many of my friends are activists, and i'm hesitant to disclose to them which technologies they could use. 95% chance they're going to use it for getting drugs, or avoid monitoring to organize gatherings, which, without law enforcement protection always have potential to turn violent. i just don't want to take responsibility for these actions.
then you have heavy stuff, people trafficking, bomb threats, suicide threats, organ trade, child abuse, and crypto seriously limits the options for a response. as long as we're talking about functioning democracies, it does more bad than good.
i ran analysis on our codebase, most of the files had 40% rewrites, with some outliers being 90% rewritten. the file sizes followed linear distribution, usually from 100 to 2000 lines of code. when the 90% rewrite hit a larger files, it accounted for almost 50% of total effort put into development. what i got from this, for a single component i take the ideal estimate then multiple it x2, and do the same x2 project wide. there's additional friction when integrating outside components, but i'm rarely blamed for it, so i don't care that much to put it in estimates.
now the hard part is selling the idea to the management, like "here are our ideal estimates, lets multiply it by 4". when doing freelance work i usually bill for the ideal estimated time multiplied by 2, the rest being my risk, on the other hand any changes in the requirements, or miscommunication is a risk of the client.
occasionally, like 2-3 days straight after a longer break from the practice, to tune in, or at random, to gauge how consistently i can clear my head
the main selling point for me was the api, and possibility of using it as a brain-computer interface, but i haven't done anything fun with it yet (except of setting up the drivers for python, and verifying it indeed works)
>Meditation can be tough to learn, but you only have to do it once
it is hard to learn. been to a 10 day vipassana retreat this year, and out of 100 hours of sitting, i've spent maybe 5-10 truly concentrated, and we're talking perfect conditions, with some prior experience
the most difficult part in my opinion is getting the reference point for how meditation should feel like - you can spend years doing what is breathing exercises, visualization, etc. never hitting that point. this is where Muse (https://choosemuse.com/) helped me tremendously
commercialization aside, the real question is about the value of guided meditation most of these apps are about. like, honestly i don't know.