Capital Gains in Ireland is 33%, income tax is high, and the quality of life isn't as high as mainland Europe. Just look at those apartments. Depressing.
If I were you I'd move to the Netherlands. The no-tax year is unbelievably good, nl is less car-dependant so you get to live a different lifestyle, and it's easier to tour around the rest of Europe. Ireland isn't even in the fucking Schengen!
Oh they're only getting rid of the Origin app. Now they're forcing you to switch to the new "EA App" https://www.ea.com/ea-app which I'm sure will be worse.
And switch soon, or you'll lose all your games.
I'm not sure who's in charge over there but it feels like they hate me personally.
Similar to this, I bought a Lansky knife sharpening kit. I thought I was good at sharpening with a whetstone, but this makes a huge difference. $75 or so.
I like both the Bond and Smiley books, but I've never understood why people are so quick to directly compare the two characters. Smiley is a man of politics and intrigue, while Bond is a boots-on-the-ground assassin.
Bond would be better compared with a character like Ricki Tarr. The 00 section seems to exist in the Smiley organization, they're called the 'scalphunters'. Here's Carre's description:
"The scalphunters' official name was Travel. They had been formed [...] in the pioneer days of the cold war, when murder and kidnapping and crash blackmail were common currency [...] They were a small outfit, about a dozen men, and they were there to handle the hit-and-run jobs that were too dirty or too risky for the residents abroad."
Sounds a lot like Bond. Tarr even shows up at the office unexpectedly, having problems with a woman, wanting money...
Don't freeze salaries. The best people leave. The salary freeze is bad enough for morale, then the best people leave one by one and there's a morale hit for each one. Prefer layoffs.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman. Now I know _why_ my kitchen appliances irritate me.
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. How to navigate the landscape. And who has right-of-way on the trail.
Any textbook on Statics and Dynamics. Physics.
How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is the book that people trying to manipulate you have read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases These serve as lenses through which you can view a situation to get new perspective. Like looking through a piece of red plastic to filter out red ink and see a hidden message in yellow ink, if you remember that as a child. Not in some authoritative sense, but different perspectives you can hold in your mind.
Nice article. I wouldn't call this approach "1x Programming." This is more about how to be a net-positive member of a dev team.
As a longtime dev and recent dev manager, I hate most self-described 10x coders. I want people who are net-positive. Team players, focused on adding value, doing unsexy work, keeping the build and tests green. Being nice to each other.
Even if they're barely productive, as long as they're net-positive I'm perfectly happy having them on the team.
Leisure != time outside of work. If you're commuting, if you're too exhausted to get off the couch, if you're on-call and worrying about interruptions, then you're not truly at leisure.