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Premium RSS feeds are one option, as well as putting only a brief summary of the article into the RSS with a link to the full site. The monetization model will probably look similar to Twitter, except without needing to dodge algorithmic uncertainty since RSS is a pure feed.

Plus, Outlook does have an RSS feed function. The incentive can be the same as newsletter publication. It just depends on how you want to reach people.

> I get that Facebook keeps being compared to cigarette companies under the whole addiction narrative, but lets not forget the big reason cigarettes aren't marketed to children; they kill a lot of people, and perhaps most distressing, they kill people who don't smoke them. They are also physically addictive; this is a big issue.

It's not quite the same level, but we're finding increasing evidence that Facebook and general social media use is associated with increased anxiety and depression [1]. Since depression is now the leading source of disability world-wide, the comparison is not entirely overblown.

I do like and agree with your alternate example of Valentine's Day.

[1] https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi...

[2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/

Try working through the DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) handbook. It's designed to build skills to lessen the impact of anxiety, depression, and other chronic mental illnesses, and draws a lot from Stoicism.

Particularly, there are exercises meant to help you find your values, then figure out how to do more things you find valuable in your life.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/DBT%C2%AE-Skills-Training-Manual-Seco...

Sidenote, is anyone else amused that boingboing became relevant again, if only briefly?

Fair enough, mu apologies for getting all Reddit-y.

I'm in the camp that at some point, everyone needs help. The unfortunate fact is, a lot of people aren't going to get the same amount of help, or even help at the right time, and they're going to fail as a result. Worse, they're not going to realize they could have done better.

When we're talking about continuing to try, and being positive and always working towards a solution, part of the conversation should ideally be that getting to that place involves something different for different people. Fair?

Bullshit. At some point, someone encouraged you to succeed.

Maybe it was when you grew up and were encouraged by any given authority figure to do something, maybe it was finding common ground talking about your wife instead of your husband, maybe it was when you didn't need to wonder whether you were turned down for skill or skin color, maybe it was when you knew someone was interested in you not your tits, but you were encouraged.

Personally, I'm going to encourage you to actually listen to other people's perspectives instead of challenging them to justify their life experiences.

Seconded.

If you're just looking at "work hard", you're not seeing other people need to work harder, and overcome a terrifying amount of uncertainty, to get to the same place.

If you're happy, you're doing something right, so kudos.

To stop from stagnating, play with things. New things, old things, interesting things you aren't going to need to worry about, because you're doing great. Read about stuff, particularly from fields you haven't studied before.

It works for crows, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA

Because single mothers exist, so supporting a family on one income is needed to ensure a minimal amount of suffering happens to children who didn't ask to be poor, and have no way of opting out of poverty.

Also, modest = minimal by the original standards.

Historical context: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage

Or if you're small. I'm 5'2, so even adjusting for physical activity my BMR is about 1600 cal. 2000 cal/day means I'm going to gain about a pound a month.

We met through gaming -- a mutual friend was in two different Dungeons & Dragons games (well, D&D and WoD) with us, and introduced us.

Honestly, he took my breath away at first sight. And then we hit it off by talking about how to make an incredibly harsh encounter for our mutual friend. Eventually, I invited him out for a group happy hour, then to the after party at my place, then dragged him into my bedroom (to which he replied with "Yes, ma'am").

A lot of hard work went into the relationship. We've been through job loss, a disability diagnosis, moving cross-country, and money problems. But through it, there's no one else I would rather have with me. He's the kindest person I've ever met.

The biggest thing is we both had a good handle on ourselves emotionally first. We both take a lot of time to figure ourselves out, then we're honest and we trust each other. We trust that when we say something awful, it was miscommunication, and we need to talk more not less.

Going on five years, and we're consistently complimented on the strength of our relationship by friends and relatives. It's awesome. 10/10, worth the time investment

No, be adherent. You do not want to deal with the audit process, it is hell.

Also, remember that while HIPAA has a lot of the broad details, the HI-TECH act has a lot of the technical specs.

IQ can be higher and lower during a lifetime, surprisingly, as long as you maintain brain plasticity.

This works even better for people who think of intelligence as something improvable, like physical skill. You might not start with great ability, but with practice you'll get better.

Keep in mind, cows were way smaller before they were cross-bred with bison. The price reflects less pounds of meat on average.

I'm guessing it's going to create power differences, where those willing to deal with social complexity will end up on top. The more people you can talk to, the better your career will do.

Much like any game of Settlers of Catan.

These incidents have been pushed against for a while, and while the same rhetoric was used in the 70's, nonetheless here we are without gendered want ads.

This site was frighteningly reassuring. Thank you.

I hope this becomes the new FML/TFLN

Did anyone else find the tone of this article just a touch self-congratulatory?

When I want to hear about mental disease, I want to hear about it from the actual sufferer.

Otherwise, even someone willing to try to do the work is somehow a hero because the ill person is a burden. Focusing on the supporter takes away from how mental health is harder for the sick person, not the person who supported them (until it wasn't for me!).

If I heard people talk about a partner with cancer or MS this way, I don't think this would be a nice article anymore.

Stoicism. It's a practical philosophy where ability to be rational and do good work is considered the only goal worth pursuing, and incorporates mindfulness into that system to be able to pursue Virtue. Quotes from adherents include:

"If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, that it automatically becomes confused and upset?"

"It is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself. For there is no retreat quieter or freer from trouble than a man's own soul."

Similar to Zen and Minimalism, but with the built-in goal of searching for virtue as the best way to live a life. It's the basis for modern CBT/DBT therapies as well. Good stuff.

Right now, your LinkedIn profile looks like it belongs to a new on the market 20-year-old, which I'm assuming is accurate. If your're looking to upsell, go for these:

* Go to local Meetups, and start getting more people linked to your profile. The same for any classmates you're still in touch with who want to be professionals.

* Get a better picture, like everyone has said.

* Bullets with good descriptions under each job, with keywords that match the positions you want in the future.

* Instead of "freelancing", come up with a company name, even if it's just Parsons Development Consulting, build a site for the company, and if you can get recommendations from customers. I know this won't impress a lot of tech people, but it does impress HR.

* Add more groups, preferably local meet-ups, your current company, and at least one non-profit.

* Take your high school off your profile. Right now. Nothing says "I'm a kid you can underpay" quite knowing when you graduated high school.

* ABOVE ALL ELSE link to your GitHub, and make sure your GitHub shows off your skills.

Hope this helps.

My employer has good policies on ADA accommodations. I still need to go into the office, but I feel good that when I can't anymore I'll still have a job with them.

Plus, I went from being responsible for the PM side of data architecture to natural language processing. Way less stress, way better skill set.

I do, but I also have fibromyalgia, which makes me an atrocious point of comparison. But that does mean I've gotten a lot of experience working around physical and ergonomics engineering.

Intense mental work can drop your blood sugar and oxygen content in your blood, as mentioned by others. Start checking your health and engineer health back in for better coding.

Walking to another floor's bathroom, stepping away from your desk to walk around the building, getting a sit-stand desk, regularly stretching... there's a bunch. Get a tracker, and start experimenting. The same thing for nutrition.

If you haven't, work on deep breathing exercises and consider getting a pulse tracker so you can find a pattern. This is any other data pattern, the effects are just very close to home. If you feel like you should be coding, consider if your life was a resource management game and at what point you would expend resources to get better productivity from your base unit (aka. you).

Good luck!

Exception state: Music helps with chronic fatigue/pain. If you're one of the unlucky ones, go with any and all effective pain management.

By all means, make your Skinner cage to lengthen assumed times for rewards, but make sure you can still run.