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American colleges aren't supposed to train, they are supposed to educate. If companies had better training or mentoring programs, it wouldn't be as much of a problem.

I'm also afraid of water, particularly large bodies of water (river, lake, ocean) where I can't see what's in it with me or see the bottom. My fear came after I learned how to swim. Its taken me years to build up the idea of trying to do something like this to get over the fear.

I can see it get stuck and then you need to get a wrench or pliers to get it moving again. Agree on cool design but leaves a lot ot go wrong.

Robots also don't play favorites or office politics. If there is a more efficent/better way, it will do it. Even better when it is allowed to re-calculate with new parameters.

Based on my experience, I read e-books faster than paper books, which can make timelines a bit fuzzy when remembering.

I know a family with two young kids that do not have a car. The use public transportation and try to live near a grocery store. They seem to be more of the exception than anything else. It's not impossible, just difficult.

Growing up I loved the Myst games and 'Jewels of the Oracle'. I got to explore and solve puzzles. Even now I play RPGs, but I like games that encourage exploration (Guild Wars 2) and I'm always on the look out for a good puzzle game. I would love to see a RPG that had both combat and puzzles more.

Happy medium. I use the library for my 'summer reading books', the books you read once, enjoy and never thing about again. I use Kindle for books I really enjoy and want to read again (or for free/cheap summer books that the library doesn't have). I buy physical books for reference or if the library/kindle/nook/ebook provider does not have it available.

I'm 4'11, so really short and overweight. I tried to keep to the 1200 calories that everyone says is the minimum, but I can't, it's often too much food for me and never really saw much in weight loss. I've been trying to go closer to 600-1000 and have seen much more results and feel healthier.

One thing about this is paying attention not only to what he eats, but also how his body reacts to food. In high school, I would often only eat one meal a day (I could have had more meals, but I wasn't hungry). In college, I also still only ate the equivalent of one meal a day. Once I had a full time job that included lunch breaks, I felt obligated to eat more, and the more I ate the more I was hungry. Having more money and more freedom to eat what I want, when I wanted (compared to living with parents or in college eating on poor starving student rations), I stopped paying attention to what and how much I ate.

Some of these comments reminded me of a story Clotaire Rapaille told in his book 'The Culture Code.' He gave a talk at an obesity conference. Each speaker gave their own solution to the obesity problem. Rapaille's observed:

“I think it is fascinating that the other speakers today have suggested that education is the answer to our country’s obesity problem,” I said. I slowly gestured around the room. “If education is the answer, then why hasn’t it helped more of you?”

Part of coding is (or at least should be) verifying results. Anytime I need to build solutions, I spend more time verifying (and fixing if needed) the results. Make changes? Verify again.

Agreed. Automated many reports or information gathering processes the same way. I don't get a medal, but end of year reviews are awesome. Even better is when you share the code or process with others so they can copy it for some of their work .

I'm 50/50 on the 'badge of honor'. For some it's true. For me, I don't know what to do on vacation. People get bored/anxious when they have nothing to do. Even going on a trip can be hard (planning, financing, dealing with changes, having to rest after the trip).

While the lack of safety net and fear of being fired are all valid reasons for Americans not taking vacation, what about another reason- they don't know how to vacation.

From personal experience, I get twitchy just from being sick/away from work for more than a day. I only take one day at a time of vacation (usually on Friday's to stretch out the weekend, and usually to get extra studying done or run some errands) only to feel like I wasted a day. It could be cultural, my family never took many family vacations (maybe 1 or 2). I'm lucky that my work encourages taking vacations, but the idea of doing so seems so weird for me.

I cannot see the email. My email should be in my profile, if you want to contact me.

I'm a business analyst that also does some basic IT work. I know some basic HTML/CSS/JS, enough to tweak some web pages that I support, but nothing from scratch.

I have a plan to do this, have it kind of like a wiki with a breakdown of problems based on location (Becuase you can't solve world hunger all at once, each place has its own issues). Then have users submit possible solutions, and then open people to volunteer to implement solutions (maybe add a crowd-funding portion to it). Only issue is I'm too lazy to brush up my web development skills.

The book 'Too Good They Can't Ignore You' explains this well.

I hate meetings. A co-worker and I play a game whenever we are in charge of a meeting- see if we can end it early. It's amazing when an hour long meeting can be finished in 20 minutes. Unfortunately, there are a few people that like to drag the meeting out (unprepared, asking unrelated questions, making people wait for XYZ event that could be sent as an email later).

What if you have another meeting after the scheduled meeting they are late for? Yes, you can do something else during that first hour, but then reschedule the second meeting? Would that require having to tell those that you are meeting with 'can we meet at this time for an hour, and I have another meeting after it, so don't be late?'

Just finished it last week. I also highly recommend it.

Since less youth are getting driver's licences/cars than before, I wouldn't be surprised if that is what happens. A family buys a self-driving car that drops off and picks up everyone when needed. Driver's licences will drop within a generation, the tests for a licence will get harder and more costly. Inspections and registrations will also have higher qualifications, so old cars will be either scrapped or kept as a hobby or collectors item. Thinking more and more about it, I'm loving the potential future.

I hate HOAs and would deliberately avoid neighborhoods with HOAs or other types of restrictions.

Same. I've had no issues with 'addictions' to caffeine or to my meds, despite doctors worrying about it. I know my brain/body reacts to caffeine/stimulants differently than others due to my ADD.

As a 'gifted' but bored student, I see so many programs (online, self paced programs) that I would have loved. My youngest brother was able to graduate from high school a year early with honors, yet he was the least academic out of all of us kids (5 total). I went to small high school with only AP Spanish and AP Calculus, of which getting into depended on what track you were put into in middle school (didn't make it due to just moving into the area). My parents were also very wary about not screwing us up socially (no skipping grades). Having these types of programs that go with you if your family moves, interest changes or anything else, would have been amazing!

Even for the areas where you think they work, they should be more conversation based rather than the one way learning of lecture.

Totally agree. I used to play D&D with friends and it really helped with my anxiety. I could contribute to the conversation if I wanted, be quiet and just listen if I wanted, or read something else. I was an excuse to socialize, but also something productive to do if you want to socialize.

I can guess that your grandmother is grabbing her phone since it is the best way she can communicate with her older friends (which may or may not be home bound or far away).

I don't think it so much as being anti-social, but a more visual way of people showing that they have higher social priorities than the current situation. If they really enjoyed the conversation/activity/ or even the people they are with, they would ignore the phone.

While I'm not addicted to my phone (I often leave it at home ) I do use it on occasion as a way to 'escape' social situations that are not interesting. Dull conversation, lack of activity, or a situation where I've been dragged into some social obligation. Would do the same thing with books before cell phones.

My sister and I (mathematically and technically inclined) would always get this. I would always think that this was to help those that were not academic still get points for effort.