up taking the sleepio.com[2] coaching class as a trial candidate. It walked me through the steps of CBT-I and got my sleep back on track. The recent book Hello Sleep[3] by Dr Jade Wu also does a good job re-framing your perspective on sleep and walking your through CBT-I. You do need to commit to the CBT-I process. It could take several months to complete and one of the initial sleeps often leads to sleep deprivation, so it may feel worse before getting better. But after following the process my sleep improved dramatically. I still keep in mind what I learned when I have the occasional bad night of sleep.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy_f...

2: https://onboarding.sleepio.com/sleepio/onboarding-sleep-test...

3: https://drjadewu.com/

I've never successfully established a journaling habit. I'm giving it another try with your app. Maybe if I don't have the motivation to write I'll at least take a photo to keep the habit going. I really like the discreet mood. Having the Gap Fund is impressive. Well done. Good luck!

The personality archetype practice is intriguing. That will be fun to experiment with. Thanks for sharing.

That sounds similar to the idea of 1 Second Everyday, https://1se.co/

I found the same thing when I went to renew my US passport on state.gov

The following desktop browsers are supported on this site: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari (macOS only).

Thank you. I'd love to get that much sleep but if I push my sleep quantity up my sleep quality goes down. And so at this point I feel I need to readjust what my sleep quantity expectations are and accept that.

I've heard about when waking up going through your bedtime routine again. I haven't given that a chance, out of concerns that it will wake me up further, but that's something to try.

I thankfully have never really had issues falling asleep. And I almost always get 4 hours of sleep before waking these days. But that's when my mind starts wondering if I'll get back to sleep. I've heard the advice to get up if you don't fall back asleep but from the times I've tried I don't get a second sleep. Instead if I continue to lay in bed I have a descent chance of getting some additional light sleep. I haven't tried instrumental music but my concern is that I'll start tracking the songs having been played and not being any closer to sleep, that's at least what I end up doing with similar solutions.

That's what I remember normal sleep being. On most days falling asleep quickly and being out all night. But I think I forget there were many days that was not the case. I believe age is part of the reason for me too.

Thank you for replying. How often do you have a poor night of sleep? Do you ever wake up before it's time to get up and just lay in bed until it's time to get up?

Thank you for sharing. I've tried body scanning a few times but I found my mind turns it into a timer, "I'm almost through my body scan and I not any closer to sleep." Mine only lasted 15-20 minutes. The negative thought patterns is what CBT helped me with.

I believe if I collect enough information the best decision will stand out. Yet rarely is this the case. I continue to rehash the same thoughts, think there's information I'm overlooking and so continue to search. But the yield from doing so continues to diminish. Then I read the following from the book On Being Certain:

Without a circuit breaker, indecision and inaction would rule the day. What is needed is a mental switch that stops infinite ruminations and calms our fears of missing an unknown superior alternative. Such a switch can't be a thought or we would be back at the same problem. The simplest solution would be a sensation that feels like a thought but isn't subject to thought's perpetual self-questioning. The constellation of mental states that constitutes the feeling of knowing is a marvelous adaptation that solves a very real metaphysical dilemma of how to reach a conclusion. [0]

This clicked to me. I try to think my way to a decision. But what I really need is a feeling.

[0] https://www.rburton.com/_i_on_being_certain_i___believing_yo...

After listening to episode 321 of The Azure Podcast[0] my understanding was that Azure DevOps would eventually be phased out; question begins at ~10:30 and at about ~12:00 a rough timeline of 5 years was given with guidance to select GitHub if just starting out.

0: http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net/post/Episode-321-GitHub

This is the one that best fits my needs as well. I've been using it for a few years. About every year I look around to see if there's anything better, but I keep coming back to it. It's not perfect, but it does the job, most of the time.

At my workplace we are given a template, which is primarily status reports. Since it is supposed to be my meeting I proposed allowing me to use my own discussion items. This was agreed to. We have meetings once a month. I jot down thoughts when they occur during the month and then discuss them in the meeting. Discussion items include:

- What am I excited about

- Where do I want to go/grow in my position/career

- Any clarifications need to be made

- Any problems or frustrations

I rarely look forward to these meetings, but I usually find them helpful. A lot of items get discussed which never would have been, which is of great benefit to me, the department and management.

It seems to me I had similar concerns when I switched. In particular copy, cut and paste. I ended up using the CUA standard versions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access#Descript.... Although looking back I think the awkwardness had more to do with muscle memory than anything else. I also was concerned when switching to vim. The purpose of using the motion keys h, j, k and l was defeated. I recall there being a dvorak layout for vim but I never switched to it. On the other hand, some of the other commands became much more convenient. Looking back I don't think it has been a big issue. What shortcuts in particular are you concerned with? You could always remap shortcuts using AutoHotKey or some other means. But I'd give muscle memory some time to build up first, unless there are some shortcuts you have found to be extremely inconvenient.