At least they stopped putting "My" in front of everything.
Where's the data behind that infographic about the leaf blower vs driving a pickup from Texas to Alaska?
Awesome!
My theory: workers are capable of performing focused work for only a fixed number of hours per week. If productivity is essentially: work done divided by hours worked, then a lot of the things the article mentioned…
I taught high school for five years but have been a software engineer for the past ten. I'd love to teach again - but sadly that would mean going back to a one bedroom apartment in a not-great part of town. Where I'm at…
Hear, hear. There's a lot of us in this same boat. These asocial, sedentary IT jobs + hectic lifestyles are out of sync with our biology and psychology.
I like Windows 11!
I've got the same type of deal here. I just worry about skills getting outdated since I'm only working on an in-house system and doing mostly maintenance. But perhaps that fear is overblown. I could easily hop to a gig…
Taking longer to get up to speed and setting up a development environment: I'm not sure that's a function of age. It's more likely because development environments truly have gotten larger and more complicated over…
Exactly. Making the whole "I don't trust the government to do something smart with my money" argument moot. It has been proposed, voters have seen the proposal, and it has been voted down.
Very, very common.
Or you could build actual things in an actual shed? This is the same impulse that drives people to build furniture, boats, and model train layouts. To me, the real physical objects are much more fulfilling.
This is a great book! Just finished reading it.
See also: Elton John
Right out of the Michael Scott playbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxtVMuDYD8
Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.
Briefly, VFR = Visual Flight Rules. You control the aircraft by looking outside. IFR = Instrument Flight Rules. You control the aircraft strictly by reference to instruments (you need to do this in clouds, for example,…
You don't get any of the "seat of the pants" feeling of course, and the graphics, while super impressive, don't compare to real-life low and slow VFR flying (although hopefully MS Flight Sim 2020 changes that). It…
Sure, it's a scratch-built PC (i7 / 2070 Super) with an HP Reverb, which is a lightweight VR headset. I use a physical yoke (Honeycomb), rudder pedals (Thrustmaster), and throttle quandrant (Saitek), but everything else…
As a pilot, I use VR with the XPlane flight simulator and it seriously feels like I'm in a real Cessna. True, the flight controls are a little off (for example, stalls and landings don't feel like a real plane), but…
Pet peeve: Software companies that name their product after the noun that their project is a giant database of. "People" is the stupidest example I've seen yet.
This is me exactly. Started in the tech field, burnt out and became a teacher, returned to tech for the money, and I'm currently in another burnout period. I agree with everything you said about learning being exciting…
I use the "change color scheme" trick and it does work.
Agree with most of this, but would like to add that you don't need to "self" medicate; if there's an underlying diagnosable mental health concern (depression, anxiety), proper medical treatment might do a world of good.
All of the symptoms can also be caused by panic disorder. Advice like "IF YOU FEEL ANY DISCOMFORT AT ALL GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ASAP" is bad advice for people with anxiety disorders. Go to a doctor and get checked out…
At least they stopped putting "My" in front of everything.
Where's the data behind that infographic about the leaf blower vs driving a pickup from Texas to Alaska?
Awesome!
My theory: workers are capable of performing focused work for only a fixed number of hours per week. If productivity is essentially: work done divided by hours worked, then a lot of the things the article mentioned…
I taught high school for five years but have been a software engineer for the past ten. I'd love to teach again - but sadly that would mean going back to a one bedroom apartment in a not-great part of town. Where I'm at…
Hear, hear. There's a lot of us in this same boat. These asocial, sedentary IT jobs + hectic lifestyles are out of sync with our biology and psychology.
I like Windows 11!
I've got the same type of deal here. I just worry about skills getting outdated since I'm only working on an in-house system and doing mostly maintenance. But perhaps that fear is overblown. I could easily hop to a gig…
Taking longer to get up to speed and setting up a development environment: I'm not sure that's a function of age. It's more likely because development environments truly have gotten larger and more complicated over…
Exactly. Making the whole "I don't trust the government to do something smart with my money" argument moot. It has been proposed, voters have seen the proposal, and it has been voted down.
Very, very common.
Or you could build actual things in an actual shed? This is the same impulse that drives people to build furniture, boats, and model train layouts. To me, the real physical objects are much more fulfilling.
This is a great book! Just finished reading it.
See also: Elton John
Right out of the Michael Scott playbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxtVMuDYD8
Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.
Briefly, VFR = Visual Flight Rules. You control the aircraft by looking outside. IFR = Instrument Flight Rules. You control the aircraft strictly by reference to instruments (you need to do this in clouds, for example,…
You don't get any of the "seat of the pants" feeling of course, and the graphics, while super impressive, don't compare to real-life low and slow VFR flying (although hopefully MS Flight Sim 2020 changes that). It…
Sure, it's a scratch-built PC (i7 / 2070 Super) with an HP Reverb, which is a lightweight VR headset. I use a physical yoke (Honeycomb), rudder pedals (Thrustmaster), and throttle quandrant (Saitek), but everything else…
As a pilot, I use VR with the XPlane flight simulator and it seriously feels like I'm in a real Cessna. True, the flight controls are a little off (for example, stalls and landings don't feel like a real plane), but…
Pet peeve: Software companies that name their product after the noun that their project is a giant database of. "People" is the stupidest example I've seen yet.
This is me exactly. Started in the tech field, burnt out and became a teacher, returned to tech for the money, and I'm currently in another burnout period. I agree with everything you said about learning being exciting…
I use the "change color scheme" trick and it does work.
Agree with most of this, but would like to add that you don't need to "self" medicate; if there's an underlying diagnosable mental health concern (depression, anxiety), proper medical treatment might do a world of good.
All of the symptoms can also be caused by panic disorder. Advice like "IF YOU FEEL ANY DISCOMFORT AT ALL GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ASAP" is bad advice for people with anxiety disorders. Go to a doctor and get checked out…