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by gexla 7y ago
Smalltalk is improv. It's yes... and. You take turns with the hot potato. You take your turn and then pass it. It's creating a story. Take whatever what was passed to you, add something quirky and then pass it back. It's fun
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by gexla 7y ago
I just ran across Real Engine looking for Architectural Visualization software (note that Twinmotion is free until Nov!) This is an amazing space which I imagine will explode in variety of application, especially once VR goes mainstream. Ar
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by gexla 7y ago
The marshmallow test is among the many which has been caught up in the replication crisis. Link below, maybe not the greatest source, but I'm getting distracted from work. ;) https://www.theatlantic.com/family/arch
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by gexla 7y ago
I'm getting into personal anecdote territory which I hate because it likely only works for me, but here I go... When I'm working in front of my computer, I manage this stream by keeping a log of what I'm doing in an editor. W
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by gexla 7y ago
Again, the idea of self discipline right now is stinky for the reasons I mentioned above. Self discipline is more about going against what your monkey brain wants to do. It's not about just any action. If you don't want to get out
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by gexla 7y ago
Self discipline is one of the psychology things which might not actually be a thing though. Often cited in this sort of discussion is the "marshmallow test" which has been found to be BS. Maybe there's something to willpower,
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by gexla 7y ago
Gets distracted. Thinks long and hard about distraction. Has an insight on how not to get distracted. Writes a book about it. Writes a blog post to market the book. Future book reviews complain that you could have just read the blog post. S
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by gexla 7y ago
> cutting red meat and processed meats There's a huge difference between red meat and processed meats. We're just pilling on here. I think we have learned by now that the value of these sorts of articles are somewhere below the
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by gexla 7y ago
Can't get past reading the headline because my BS alarm goes off when I hear "healthier" or "health food." I have always thought of "health food" as a marketing term selling a lifestyle to people who can a
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by gexla 7y ago
Echoing a lot of other comments here. I can think I thrive on less than 8 hours of sleep, but I don't. I don't wake up to an alarm clock and feel rested and all that. But the reason I don't need the alarm clock is because I u
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by gexla 7y ago
They aren't giving away money. They are creating these coins out of thin air. The only way anyone is losing money is possibly by deflating the value of existing coins by creating more supply. That these coins are worth anything at all
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by gexla 7y ago
If you have a gun pointed to your head with the requirements you have listed then you go Wordpress. Updates aren't difficult. I'm not sure about plugins (I haven't used WP in a long time,) but you can set the core Wordpress u
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by gexla 7y ago
The person you're quoting didn't say the theory was correct or even that he believes the theory. His response was only his interpretation of the theory. If you feel the theory is incorrect, then perhaps take it up with Robert Kega
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by gexla 7y ago
David Chapman quotes Kegan a lot in his "Meaningness" blog. I included one link, but you should find more of his writing linked from there. Check out the rest of the site as well. https://meaningness.com/metablog&#
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by gexla 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time for this reply. I was partly just taking the part of Devil's Advocate to at least represent the cons of remote working amid all the sunshine and rainbows of this post and the replies. A key element of my comm
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by gexla 7y ago
There's a difference between being distracted at home and being distracted at the office. If you're getting distracted at the office, you're still doing your job. It might even specifically be your job description to be distr
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by gexla 7y ago
> Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane. We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings. Contractors in general might be better off working in an office if they aren't in a g
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by gexla 7y ago
This piece has the feeling of being written by "every Friday is Hawaiian T-shirt day" after his employer went all remote and he needed a new task. I have worked remotely more than not and it's not ideal. I suspect that if tel
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by gexla 7y ago
I don't know if "looks cool" is the same thing as status (probably not) but station wagons in the US have a history of being the ugliest thing on the road. Maybe the only competitor for worst on the list of cool factor is the
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by gexla 7y ago
I'm getting the same. I checked after leaving my previous comments in this thread. For example, began entering a manual contact and the name for that contact was sent to FullStory (that's as far as I looked.) The privacy statement
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by gexla 7y ago
Ugh, thanks for the detective work. This is something I forget about and now it's back on my radar. I'm sure someone has already thought about this, but an idea might be a checklist on Github for things to check when evaluating an
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by gexla 7y ago
I have used HotJar, though not extensively. I played with it a bit and then handed it off to another dev. I feel tracking tools are more for marketing and conversions. You're looking at what the user is doing when going through the pro
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by gexla 7y ago
I signed up and tried to skip adding a Gmail account but it wouldn't allow me. I really don't want to just dump all contacts into an app like this because I don't really use Gmail as my contact repository and there might be s
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by gexla 7y ago
A neighborhood bar is a place you go to see people you know will be there. Even if your friends aren't there, you'll still know the owner and the staff. The people you see there routinely are the "regulars" and the &quot
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by gexla 7y ago
Just throwing in my two cents. I work with a small remote team and our first problem was that most apps would at times lag, hang, deliver messages out of order, etc. We found a relatively obscure app which has been solid and we have stuck w
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by gexla 7y ago
In case anyone is in need of immediate assistance, Experts Exchange is still working (make sure to include the dash.)
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by gexla 7y ago
Seems like there could be a mythical story or similar here. Hero asks the gods for gift of healing. Gods grant the gift along with pain so that we know when we are injured (and of course, in need of the gift.) No gift from the gods comes fr
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by gexla 7y ago
It's easy to "take away" too much information from this. The focus is that an AI poker bot "did this" and not get too much into other adjacent subjects. But what's the fun in that? 10,000 hands in an interestin
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by gexla 7y ago
> At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that features regulated on and off ramps with proper know-your-customer (KYC) practices, co
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by gexla 7y ago
I didn't see "shortage" being used in this article. The industry may be attempting to get by with fewer workers to keep costs down.

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