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I'm a Forest Service voluntary camp host. I think that one Seasonal Technician that I work with is typical. Five days a week she cleans bathrooms and collects garbage bags from bear-safe deposit boxes. During a fire she does radio-comminations for fire-fighting teams. When she is unavailable, I do the bathrooms. It's not a bother, but it is an example of how the Forest Service is a widely interconnected system. Many things are connected to something else one way or another. Musk knows this. He's an engineer. He knows that you can't just pull parts out of a functioning system. He's not fighting waste, he's attacking government and wrapping it in pretense.

It seems to me that many online influencers shamelessly cause harm in their pursuit of profit. Example: I recently saw an online ad that in an alarmed voice urged alzheimer's patients to never drink cold water. Distracting attention from what treatments are available and giving false hope causes people actual and emotional harm and ought to be criminal. It's only a matter of time before laws are past to punish such behavior as criminally harmful. To my mind how to craft those laws to reduce the amount of harm they cause is the core issue.

Annual vegetation has to die. If you could increase the rainfall, you would get more dead vegetation to burn next year along with increased fire risk.

Motivation comes from visualizing the end product of an activity. If your team lacks motivation, it is either because your product lacks value or because they have lost emotional contact with what that value is. That's where you should focus your attention. Either improve the value of your product or expose your workers to the problem that you are trying to fix so they can identify with the issue and the benefits of fixing it. You are following a false trail that will lead you nowhere.

Good luck!

greed

Nothing. Authors have the exclusive privilege of selling copies of their works. That's all. They do not own their work. The language belongs to all of us. We grant the privilege to encourage original works. Not you nor anyone else own our language.

Seems like a good idea, but I only read on my Mac. My iPad (and iPod) are for other purposes. I don't own an outrageously expensive iPhone.

The biggest problem with large numbers of people moving to another country lies in the bureaucratic bottle neck they all must pass through. Expect to spend several months to several years before you are done. When I moved to Mexico, it took me about half a year to get through the preparation and the initial paperwork. Once I was in the country there were additional fees and paperwork before I received a permanent resident permit several years later.

If large numbers of people want to move, expect requirements to get steeper as people in the receiving country begin to worry about the consequences of a large influx of foreigners. Expect the required personal qualifications to get stiffer, expect the fees to get steeper, and expect the delays for bureaucratic approvals to get longer due to the increased workload.

In many countries you would not have to move immediately, so a good plan might be to get approval now rather than when things get tough.

Expect misinformation and changing requirements and procedures. Expect false steps and mistakes. You'l want to get as much information as early as practical so you can make realistic plans. Even then patience and flexibility are required.

In summary, do it now because if you don't, it may not be practical later.

If you have lost interest in your job, this snippet from my mission statement may help. I does for me.

I will remember that enthusiasm is voluntary and arises from imagining success. I find the pleasure and enthusiasm to begin working on a project by imagining the fruits of success while knowing that once started, continuing my efforts to this end is pleasurable itself irregardless of eventual success.

I actually sit down and ponder what success will be like once I have finish. I'm talking serious daydreaming here. I can spend 15 minutes getting into the spirit of my work.

If you have something to say, SAY IT! Dreamy artsy fartzy intros are a waste of my time.

I would be deeply disappointed if Apple did start advertising on X.

Subtracting down votes from up votes is a worthless feature. Separately, the two numbers convey information. Subtracting one from the other destroys information and produces a meaningless number.

Put a whole lot of effort into exploring and mastering various ways to learn. Get very good at it in many different contexts. You'll be doing a lot of it in your live. You will have to re-invent yourself multiple times. If you don't master changing yourself to keep up with things, you will slowly descend into a life of joyless drudgery.

Good move on Apple's part. They are hugely dependent on the PRC. This makes them vulnerable to collapse if relations between the US and the PRC deteriorate. Given the PRC's stated intention to invade Formosa about 2027, the US and others likely will reply with sanctions and a trade war. Things could get very dicey.

If this is a question, not an intro to your explanation, then: Hatters (in Britain) used mercury to cure the hides they used. Mercury vapor can cause brain damage. Enough hatters were visibly mad, that the saying arose.

There are some insightful techniques here that can be applied to control any kind of dialog.

Yeah. I guess I can see that.

In high school many of us were deep into math.

This portrait is so stunning it's news. Art defines our world today as well as any other kind of news. As hackers we must understand our world to place ourselves in it. Otherwise our career is without a soul. This is already a strong tendency today, one that we must reject.

Fast? Not at all I'm afraid. Frequently, I can barely talk. I gave up on talking to people except as necessary over 70 years ago. I much prefer email.

