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I use "communication snippets" or "fillers"

for example

> Person A: “Hey, do you have any idea why this number is low? It’s a mystery … nobody I’ve talked to yet seems to know.”

is really long

I just say

> curious; why is that number low?

other prefixes I use are:

1. adding to the discussion

2. for discussion

3. low pri, no need to respond

4. neutral

5. nonactionable

6. sharing opinion

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/communication-snippets-fillers...


Not a criticism: this reminds me of Elcor speech in the Mass Effect trilogy, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PKFo1fYCA

"Plainly, we discovered our vocal expression was not enough to convey the feelings of our conversations to other species."

I never noticed the analogy before between Elcor and written/online communication. Now I'm wondering if it was intended by the game's writers.


There was a thread not long ago about semantic communication (I presume in code reviews) that touched on this same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118098


Amazing! It seams so the devs were thinking of this very idea.


Is there a way to get to this without signing up for yet another service?


Fazz | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote ( South East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan ) https://bit.ly/45cuMee

Fazz provides last mile solutions to the growing financial ecosystem, including digital payments, kyc solutions, and much much more. Fazz currently processes more than 2 billion USD / year.

In March 2020, Fazz raised $53 Million.

We are hiring for 12+ positions spread across different teams and at all levels.

- (Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff) Software Engineers - Software Engineering Managers - DevOps / Site Reliability Engineers

TECH: Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ruby on Rails

Or contact me directly: aizat.faiz@fazzfinancial.com

Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...

I won't respond to candidates suspected who are out of my desired remote location.


What about candidates in APAC such as Japan?


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> Any recommendations on how to think about expected value when minimizing suffering?

I don't think it's about "minimizing suffering". There is things to suffer for, and there are things which you shouldn.t

I like to prefix my questions with "When should"

Therefore:

> When should I suffer?

and

> When should I not suffer?

I built a platform where I record questions I ask myself

Here is for the keyword "suffering"

https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/en/keywords/suffering


To me, pain differs from suffering. Pain is of the body and suffering is of the mind.

But I think your point still stands. There are plenty of reasons to purposefully subject yourself to pain (e.g. exercise).

I'm not sure about suffering. Suffering is an unavoidable side-effect of love and other delights of life, but it doesn't seem like something to ever be sought after. I'll need to think on that some more.

Also, your "when should" trick is clever! Good strategy for keeping things concrete.


> Suffering is an unavoidable side-effect of love and other delights of life

It's not a side-effect. It's an intrinsic part.

This is expressed in ancient philosophy like Taoism and embedded in its symbol , but since you poo poo philosophy, give a listen to some old pop music: The Rose by Amanda McBroom and sung by Bette Midler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSTzSEiZ2c


Idk about “sought after” but it often is useful to embrace and fully experience suffering when it comes for you. Grief is the obvious example.


I built a platform where I recorded questions I asked myself, and answered some of them. Maybe it can help you.

https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Intro-to-Deep-Thought-Using-De...


Not everything is important. Not all mentions, threads, conversations, channels are important.

Prioritize the most important ones.

Using Slack subsections I prioritize like so:

  1. P0 - Stakeholders and Peers
    Includes my manager, and peers I work with regularly
    Includes announcement groups
    Includes leadership groups
  2. P0 - Adhoc Conversations
    Anything with a P0 individual
  3. P1 - Reports
    All of my direct reports
  4. P0 - Incidents
    Anything that needs my attention
    Alerts, monitors, etc
  5. P0 Engineering
  6. Almost everything else
  7. Guilds and Social
Hope it helps.

If something is important enough, it will reach you.


Fazz Financial. Group | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote ( South East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, India ) https://bit.ly/3QbOf6O

Fazz Financial Group (Fazz) provides last mile solutions to the growing financial ecosystem, including digital payments, kyc solutions, and much much more. Fazz currently processes more than 2 billion USD / year.

The Fazz Financial Group raised $53 Million in March 2020.

We are hiring for 40+ positions spread across different teams and at all levels.

- (Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff) Software Engineers - Software Engineering Managers - Mobile / Flutter Engineers - DevOps

TECH: Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Or contact me directly: aizat.faiz@fazzfinancial.com

Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...

I won't respond to candidates suspected who are out of my desired remote location.


Fazz Financial. Group | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote ( South East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, India ) https://jobs.lever.co/fazzfinancial?lever-via=dLHNdFcr8P

Fazz Financial Group (Fazz) provides last mile solutions to the growing financial ecosystem, including digital payments, kyc solutions, and much much more. Fazz currently processes more than 2 billion USD / year.

The Fazz Financial Group raised $53 Million in March 2020.

We are hiring for 40+ positions spread across different teams and at all levels.

- (Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff) Software Engineers - Software Engineering Managers - Mobile / Flutter Engineers - DevOps

TECH: Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Or contact me directly: aizat.faiz@fazzfinancial.com

Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...


This is a really cool idea!

edit: feature/request

Scenario, if I save a link from HackerNews, I like to save the submission of it as well. I wonder if I send a HackerNews link to forlater.email; it can parse the article and remind me I got it from HackerNews.

For example, I'd submit "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852384" and in the email, it'd contain:

1. HackerNews link (so i can review the comments as well)

2. Original article link and content

food for thought, but love your product idea


I don’t see why not—this seems easy enough. And thanks for checking it out! :)


Fazz Financial. Group | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote ( South East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, India ) https://jobs.lever.co/fazzfinancial?lever-via=dLHNdFcr8P

Fazz Financial Group (Fazz) provides last mile solutions to the growing financial ecosystem, including digital payments, kyc solutions, and much much more. Fazz currently processes more than 2 billion USD / year.

The Fazz Financial Group raised $53 Million in March 2020.

We are hiring for 40+ positions spread across different teams and at all levels.

- (Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff) Software Engineers - Software Engineering Managers - Mobile / Flutter Engineers - DevOps

TECH: Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Or contact me directly: aizat.faiz@fazzfinancial.com

Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...


Hi, I'm interested.

My main backend language is Python. I can do full stack development and data science.

ClarkWhitehead.com


Fazz Financial. Group | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote ( South East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, India ) https://jobs.lever.co/fazzfinancial?lever-via=dLHNdFcr8P

Fazz Financial Group (Fazz) provides last mile solutions to the growing financial ecosystem, including digital payments, kyc solutions, and much much more. Fazz currently processes more than 2 billion USD / year.

The Fazz Financial Group raised $53 Million in March 2020.

We are hiring for 40+ positions spread across different teams and at all levels.

- (Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff) Software Engineers - Software Engineering Managers - Mobile / Flutter Engineers - DevOps

TECH: Go Lang, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Or contact me directly: aizat.faiz@fazzfinancial.com

Also some advice

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/Dropping-Me-a-Cold-Message-b46...


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