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Lindyville
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I’m only working 50+ hours a week in the hopes that eventually I can spend most of my time in the intense seclusion of my study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés.
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Two weeks notice is a modern corporate invention. Medieval apprentices left when the contract ended or the master stopped feeding them. Roman freedmen walked.
The ritual of announcing your exit in writing, then lingering while they hire your replacement, is barely a century old.
giving two weeks' notice is a hilarious one sided tradition. if the company decided to downsize today, security would literally escort you out in two minutes with your stuff in a cardboard box.
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Antiquity is the deep well to which civilization has returned time after time to rejuvenate itself when ideas became stale or there was great danger.
SECRETARY RUBIO: “Nationalism” became a dirty word. So we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process we opened our borders, and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.
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If you apply to a job and immediately regret it, your body is rejecting it. Listen to your body.
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I think English is the best of the Germanic languages. Easy on the ears. Refined.
German, Dutch and Flemish are a tied for second. What English lacks that these have is regular use of the umlaut. English would sound better if there were more words with ë, ö, ü in them.
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You, a midwit : I just read this new psych book. It talks about ego depletion. I’ve decided not to make any major decisions before 2pm everyday so I can conserve my ego enough that I can make serious decisions in the evening.
Me, reading the classics: That sounds crazy, bro.
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Sometimes I'll be feeling a bit melancholy. Then I look up and realize I'm in a low ceiling environment. Once I go outside or to a high ceiling environment, the melancholy feeling subsides.
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How is facebook still around ?
it's just a place that holds old people and photos hostage at this point.
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Was in a call and said off the cuff that “client incites are our most valued assets” and had to keep myself from vomiting for the duration of the call.
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If you work late, you’ll never come down from it. You're still in that work sensory tingling mode as you eat a late dinner. You’ll go to bed like that.
If you get out of work at a reasonable time, you can shake off this mode.
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You can have the life of your dreams but the price is terrifying nightmares every night for the rest of your life. Would you take it?
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According to Doctor Ray Peat, driving a vintage Land Rover leads to a massive boost in testosterone.
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Every once and a while I will get students from my Alma mater who have STEM, CS majors reach out on LinkedIn asking me if I think they should change majors to something nontechnical like finance or general business and I feel the need to talk them off the ledge. The market is very tough for everyone, including STEM majors but there is a lot of irrational decisions being made because of it.
Computer Science has one the highest unemployment rates but one of the lowest underemployment rates. Likely a combination of grads refusing to settle for jobs outside their field, and non-tech roles not hiring them because they assume they’ll leave
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Think about what you can control in your life right now:
1) Can you control your income?
2) Are you location independent?
3) Can you take time off without asking for permission?
4) Can you afford healthcare without a job?
5) How close are you to the edge, are you starving?
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