I'm a bit rusty now, but I used to make a lot of pasta and enjoyed teaching friends the wonders of making pasta. There's a learning curve as many other commenters mentioned, but once they "get it" it's magical.
I would organize parties where everyone would bring different ingredients and we'd make ravioli from the food we had. With noodles, some guests wouldn't understand why make the effort. But with custom ravioli, they would immediately understand it.
I feel like every company I've worked at talks about "exploring" a 401k match every year, but never makes it happen. After a merger or acquisition, they'll bring it up again but it never happens.
I thought that this would look for unique words rather than just cycle through all words. You should have a default ignore word list that includes things like el, en, de, etc etc.
To build an identity that's easier for your readers to remember and to start getting "credit" for SEO even if you're not actively optimizing keywords, etc. Why let substack reap all of the benefits?
I have a hobby blog that doesn't have to do with coding, but I post on substack. I enjoy the features on substack, but I would advise that you set up a custom domain if you post to substack.
This provided an entertaining five minutes of entering silly company ideas to see what matches. Yeah, I wouldn't enter anything I'd remotely want to pursue.
The author has a point in regards to short trips (~2 weeks). However, I think if you travel and stay longer, the impact on your identity is far different.
I've been traveling longer-term for two and half years, staying at each place for at least a month when possible. I'm amazed at how much experience I can pack in a week, time that used to spent commuting.
I'm able to observe a lot of different people going about their lives, people I would've not encountered otherwise. I'm exposed to many ways of doing things and am also able to see great pieces of art and natural wonders on the weekend. These experiences have markedly shifted my general perspective. It just takes being away for longer than a week or two.
Again, previously this time would've just gone towards commuting or watching mediocre stuff on Netflix (which we still do occasionally but not as often).
In contrast, the things I and many of my friends used to do for entertainment when living in the Bay Area were more similar to the examples the author of the article mentioned-novelty for novelty sake and no impact on you as a person.
I know what you mean, but usually for us the problem is the opposite. The internet connection is fast, but the WiFi is horrible. I've learned to always carry an ethernet cable, but that doesn't solve everything.
I've been living in Airbnbs in Latin America and Europe while working remotely. One of the major challenges is making sure the Airbnb has good wifi.
A lot of hosts won't know what mbps means or will say something like "I'm sure the wifi is good. We did a video call a couple of months ago with Aunt Sally in London ..." It's easy to eliminate these options, but you have to message them, etc.
The worst is when the host is living in another unit on another floor or next to you. They'll do a speedtest for their place and the speed will look great, but in reality, the Airbnb will have much worse internet (in one case it was about 100x difference than advertised). Sometimes, they won't even buy a separate router for the Airbnb and claim the speed in their apartment as the speed for the Airbnb.