1. A few friends of mine had kids with woman being over 40. Not unusual.
2. You can adopt.
3. Do not be too sad about it. I for one look at the state of the world around me and feel guilty for having kids. Guilty about bringing them in this mess.
>> gets too risky when trying to deliver use value at every sprint.
I disagree. To me, being afraid of new code or refactoring code means you're working with a code base that has a lot of tech debt and also no serious continuous integration infra.
IMHO remote desktops (cloud or DaaS) is a terrible idea with even more terrible executions.
I never tried one that could measure up to a local environment.
Nope. Last company I were where it was followed was a trainwreck of productivity. SAFe was a contributor to that. Excruciating long and boring procedures that made the bureaucrats and busy-talkers happy and everyone else miserable.
>> I have no doubt whoever launched [project name] got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether [project name] was a success long term.
Same story in every company I've worked in. It's like the time horizon only goes as far as the next quarter.
You'd expect so (and I'd hope so) but nope. Drivers become even more reckless. Driving huge, noise-insulated cars seems to put them in the mindset of total control, detachment from actual speed and "I'm not gonna hurt myself anyways". Depending on the country you can add a less than perfect driver education (if any) to the mix.
European here. We mostly get what you guys have in terms of cars and politics lagging just a few years or months back. Usually with narrower roads and worse infrastructure.
>> Perhaps Thiel sees Facebook as a place to contain unbounded Mimetic violence. It simultaneously perpetuates violence and prevents it from happening. After all, if people fight on social media, they won’t fight on the streets. Like a boiling kettle, we have to let out steam somewhere. Better to cool the pot on social media than in the streets. In the words of Thiel, “social media proved to be more important than it looked.”
This just sounds wrong. If anything social media have poisoned or killed almost all human relationships that I know of. It is now almost impossible for any group of people to even grasp the idea of consensus or meeting half way. In other words FB and the likes have created a huge number of cold-conflicts waiting the smallest chance to get real...but the writer (and Thiel?) thinks it's just the opposite.
Yet I think the observations in "Millennials: Young and Yearning" are really spot-on.
Luckily there's a lot of hybrid arrangements now where you can have your cake and eat it so to speak.