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I work with TODO-lists. I break every task into mini TODO-steps and tick them off as I go along. If new ideas pop into my head, I add them to the list.

Today my TODOs included items like “research how to stop writes to a postgres database” and “make a list of all the places where we use x database.”

"Afrikaans Paramilitary groups" was basically what Apartheid was, only state sanctioned.

Hiv infection rates rose from 3% to 18% of the adult population.

It's like saying COVID rates grew XXX% in 2020 due to some new government. Yes, SA's HIV rate is absolutely awful, but HIV hardly existed before the end of Apartheid.

I switch to “lower intensity” tasks that could still be useful, like tweaking our Datadog dashboards and monitors, writing or editing some documentation, going through old company announcements, Googling some things, etc.

Or I go take a walk, make coffee or do household chores when I’m working from home.

If you’re able to get a few hours of productive work done in a day (let’s say 3 to 4 hours) and spend the rest of your time recovering from that and recouping your energy, I think it’s okay.

However, if any work is completely draining you, it might be a good idea to take some time off.

I literally want the _opposite_ of that.

That's fine, but not everyone does. I think both are useful and would prefer a browser that can support both profiles and "containers.

When I worked for an agency, I used this feature ALL the time. It had to be easy for me to switch between, for example, Trello boards of different clients or different Datadog accounts.

Even now, working at a single company, I use multi-account containers to keep tabs open for our different AWS and Datadog accounts.

I really liked checkout.com. Their documentation is top notch, their support was helpful (albeit a bit slow) and their error codes are useful. We were also a UK-based company fyi.

It’s hard to move between payment service providers (PSPs) if you don’t want you’re users to have to enter their cvv again and go through SCA again. PSPs are reluctant to help you export your users’ cards to another PSP (obviously because they’ll be losing out on your payments then). However, most of them should have some kind of export process if you manage to get to the right support person.

You could use a card proxy service like PCI Proxy if you know you’ll be using many different PSPs or move between them a lot, but they charge a fee for each proxy call AFAIK.

I’ve heard that https://www.paddle.com/ is useful for handling tax across multiple different countries.

Same thing regarding a growing number of women too but men don't have the same support structure as women do.

I’m a woman and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about here.

Regardless, I’ve struggled with intense social anxiety and loneliness since about 13.

The only long-term ”solutions” I’ve found that help have been: having a partner, good relationships with my family and joining a club (in my case, a football club) that has recurring sessions weekly.

Obviously, the latter is something that’s more easy to “engineer” than the first two.

So my only advice is to find or start a club or interest group that regularly meets. I’ve found that groups on Meetup often don’t have the same group if people attending. So rather search for local sports groups or community groups where you’ll meet some of the same people week after week and be able to build relationships with them over time.