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If you use an iPhone, explore the “Hacker Feed” app, which gives you this exact feature

I love the Friends reference behind both product names. I also have been using Obsidian for this (and before that, any generic note taking software).

To me this sort of software is really powerful if you have the time to constantly tend to it. I wish I had this built into my mind.

This looks like an interesting premise, but it's super sketch web design to ask for an email address with absolutely no explanation of how your service works.

Even if I was totally willing to give my email address to you - I'd still really like more of an explanation on how your service works before I invest any time into using it.

You could probably get a lot more positive feedback on this service by adding an explanation on how it works at a high level and what I am to expect by using it.

The author has definitely read “Ultralearning”; I highly recommend this to anyone interested in this sort of topic on metalearning.

My primary goal now is to be able to spend as much time with my loved ones as possible, because that is time that has no price. And when I say "time", I don't just mean passively sitting there with them; I mean actually 100% mentally engaged and enjoying their company and presence.

I used to think in my early 20s that if I worked really hard and lived that SV grind lifestyle, that I would magically make a lot of money and life would be easy.

In fact, what ended up happening was reality - I lost a loved one midway through my 20s, and it altered my perception of just what is actually important vs. what is noise.

Now I just want to make sure I spend just enough time to keep doing well at work, and use everything else in the tank for the really important things.

I’m sorry but I very much disagree. Each hop netted me much better work-life balance and much higher pay, and actually broadened my horizons and whag I bring to the table because I have experienced a wide array of corporate cultures and team styles.

What DOESN’T do wonders for your career is thinking/hoping/praying that sticking it out at a subpar company year after year will magically bring you those same benefits, if it’s not already happening and you’ve already asked politely for it to be resolved.

I’m hoping all of these pent up “forced” WFH complainers can go back into an office, personally.

One of the biggest stressors in my working life is that all of that time spent in an office with coworkers is time NOT spent with my “actual” family that I live and breathe for. All the time wasted commuting, all the energy Ive lost trying to fit into extroverted work cultures only to return to my family drained and unable to appreciate them - Ive regained that by being enabled to work from home.

Once people who cleary dont appreciate WFH can go back into their physical office spaces and get back to socializing as a first priority, there will be more opportunities for people lile me who genuinely appreciate WFH to be had.

I wish this was the top comment. 1000%

I’m not necessarily disagreeing, but have you ever been to the open air mall in Waikiki, Hawaii? It’s pretty great

No, you are absolutely right. It is extremely naive to think actors/celebrities (whose million dollar movie contracts, photo endorsements and ad placements, and other visual body marketing media, depend on their physical appearance being top 1%) are doing this without drugs.

Your observation about Hugh Jackman is on point. If you need more evidence, look at the difference between The Rock (a pro wrestler and admitted user) between 1993-2003 vs. now. In 2021, he’s at least 20 years older, and yet his latest action movie appearances have him at a lower body fat, and higher muscle mass % per height than when he was 20 years younger? Come on, that’s not how biology works.

If you go to any serious website or forum where actual steroid users converse, none of this is shocking news. Drugs make for fast body transformations, and the results revert back to natural limits once you stop the drugs (useful for an actor preparing for a movie/show/appearance, who then does not care about that look once it’s finished).

It might be more liberating if the success narrative in the US focused on relative success instead of “absolute” success. But afaik and have seen in my life thus far, the people everyone knows, worships, or revered for their <INSERT_ACCOMPLISHMENT> are 95% of the time the absolute best (sports star, movie star, fortune 50 CEO, bigwig politician, superstar dev, most well known doctor, most fancy medical practice in the US/world, etc)

I came here to respond to your #1 and tell you I worked in that position, and you are 100% spot-on. I chose to do more and grow/learn, and obviously there were times when you had full weeks and overtime, but by and large, I’d say 50% of people on my team were phoning it in and only putting in 2-3 hours per day. The rest was team meetings, corporate meetings, lunch hour, miscellaneous slack chatter, etc

Good stuff, thank you!

Thank you very much for your insight!

Very on-point reference article - thank you!

Thanks for your feedback as someone who hires for these sorts of roles; I appreciate it.

Here is my feedback to two of your points:

1. Totally acknowledge the 3-6 month ramp up time for a product, but engineers can easily take that long to be productive and fluent around the technology stack, so I would argue that unless you are hiring a domain specialist, a generalist of any sort will take that time and be a risk for around that long.

2. I acknowledge your PS and I intentionally did not this post a huge backstory because that is what an interview is for, and the point I was making by asking this question was how to even get to that point.

3. As another poster indicated (and as I am aware since I’ve been working for awhile now); obviously it’s easier to make a non-standard transition in your current organization, but it isn’t possible if your org/team doesn’t hire for these roles or if you’ve joined a team where there is already someone entrenched in that role. So in that regard, I believe going across-orgs is probably an easier move, and appreciate everyone’s advice in that direction.

I’d be interested in reaching out to your company if that is the case. Would you mind messaging me what it is?

The archive.is link gave me the captcha, so I’m referring to both.

What is crazy is, trying to now view this on my mobile device required me to fill out a captcha, which I couldn’t even view because it wasn’t completely viewable on my mobile viewport.

Without venturing a positive or negative opinion either way: I clicked the original article, couldn’t see the content without paying, so I left. Clicked the link to presumably bypass the paywall, and couldn’t pass the bot detection in a few seconds as a human on my preferred reading device, so I left.

Now I don’t want to bother reading the article at all, and took the time to write a comment here instead.

For what I'd suggest is 90% or more of their use case, which is using them to improve muscle mass, strength, or appearance, for your typical gym goer or fitness enthusiast.

