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You can tell by the outrage every single time the new MBA/MBP model comes out.

Interesting! Thank you for that. I don't plan to become an "employed" dev - just want to build my own projects :) Curious what part of the world that is? I know in Japan Rails is big.

Yeah, I think the safe option for employment is React.

I would have picked up Rails, but I am not well-versed with Ruby despite knowing about the productivity of the stack.

Seeing Rails having a resurgence, to be honest if I would have started with Ruby a few years back, it would indeed be a no-brainer productivity wise.

I am quite far from ML :)

My app is just a few external APIs

- Fetch audio

- transform to text

- let users edit

- save and publish via a form

- send to another external API

Yep, seen this going quite a bit:

- Server side framework (Hono or ElysiaJS)

- HTMX / Hyperscript, Alpine

Seems simple enough, but still not a lot of batteries so you kind of start building from scratch every time.

I have no experience with Java unfortunately, just a typical vanilla web stack :/

Yeah haven't seen it much. Think Sveltekit though compiles and ships min. sizes as well.

There is no need for a practical answer, because it has been answered 1000 times.

The reason why people are stuck in the bog is pretty much fear. The fear of being rejected, accepted, sharing publicly (aka being judged).

Telling people to "unfear" themselves is impossible, because its not the same as learning a skill. It takes years of unbundling your behavior, therapy and doing pretty much the opposite of what you are doing now.

Probably because the author is not trying to appeal to a corporate organization but just writing in his own tone of voice.

A lot of people going into entrepreneurship because of unemployment and its a good enough reason for them to build a successful business.

If it doesn't show survival and problem solving instinct, I don't know what is and not sure why is it considered a red flag.

"irreparable damage to my career."

Means I care too much what others think of me - which is not a great sign.

The most interesting companies I've seen are hiring former founders and have open roles - because they know you are a problem solver.

I believe same was the case for "Growth mindset"

Interesting, what streaming taught me when discovering new music is to skim and listen to beats / rhythms. I can pretty much tell in a few seconds whether the song is a banger, medium - worthy of adding to liked, or not enjoyable by my taste.

I do have to stop from time to time to listen in in a focused mode to see how I feel about the tone, voice and other elements though.

I think the world fossil fuel capitalists will have something to say about that unfortunately :/

Are there any migration ways (to for instance offload everything from iCloud to Memories)?

Isn't that the entire point of PRO?

Probably depends how big and muscular are you. I don't feel 14' PRO in my backpack at all, 16 PRO barely. Its not a flex but it definitely matters if you are a 5'1 female or 6'2 male.

Do you ever push it to the limits? Think without sustained workloads - PRO seems like a waste of money.

I just did visa on arrival a few days back and didn't have any issues.

+1 and if you need to replicate some structure you can use namespaces like review/weekly

Pretty much a weekly occurrence for my work with Confluence.

Never happened to me with Logseq, also why are we making a trend of something that has happened to 5 people out of 10000 users?

Kind of a bias when you see only horror stories of people losing data, but not the rest who are fine.

For some the real greatness is to be involved in a more than one discipline.

Thinking about how to learn is fascinating. A few short things that helped me:

Essentially we need to get fundamentals first.

Then apply the knowledge and get challenged (feedback loop) -> build a project, play in front of others, speak the language.

Improve - not by force, but by understanding (remembering something and understanding something are two different things).

Synthesise - learn about a topic in a different manner or try to find similar concepts in completely different context /

Use mentors to amplify the knowledge and get feedback quicker.

Immerse yourself in practicality (work in a field, live in a country etc.)

Yep, reddit is probably pretty close and I use it more than google these days or just add "reddit" in the search.

Funny that you mentioned WebMD - they just released this cringe video to let people return to the office: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxqnx/dont-mess-with-us-web...

> Its hard to work hundreds of hours on something knowing the end monetary value is going to be $0

Thats kind of a crux of an issue. Why not find something you'd work on regardless whether it will be worth $0 or $100?

That sounds more like absurdism > the belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe.

This is such a powerful question (another version of it, what would you do if you wouldn't have to worry about money). Sometime ago I tried to answer it and realised that I don't know. It sparked anxiety, meaning I've been doing something for such a long time 15+ years now without knowing what really my end goal is and why I am doing that.

Whatever its called, zombie or auto/robo mode, the unintentional living, its freaking scary because in most cases if you remove the work identity from a person, there will be a sad shallow shell of a person left.

On a bright side, its never too late. I started actually putting the money to use to create experiences (hiking in Taiwan, diving in Thailand, paragliding in Turkey). Starting to write and build products (finally learning to code for the sake of building something simple and useful instead of setting up kubernetes).

That kind of existence gave me energy, although I do have melancholic nostalgia about former days of building startups and working in a team to get to an exit. It all seem like a war story I will be telling people in my 50s, how I moved countries without knowing anyone, joined a company that got to $50m ARR, grew to 100 people and became profitable ever since.

The work identity we have is a interesting phenomenon, despite feeling happy in life, I do miss ambitious goals and working in a small team of friends and interesting people to reach the highs of professional achievement.

I suppose in the end everything is about the balance.

Interestingly, I came across this tweet from the founder of Replit:

"Lots of ink spilled on the coming of age, but no one prepares you for middle age: losing a parent, confronting the reality of passing time, and the resulting reevaluation of life’s priorities. More art should explore this period of life."

It struck me at the same age as you. It doesn't seem to be unique and I didn't find the solution. What I think is that there is no solution, just acceptance and making sure we do things that we feel are worthwhile whilst avoiding that "auto-mode" at work.

For me, it was the fact that I live 8000km from my parents. The last 2 years were just so fast it became a blur. But seeing them grow old scared me so much that I'd rather lose out on my career but try to spend more time with them and live closer.

Instead of chasing startups and VC glory, I would like to work on problems that I care about and build small things that are fun despite them not bringing full-time income even if I just do it on the side. My professional goals are around working on worthwhile things (subjective) with a small team of awesome people. The dream setup is to have 5 smart friends and work together on cool shit we all enjoy whilst earning a living.

Also exploring all these emotions and feelings is interesting. I found that having dire nostalgia and melancholic feelings about the past (and hence passing time...)probably signals something. However, if left unexplored it doesn't lead to introspection. It's meta but even thinking about why the feelings that you described exist leads to interesting internal and external conversations. Journaling, therapy, SO conversations.

"Spending your time well" is an art that is hard to get right.

Would love to also hear about more resources on this topic.