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Started a new job after taking the risky decision of leaving the previous secure one. This first week went very well! The team is super welcoming (and similarly introverted), passionate and healthy (compared to my previous toxic manager). I feel like I’m going to learn a lot, without burning myself, and it’s very exciting :)

Me when checkout is at 12:00

If you identify yourself to your work outcome it sucks your soul, but if you don’t you become nihilistic so it’s all about finding the balance. More seriously it depends a lot on team/project/management but mostly you gotta really like troubleshooting, translating requirements+caffeine into code and defend/discuss your decisions. Working on a fresh clean codebase tends to be much more satisfying.

Just noped out of my last job cos the new manager was randomly calling me without a heads up to understand what the next steps are. Aka asking me and the other team member to do his work for him. I see highly competent people struggling to find jobs and guys like this in F500 companies — and can’t help but wonder what’s wrong with selection.

What about decaf? Or is it the caffeine’s effect more than the taste that’s enjoyable?

In the agent era we’re entering I wouldn’t be so surprised they’d try to stuff ads where they can. “Your plane has been booked. Looking for a hotel for your stay? Don’t look further!”

And don’t get me started on maintenance and dependencies. On a big enough project that’s a job for life

A C F H K G X (I’m sure if I say random letters I’ll at least get some right!) - Sir this is a house, the letter test comes later…

Good for you! Sure feels good to make your own repairs. Even if it takes a while the knowledge stays. We just had 12 hours without electricity and internet in my area and if there’s one thing I learned it’s that you have to be handy with electrical and electronic systems and don’t rely on bundled tech as much.

Oh that’s what we got wrong in Iceland, we should’ve kept that red line out of our flag!

What I’m wondering when reading such theories is: does money matter all that much to these people? Like when you’re 80+ years old and a billionaire I don’t see what the end game there is, unless it’s just an uncle Scrooge attitude but I still find it a bit hard to believe. I think that in order to become a billionaire you need to be seriously driven by something more than 0s - maybe power, influence or attention.

Well the war seems to have boosted Putin’s approval rates in Russia, but then they’re not the ones whose people and infrastructure keeps being bombarded every single day for the last 3 years. So if they’re getting a similar treatment let’s hope the Russian “public” starts pushing their gov for reasonable negotiations, because Ukraine made it clear that they will not accept the “deal” they’re being proposed. On another note, whatever happened to the “Ukraine will be crippled by losing US intelligence” narrative? If they were retreating they wouldn’t launch attacks towards Moscow.