Well, if you’ve played games, there’s definitely a thrill you get from farming or playing the economy for its own sake, much past the extent needed for personal use of the currency gained
Eh honestly I found it super cumbersome to use after coming from Sequel Pro (mysql), never really found a better alternative for Postgres though. Perhaps I would use Navicat
Navicat has Data Synchronization feature which you can use to compare and sync data across two databases. I dont think any other DB tool has that feature which also works on a Mac
I took antibiotics more than 2 years ago and after about 4 days I was a wreck. I was anxiety riddled for a bit over a year. Thankfully, I feel normal again! But yea, scary stuff.
Not in my experience. I was using a Dell work laptop recently and decided to use Linux instead of windows. Once I got things working mostly to my liking, I updated the GPU drivers and got a kernel panic. I’m lucky to be tech savvy so I can recuperate from that, but after that I asked for a MacBook and now have a solid daily driver that I can rely on, without having to spend hours looking for workarounds, crashes and kernel panics
Yet it’s true, from my experience being unemployed but still being financially stable. Work provides a lot of purpose and fulfillment that isn’t so easily replaced, although definitely not impossible. A suitable replacement often looks like work, just perhaps not paid
I was working on a library to do this which I never got around to fully finishing but the idea is there: https://github.com/lime-green/django-orm-plus I think all I had left was polishing the auto add logic and testing with a real project
Canola oil as far as I know is the most refined oil on the market. One of the processing steps adds trans fats, and another adds synthetic antioxidants because of the naturally low saturated fat content. You may be fine betting your health on a as of yet “not proven unhealthy” oil but why risk it when you can use something like olive oil which contain beneficial polyphenols and antioxidants and doesn’t need to be processed in 10 different ways to be deemed safe for consumption
It appears I’m one of the very few happy about this change. I miss my colleagues at work and having fun discussions about programming, investing, podcasts. I miss the adhoc discussions about a problem someone was encountering and helping them fix it. I miss talking to new people in the kitchen about what they did that weekend. I miss playing board games with a group of 10 people from different departments and teams. I miss the happy hours, the excitement, the kickoff of a new project. I loved my job, then WFH happened, I switched teams, found that still boring, went to another company, left within 3 months because that was still boring. I’ve lost a lot of joy from remote work. I’m excited that within the next 2 years I’ll be able to find a place to work that doesn’t work remotely, because, frankly I hate it.
Literally none of what you listed is work. Board games, happy hours, friends: these are all things you can (and should) be doing in your non-work hours.
For some of us, work is where our social circle. Not all of it and definitely not a reliable one. But if I’m spending 8 hours a day with people, I’m likely to develop friendships with them since that’s easy.
Guess what? I’m your coworker and I didn’t miss you. I prefer to spend commute time with my family and loved ones. I prefer to eat healthy food with my wife and not snacks with you. I prefer to work and do only work fully focused during 4h/day instead of procrastinating around the office during 2h and having to spend the remaining 6h with my ass on the chair while using headphones because you are making too much noise.
No, I didn’t miss you at all. I’ll submitting my resignation, don’t worry.
That’s all great to hear, but I think what most of us are frustrated about is the mandate aspect. You are welcome to go to the office every day if you want, and if you want to see coworkers in the office who are friends then go plan that with them.
For the rest of us its been a roller coaster of wfh being forbidden pre-covid, to wfh being what “saved the companies”, to now it being a problem all while we’ve delivered for the company (Ive been with AWS for 7 years). All the while, folks like myself have had to make decisions like where to buy a home given messages of “amazon has fully embraced wfh/remote work, we won’t be forcing a return to office” [1] to now this… its out of touch from reality.
I’m right there with you. Turns out talented people tend to be really interesting people to talk to. My favorite moments over my career were in person, often late at night when we were solving a hard problem. There is something about working on difficult challenges together and the bonds that form from it.
Hey I read your notes on Dr. Yapko's lecture on depression which led me to watch the lecture and I found it immensely helpful. Do you have any other resources you would recommend?
I'm glad you found it helpful. I have some one-off articles like this one: https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/dabrowskis-theory... However, in my case I mostly connect it with neuroticism on which I have an immense bunch of information piecing it all together. It seems to be sensitivity and neurotic qualities that are most connected with what led towards a rather strong depression.
Adding to this, I also did a summary of a book from Ernest Becker way back in the day, and the section on neuroticism, or how psychology is taking over from religion, and such broader societal topics you can read about here: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/the-denial-of-death-by...
It's quite some brutal and heavy reading, but then again, if it helps you understand the condition better then it's for the best I guess...
