Swizec

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by Swizec 3y ago
As a person with problems: “just do the thing” would solve about 90% of them. Unfortunately I’m spending all my time on other priorities/problems that I also have. Just do the thing is a lot more powerful than people realize. That does
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I don't speak Spanish so can't judge your translation, but I know that "you're great" and "you're the shit" feel different. The simplification drops a lot of implicit information and social signaling.
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> Do we have anything like that in English? "You are shit" vs "You are the shit". Explaining "the shit" to someone who's fluent in English but not culturally fluent in American is almost impossible. The
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by Swizec 3y ago
The trick with steak, I’ve found, is to think “Steak is $50”. Then you spend that money at the butcher instead of a restaurant. Put it on a skillet for a couple minutes each side and voila, you have a delicious steak way better than you’d f
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Going back before frozen dinners you're back to the time when people actually cooked at home, going out to eat was a rare treat rather than a daily occurrence. Fwiw some of us still cook at home and go out rarely. It’s cheaper, ta
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by Swizec 3y ago
To share an opposite anecdata: After many years of coding side projects and work projects, I no longer get a kick out of side projects. They just don’t scratch the itch anymore. They just pale in interestingness/size/complexity co
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by Swizec 3y ago
I’ve worked with 2 fresh bootcamp grads in the past and they were both fantastic. Our bar for hiring entry-level programmers was that they can write syntactically valid code while pairing with a more experienced engineer, ask lots of questi
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by Swizec 3y ago
> and maybe even have to perform again soon after, it makes a lot of sense to do anything to recover quickly For running specifically I’m not trying to make my legs stronger, I’m improving cardio. I need the legs to be in good shape for
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by Swizec 3y ago
Ice is good for muscle recovery immediately after strenuous activity . Within minutes is best, up to an hour or so is still effective. After that you need warmth. Strenuous here means lifting your one rep max, running 20 miles, breaking a
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The Netherlands famously has more bicycle thefts per year than citizens. At this point you could almost think of cheap commuter bikes as public property. People in countries where bicycling is not seen as a personality statement generally r
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Why did it [murder rate] go up in the first place during the pandemic. One easy hypothesis is that a) we know you’re most likely to get murdered by your spouse, this is true for both men and women and b) we know lockdowns forced people
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by Swizec 3y ago
The European attitude is: Am I breaking the law? How do I make sure I’m not? The American attitude is: I’m not breaking the law until someone tells me to stop.
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> Part of the day is spent in a crown Vic with slicks on a skid-pan (smooth concrete with sprinklers) learning how to recover from oversteer, loss of control, etc In Slovenia you have to do an EVOC course within 2 years of receiving your
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by Swizec 3y ago
Not all feedback is explicit. Being able to see when you're confusing the audience helps a lot. Beyond that it depends on situation. Talk at a large conference is obviously one-way. Private talk to a "room" of 10 people who w
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I prefer to treat it like a small club standup session. These meetings are how you figure out what to put in the youtube video or other documentation. Audience questions are vital.
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> people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline" This is why I have a strong “no recordings” rule for any meeting that benefits from back-and-forth conversation.
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> it's not like people don't know it is a very bad idea to sign documents where they do not even understand a single word The laws are there for people who may feel like they don’t have much choice in the matter. And yes lying
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> I badly want to learn the historical reason for this insistence that non-Italian-speaking foreigners must understand the contract they're entering into. They wouldn't put up these hoops to jump through unless someone's g
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by Swizec 3y ago
None of this was true when cars were first introduced. Back in the early 20th century it was considered fairly normal that drivers would just sort of plow through pedestrians if they’re in the way. Big societal battle over who gets to be in
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> Whether the government wants to tax it is a different question. Usually they do not. We're talking about a formerly socialist European country here. Not everywhere is USA :) Income tax in Slovenia goes up to 50% and VAT (similar t
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> If there are no rich people to tax, then who owns the unaffordable real estate? People like my mom who bought their place 20 years ago. Or like my grandparents who bought their house 50 years ago. But there's not enough new invest
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> If AI levels the playing field so dramatically, the notion of middle class will entirely evaporate since everyone's purchasing power equalizes We can study this by looking at examples! Slovenia (where I'm from) has the 3rd lo
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> Eastern Europe only took off after the fall of the USSR The Balkans maybe don't count as Eastern Europe, but before ww2 we were predominantly agrarian. 75% of the population worked on farms[1]. By the 1970's Yugoslavia was a
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Yes change jobs every few years to raise salary and gain breadth. But it is crucial, nay critical, that at some point you stay somewhere for 4 years or more. Nothing teaches you software architecture like dealing with your own crap from 3+
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> Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to” links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, etc I wonder how many people actually use those links? My understanding was that they’re primarily a data collection tool for
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> Now, if you refer to highways US-101 or I-5 as anything other than "The 101" or "The 5", then you're clearly not from here! Ah see here's where it gets interesting! Up here in SF, 101 and 5 are names . Yo
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by Swizec 3y ago
If you’ve only read Thinking Fast And Slow, try grabbing a copy of his 2021 book Noise. It’s a little drier but I found it to be a much deeper and more insightful read. Less pop sci, more hard research results. And if I recall correctly he
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by Swizec 3y ago
> being barraged with messages of impossibility is poisonous to them It is not your successful friends staying online all day posting negative messages. That’s the line I tell anyone who needs some unstuckitude and feels it’s impossible.
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> But: if I can get thru that, and start to engage with (say) Italy at a deeper level I was at a native+ level of English in high school according to an IELTS test I took for fun. During college my English improved further. When I moved
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A grocery store is a destination and we were explicitly encouraged to walk there instead of driving. The logic was that driving accidents lead to higher utilization of medical services than walking accidents and we needed to keep capacity f

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