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jcp2faon Ask HN: How do you differentiate between Real anxiety and “Fake” anxiety

A lot of "fake" anxiety as you described can be cured by just doing _something_.

It's easy to get overwhelmed by a large task and psych yourself out. Motivation stems from _action_; the key is just start doing something small related to the task. This action leads to inspiration, which then leads to motivation, and the effect snowballs from there.

jcp2faon Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?

"The greatest enemy of a good plan, is the dream of a perfect plan" -- Carl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831 Prussian general and military theorist

jcp2faon Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid

I think this deal was more about Visa seeing a not so distant future where the payment rails shift to an API based interaction, not the data that Plaid has. Visa already probably has more data than they know what to do with.

jcp2faon Ask HN: What personal finance tools do you use?

Rolled my own system using email purchase notifications, zapier, and Google sheets: https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-got-control-of-my-spending-wit...

jcp2faon Why We Can't Build

I think there is an even simpler explanation: the massive bureaucratic mess that the government has become is ineffective at allocating resources.

jcp2faon I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (2013)

> I think it is important that engineering organizations identify a primary thing that they want to excel at. It affects the day to day mindset of the engineers, gives context to help with decisions, and provides guidance for what types of engineers we want to hire.

Aligning expectations is extremely important, especially when hiring - the culture of an engineering organization has an outsized impact on the final product. I have seen a lot of contention when people are brought into an environment where they expect to be moving fast, only to realize soon into the job that stability is much higher valued than frequent releases.

jcp2faon Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing

> Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%) were all uncommon among COVID-positive individuals

It seems the more important point here is that the majority of the COVID-positive individuals were asymptomatic, putting another datapoint towards the conclusion that there are orders of magnitude more people that have this disease than have tested positive.

We need more studies to gather data on these asymptomatic cases if we want to reopen the economy soon. Imagine if 10+% of the population already had COVID and where immune, we'd be much closer to heard immunity than we currently think.