Me! I'm working on myself as a physical machine that carries my experience through the world, and my ability to make that a fun and exciting journey full of connections, support, and joy.
Readit Newstsewlliw commented on Ask HN: How to deal with a colleague who does the least amount of work required? · Posted by u/_ntjb
Two things to consider:
1) If everyone else seems like a jerk, maybe you're the jerk. Hard for anyone here to know. I've been the jerk before, happens to all of us. Not everyone stops being the jerk.
2) Sounds like you don't vibe with the culture around feedback, and you're early career. Maybe look around seeking a strong culture of direct feedback as a positive thing you're seeking to help you grow. Seems like a great way to spend your questions at the end of a couple interview panels.
tsewlliw commented on Httpiness, a developer-oriented HTTP client for slalom API testing httpiness.com... · Posted by u/jicea
That product name needs some workshop time.
So you would take the opportunity?
Would I as a 40 year old middle manager in Texas take a shot at living in rural central Europe for 4 months to work on ML for factory automation? Might feel lonely because I probably wouldn't move my family with me and take my kid out of school, but yes, that sounds like fun, like a great chapter in a life well lived.
Make friends. With friends you can make fun anywhere.
Tech debt either makes changes more expensive to implement, or adds operational work to your development team. The rest is bugs, features, and stuff you want to change. Addressing technical debt should result in the ability to make changes faster or make mores changes.
tsewlliw commented on Ask HN: How do you prioritize Job offers by money and interest? · Posted by u/meowmiau
Which boss / coworkers / company did you vibe with?
> Overall, I think remote work can be great, but I've personally seen many who see it as an excuse to drop the useful interpersonal interactions and just do "their work", often in less time than would have been budgeted in person. If that's how some employees work best, ok, but I think the workload has to be revisited to account for what time people have available and what they are not doing but being remote. It can't just be a have your cake and eat it too situation.
I do not understand what you're trying to say with your "have your cake and eat it too". It reads like you frown upon people being more productive when working at homes and thus you somehow think it's a good idea to punish them for it.
You're missing that part where soft contribution is dropped. It's doing less work because the person aren't sharing skills and knowledge with the wider organization. That is valued work.
tsewlliw commented on Chesterton’s Fence (2020) fs.blog/chestertons-fence... · Posted by u/hasheddan
A witty saying proves nothing.
-- Voltaire
Just as a general rule in conversation, invoking so-and-so's law or this fence isn't a productive tactic. Instead, ask the question that wisdom suggests you ask, and for this bothersome fence in particular, keep in mind that you are weighing an unidentified consequence against a proposed benefit, and at least endeavor to expend some of your own effort on suggesting what the value of the fence might be or how one might go about finding it. You may find some of that effort has been undertaken and that failure has not been shared.
I haven't seen folks make the change in formal role. I have seen folks take on the role, and I've taken it on myself (not my fave) with moderate success to make things happen.
Biggest advice: support the people in producing good outcomes, any processes should serve that. But the people create the outcomes, the process is a disposable tool.