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   by orzig 5y ago

   Thank you for sharing this. People's frank discussions of burnout in posts and comments over the years have helped me recognize the two major instances of burnout I've had over the last few years. Recognition doesn't let you
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   by orzig 5y ago

   I liked the abridged audiobook FWIW
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   by orzig 5y ago

   This is awesome, thank you for your original post and thoughtful replies
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   by orzig 5y ago

   I used them for small, basic stuff 10 years ago and liked it fine. Not an exciting data point, but one for the pile.
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   by orzig 5y ago

   I found it comforting to realize that long-term unemployment is quite unusual, less than 6% of the unemployed (who, even in the depths of a recession, are low double digits) for 'Professional and Business Services': https:&#x2F
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   by orzig 5y ago

   As with so many things, worth noting that 'people' vary widely across every relevant spectrum, and I can't imagine that the median hasn't also shifted since (checks notes) 1989 (!!!)
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   by orzig 5y ago

   As with so many things, the answer probably lies in the middle. Any of us could be killed by lightning at any time, but 99.99% of us have the power to avoid being struck by a train. Most outcomes, good and bad, lay between those extremes.
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   by orzig 5y ago

   Importantly, they measure different things. If there's a dynamic "happiness disparity" (like income disparity, and plausibly correlated) changes on the lower end won't differentiate between a change in mean or variance.
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   by orzig 5y ago

   Or cancer! Oh oops
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    by orzig 5y ago

    The lock on my front door could probably be picked, but I still use it. Raising the effort required to do something can have a perfectly good ROI without being perfect. Same goes with reasoning and any other approach you might try to take
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    by orzig 5y ago

    This is an exceptionally good review, and (well small in the grand scheme of the worlds problems) a beautiful example of how a passionate happiest can sure goodness with the world. Thank you this is an exceptionally good review, and (while
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    by orzig 5y ago

    This is very valuable information if true, can you provide some sort of references?
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    by orzig 5y ago

    There is a middle ground - you can take a loan, with or without a fraction of your house as collateral. I’ve never done it so don’t consider this a recommendation, just an idea.
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    by orzig 5y ago

    "In the long run, we're all dead" - John Maynard Keynes You might be right about the far future, but there's still a lot of human flourishing that fails to happen every day until then. Or you could be wrong, and I'd
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    by orzig 5y ago

    It’s not full proof, but the heuristic that your stakeholder will ask you for the same thing next week (or immediately ask you to do the same thing but slightly differently) has held pretty true for me
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Then you will love this documentary of an early Google engineer jumping from the edge of space in a custom suit: https://www.space.com/alan-eustace-stratospheric-skydive-fil... His wife’s commentary is the best part
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Reminds me of the education blogger who did the whole MIT CS curriculum in 12 months: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
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    by orzig 5y ago

    I think this is an excellent approach, and I try to do it myself. But YMMV for getting teammates to do it in a meeting - even with a generally supportive manager (not me, I'm just scrum master), there is just a psychological resistance
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Thanks for letting me/us know about the Patreon! I'm now a happy contributor.
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    by orzig 5y ago

    A friend's mother, the only professional programmer I knew, told us that all the US programming jobs would be done remotely from China/India. He: Civil engineer, ending up working in China (stealing their jobs!) Me: MechE, but fel
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Bad idea for the sake of discussion: Why not represent yourself, make the whole process as public as possible (marketing to offset the cost of time), and do everything you can to asymmetrically use their lawyer's time? Even if you end
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    by orzig 5y ago

    I am not anyone’s lawyer but I imagine they would have come up with the next best legal defense if that statement didn’t exist
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    by orzig 5y ago

    There’s always the option of creating an account, giving it an impossible-to-remember password, putting that on your ToDo list with a monthly cadence, and getting 80% of the value with ~2% of the work/stress/distraction. LinkedIn
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Moreover, they were making claims about the then-present, not just the clearly unforeseeable future
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Snakes on a plane, the Geekquel
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Agreed - the real mark of leadership (whether heroic or mundane) is when you're pushing to the next cliff's next handhold, not coddling the lowest common denominator. There exist disasters caused by self-dealing dressed up in aspi
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Longest pun setup in history
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    by orzig 5y ago

    OK so 750k per worker. Still pretty impressive!
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    by orzig 5y ago

    Absolutely, that’s why everyone is chasing the elusive “baby body“
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    by orzig 5y ago

    You are probably right that monetizing is not feasible, but I’m principal I feel compelled to point out that almost no website monetize is the “average“ person, which is exactly the kind of person that a psychological study is trying to ch