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IMO because at its core, it's more about the absence of feeling and emotion rather than the excess of something. It's hard to identify and quantify

Highly recommend this book. I read this book skeptically years ago when I noticed it mentioned a lot on hacker news. It fixed a lot of my issues, and started my journey of appreciating how little we know about the mind/body connection.

Love the concept, just signed up to the mailing list.

I'm a Berlin based producer and DJ, and would love to be interviewed. Even if the $ of my gear is a few 0's less than all of the existing artists haha.

Soundcloud is https://soundcloud.com/simonhfrost Email is in my profile.

P.S. What does G.A.S. stand for? The above the fold of your homepage is a bit confusing, the 'Artist Interviews Studio Tours | Every Tuesday & Friday to your inbox' would be useful as a description higher up.

Yes. I even use the chrome extension 'unhook' which allows you to hide the home tab altogether

Are you asking permission to start your own business or start freelancing? Because that's the clearest way of not having a boss (by being your own one).

If you're scared, don't let it stop you. Everybody who has, was.

Good luck.

Same here, but with it counting up. Feels good when I reach certain milestones like an hour, but I don't put any pressure on myself.

They announced pricing changes over the last few years which I'm apparently not the only person confused about. That combined with practically all meetups being reset due to covid, I'm not surprised it's having a slow time getting back on it's feet.

https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/to-meetup-if-youre-going-to...

Yes, read Factifulness if you're not. Media has been increasingly tuned towards negative reactions since we're genetically wired to pay attention to them more for survival... which they've been doing an increasingly good job at recently.

Goodreads.com

Chores - cleaning the dishes, vacuuming the house, washing clothes. It's one of the things I love about being able to work remotely, chores get done during work hours instead of recreational time.

Yes, for me it's all about the morning routine. If you can start your day off early and accomplish a bunch of tasks it boosts your mood and also makes it easier to keep the train going for the rest of the day.

Routine is all about forming healthy habits, the best way to do that is to make them obvious and easy. I'd highly recommend reading 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear to help with this.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits

I've started minimising the time allocated for tasks I don't want to do. I fill up my schedule with other activities, then I have no choice but to complete it the time slot I gave it.

Otherwise, using a deep focus ritual (see the book Deep Work) or Pomodoro can also help with focus by minimising distractions and explicitly allowing rewards after discrete intervals (so it doesn't seem like an endless slog).

Good luck.

Deep work is one of my favorite books of all time. Also highly recommend 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen

I like to think that when I advocate for privacy I'm not only doing it for myself, but also for others that are less privileged or tech savy.

You or me might know to not easily give up personal information, and how it can specifically be used to annoy you (spam), or even be used maliciously (ID fraud).

But others may have less of a choice, having to pay with their data instead of money, or just simply don't have time to get educated. And they have to rely on the protective systems in place.

I'm a NZ citizen living overseas and it's currently impossible to fly home over the new year because of limited mandatory quarantine locations.

The booking system is flawed in a way that scalpers have already dominated supply and are selling slots for thousands of dollars, reinforcing that NZ is becoming increasingly unaffordable for typical people.

More information including petition to overhaul the booking system can be found here: https://www.groundedkiwis.com/

I think you typo'd with 'Netflix'

Happy international workers day the other day (May 1st), I hope you celebrated it.

Frontend Software Engineer, trying to get more into UX

> Any suggestions For things that have helped you perform at your best when you’re exhausted?

Don't get exhausted in the first place by sleeping more? If you're still seeing sleep as an inconvenient necessity, I'd recommend reading 'Why We Sleep': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

I was looking for a basic intro to design from a dev perspective (sounds similar to your use case) and found this: https://refactoringui.com/book/

In my opinion it was more from the perspective that minorities may have a more empathetic view on problems, after likely experiencing dealing with problems other more privileged people don't have to.

In this case: one of the biggest benefits of hiring minorities... ending up being the reason you fire them.

> It’s that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done.

Stung me the most. Capitalism seems to have such an increasingly firm grip on the world that I'm starting to think the only way out is from some drastic worldwide event (Corona?).

Sounds a lot like Pomodoro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Coffee is also an option (often free in some offices)

I tentatively added the slack bot 'Donut' mentioned in my company because I was starting to see a divide between the two colocated offices. I was pleasantly surprised to see over 60% participation, and people personally thanked me for setting it up. Yet another reminder to me how important communication is!

It also feels like a mild form of doxing. Not sure I'm ok with this.

Similar process for me. I worked in a few startups in Berlin and didn't enjoy it so switched to freelancing out of frustration.

There's a lot of react contracts on LinkedIn which you usually find through recruiters that take around 25%, they pay well but the work isn't as interesting or engaging to me (usually big corporations in generic markets).

The best work for sure is through referrals. My first gig was through an old boss, and I'm starting to learn that letting your friends and old coworkers know you're looking for work in the near future is often better than taking something more 'secure'. Clients often want someone immediately and aren't willing to wait two or three weeks while you finish up a previous project, especially if the project is more attractive (and the competition is higher).

If I understand your first paragraphs correctly, you're stating that finding a manager that has the correct balance of business and technical skills is rare to find (I have also had a PM with great technical skills but lacked business perspective). Maybe I should be spending more time in the interview process trying to analyse this balance.

Regarding your proposed cure, a lot of the solutions I try to push involve increased communication (generally via utilising agile meetings, and documenting decisions via email and docs). Goals and accountability are tightly tied to this, as this becomes more significant when communication is clearer. Perhaps I will focus on this more in future projects.

Who should I go to for business requirements? I've been in a setup where I have a 'team lead' but generally they're the more technical person, don't have a good picture of business priority.

It has been occurring in (4) different companies.

It's interesting you mentioned it potentially being a cultural issue as I had a similar conversation with a coworker recently. I'm considering taking a project in a nearby city to see if that makes any difference.