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companies like github should remain apolitical. this is pure nonesense, merely a show of force by otherwise impotent and misguided liberals. take your outrage somewhere else.

excellent, you've provided another great life lesson: seemingly benign but nonetheless false assumptions can have disastrous consequences. so much talent and potential has been lost to hubris.

remember: don't ever rely on intelligence alone when making critical life decisions, it will only serve to dissuade you. after all, it's not the reasonable men who change the world.

don't.

http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

do what you can to not work for anyone but yourself. even if it means reducing the scope of what you can work on and earning less.

and the hardest thing of all: find people you like, respect and trust - and stick with them. loyalty and fidelity above all else.

yes this sounds weird, but to me sleepwalking through life, being constantly distracted and dealing with office politics is by far more weird. to each his own i guess.

a rule that comes to mind is that a bunch of 8/10 scores make a 10/10 bottom line. it comes from Santa Monica Studio, developers of God of War series, where their strategy to achieving a "perfect" game is to have a minimum of 8/10 scoring on any single aspect of the game. Put together, you get a masterpiece. I guess this may apply to life as well - it's extremely hard to get a 10/10 in any one particular thing, but with discipline most can manage 8/10 in all aspects of life.

4-5 hours of quality thinking time sounds about the right limit to me. if anything, it's impressive. I can churn out 10 hour days but about 7 hours will be mostly "operational" stuff i don't need to think deeply about.

i want to counter all the sensible people offering you to save money and such while you're young. let's say you want to spend a decade building your reputation, expertise, and saving money. and lets say you have to compromise in order to do this, meaning you'll be working at ok places but you won't care deeply for the work you're doing.

after about 4 years of that 10 year long stretch you're going to lose motivation/track of the grand plan and wonder what the hell you are doing with your life. if you ever get out of that depression you'll regret every moment you wasted on a plan that amounts to serving a decade of your best years in prison, so that you can come out the other end having forgotten what you were going to do, or if you do remember having lost all the enthusiasm and will to do it. not to mention you're likely to go through significant life events like meeting your significant other, breakdowns, etc.

humans are not timeless fixtures of character and personality. this fact is exacerbated by the accelerated rate of change in the world. you're not who you were last year, and 5 years from now the difference a year makes is only going to only grow larger.

do what you really want to do. do it now. do not ever compromise.

Seeing it like this kills all mystic notions I had regarding these tombs. And I don't mean this in a negative way, it sort of opens your eyes to what this thing actually is - a conglomeration, made by many artists and engineers, pouring their hearts and souls into building something to last a millennia. Truly beautiful. That is until you remember it was all in service of some rich guy who thought he was a god, and had them build this as a monument to his supposed might. Ironically, his existence was entirely inconsequential, and merely provided an excuse for the true geniuses of the time to tunnel their talents into a magnum opus. They, together, were the true gods. Only true ideals transcend time, and any individual thinking himself a god would be wise to acknowledge that; you can become a god only if you let youself die and embody an ideal fully. Ramesses missed the point so hard it's hilarious.

It's larping.

Politics.

You better brush up on your social engineering, learn when to smile and when not to, and watch your back. Rationality and intelligence will not get you far on their own, because the game isn't about who's the smartest or who has the best ideas, it's about leverage, prejudices, cliques, "prestige", and ultimately money.

Remember you're there to play with some toys, occasionally commit code, and get that sweet money.

~/notes/ folder for org-mode notes (and other text based notes)

~/notes/journal.org dumpster for my personal day-to-day. from random quotes, to bizarre thoughts i had, and even code snippets (e.g. extract all image links from a page is one that i seem to keep going back to...)

~/notes/journal.work.org same thing as journal.org but for work related stuff. the layout is slightly different: it's a flat structure where each headline is top level (the personal journal is tree-like with year->month->day style nesting). it contains mostly technical details, notes on tasks and various bugs/TODOs.

~/code/qqj/ for my personal repos. i usually keep a "journal.org" style file in each private repo, detailing my work, thoughts, possible directions, snippets i found useful/interesting etc.

~/code/<company name> for work repos

~/code/ everything that is not personal or work related goes straight under "code". if i'm learning a new language i'll create a ~/code/<lang> dir and clone into it various repos to experiment with and learn from.

~/sync/ is like a dropbox dir that is synced across all machines. only the must have stuff that is lightweight.

~/cloud/ for cloud backup (exists on this machine only, not synced to other machines)

~/devon/ for devonthink databases (they are also synced to ~/cloud/ via devonthinks internal sync thing). most of my files i save in devon databases (i usually have two open: one for work and one for personal stuff, like interesting articles i find etc. but whenever i'm working on a personal project that requires extensive research and document collection i open a database for it. most of the documents are webpage captures in pdf format, pdf files (like papers and articles), and images. if it's text-based it's most likely under ~/notes/.

~/Downloads/ is for... downloads and pretty much everything else that is transient in nature. it's a big dumpster i clear out every month or two. every time i clean it i also empty the trash (before deleting current generation of Downloads). it's not automated because i like reviewing what i've been up to, and seeing how bad my adhd was this month :)

~/tmp/ is for files that can be deleted at any time (so... super transient files i guess). i'm not using /tmp/ because i want control over when they are deleted.

~/muhmusic is for offline music :) although i barely use it these days

~/ also contains a bunch of other directories that are synced to cloud backup, like a lecture series i downloaded from youtube. i prefer to have "big" meaningful collections like a lecture series under home dir because i'm much more likely to notice them when doing random stuff, and look into them.

You agree pharmaceuticals should be administered judiciously and yet find the energy to disagree on... what exactly? Throwing around terms like "misinformation" in an attempt to discredit what amounts to essentially a common sense conclusion is baffling and borders on vitriol.

If you have personal history with mental disorders and anti-depressants, I in no way mean to diminish your experience, and hope things turn out ok for you - whatever the path you choose to take.

I qualified that statement with "most of", and if anything comments like yours promote laissez faire attitude towards pharmaceuticals, the consequences of which are disastrous - as can be seen by the opioid epidemic etc.

Look, drugs work. They work incredibly well for some people. You absolutely should avoid them if you can help it. Makes sense, no?

David Lynch truly is the most successful troll of all time, ironically achieving artistic depths through deliberate obfuscation and random ramblings.

I think it says far more about people, and what they are willing to accept as profound (or unwilling to discard as meaningless), than about David Lynch.

I would caution against using any sort of chemicals, try to exhaust all other options first. You don't want the sort of problem where you feel unlike your own self without some substance, not to mention that most of them basically reduce you to a zombie.

Sleepwalking through life isn't my idea of living.

It used to be that everyone on the internet were a Dog, nowadays it seems like the internet became a cesspool of stagnant hyper centralized services catering to the lowest common denominator (twitter, youtube, linkedin, facebook) with morally bankrupt somali-pirate types circling around them like vultures.

In the old days griefing was done for the lulz. Today it's done out of malice, or worse, out of greed.

dunno about the others but 27$ Win10 is OEM license that is locked to a single machine. Seems legit.