Chair, proper mount/shelf for monitor height, keyboard, mouse, plants, fidgety things, lighting, speakers . Just a little list of things that helped for me. Microphone setup is nice too but i didnt get many complaints and ran out of my budget.
I hope they turn this into a more agnostic data residency and privacy bill. I dont see much merit in targeting just tiktok or even just social media companies.
Same for me with this article. I thought it was me and maybe my hearing was just bad from all those years of concerts. I live in an apartment that does not have super thick walls so my choices are (a) subtitles or (b) be a bad neighbor and blast the volume or this article seems to suggest that adding more channels would help understand while still keeping the volume low?
I am not 100% sure but I believe in the US, only California has an official data compliance law (CCPA). GDPR applies to some degree as well but I suspect that many businesses will only make a best effort until decent fines are handed out.
Additionally, data brokers and data clean rooms now allow you to share data making it easier as well. Snowflake, liveramp, etc all offer super easy (and privacy compliant according to them) ways of implementing this.
Fingerprinting and tracking links are common for unindentified users. Cross domain cookies are harder to fo outside of chrome. For known users, you can sync data to Facebook with email addresses, names, phone numbers etc. This is likely why you see most websites these days trying to collect that info from you as early as possible.
Also note that they allow for server side data as well so companies can send via backends and circumvent any ad blockers. Good companies do respect a users preferences but not all do.
I feel housing is slowly inching towards this hellish future too. More corporations buying homes and general unaffordability will lead to mostly renters.
My 2 cents (although a bit of a salty take): In my last 3 roles, rewards like promotions go to those who create their own personal brand and win the popularity contest. While sometimes that correlates with actual productivity but often does not. So often I see folks do the bare minimum in these work cultures which seem to be getting more prevalent.
Agree with your complexity vs effort graphs but that is exactly where no-code tools have worked well for me. Example: Our CRM has a very complex data model and Salesforce UI is hard to use. With a no code tool, I can wire up a simple UI and use their connector to populate the fields and allow folks to make changes in a much simpler / somewhat automated way. This saves us a few hours per week and it took me 3-5 hours to build. I don't really need VCS, code reviews etc. here. If I ever had a bunch of related use cases like this, I would then want to invest in a yes-code solution to solve the combined set of use cases.
Sorry to hear you are going through a hard time. I had something similar some years. I was lucky that I could take a couple months off work but sounds like you cannot. Just sharing my experience here but definitely if/when you are able, seek professional advice.
This was what I did for a few months and help me get out of the burnout stage.
1. Ruthless priorities and expectation setting in life. I cut down to 1-2 friends that I would hang out once a week with max. I let my family know that I would be MIA for a bit. Even when I went back to work, I asked for super specific goals from my manager. I expected that I would not achieve anything major in this time period.
2. No alcohol for a while
3. I took sleeping aids to ensure I slept at the same time and woke up at the same time
4. I focused on just a small amount of meditation and low intensity exercise like walks
5. I decided on 1 guilty pleasure that I was allowed to do a couple times a week. For me, it was eating super unhealthy delicious food.