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by afarrell 5y ago
> If thats the case you have bigger problems. Yes, but we are trying to avoid boiling the ocean. It often makes sense to solve the smaller problem you can change rather than the larger problem which is too hard.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Make sure to distinguish between docs that need to stay up-to-date and docs that don’t. Put a date on the docs that don’t.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I’m kinda the opposite. I tried to be like this and it broke my brain.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I've found the metric reduces the brain-relaxation benefit of going for a walk. Over lockdown, I adopted the habit of physically wandering randomly around neighbourhoods and parks. I used to do this in the woods behind my house as a ki
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by afarrell 5y ago
Also, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens definitely trues to tackle sexism. However, it does so by giving advice on interpersonal relationships to people learning to navigate puberty. It doesn’t focus much on teaching how to dismantle t
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by afarrell 5y ago
I’ve found one good way to manage this tension is doing coordination by “pair programming” on a shared markdown file in a collaborative text editor. Dropbox paper is good for this.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> it seems impossible to keep track of everything It is. Someone who knows more about thermodynamics, information theory, or neurology than I could probably prove this rigorously.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Thats because “best practices” only apply in simple situations. In complex dynamic situations made of humans with feelings, there are only “good practices” which might be applicable in context.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yep, and I’m sure dang has silenced some people talking about [what they perceived as] human right abuses because that poster was [in dang’s subjective judgement] talking in a way that harmed the health of the community. I stick around this
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by afarrell 5y ago
Humans tend to be motivated by: - Mastery: the feeling of exercising and gaining skill. - Autonomy - Purpose - Relatedness I’d advise you go talk to someone (probably your product manager) to get a better sense of the “why” behind your proj
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by afarrell 5y ago
Discernment that aligns with their values and is scalable enough to be cheap. Google promised to not be “evil”, which is only as reliable a promise to the degree that “evil” is well-defined.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes. If you’re going to write software, know the “Why” behind the software and follow through on that intent. This is especially true for internal software like a framework — the marketing department won’t be there to keep reminding you why
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by afarrell 5y ago
Different goals for different conversations. Your therapist or coach should be talking to you about the importance of taking care of yourself and getting after your own individual goals. Your school board and legislature should be talking a
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by afarrell 5y ago
That assumes that your employees: 1. Know how they feel 2. Can translate that into numbers accurately.
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by afarrell 5y ago
You may also want to cite the McNamara Fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
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by afarrell 5y ago
Make sure your body and mind are calm and alert. Turn off overhead lights at 9pm. Rise at a consistent time in the morning and view the outside world[1]. Eat nutritious food. Make sure your desk is clean. Get yourself a nice big pad of dott
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Stop going along with the "you should improve your soft skills to make our job easier" I don't understand how you intend to set up a union without "soft skills" ... or at least one that doesn't collapse in
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by afarrell 5y ago
> I’ll get to it when I can Sometimes that is what I want: the non-urgent attention of a relaxed person who can think more deeply about a problem.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> nobody’s presented any evidence, just some anecdotes As someone who has read histories and has been inside a courtroom, I’m curious what you mean by this.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I would definitely say that glasses are a great comparison.
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by afarrell 5y ago
My ability to focus since getting medication is night and day. This is true even when I’m off medication because I’ve been able to do the work to gain mental clarity I’d not been able to do before.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Or they are unable to follow through because engineering is a team activity and so they cannot follow through if people don’t listen enough to consider the idea.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Wandering around in nature. Goal-directed work involves lots of decisions of path-duration-outcome. To recharge, do aimless physical activity around plants.
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by afarrell 5y ago
You’re presumably paying for a relationship with someone who has expertise.
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by afarrell 5y ago
To call something a "scam" says there is no honest use-case. Pointing out competing use-cases is directly refuting that. > In a swipe at Tesla, he said that by charging hourly fees, VW would make autonomous driving more accessi
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by afarrell 5y ago
Who is responsible for maintenance of the car and the AI software? If the passenger should be doing the updates to the AI, then they should own the car outright and have the right to repair it. If it is VW, then VW should align incentives w
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by afarrell 5y ago
I’m concerned that this will lead to more managers thinking they are on the right path with their current way of rewarding engineers… only to lead to more burnout.
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by afarrell 5y ago
When you interview, make sure you talk to PMs. Also, network at places like Mind the Product.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Speaking for myself: if I don’t care about the mission of what I’m working on, I cannot get my brain to focus on it and I end up feeling a sense of hollowness inside. I have ADHD, which might be part of this.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Selfishly, I hope you choose lua so that you add to the momentum behind writing neovim plugins in lua.

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