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If you can't afford it, you can get Waking Up for free. If you can afford it I think it's worth the price.

That said, no beaver has seen either from space.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/

I can also recommend https://www.tarabrach.com/radical-compassion/ as a great introduction to the idea of self compassion and some very practical ways to practice it.

Another similar framing I sometimes use is to think about how many people in the world would gladly switch places with me and have my problems instead of theirs. Helps to remind myself to keep things in perspective.

I heard it on planet money a few years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

The data don't support this story. Time spent with kids is going up, not down, especially for parents with higher education: https://news.uci.edu/2016/09/28/todays-parents-spend-more-ti...

The scale embedded in the map maxes out at $150... So I would say it's a lot.

Might also be people with mild symptoms delaying to go get a test because they're on break, not necessarily the labs being backed up.

This seems like an equivalent duality to me but in the case of seven independent functions you're much more likely to miss considering a case. If behavior changes for one you likely should be considering if that change applies to all the others.

That's assuming the current $1B does nothing to disincentiveize production which can't be true.

Put a mirror on the ceiling and it will "flip" things vertically and not horizontally.

I've been reading some Chekov via https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ac/jr/ recently. I also enjoyed George Saunders commentary on Gooseberries to be a good intro if you haven't read much Chekov before: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/ge...

I've been thinking a lot about that man with the hammer from Gooseberries lately given the state of the world and my privileged position to ignore much of it when I choose to.

No, not quite, the conclusion is that given a group of k people where all people have the same age, then a group of k+1 people also must have the same age. Since we know that in a group of 1 all k people have the same age, then if the proof held then a group of 2 people would have the same as well, then 3, etc. This is a common tactic in induction, you make an assumption, prove that if true it implies a general result, and then give an explicit case where the assumption holds, proving the general result.

We've been struggling to get storybook integrated in our actual dev/design feedback loop but this looks like a great way to do it by having a way for design to review stories before they get merged vs needing them to land in staging or some other test environment.

Since we all spend more time writing code than reading, my current tech screen is a small program in the tech for the role we're interviewing for that has a mix of obvious and subtle bugs, some poor data modeling, etc. First step is to get it working to spec, then refactor. I find it very engaging for interviewer and interviewee, is hard to game and gives me a sense of what the person will be like to work with.

You can apply and get a TN-1 without doing so crossing a border [1]. If you have a straightforward application though there's no reason to which is why so many people just apply on their way though.

[1] https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/978/~/how-to-ob...

What if it worked the other way and the password field was revealed when required vs hidden when not?

Levar Burton Reads has an episode with another David Langford short story featuring BLITs: https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395...

I had a great go to coding exercise that I always ran with candidates but also worried that I was becoming biased in this way over time. All the issues look so obvious when you've seen them 100 times. I think sucking it up and developing new scenarios every six months is probably the solution at the end of the day but hard to prioritize amidst everything else when you've got something that works.

Interesting that Graphql makes the list - any frontend devs without considerable backend experience out there that have adopted it? Would be interested in your perspective on it vs rest or rpc.

One option is to find a donor organization that's aligned with your values and get in touch with them to hook you up with one of their grantees. Small local orgs have a tough time with paying and retaining talent so you're likely to find some low hanging fruit. Not necessarily open source but lots of opportunity to have a big impact.

Pebble Time Round was exactly this and it was beautiful.

My wife would constantly get compliments on her rose gold edition from people in the street. The vast majority didn't even realize it was a smartwatch.

Is this not already a problem with the current welfare system in terms of selling food stamps? In which case is there any reason to suggest that UBI would worsen the problem significantly?

Really appreciate the emphasis on requiring 5x the process when working as a remote team. Prior the team I now lead I've only worked on co-located teams and it has certainly required some resetting of expectations on my end. Even though I've got a very talented small team I'm learning that we do need a level of process and protocol that feels much more "big-company" in order to work efficiently. Would love any more insights on practical elements you've added in terms of process that have worked well.

If Trump pulls out of NAFTA before Congress passes the new USMCA what happens to existing TN1 holders? Will those work authorizations still be valid until their expiry?

Those are actually already removed from the disengagement count if the operator can show (with simulation) that the car would have done the right thing without intervention.

If it didn't work this way you would be incentivizing operators to train their drivers to take risks in order to hit disengagement metrics which would be bad.

I quit it slowly to work on my current startup. Went down to two days a week then fully quit last year. They're awesome and I've still got a desk in their office!

Would recommend checking out the algorithm design manual if you're looking for a book with that sort of approach.

Edit: just noticed this was already recommended below, take this as another strong endorsement!

They also run Crossroads Cafe in SoMA if you're looking for something less fancy or just want to grab a coffee.