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What about for a whole family of iPhone users? I've got the 2TB cloud plan which my elderly parents are on, my kids are on and me and my wife are on which is letting us get away with the smallest class of storage for each device we have.

I think the writer just suffers a huge case of imposter syndrome! Most seemingly 'smart' and 'talented' people are just people who know that 'Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard'

Nope. Now I'm just a shitty business person and a shitty dev. Forcing myself to do the actual work of talking to customers now.

This level of humility will take you far. You will get better at talking to customers over time, keep grinding, keep practicing, it gets easier. And one day the switch will happen, they will look up to you as the knowledgeable consultant instead of looking down on you as the 'shitty business guy' with nothing of value to offer.

Thanks for sharing publicly. May I ask if the Caduet has any side effects? I'm going through a similar issue. I know that my problem is alcohol, being overweight and middle age (40+). I'm also on Telmisartan which takes it down from 170/100 to about 135/85 on a good day which is still too high for my liking. I might try asking the doc for dual therapy on my next visit and Caduet sounds like a good candidate. My cholesterol also on the high side just outside of normal range! I know I need to lose 20-25lbs but I can't see it happening because of a combo of dad/work life.

Today I learnt I'm fucking old. My first web programming exposure was Perl CGI scripts

I would imagine in the southern states where it's 40 degrees C+ every day for 3 months-4 months or more on end the heatpump (aka reverse cycle a/c) is basically kept on constantly. Let's say it draws 1kw on average, that's 24kwh right there. They actually draw more than that. There's no way around it if you want to live comfortably. But I think the whole society is designed so much around driving everywhere and living in detached houses that the low hanging fruit is actually to install solar/batteries for these guys.

I'm from Australia and I was blown away by a run of the mill H-E-B supermarket in 2022. The size, scale, selection was quadruple what I'm used to at home. A co-founder took me to when I visited him in Fort Worth and I joked that I felt like Yeltsin visiting.

I just had to quit Reddit this weekend. Deleted the app off my phone, edited my hosts file on my computer to send it to 127.0.0.1 along with a whole bunch of mass media sites. I noticed this year that I was scrolling and scrolling and scrolling hours away on reddit and then it hit me, this is a tiny minority of the world having an outsized influence on my thoughts and opinions both in a positive and negative manner but more often than not negative and getting worse over time. The most outraged, the biggest whiners would get the most upvotes so all you see is outrage and rants and I thought to myself, is that really how the general public is? Is this really my experience of it?...then I thought no it's not, it's an algorithm that's feeding off my fear to instil more fear in me in a never ending loop. Delete...

Too much of what you pay goes to the rentier that owns the premises. Inflation of ingredients, inflation of wages, inflation of utilities. It all adds up. Something gets squeezed, either the experience or your wallet. As other posters have said, climate change, war adds to it too. And the world has just about reached peak-population outside of Africa. The developed world including all the industralial powerhouses of Asia definitely have. You are already ahead of the curve with your enjoyment of 'free' experiences.

What you've noted is the beginning of the secular decline in consumptive/material living standards for at least the next 60-80 years after which earths population would have declined to 5-6 billion and the population pyramid is more balanced and all the current 'humps' in it have died off.

Yes it does. I don't journal every day, I keep each year to about 40-50 A4 pages and I won't write down all the banal stuff. The value lies in the fact that I will usually look at what life was like a year ago, 3 years ago, 5 years, 10 years ago and past-self is there telling me without the rose-tinted glasses. It makes me grateful for what I have today. If I need motivation today, the struggles that were written down serve as a reminder of what needed to be done to get to the present and that effort is required now to get to a higher plane tomorrow, next year, 5 years from now.

I have been journaling for 9 years now. Actually closer to 12 but we'll discount the first 3 years because it was done haphazardly handwritten in notebooks in fits and bursts. Repeatedly throughout the journals I wrote about how circular it felt whenever I was examining the deeper self. It felt like I had written this or that before and then I came to the realisation that the deepest sense of self or sense of consciousness never really changes throughout life. You are who you are. What surprised me was the regularity that predictions or goals written in the past would come true in the future. Seemingly impossible (within a realm of reason) things would always come true given enough time, enough persistence and enough continuous progression. And if it hasn't come true yet, have you moved along the scale of making it happen?

That's where journaling becomes powerful. It lets you hold yourself accountable, lets you measure your current self against your past self. It lets you document those little life victories, those turning points to judge whether a past decision was good or not. Life is a combinatorially explosive decision tree (borrowed from John Vervaeke), journaling helps you to better guess the best future path and keep you on it.

Man that is so true about 35. I would say it's not about your prime but more about the fact it is the point where you have gained enough experience/wisdom but still retain enough risk tolerance that you can make big decisions about life and career that pay off in the long term. At 40 I'm a bit more defensive than I was at 35. I could not bootstrap 2 startups concurrently again today, 35 was the last time I could do that. Physical prime happened somewhere early 30s, mental prime is still probably ahead of me.

Where I live we have 'council clean-up' days. It's a designated day once per year you can leave a reasonable amount of rubbish outside your house including old furniture, tools, utensils etc etc. The good thing is it's widely advertised and if you sort your stuff out properly and lay it out in an organised manner, lots of amateur collectors will come and take it away to re-sell or re-use leaving only a small amount of true rubbish for the council to actually pick up (3 days later than the advertised day).

I think that Atlassian's core issues stem from the CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company. The lack of vision starts from the top and flows down through the rest of the company.

If MCB is so interested in those things, then he should do the right thing which is to retire from Atlassian and go whole-heartedly after those noble causes.

