Have been using Marvin for a while, one of the biggest challenges it solved for me was, how do I share concise actionable information with teamates on what was the conversation with client/users about without introducing my bias to it. Great work guys!
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flanker commented on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor tonsky.me/blog/monitors/... · Posted by u/neonbones
> I suppose there are lots of people in their early 30's having a dilemma
I'm approaching my 40s and I've had this dilemma since I was 25. I used to strive for being a top performer despite my hatred for working in this industry. I accelerated through the lower ranks and significantly increased my salary, but my happiness plateaued very early on. Over the last few years I've learned to lay low and give just enough to not get fired. I couldn't care less about the company or my work, I just want to clock out at the 8 hour mark - and not a minute later - then go work in my garden. I found this to be the optimal balance between financial security and my happiness.
If you've ever read "The Gervais Principle" - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... - you can classify me as a "Loser" on that spectrum.
>The Gervais Principle
I cannot thank enough for the article, absolutely nailed it. I have seen & been part of a startup growing from a mid stage to a unicorn and now after reading it I can connect the dots, it all make sense in such exhilarating way. My journey till now has been from over performing looser to a looser which is not bad. I'm seeing a pattern though, every 8-9 month I over-perform become a looser then get completely disillusioned and go off to a backpacking retreat. This worries me a bit now.
flanker commented on On Coding, Ego and Attention josebrowne.com/on-coding-... · Posted by u/digitalmaster
This really resonated with me.
Before getting into programming, I was a somewhat accomplished guitar player. By the time I was 20, I had played in a bunch of bands, recorded several albums, and gone on tour. As a result of these early successes, I developed a big ego about myself as a musician.
I realize now that the main thing driving my musical career was that ego. I enjoyed playing, but getting better at my craft was not my primary driver. Instead, it was that I wanted to be famous and rich and noteworthy and desirable. For me, playing guitar was inexorably linked with becoming a certain kind of person and gaining status.
Now any time I pick the guitar back up for more than a day or two, I quickly get lost in delusions of grandeur. I start thinking about how I'm going to change my whole lifestyle to "be a great guitar player" and playing itself takes the back seat to fantasizing about gaining power and status. Try as I might I can't just casually play guitar for its own sake—kind of like how you have trouble programming without the promise of a conference talk or an influential git repo coming out of it.
For me the solution has been to avoid playing music, and to focus on programming (and my family/friends) instead. I think the groove of ego I carved out as a guitarist is just too deep to allow me a healthier relationship to music. As a programmer, I don't have that same narcissistic false-self to live up to. I just enjoy it and want to get better because it's fun.
Maybe the solution for you could be to take up a creative pursuit other than programming?
I feel that to be something that resonates with me. I started as self thought freelancer loved the symphony of creation and the end product you make. Then I got myself a job I had sucha enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge, I would go above and beyond. Then I burned out, the cycle has repeated couple of times now forcing me to take breaks in 7-8months. One thing I realised I still love creating stuff, but it's all too painful to do it for someone else. The major contributor to it is constantly changing of requirements, sometimes goals altogether scrapping of projects you put lot of brain power in and finally sometimes fighting against the tide. I have experienced people who are just there in the middle management adding unnecessary layer of red tape and doing anything to survive. I feel I'm done with it. I have picked some other stuff, currently searching for something other than a programming job, it's a risk because majority of my work has been programming, other than a failed startup. But I think I will take the risk of exploring.
Shit, are you me?
You're just being over 30, welcome. Those documentaries you watched on your old CRT TV while growing up were showing you fiction.
The tech industry is an ad mill. Academia is about innovation killing fiefdoms. What you need to realize is that for an institution, the first priority is maintaining homeostasis, and that means not letting you do something that might risk resources or upsetting the established order.
There's a reason why the hackers on TV were called rebels. They founded new institutions because the incumbents wouldn't let them play.
You want the hacker ethos? Make it yourself, that's what it's about.
> Shit, are you me?
That's what I said, I suppose there are lots of people in their early 30's having a dilemma. I'm also struggling with something similar, but I recognise I have much to attain in level of expertise but do I want to do that? Is another question.
flanker commented on Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards faroutmagazine.co.uk/akir... · Posted by u/apollinaire
This is so awesome for someone like me. I have been a Kurasawa fan and almost went through all his movies except for Dreams which I so wanted to see. To get more understanding into the process and imagination, to me is like a treasure land now.
One of the best signs a crash is imminent (say within a couple of months) is when your family members start bragging about their stock holdings at parties. That's the time to get liquid if you haven't already done that by then. Of course that means you're indirectly still trying to time the market but at least you'll err on the safe side.
I've earned a fair bit of money trading and would never put it down to anything but dumb luck and having enough reserves to be able to sit out the worst. If you're trading with money that you need you're doing it wrong.
> If you're trading with money that you need you're doing it wrong.
This makes so much sense.
flanker commented on Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834) poetryfoundation.org/poem... · Posted by u/brudgers
I once did a motorcycle trip across Canada when I was young, poor, and eager to ride motorcycles. One night my plan was to make it to my friend's place in Montreal, but it got late and I was still in Ontario. Ontario is long. It's not easy to appreciate how long Ontario is. It was dark and I was tired, but I wasn't seeing any campgrounds and didn't want to spend money on a motel. So I kept pushing, as one does at that age, thinking I'd simply will myself to stay awake.
Suddenly I startled awake with the awareness that I had fallen asleep and had been riding while asleep (presumably just for a second or two). What shocked me awake was realizing that these lines of Coleridge's poem had been playing in my head:
Softly and smoothly went the ship,
Moved onward from beneath.
I had this poem in high school and frankly the only one I read countless times out of leisure somehow it stuck, for me especially the following lines keep playing in my head:
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
I was looking for something like that a few months back, took a gamble on LG Gram. I have been using MBP(work) and Gram(home) side by side for past 3 months. Given the price and performance Gram for me hits it out of the park. Cherry on top is that it's just ~900gms, with USB and HDMI, also upgradable ram.
flanker commented on Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform subsurface-divelog.org/... · Posted by u/jkingsman
Is it a better experience over SSI app? I am not a expert diver, but used that app during my open water certification and it was painful for me as a developer, though I was surprised people made their peace with it.