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I'm gonna go with they were abducted by aliens.

Consider love as a half-measure, therefore:

You are what you create

2024's public domain is a mouse

Cold fusion is posted here every few months. Does it fall in this category?

In other news: Water is wet, and fire is hot.

Bring back those pop-up headlights, and ban those tall front ends!

Two years, maybe.

I like to read insight into people's thinking who normally are not writers, they provide interesting meta insight, democratize in a easy way to publish.

I recently learned writing is two things, what you know and how to market yourself. While I'd say a good amount is more of the former, HN highlights some of the absolute best pieces of the prior.

People should write. And those that touch a nerve probably did it well enough do receive critical feedback.

A few questions went through my as I read this being incredibly nostalgic this past year as well:

1. Do post-life altering events like a pandemic stoke hidden nostalgic behaviors at a higher degree of a population?

2. What percentage of great creative works (any kind) were the result of revelry of that nostalgic wave of thinking?

Obviously this work is a meta result.

As someone wise said to me once "the past is a nice place to visit, but I won't want to live there." I'll extend this thought "If I'm there, I'll harness it to produce art."

A mentor once shared this wisdom, "In experimenting in human relationships, there is always an emotional outcome over time: lonely and irritated."

Certainly, they were right.

Stamina isn't the word I would go for. It would be commitment. For those that have loads of stamina, it's the commitment to continuous creative encounters that leads to the perceived magic.

From "Courage to Create" by Rollo May: "It is said that the novelist Thomas Wolfe, who was one of the highly creative figures of the American scene, that he was a "genius without talent." But he was so creative because he threw himself so completely in the material and the challenge of saying it-he was great because of the intensity of his encounter"

Apologies going philosophical, its the only way to debate such an answer-science has no real answers for this title we call "staff engineer"

The writer's last paragraph(s) tell the whole story. In fact, I'd argue better writers tell their punch lines last, so start there first.

It's a natural progression of his writing style. It's reductive romantic style, tuned for virality in a sea of endless info. Of course, its shallow, but this one invites conversion of an observation that is quite impactful. I thought it was well done for a general audience, and probably some target to an aging generation. No one around me listens to McCarthy, and if they do its all regression.

Jim Morission accurately predicted "the machines" or "single person" in this context. I've also been reading more on Bob Moog, as one of those first engineers to birth the liminal device.

What Seth says here is a bit more dramatic, but its a natural evolution to information access, tech, and single author productions. In fact, really this is the next step, where the single person is no one, its scaled "nobody" based on mixed IP.

I don't know of a "person" who heals papercuts in 24 hours. It's like 24-48 hours of open pain, body identifies the healing spot and places blood toward it. 72-96 hours, basic healing. 144 hours new formed scab. 7-14 days, good enough to function again like it did not happen.

and if its located in a high-tension spot (papercuts are always located there like fingers), well then you need band-aids otherwise its recipe for churn.

papercuts is perfect for the methaphor. its tension area, high traffic spots. but the author missed the point about super glue (or duct tape, in other authors words)

To author - what a missed opportunity to use "superglue" as a healer and metaphor. Temporary fixes are probably good enough - these cuts will be re-absored by another team later, anyway or washed away by organizational/product learning.

This article throws a red flag on proving negative(s). This is impossible with maths. The void is filled by human subjectivity. In a graphical sense, "visual taste."

A fantastic write up on a metaphorical ultra-intelligent way to lament about manager(s), and link it to kaizen. Bravo!

The question wasn't answered.

How to fill those gaps? Write.

I want someone to want to explain it to me like I'm five?

But what's your blast radius?

We decided to stay close to our parents. And yea we are "close." But some days I dream of moving far away from them. Of course i would write the same years later. The contrived human condition is mainly torture.