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by simmschi 3y ago
I'm not sure where you live, but 25 to 30 days seem to be the ballpark for a healthy life. Here in Germany the minimal number of vacation days that have to be granted (by law) is 20 days, but it's rare to have that few days in kno
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by simmschi 4y ago
I'm a simple guy. Excess property checking not just on object literals would be a wonderful Christmas present.
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by simmschi 4y ago
You are not alone, and you are not a lost cause. People change their life all the time. Start with both the most important and the easiest problems. You mentioned depression and suicidal thoughts. Take those seriously, treat depression like
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by simmschi 4y ago
20 and 30 year olds, take note how often health is mentioned in this thread. One of the best investments into your future self that you can make is to take care of your health, both physical and mental. I know this sounds like grandpa talki
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by simmschi 4y ago
This. I keep going back to Chat-GPT instead of Google or Wikipedia for exactly the same reasons. It allows you to explore topics that are well understood, in a way that fits your own understanding and pace. It's like somebody writing a
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by simmschi 4y ago
Fair enough, but you still end up with 2 separate ways to express things. And I have yet to see a company that changes the documentation first and then derives code changes from that. Usually tickets are written, code is changed. Updating e
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by simmschi 4y ago
Hmmm, I can see why you're doing this. But if you don't trust TODO comments to be useful and/or addressed in a timely manner then having a bunch of Jira tickets won't help you either. I've made the exact same experi
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by simmschi 4y ago
I've come to the same realization a while ago, but I've also come to terms with it :-) Of course most companies are messed up, the same way that every organization of sufficient size is. The reason is simply human nature. I used t
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by simmschi 4y ago
Yeah sorry, I meant this of course in the context of a tech organization. As a CTO you will spend time preparing board meetings, OKR discussions, be part of strategy offsites, handle audits, have stakeholder meetings (CPO, COO, HR), have a
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by simmschi 4y ago
In my experience the CEO - COO relationship is similar to that between a CTO and a VP Engineering. If you are the CTO and have a VPE, the VP typically tends to focus inwards, while the CTO has the luxury to care more about outwards topics -
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by simmschi 4y ago
The best you can do is set up some financial reserves, revise your spending and accept that life is a series of uncertainties. It sounds like you already covered the reserves, good. You should have at least a few months of emergency funds,
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by simmschi 4y ago
At least in Germany the WeWork offices I saw were neither fun-filled nor exciting. I had always imagined them to be similar to what I imagined the Google office to be like - lots of amenities, lots of space to goof around, lots of cool litt
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by simmschi 4y ago
Yes. And somehow the same people would feel offended by the idea of there being 10x POs / Teamleads / VPs etc.
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by simmschi 4y ago
It might be too late for some people, but some general advice - if you earn 400k USD / year, don't develop a habit of depending on this kind of income. The rest of the world and even your fellow (US) citizens have to get by on muc