Writing well is a slow process for everyone. It's a process of seeking out exactly what it is that I want to communicate (that is often not obvious) and refining my own understanding (which is often insufficient). It is a learning process as much as a communication one. It's worth the time.

Good luck!

I have ADHD and in my old age Aphasia. Here is an editing strategy that lets me write with clarity and precision. The key is to relax and write down my initial thoughts even though I know they are poorly expressed, incomplete, and even faulty. This frees me from the worries and inhibitions that interfere with moving forward. I just do it.

After completing the previous paragraph, I have then reviewed and re-written it about 10 times.

I find this approach very satisfying as my own understanding improves as well as my writing. After writing these last two sentences, I have again reviewed and re-written the entire piece multiple times.

After writing longer pieces I go back over the piece moving paragraphs, adding new ones, deleting old ones, dividing paragraphs, and launching editing cycles for others.

As I proceed, I have confidence that I am entirely in control and will go back and fix any remaining issues. Again the key is to ease back, relax, and just let it evolve.

P.S. I want to emphasize how worthwhile are the new insights into the topic that come from cycles of editing cycles.

I am a campground host for a US Forest Service campground where I often meet homeless people. I wrote this comment on a recent HN post:

< America, you don't know who your homeless people are. I'm a Forest Service camp host. Homeless people are common guests there. They greatly differ from the popular image of the homeless as destitute, dirty, criminal, and living in appalling hovels. Most of them are clean and well-behaved. They just don't have a place to live. Some are on Social Security, some on pensions, and some work.

The image of the homeless American presented in this article is so striking that most of us miss how common homelessness is among people like you and me. >

For my own part I can't afford to live in my own country. I bought a house in Mexico before prices skyrocketed. In the American context I am homeless. Do I meet Musk's image of homeless? I'm a retired research geologist for the USGS and a graduate of Stanford. Being destitute, dirty, criminal, and living in appalling hovel does not describe me.

I began my career in 1968. I saw a great many changes in what I did. The word careen refers to things like a cannonball bouncing in unpredictable ways through a battlefield. It's with good reason it resembles the word career.

If you are inclined toward tech, you might study both programming and a field in which it might be applied. This would increase your employment options. Programming and business administration would be an example.

Bear in mind that you will probably go back to school some as your career evolves. In this unstable and rapidly evolving word, maximizing your options is good.

Good luck!

America, you don't know who your homeless people are.

I'm a Forest Service camp host. Homeless people are common guests there. They greatly differ from the popular image of the homeless as destitute, dirty, criminal, and living is appalling hovels. Most of them are clean and well-behaved. They just don't have a place to live. Some are on Social Security, some on pensions, and some work.

The image of the homeless American presented in this article is so striking that most of us miss how common homelessness is among people like you and me.

Some good points. Some more like paranoia.

I made an app to: display web sites and files, highlight and drag noteworthy text or images into an item in a note outline, associate a comment with each note, drag a group of relevant notes into an item in a report outline, associate each group of notes with a word processor draft, and combine these drafts into a report draft. I couldn't sell a single copy so, I let the app die. Potential buyers already have a suite of apps to do this, and they are comfortable with it.

I'm a camp host for a USFS campground. It takes 3+ seasonal employees to clean the bathrooms, remove the trash, monitor the chlorine content of the drinking water and repair things. Together they maintain a dozen or so campgrounds.

As a camp host I occasionally do these tasks when these employees are absent as well as my usual duties. For this I theoretically receive a small stipend. I say theoretically because the payroll operation is so understaffed it is five months behind in paying me.

Without the seasonal staff, I don't see any way the USFS can keep the campgrounds open as well as do many other functions.

I don't think many Americans understand how 40 years or so of declining agency budgets have hollowed out the staffing of many government agencies.

We tend to get so buried in what we are doing, it's hard remember what it will feel like when we succeed.

My lack of motivation to start a task seems to be because I have forgotten to day-dream a bit about the future benefits of completing the task i.e. what it would feel like to actually finish the task and to enjoy the benefits.

Gold Panning Example: I really don't want to go panning for gold. The water is cold. It's hard work. It's windy. It's cloudy. I rarely find much anyway...

So, I imagine what it feels like to actually find a 1/4 oz nugget. Wow! What a trip! I did it! I remember what it was like the last time I did it. It was great! Now it's easier to start.

So far I have focused on "starting a task." Not continuing it, nor finishing it. I find that once I have finally begun a task, it took so much effort to start that I am very reluctant to stop.

When I recognized I had two different problems (not one), things seemed quite a bit easier. I just remember what it will be like when I succeed, and once I am going, I remember that it is easier to continue than to quit.

Hope that helps.

Not going to happen for this developer.

I suspect it might come from the Bible story of Jesus breaking too little bread to feed the multitudes.