ideamotor

Brutal

Yep. This is what happens when big money gets interested.

I agree.

Cool

I’m not a big metallica fan but that album is great, especially the first part of that song, as you said.

uh huh

I’m dubious. The same survey resulted in only 9% of vinyl record owners not having a record player in 2016. I’d like to see the actual questions asked.

OK maybe I need to try it again. I bought it on release ages ago and as I recall, it’s one of these many games where you go around picking up collectibles so you can have the pleasure of dealing with upgrade menus. I felt the same way about Witcher and so many other games.

There is no way I could finish GTA, BoTW, or Diablo. I’m 40, I have a career. I have plenty of items to collect to upgrade stuff in my real life, plenty of menus too. I’m OK with complicated controls if they are revealed slowly. But there is an amazing amount of busy work in games these days. I stick to Rocket League and Overwatch and forego the skins and other tedium.

The real cause is literally staring everyone in the face who is reading this right now.

I’m always surprised when I see an actual respectable journalist on substack as opposed to yet another crank hawking gold/crypto/etc with literal-minded horse-blinder rhetoric only based on internal logic and not the real world.

Funny

I haven’t considered this but it makes perfect sense. If time is critical or if you are understaffed, it becomes required, however. I’ve prided myself on my ability to get so much done in a solid 8 hour flow state in the past, when it was necessary, but now that I have a baby and work at a larger company, perhaps I can take some solace in the concept you shared.

A lot of selfish libertarians in Austin think they are liberal, too. Hmm.

Your cargo bike has them in front? That’s what I’m leaning towards because I’ve had a few close calls from behind. I’m already petitioning my city to fix a few missing bike lanes haha, I also wonder about wearing reflective decals and using flashing lights. Only so much you can do. Once I’m past 15 minutes of roads we can basically access all of the best parks of the city through an awesome trail.

I cannot wait for the electric cargo phase. The day care we’ve selected is a 15 minutes bike trip away. How long were your kids when they could handle being on the bike?

What's funny is that when my wife became pregnant I had a near panic to find a place so I could have a dedicated area to focus. And we closed on that very house last week. Our baby is only one month old, but I can already feel what you are talking about. Where we are now is basically one giant room, and I actually like it so far. Whoops. Well, at least the "study" in the new house is a large converted garage that has room for office and an extra living room. I've struggled with remote work with the concept of sleeping where I work, so at least this will fix that, and when the time comes we'll have a dang bedroom for her. Not sure we need three living rooms though, that'll be a lot of play areas!

Alfred?

The top three benefits of college have nothing to do with anything you mentioned.

Well said

Much of the tech industry is not about tech now. The actual tech was successful. Now, it’s all about locking up platform monopolies while confusing luck with ability and spreading that belief via right-wing libertarian politics. How many large “tech” companies are actually tech now?

Most are concerned with locking in customers, force feeding them ads, and caving to their worst instincts in the process. Crypto, as mentioned in the article, is a great example of all these. That “industry” has nothing to do with the tech.

I think that is the norm for plumbers servicing areas with 1m+ homes. Granted that likely means they have a long commute even with that salary.

Haha I can’t even correctly type my online rants given how busy I am now. I meant to say … anyone deciding to use Zoom should be fired. Search for the security history of that app, particularly as it pertains to their macOS version …

Anyone involved in deciding the federal reserve should be immediately fired.

That resonates. I spent ages 21 to 34 having a good time. Maybe too good of a time, but far away from tech. The last 6 years have been great for my career and I’m lucky to have caught fire with something I built and sold and caught up.

But following that, I’m over here crunching retirement numbers every week, and making so many decisions based on my desired retirement date. I’ve learned too much about it, but it is nice to not just scoff at anyone who invests in stocks as being a conservative stiff.

But as much as saving here and there may mean I can retire while still healthy - the map is not the territory. Maybe buying a house that fits a child and is near parks and trails will mean I’m more mentally fit. Most things are less inseparable than they appear on a spreadsheet.

One of the reasons I’ve been so conservative in where I live and how I spend lately is that my parents have got old. That’s a whole other topic, but maybe this is why having a child has so far alleviated my depression.

I also took a break and it sucked. The irony is that I think it sucked because I didn’t feel driven, I was fairly content in where my life was at, and more stressed about it changing than being interested in pursuing anything. I wasn’t motivated, I was demotivated.

The only thing that was actually fun was travel and my wedding. Consumption of media was not. I should have improved my health but I was depressed from having less social interaction.

Now I have a baby, new job, new house, many new responsibilities, and I’m enjoying it. Where I think I failed during my break was never really acquiring the first thing you mentioned: something creative to focus on.

Oh I’m definitely biased.

It only serves their interest if it creates a monopoly.

You mean the guy I’ve criticized and considered a fraud since I first sat into a Tesla is 2011?

Should a doctor who learned a lot about perfecting a surgery in one job not be able to apply that at a new job? They shouldn’t be able to steal equipment for example, but learning through your career is exactly what you should do and is what makes you valuable.