Wife (Community Manager) currently works from the couch in our living room and I (SWE) work from a sit-stand desk in a sunroom. We bought a floating home in the PNW just before Covid hit and it’s been a great…
I’m renovating our bedroom right now on nights and weekends—the room is currently gutted down to plywood and drywall. Economically, it makes sense for me to hire the job out, but I get so much satisfaction doing it…
I’m sorry you went through that. Very sad.
I was profoundly burned out in early 2021. I almost rage quit about 50 times, life lost all joy, dark thoughts, the works. Wife told me to quit which took a huge psychological weight off my chest. Didn’t end up…
I haven’t tried shrooms but had a similarly horrifying bad trip on weed brownies at my parents’ place a few years ago. My dad had just gotten into baking them and insisted I have two (BIG mistake) and I spent the next…
Absolutely, every job states it should take a few hours but it NEVER takes a few hours if you want to deliver something that’s remotely competitive. My current role’s take home was suppose to take “a few hours”, took…
I interviewed at a company last month that reminded me of your experience. The interviewer was extremely rude and it was more of an interrogation than anything. After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t…
I went through something similar as a Junior engineer, except the presentation didn’t get cancelled. The experienced engineers in the audience absolutely tore me and my code apart. It was a blood bath and…
Thank you for this thoughtful and detailed response. I did, in fact, read it and it gave me some food for thought.
I’ve had StarLink installed for a week now. We live on a floating house in Oregon, and up until now, DSL was our only viable option. That’s been hard given my wife and I both work remotely and do a lot of video calls.…
https://kindmind.com It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health. I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then. It has virtually zero marketing…
Care to elaborate? It’s abundantly clear to me that disinformation and conspiracy theories is a major, and probably the biggest, threat to democracy. I mean, shit, there was a major effort to undermine the U.S.…
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling. My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no…
My wife and are I live in a pretty small house (one story, 1,300 so ft) so we’re pretty much in sight if each other almost 24 hours a day. I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is…
Wife and I picked up a laser projector three months into quarantine. It’s keeping us sane.
Valid points on eating more whole, unprocessed foods. But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based…
Wife (Community Manager) currently works from the couch in our living room and I (SWE) work from a sit-stand desk in a sunroom. We bought a floating home in the PNW just before Covid hit and it’s been a great…
I’m renovating our bedroom right now on nights and weekends—the room is currently gutted down to plywood and drywall. Economically, it makes sense for me to hire the job out, but I get so much satisfaction doing it…
I’m sorry you went through that. Very sad.
I was profoundly burned out in early 2021. I almost rage quit about 50 times, life lost all joy, dark thoughts, the works. Wife told me to quit which took a huge psychological weight off my chest. Didn’t end up…
I haven’t tried shrooms but had a similarly horrifying bad trip on weed brownies at my parents’ place a few years ago. My dad had just gotten into baking them and insisted I have two (BIG mistake) and I spent the next…
Absolutely, every job states it should take a few hours but it NEVER takes a few hours if you want to deliver something that’s remotely competitive. My current role’s take home was suppose to take “a few hours”, took…
I interviewed at a company last month that reminded me of your experience. The interviewer was extremely rude and it was more of an interrogation than anything. After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t…
I went through something similar as a Junior engineer, except the presentation didn’t get cancelled. The experienced engineers in the audience absolutely tore me and my code apart. It was a blood bath and…
Thank you for this thoughtful and detailed response. I did, in fact, read it and it gave me some food for thought.
I’ve had StarLink installed for a week now. We live on a floating house in Oregon, and up until now, DSL was our only viable option. That’s been hard given my wife and I both work remotely and do a lot of video calls.…
https://kindmind.com It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health. I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then. It has virtually zero marketing…
Care to elaborate? It’s abundantly clear to me that disinformation and conspiracy theories is a major, and probably the biggest, threat to democracy. I mean, shit, there was a major effort to undermine the U.S.…
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling. My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no…
My wife and are I live in a pretty small house (one story, 1,300 so ft) so we’re pretty much in sight if each other almost 24 hours a day. I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is…
Wife and I picked up a laser projector three months into quarantine. It’s keeping us sane.
Valid points on eating more whole, unprocessed foods. But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based…