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| = The Media Project =
| | My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home. Let creativity be a small part of it. |
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| == Target Reader ==
| | When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking. |
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| === Primary Traits ===
| | What are all the ways I am overworking? |
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| '''The target reader is a college-educated, middle-class Millennial woman. She is driven to create social change (especially for women's rights), intelligent, intellectually curious, a deep thinker, and inclined to spirituality. She is family-oriented and values domestic life, but also has interests outside the home. She is vigilant about protecting herself, other women, and children from creepy men, and is willing to go against the grain to do so. She values the good men in her life. She is strategic and seeks power for herself and the groups that advocate for her interests.'''
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| She cares a lot about '''politics''', but may not have found her feet for becoming politically engaged. She considers herself a bridge-builder and seeks to understand and ally with women across party lines. She may identify as progressive because of their reputation for promoting gender equality and freedoms for women. She may identify as conservative due to their reputation for promoting family life, sex-based rights, and protections for children. She has reservations about the behavior of both parties, but there may be one side that she considers to be the real enemy, and the other side that she considers to be basically good but in need of reform.
| | Daily: |
| | * 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back |
| | * 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises |
| | * 1pm Lunch, nap |
| | * 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff |
| | * 5:30pm Free for friends, etc |
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| She has had experiences with '''entitled men''', including sexual harassment, potentially violence and manipulation in relationships, and intellectual dismissal. Fixing this for herself and other women is a primary political driver for her. She recognizes and values strong male allies.
| | Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic. |
| | * Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior |
| | * Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People |
| | * Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting |
| | * Friday: ModCon Women’s Group |
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| She is '''family-oriented'''. She wants to form a healthy, safe family, where she is respected and has opportunities to pursue her interests outside of the home. She may have already found this, and values it highly. She may be single longterm because of a scarcity of opportunities. If she is straight, the problem is probably a lack of quality men who share her values. If she is gay, the problem is probably leftist capture of lesbian communities. She wants to strategize to help women collectively create a great family life for themselves and strengthen family life in America. She seeks a return to a culture where domestic life is treated as centrally important. However, she is vigilant about the potential of backsliding, where women are pigeonholed and valued ''only'' for our work in the home.
| | Weekends Only: |
| | * Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project |
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| She is concerned about the '''well-being of children''' because of issues like online porn and gender ideology. If she has children, this is probably a primary driver for her. If she doesn't have children, it is probably a secondary driver.
| | ==This Month: Do Things Moderately :) == |
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| She craves a '''deep intellectual grounding in women's stuff'''. History, philosophy, literature, art.
| | Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort) |
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| She has had at least one significant experience with '''creepy leftist capture in her intellectual, professional, or values-based networks'''. This could be in a political group, at church, at a university, at work, in social justice advocacy, an arts community, etc. She feels a loss because of this. She may have also had experiences with conservative capture or "anti-woke left" capture.
| | Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort) |
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| She is '''working on becoming assertive and strategic in pursuit of her values and goals'''. She believes in the accumulation of power/influence, and the strategic use of that power/influence, to achieve her goals. She may be a recovering people-pleaser, in which case this effort is valuable for her in all aspects of life.
| | Learn about bunion health and try different shoes |
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| === Four Driving Forces ===
| | Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort) |
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| These are the drivers:
| | Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine |
| # Full participation in political, intellectual, artistic, and spiritual life (Smarmy male intellectuals, capture of our networks by entitled men and creepy leftism, exaggerated claims of brain sex)
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| # Sexual safety and sexual agency (Reining in male sexual entitlement, harassment, violence, porn, internet woman-hating)
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| # Forming safe, healthy families (Vetting men and creating a good social environment; for lesbians, navigating a captured community)
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| # Protecting our children (Parental rights, gender ideology, sexual content in schools, internet porn)
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| For most women who care about badly behaved men and intellectual networks, and who also have children, they care about their children the most. I don't have children, but I hope I will, and then I hope that I will care about protecting them more than I care about anything else.
| | Seek support for internet scrolling issue |
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| The magazine provides a vision for the life our reader wants. We publish on women's art, literature, philosophy, history, and spirituality, along with recipes and other trappings of domestic life, dating tips, etc.
| | Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees |
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| We also strategize about to solve the problems we all see happening. However, we do this from a base vision of a life that is already pretty good. Our aspirational reader is not in crisis, but she does see problems and wants to help solve them.
