I have been doing sets with a grip trainer during zoom meetings. Forearms are getting huge.
Readit Newsharryquach commented on Ask HN: How have you optimized your company/ work? · Posted by u/Xx_crazy420_xX
harryquach commented on Arizona resident dies from the plague independent.co.uk/news/he... · Posted by u/Anon84
I think it's innately impossible for us now in the comparatively near-sterile, social safety-laden developed world of today to imagine such grotesque death happening so suddenly on such a vast scale.
The COVID pandemic, for all the fear and emergency measures it sparked mostly killed sporadically. In any average social group, family or community, one would hear of only a very small minority of people having actually died. It was, comparatively, a sort of kid-gloves pandemic in terms of pure clinical impact.
Compare that with hearing stories of a vast and utterly mysterious dying sweeping towards all that you know, only to suddenly hear one day of inhabitants in the outermost parts of your city falling like flies in the most disgusting of ways, and then being forced to watch the same thing you'd feared from rumor unfold before your very eyes to those you love, taking each of them in turn so terribly that you can barely bring yourself to even approach (let alone try help) these same people that you'e cherished since birth. This abyss of tragedy overwhelms you and all your senses before finally, just days later, you wake up with yet another exhausting morning to the discovery of nearly every single person you know being dead, and all the social tapestry that wove you together so richly across so many years now completely erased from your personal world. All this monstrous upheaval, in just a single week.
This reinforces my belief that today is the best time in human history to live. Yes there is still pain and suffering but overall more humans live lives our ancestors could not begin to imagine.
harryquach commented on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry? · Posted by u/MongooseStudios
Yes, you aren't alone
I'm exhausted and burned out too. I'm fortunate that I can take some time away from work to recover and hopefully regain some passion for this, but I'm strongly considering retraining for a different industry
I'm happy to talk, as someone also going through the same stuff. Let me know, I can drop some contact info
What industry are you thinking of moving towards?
harryquach commented on Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly? · Posted by u/michelsedgh
39
harryquach commented on Stuff I Learned at Carta lethain.com/stuff-learned... · Posted by u/blueridge
Ah, the classic two-year exec tour - just enough time to write a book, roll out a pet program, and peace out before any long-term consequences set in.
Thanks for the laugh friend. I was thinking the same thing.
harryquach commented on What interesting things low spending people do, that others know nothing about? · Posted by u/evolve2k
Utilize your local public library. Reading is a great hobby and can be done for free at any local library.
It’s not only AI. It’s short form content, fast paced life. I can’t seem to be able to concentrate as I used to, get into the zone. I get irritated way more, for example when I can’t code a solution fast enough and the AI is being stupid, I get angry.
Unfortunately, at least at my company, leadership has caught this bug. This means features need to be delivered faster, with a smaller team, etc. Not a good way to create quality software.
I have been "encouraged" by my company to go full throttle into integration LLMs into our workflow. I have found is has taken much of the enjoyment out of solving problems with code. As others have said, it has made me lazier and I can see myself losing my edge.
harryquach commented on Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator twitter.com/garrytan/stat... · Posted by u/btilly
I love this community, the only social media worth investing time into. Here's to another 20 years.
No doubt today we have unique challenges but I am optimistic we will overcome and thrive. Like a poster mentioned above, perhaps its time to log off and go for a walk.