When you use the term "recreationally", my assumption is that you are asking about how to use these drugs in contrast to using them in an "addicted" state. Since I am very interested in fitness and physical culture, my .02 is that recreational use is anything where you are not endangering your short term health, endangering anyone else's health or well being, you can afford and understand everything you are using and what side effects and ancillaries you would need to take, and you are taking an amount of drugs that are "way less" than what would be necessary to compete at the Mr.Olympia.

I wish I’d see more discussion and analysis like this over the recreational use of anabolic steroids (read: not for professional sports or contests, but rather for physical appearance).

You want to talk about some shit that gets demonized for no reason? Testosterone replacement therapy is legal, but if you decide that you want to use an extra 100mg, suddenly it’s a criminal offense and you are a bad person. For what? Wanting to have bigger biceps or train harder in the gym? What is the alternative? Drink alcohol which has a measurable death rate per year, or smoke some legal cigarettes and second hand smoke poison countless people?

I’m right there with you - despite feeling like I’d be more passionate about being the more managerial and less “hands-on coder” on every team I’ve ever been on, including having a biz/IT degree vs pure CS, and having worked in a variety of industries in a variety of roles ... it’s always “well we want you to be the dev because reasons” and I can’t quite figure out what I’m missing. I have a feeling it’s just that my resume doesn’t say I’ve already been a manager and that when I interview, I don’t lie and tell people how I’ve managed teams of direct reports. That doesn’t mean I’m incapable, or that I wouldn’t be great at it, but I guess orgs see management as high risk so they never want to take a chance. Either that or I’m always doomed for some sort of “BUZZWORD-Ops” role

Agreed - You stated more elegantly what I came here to reply with.

I personally love the “idea” or concept of a marriage (the understanding and commitment of two humans to each other for pure love, devotion, or spiritual/religious reasons), but in practice, at least from what I’ve seen in the US, it’s very much about the legal aspects of the “marriage contract”, the financial and legal impacts, as well as to continue to promote the US agenda of the nuclear family unit.

Larger companies that employ more than 20 people, have revenues above $5 million and a physical presence in the US, are exempt from the act. Churches, charities and other non-profits are also exempt.

Just to confirm - am I reading this correctly in that, this massive corporate secrecy legislation does not apply to the vast majority of publicly traded corporations in the US? If they had just not included those exemptions, this would have been extremely beneficial for everyone right?

Why would we want to allow anonymous corporate shell organizations which are deemed to hide funds if they are tied well known US corporations, as opposed to some shady criminals? Isn’t the crime the same either way?

Yes, where I am at we also have a similar career track just introduced a year back or so. For the most part it’s a welcome change and recognition that an IC can be just as if not more valuable than a manager.

However, for extremely large organizations, despite my personal desires to see an equivalent to a VP/exec level for an IC, I just don’t see anyone being interested in that.

The rationale I’ll probably hear for why it will never happen is something like “execs are responsible for so many staff’s eventual success or failure, that there is no way an IC can compare to that level of impact”.

If I don my tinfoil hat though, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that these sorts of changes to an IC’s career path are ultimately made possible by execs themselves, and that they would not be able to compete with someone of equal stature who has spent 99% of their time thinking about hard engineering problems. A certain fear of appearing mediocre or protecting your rank perhaps.

I’d also say that my assumptions above are probably meaningless in a startup or company less than 100; I’ve seen plenty of postings looking for a magical “co-founder/CTO/principle engineer” hybrid. Which I take to mean a really good engineer who is also responsible for some part of executive leadership. It’s not an exact comparison /shrug.

" ... if you think a CCP led world world order would be an improvement."

I don't think the parent comment suggested anything like what you just said. And I agree with that parent comment, in that I find it amusing mental-floss to imagine how a very-low income family in the US can completely avoid Chinese made products.

Came here to reply with exactly this. I think I've had my set over 15 years now. For awhile I was going to the gym just for fun and to mix it up, but now with the pandemic, I just reverted back to my home equipment with no service interruption. I've probably paid for the equipment 6x over vs. yearly gym fees, and I never have to wait for a squat rack to be open (because I'm the only one in the gym)!

I’m sorry, but this really hasn’t been my experience at all in web technology or managing on-prem systems either.

I used to be extremely fearful of making mistakes, and used to work in a zero-tolerance fear culture. My experience and the experience of my teammates on the DevOps team? We did everything manually and slowly because we couldn’t see past our own fear to think creatively on how to automate away errors. And yes, we still made errors doing everything carefully, with a second set of eyes, late night deployments, backups taken, etc.

Once our leadership at the time changed to espouse a culture of learning from a mistake and not being afraid to make one as long as you can recover and improve something, we reduced a lot of risk and actually automated away a lot of errors we typically made which were caused initially by fear culture.

Just my two cents.

I’m reading a lot of comments here which tackle the thorny topic of decriminalization of drugs in the US that we have historically over-prosecuted. I happen to agree with this sentiment as well. But almost everyone here arguing for a middle ground agrees that things won’t change because all three branches of the US seem determined to keep a hard-line or zero tolerance policy on drugs, even when legalization and medical supervision, creation of new business and exploration of safer alternatives and research into benefits of said drugs are brought up as arguments and are summarily dismissed because “reasons”.

What are some actual, practical steps we all can take towards making decriminalization a reality?

Living in the US, every day I wish I'd suddenly wake up to a government which places a greater degree of importance on science and the protection and benevolence of the greatest amount of human lives, both in the US and in the rest of the world. But right now, seems like science will continue to take a backseat to US corporate economic interests.