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| I want to avoid the crisis mindset. Women who aren't in crisis are driven away by a crisis mindset, and women who ''are'' in crisis get worse when immersed in it. A "good life" environment will be familiar for women who aren't in crisis, and healing for women who are.
| | Do Phillips heart monitor |
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| ==== A Note On Abortion ====
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| For many politically active women, abortion is a very intense subject, and they prioritize it above all. This is true on both sides of the abortion line. In this media project, we treat abortion as a "compassion topic" and seek to create understanding across the line. This means we will lose all of the women who care about abortion (on either side) more than they care about our driving forces. For political activism, if we go there, we will lose all political networks that require loyalty to a stance on abortion. These things will define our niche to some degree. It makes us smaller, but it lets us serve a group of women who are currently underserved.
| | Pursue imaging for my ankle |
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| === Secondary Traits ===
| | Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort) |
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| She wants to process this stuff with other women who get it, but she doesn't want to go deep into anger or obsession.
| | Interview two lawyers (time/effort) |
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| She is troubled by certain behaviors of feminist organizations: the aggressive push for inclusion of trans-identified males, and the promotion of sex work and hookup culture. She also has reservations about conservative leadership in regard to women's rights.
| | Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort) |
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| She may have a complicated relationship with her church of origin, whether or not she is still a member of the church. She is interested in discussing faith and theology with women who are members of other religions.
| | Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort) |
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| She considers herself a gay ally, or may be gay herself.
| | Go to comedy night (time/effort) |
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| She strives to not spend her life on the Internet, and prefers face-to-face connection.
| | Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds |
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| == Our Network == | | ==Next Month== |
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| Maintain OUR OWN center of gravity.
| | Stabilize my health habits |
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| I don't want the people in St Pete to feel like this "came from the internet", or is Internetty. But I do need to tell them about FDS and Nina Paley.
| | Deepen in Biomechanics |
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| Maintain just enough of a presence in online spaces that the women who are there can find us. Argue with them on Twitter; converse with them on Substack; be a guest on their podcast. But, maintain OUR OWN center of gravity that is elsewhere.
| | Pursue advanced medical care |
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| There are wonderful, brilliant, politically informed women who are socially isolated because of creepy leftist capture in intellectual and political networks.
| | Run ModCon women’s group |
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| Conservative and "anti-woke liberal" spaces are also captured in different ways. All of these spaces are fundamentally captured by male interests.
| | Lose a lot of weight (effort) |
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| Places to maintain a presence:
| | Get pretty good at FinOps |
| - Anti-woke networks
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| - Feminist networks
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| - Conservative women's networks
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| - Arts and literature networks
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| == Purpose of the Project ==
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| I had several friends and authors who helped me see politics and culture in a new way, when I was making the journey from non-politically-active progressive loyalist to sort-of-politically-active nonpartisan feminist. I'd like to do a knowledge dump of all of that, plus other topics that I think will be relevant for that audience.
| | Pursue justice |
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| I love history, and would like to include a lot of content on the history of women and our political projects.
| | See Ocala family on holidays |
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| I'm also including mental health, mindfulness, and physical health as a topic, because a lot of women involved in this stuff need that.
| | Do some art and post it on social media |
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| When I write naturally, it comes out a little bit silly, so I want to lean into that when it's appropriate (ie not on highly emotional or dark topics).
