I think it all goes back to the fact that if we'd still have stars for rating videos on YouTube instead of algorithm-driven suggestions and no real way to decide whether people really liked the content or not, we wouldn't be here. That would not be necessary if I could still clearly see who's got good ratings and who doesn't
>do it in more situations than you think you need and always earlier than you think you need.
I can't even count how many this I should just apply that. It's an obvious thing but it takes time to getting used to clearly formulating your problems. Search engines are so sofisticated nowadays that you don't even necessarily need to know what you're looking for and it just pops up. I think of it as a sort of hive mind thing, internet became a natural extension of our brains.
It's one of the things I've learned after reading "4 Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferris. If you want to focus, you need to quit caring about what's happening in the world. It's a great conversation starter by the way. You can always just ask people what's going on and they can share any major events with you, now you're a great listener, because you genuinely don't know what's going on in the world. And should you care? No.
When I stopped watching TV/reading any news at all I noticed one thing: I'm less distracted.
Once you realize that media outlets make tremendous amounts of money by selling you their narrative and like any business they're just trying to be as profitable as possible, everything changes.
Nowadays I might read an article or two from people I subscribe to on substack or something more independent, but still I don't feel like it's something that I need at all.
Often I see the argument that smaller phones have smaller batteries. But still phones these days are very thin, I wouldn't mind if it'd a bit thicker but provided me with more battery life.
> what coding, testing, and shipping looks like with short-staffed teams, teams without dedicated devops experts, and teams where everyone who originally built the system has left.
This one hits really hard and I'd love to see more of that content.
I always felt bad for doing things "the pragmatic way", but your comment made me realize that maybe I'm just not experienced enough to embrace the fact that no code is pretty from the start. Thanks!
I think you're missing the point here.
It's great to have cultural heritage, but it's much better to get people out of poverty and hunger first, I think we should mainly focus on more important tasks at hand if we already have the resources to do that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an art enthusiast myself but I think that if someone is really passionate, they will go out and look for a sponsor themselves that's how it worked over the ages and our cultural heritage as a civilization is quite rich I'd say.
This is especially true for people who have other responsibilities like raising children or caring for elderly relatives.
But that's how every side hustle works, you have to get organized and manage your time well, having children is not an excuse.
There was a debate regarding this topic just recently in Poland, where they wanted to introduce something of this kind.
This is wrong in so many ways. It will encourage people to basically pretend they're doing some kind of art even if they're not.
If someone is a real artist imo, they will manage. It will be part-time but eventually they will get better and can start making money out of it, and if not then well it can just be their hobby right?
Why am I not supposed to be paid for making my own garden look good? Is it art or hobby?
Strongly agree, all my friends give their kids phones just because they think they deserve some time off from them, I think that's wrong.
Never gave my baby a phone, ever and I think it's a good decision, she's not even two yet so how is that affecting her brain?
How is a child supposed to learn how to interact with people if you leave them with a device that might in fact teach them something, like counting and stuff, but that's not the case.
Until the age of 4-5 your focus should be primarily to make your kid socially acceptable so they can participate in as many activities and get a chance to join as many conversations in the future as possible, you want to help them be social. Giving them a tablet will not help them become socialized at all, in fact it will just turn this around. You don't want that for your child. You want your kid to be liked, otherwise it will end up being miserable, think about it.
Spend every minute of your spare time with your baby, that's the way to do it, help them enter the society, by showing them how to interact with people.
Not to mention vision that will change due to new ideas or influence that new staff brings to the team. It's not always beneficial for the project.
It can go wrong in so many ways that it ends up being dead.
Don't get me wrong, change is good but too much change is just too much to handle sometimes.
Tibia was very popular in my country, I know people that are still playing it, but back when I was younger, like 10 years ago I knew a few guys that were making regular income out of it by selling gold coins and items. Good times, games like Tibia taught me something about the market and demand/supply distribution.