Man I am a sucker for all of the bullshit that people thrown around design, whether the design is good or not. You can’t just be like “I made this fucking ‘g’” you have to be all “the circle part represents humanity and the earth on which we live, all connected and infinite. The bottom stem is our desire to explore and lift ourselves to a higher mental plane.”
Ok dude. It’s a g though.
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The marketing is made in such a way as to portray these activities as necessary to a productive life. “Stop being such a slob! Achieve your true potential!” It’s an old trick.
I find that I just pick up self-care habits that I find useful as I age. If I have a hard time controlling my mood, meditation practice helps. If I have headaches, making myself drink more water and see more sun does help. I forget a lot of activities, so I either do a task now or write it in my calendar so I don’t forget. I try not to procrastinate too much since it ends up being worse for me in the end.
But I only learned those things after failing a lot of times and becoming so fed up with the mistakes that my brain makes me do the correct thing to make things easier. And I obviously still fuck up.
Just go with the flow and try not to repeat mistakes.
I’d also like to mention that “Software Engineer” is just title inflation. It’s really not engineering. It’s more like cubist art where the parts just seem to mostly work together.
To me moving beyond senior means you enable the entire team to contribute together accomplish Big Memorable Things. This can mean a ton of things, which cannot all be served by a single senior+ engineer:
- mentorship
- seeking out, establishing, and evangelizing best practices, and not just coding best practices: architecture, documentation, testing, ci/cd etc
- high-level architecture knowledge and experience
- evaluating technology choices: tooling, databases, orchestration platforms, etc etc
- assisting management and product with scoping and prioritizing work
- the ability to put your head down and crank out a solution to something in code simply because it needs done and you can do it better and/or faster than others
- laying the framework of a greenfield project, maybe sketching out the codebase or POC for juniors to take and run with
- …and so on and so forth.
A single person may be able to contribute all these things to a team over a time frame of multiple years, but in a 3 or 6 month time frame, most mortal engineers could only contribute two or three.
Long-term hodling of chocolate is still an unsolved problem in my experience. It tends to just disappear over time.
/u/MachinoMaestro says:
Patterns is pure confirmation bias, change my mind
/u/laqualitafaschifo responds:
its astrology for men
The brick is the best item Supreme ever released. It works on multiple layers:
- It shows how absurd brand worshipping has become
- It enables you to flex by showing that you can burn $50 for nothing
- It’s a meta flex on other brands who aren’t popular enough to sell a brick
- It’s in line with the subtle crime vibe of most Supreme accessories like the crowbar or the scale
- It lampshades the silliness of nobody actually using their accessories
- It’s a creative reinterpretation of Duchamp’s Fountain, retesting the limits of what can be considered as fashion or hype these days
When a cholo asks you what you’re looking at
Padre nuestro que estas en RUSIA santificado sean Chicharito, Ochoa y Hirving lozano, Venga a nosotros la felicidad de ganarle a Brazil. Hágase su voluntad tanto en la cancha como en el juego, danos hoy nuestro Gol de cada partido, perdona nuestra defensa, así como nosotros perdonamos a los arbitros que nos ofenden. No nos dejes caer en la eliminación y llevanos a la final… Amen!
English: “There StevensonSteven goes with the ball, cutting through the defense, and he’s in the box. Wow, what a player. He scores!”
Spanish: “Ay va StevensonSteven, El Muchacho Heroe, entrando por la derecha, esta adentro de la caja, AY VA, AY VA, AY VA. GOOOOOOOOOLLLLL HIJO DE SU PUTA MADRE, ADENTRO DE LA CAJA, SIN MARCA, ENTRO, GOLIO, Y SE ESTA DESNUDANDOSE ! DIOS MIO. QUE GOLAZO.”