My engineering team runs off Github Issues > Projects > Project Boards but it's been hard to get anyone outside of product managers and devs themselves to be fully immersed in it. Sales and management throw their hands up in the air and say 'Github Issues is too hard'. I'm a PM so I've fought and won this battle to stay on Github Issues because I could quantify that a 5-10% loss in dev productivity in moving to a 'management friendly' tool would equal so many thousands of dollars of developer hours per month.

Thank you for writing this. It resonated deeply with me, I spent 2 years in the SFBA and left in the end because I had this nagging feeling that something wasn't right but could not verbalise as clearly as you have. Your blog post has given me some sort of catharsis.

Much like there are some people in this society/world that we will have personality clashes with regardless I believe there are cities in this world that we will have the same personality clashes with. It grates, it wears you down and after a while you have to leave. I often feel affinity or antipathy within minutes of leaving the airport of a particular city. The SFBA was a 'wtf have I done by moving here, ok I'll give it a couple of years to warm to it' and although there was lots to love I never connected on a deep level. It's a subjective personal thing for which there is no wherefore.

This comment deserves to be higher. People just think you can put these anywhere but you need water connection, sewer connection, electrical, telephone line/cable, permits and red tape, by the time you're done it'll be double. And I don't think these solve any of our housing affordability problems, the land in a desirable area will be far more expensive than what's on top.

If I was a sailor I'd rather go around the Cape of Good Hope than deal with this.

I came here to find your comment. All the vivid dreams I have are either 1) resitting an exam from 20 years ago and being completely unprepared for it or 2) running around in an endless dreamscape that is created by taking a known familiar area like a university, my local neighbourhood or a shopping centre and then scaling it up by using exactly this Wave Function Collapse algorithm. Funny thing is I can't backtrack in my dreams either.

They have a virtual monopoly on the corporate market. At the peak times of Monday morning and Friday evening seats can go for A$300-$A400 or more one way for an economy class seat on a 737 for a 55 minute flight.

I have had way too many evenings after I get the kids in bed where I think, "I'll just unwind on my phone for a few minutes and then work on something."

There's a hack for this which I find works, just go to sleep at 8pm or 8:30pm instead right after the kids. Wake up at 4pm-4:30pm (yes I need a full 8 hours every night, not negotiable), you'll have much more willpower to tackle your side project in the morning before your kids wake up.

Given the choice between reddit and side project, reddit will win. Given the choice between reddit and sleep...it's much easier to pick sleep even if reddit is more tempting.

In the morning you have 2 choices, reddit vs side project but you just invested effort in waking up at 4:30am, side project it is...

Edit: I actually see sleep as a precondition of productivity so sleeping is a 'productive activity' for me.

A lot of people who get seduced to work in startupville should heed this guy. The cost is not only the difference in pay for the years you are working in startups but the fact that career progression inside a bigcorp is forgone (and that itself is worth a lot)

Thanks for posting that. It's amazing how accessible the english language was (190 years ago) to a reader today. Spelling and vocabulary are pretty much the same. Compare that with a period 190 years before 1829, 1639 and you'd almost be back in Shakespearean England.

One of the points missed here in the discussion thread is that over and above ethical/moral animal wellbeing concerns we need this as quickly as possible because antibiotic use in livestock is one of main contributors to antibiotic resistance.

Yeah but you need to understand it's not the actual coding they sell, it's the 'online business consulting' which brings in the moolah

The whole point of basic income is that it enables such young males to devote their time to pursuing non-monetary goals in music, arts which would signal 'mate quality'. Or longer term monetary goals such as autodidactically acquiring a skill e.g programming and building something.

Poor people in the traditional sense would be able to pursue internships without pay to gain skills because they are underpinned by UB. An option not available today. As an employer I could take on more 'apprentices' on UBI, the contract being that I give them training, give them guidance whilst they work 'for free' until a certain point it becomes worthwhile to pay them above and beyond UBI because they're worth it.

Forgive the laymans question but how much would it cost to ferry one extra rocket whose mission is to help it land by giving a larger margin of error when landing on the drone ship. I'm guessing carrying a few extra tonnes of deadweight engine for 99% of the mission is a big deal.

I actually think a lot less people would be shut-ins if they had kids.

All those 'menial chores' are actually become interesting because you're 'not just doing the grocery shopping anymore'. You're taking you kids shopping so they can explore the supermarket with them. They'll ask questions about what you buy and why you buy it. Of course they'll nag you to buy something for them as well.

Kids will nag you to go out to the park, to the museum or whatever other local attraction there is and along the way you'll get social interaction which helps balance things out.

I feel this, 32M with kids. FB usage by actual friends that I cared about fell to zero and my feed was full of shallow experiential grandstanding.

Deleted my FB account but copped a hiding from the silent majority for being 'hard to get in touch with' and feel a bit guilty about this but overall life is better without FB or any other form of social media.

True experientialism is being there in the moment, not standing outside carefully curating the moment for others to gawk at.

Edit: *experientialism not experimentalism

Going to be tough for that competitor to survive if they don't pivot from a 'Stripe-clone'. Hope they're well funded and well backed.

You need to do a huge volume of transactions to be able to live off 2.6% + 30c, close to two million a month to support a startup with 5 fully loaded employees including the founders.

Working with a lot of Ecommerce sites I know a well established one (attached to 3 bricks and mortar stores) does on average $16k a month. Say on average an Online store is doing 10k/month you're looking at 200 clients to keep the payment processor afloat. Doable but you'd want them to have some runway otherwise people are gonna go with Stripe to know they've got a payment gateway that's not gonna disappear