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by afarrell 6y ago
How much more slowly would we have learned to treat Covid if the many more of the hospital staff studying it were dying and drunk with fatigue?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Yes. By “project health”, I mean is “the health of the project”.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Emotionally, this is true. Literally, this is false in a way that harms our ability to handle disasters.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Nobody wants to be a janitor Speak for yourself. I applied to be one at my high school.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Ooof. It can be a _real_ rough situation. Combined with a few other things, a year of it led me into a several-month stretch of suicidal ideation this past summer. Things that helped me: 1. Books on stoicism and spirituality. The Subtle Art
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by afarrell 6y ago
> > Features that haven't been fully baked would be pushed in to the current release because people wouldn't want to wait another 6 months to see their work come to fruition. > This psychological tinkering isn't help
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by afarrell 6y ago
I have a shell script ``` park “some hairbrained idea” ``` Adds a new line to a text file and clears the terminal.
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by afarrell 6y ago
A good book on this is The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
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by afarrell 6y ago
True. So I advise not having sex with someone if you do not trust their ethics or emotional maturity.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Abstinence is the only answer _with an ironclad guarantee_. Fundamentally, sex requires trust and analog communication over a connection either physical or verbal.
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by afarrell 6y ago
The Rapid Software Testing course by James Bach is really good for teaching some metacognitive skills of this. On a higher abstraction layer, iff you can filter for low-bullshit, some social justice stuff can indeed help someone master the
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by afarrell 6y ago
Currently Nothing.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Ah. I do not much care. But if you are selling disinfection robots, then HN is not a particularly good forum to be asking. You want to find where site managers and office managers hang out. They're the ones with the relevant budgets.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I, as an individual employee, would never buy a disinfection robot for my office. If someone did, it sounds like the sort of poor understanding of role boundaries that would end up on https://www.askamanager.org/
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by afarrell 6y ago
Because it is not psychologically safe to do otherwise. Its likely there are multiple developers who care about loading times but who would fear for their performance appraisal if they said they would spend 3 days improving loading time and
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by afarrell 6y ago
Step 1. Accept that you are going to die. Step 2. Choose what you value in life. Your life will be better if you choose things like “curiosity” and “creativity” that no hardship can remove from you. I recommend choosing the values which are
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by afarrell 6y ago
I created 3 slack emojis to signal this more clearly: 1. I’m thinking harder about this thing but not blocked. 2. I’m still not blocked, but could really use a pair right now. 3. Actually stuck. They basically act like andon cords for my qu
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by afarrell 6y ago
Worthwhile interpretations of that quote: - "Learning a wide range of skills is useful and can let you combine them in ways others cannot." - "You should not let your current path in life unduly limit your curiosity." -
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by afarrell 6y ago
> but struggle to find authoritative related resources I'd like to start a subthread with the question: "What is an effective way to find a trustworthy therapist for problems close enough to 'startup PTSD' to ask?&quo
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by afarrell 6y ago
> both employees and outside contractors are in it for the money and their loyalty start and ends there I only have 60ish years left on this earth at most. If you think I'm giving you 40ish hours a week of them merely in exchange f
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by afarrell 6y ago
1. Accept that your mind will wander. Forgive yourself for that and practice returning your attention. 2. Make sure you get good sleep/food/exercise. 3. Find another minor thing to do with your hands. Like knitting.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sometimes though, the engineering exists to create art. Because we are all human and we all in our own way yearn to answer the question "What is beauty?" Including the folks at Valve.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Engineering at its worst and marketing at its worst have contradictory value systems. At their best though, they are as harmonious as art and mathematics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZ_E1OO_PY
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by afarrell 6y ago
> whereas the dopamine hit you get But have you ever had a salesperson at the pub tell you about how much easier it is to close deals by pointing to the API integration tutorial you've written? Hands down, absolutely the proudest ac
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by afarrell 6y ago
“The best process” makes it sound more mechanical than you probably intend. I think you mean: “focus on propagating tools and habits which raise the quality of design conversations” > mandate The problem with mandatory processes is that
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by afarrell 6y ago
I've found it helpful to memorize songs and poetry in the other language.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Simplicity is a high value in engineering.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> if you educate them When trying to educate a group of people, it is useful to understand the range of experiences they might have had. For example, you might ask a question like "How do non-techies edit Jamstack websites?"
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by afarrell 6y ago
> rehabbed This is the core of my question C -- Is it reasonable to judge someone's current trustworthiness by what they say about their past actions?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> removes any doubt When you say this, I'm not sure if you mean that the book: A. Removes doubt from the things that are genuinely simple and straightforward, freeing your mental energy to focus on the complex dynamic uncertain part

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