Readit Newsaeze commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw
Would you mind sharing this? Seems really valuable.
Sure - it's fairly personalized based on what I'm looking to get out of my career, but it has questions roughly like this:
- Am I free from feeling frustrated/stressed at work once a week or more?
- Am I free from work stress/anxieties outside of work hours?
- Am I keeping up with my hobbies?
- Do I feel respected and valued, with the ability to influence my work environment?
- Do I feel proud of my work and confident discussing my job with others?
- Am I learning/growing?
- Am I excited about the company's direction and secure in its stability?
- Do I feel like my job is secure?
Friends have challenged this, asking if I can't just feel when it's time to move on, which I can, but I've found this leads to me being more thoughtful and proactive about it.
aeze commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw
How many times have you switched jobs already, and what was your average tenure?
Over ~15 years I've switched four times. Three if you don't count being brought over in an acquisition.
- 6 years
- 3 years -> triggered by matrix
- 3 years -> until acquisition
- 5 months -> acquiring company, triggered by matrix
- 2 years, on-going
aeze commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw
For my past several jobs, I've put together a job satisfaction matrix that I fill out once a month. If it scores below a threshold three months in a row, that triggers a job search.
It helps me because I have a habit of fixating on the team’s mission and ignoring my own happiness, so the monthly check-in keeps me from staying somewhere longer than I should.
aeze commented on Clair Obscur Metacritic user score metacritic.com/game/clair... · Posted by u/tyleo
I’ve been playing it for the past few days and I’ve been really enjoying it.
I normally get bored of JRPGs quickly but the game systems, music, artwork and story have all been stellar.
aeze commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
Is Ukraine currently a democracy?
It's generally considered one, yes.
The way I've viewed something similar is top-down vs bottom-up thinkers.
top-down
- makes decisions based on intuition, rationalizes them afterwards if necessary
- quick reactions to new information
- more flexible (sometimes inconsistent) beliefs
- faster to adopt new ideas that align with their feelings, but also more resistant to ideas that they don't like
bottom-up
- systems based reasoning
- builds internal frameworks around ideas
- consistency is paramount
- slower reactions to new information
- can be seen to have more "unique" thoughts or insights through drawing parallels in their internally developed frameworks
- can be more rigid when it comes to new ideas, but not stubborn. it either fits into their frameworks or it doesn't
I'd say it's a spectrum, but people tend to significantly favor one way or another in my experience. I feel like top-down thinkers would be much more likely to be story-based, and bottom-up fact-based.
aeze commented on Why I have resigned from the Royal Society deevybee.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/viburnum
> very rare side effects
Still in these very days we meet random people who in normal random conversation tell us (as part of other matters) of coincidental devastating effects.
How did you make that jump from "paper" to "reality", and hold it with the certainty of "a hedgehog here is vomiting on my shoes"? Do not bring us back to that long epiphany that the "dark ages" are still here, never gone.
> Still in these very days we meet random people who in normal random conversation tell us (as part of other matters) of coincidental devastating effects.
You may have. I haven't met anyone who has had any effects other than feeling mildly sick for a day or two afterwards. That's the thing about anecdotal evidence.
I always wonder, looking at this from Europe, how " We have raised $4.6 million in seed funding, led by Accel." even happens in the US.
Who is giving that much money to an obscure build tool ? What is the monetization plan ? How are they ever trying to earn the money back ?
Does this happen in any way or form outside the US ?
I saw a video a few weeks ago where an individual involved in an VC-backed open source project (SST) spoke about this topic for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-w0R-leDMc - starts about halfway through.
Since I have to watch out for it, I've noticed it's becoming more and more common as a sweetener.