| | ==Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now== |
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| = History: How Does Change Happen? What's Happening Next? =
| | After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors |
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| [[A History of Women, Gay People, and Gender-Diverse People in American Politics]]
| | =Health= |
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| [[Side Trip: Aristasia]] | | [[Appt Notes]] |
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| = Current Events =
| | [[Leg Pain]] |
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| = Politics: Who's Doing What, and How You Can Help Them = | | ==Inner Wellness== |
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| === [[Civics, Institutional Power, and Social Change]] ===
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| https://xkcd.com/1028/
| | ==Food== |
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| ==== Understanding Institutional Capture ====
| | [[List of foods to remind me of variety]] |
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| ==== Nonpartisan Feminism ==== | | ==Adaptive Devices== |
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| Most of the ideas in here come from / were heavily inspired by Natasha Chart's book, Practical Politics for Bold Women. Buy it here! - https://chartconsulting.samcart.com/products/practical-politics-for-bold-women
| | [[Biomechanics and Movement]] |
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| What is the solution to capture of feminism by the left, and the possibility of future capture of women's organizations by the right? I think the best defense is small, fiercely independent women's organizations that know how to collaborate across ideological lines, but also are structured so that they can withdraw support, without incurring damage, when their needs are no longer being met by an old coalition.
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| Whatever network you are part of, they should feel like they have to be on their toes a little bit, because if they no longer hold up their end of the bargain, women's groups can walk away.
| | ===Home Environment=== |
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| This also goes for organizing for LGB people and gender-diverse people.
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| = Social Issues =
| | [[Sunlight Computer]] |
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| Child Safeguarding
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| Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence
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| Commercial Sexual Exploitation
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| ==Women's Status:== | | =Better Blood= |
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| In Public Spaces
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| In the Workplace
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| Financial Status
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| Public Leadership
| | Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry. This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do. |
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| | Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades. |
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| | I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk. |
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| | Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back. |
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| == Compassion Topics ==
| | John Grubb |
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| [[Abortion]]
| | Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself. |
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| [[Saving Democracy]]
| | https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success |
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| [[How Are Women And Men The Same, And How Are We Different?]]
| | I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it. |
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| = [[Personal Strength]] =
| | I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage - |
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| == Mindfulness ==
| | You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. |
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| == Behavioral Health and Good Habits ==
| | There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed. |
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| THESE - Temperature, Hydration, Eating, Sleeping, Exercise
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| I made up this acronym during a time when I was *not* doing well, and I'm still proud of it.
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| Originally I used THESE BFUP, where THESE is physical stuff and BFUP is higher-level stuff. BFUP is Belonging, Fun, Unwinding, and Purpose. It's supposed to be pronounced "beef up", as in "These beef up your health and wellness!" I decided it was more memorable just as THESE.
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| === My checklist === | | =Friends= |
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| First, I go through the THESE checklist:
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| '''Temperature''': Is it too warm or cold where I am?
| | = Other = |
| | [[Places In St Pete]] |
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| '''Hydration''': Do I need a glass of water, other beverage, or watery food?
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| I like water, but if you don't, you don't have to drink water. There's nothing magical about water that exists in a glass by itself. The water in diet root beer is the same water. Just watch out for sugar and caffeine.
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| '''Eating''': Have I eaten a moderate amount of healthy food today?
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| '''Sleeping''': Have I slept enough?
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| '''Exercise''': Have I gone on a nice walk, done some yoga, gone on a fun bike ride?
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| How To Meet Friends Who Share Your Values
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| How To Navigate Friendships Across Ideological Lines
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| = [[Faith and Theology]] =
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| [[Women and the Major World Religions]]
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| [[Commentary on the Divine Feminine from the Major World Religions]]
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My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home. Let creativity be a small part of it.
To Do
When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking.
What are all the ways I am overworking?
Routine
Daily:
- 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back
- 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises
- 1pm Lunch, nap
- 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff
- 5:30pm Free for friends, etc
Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic.
- Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior
- Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People
- Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting
- Friday: ModCon Women’s Group
Weekends Only:
- Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project
This Month: Do Things Moderately :)
Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort)
Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort)
Learn about bunion health and try different shoes
Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort)
Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine
Seek support for internet scrolling issue
Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees
Next…
Do Phillips heart monitor
Do mail in labs
Pursue imaging for my ankle
Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort)
Interview two lawyers (time/effort)
Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort)
Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort)
Go to comedy night (time/effort)
Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds
Next Month
Stabilize my health habits
Deepen in Biomechanics
Pursue advanced medical care
Run ModCon women’s group
Lose a lot of weight (effort)
Get pretty good at FinOps
Get house set up for housemate
Pursue justice
See Ocala family on holidays
Do some art and post it on social media
Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now
After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors
Health
Appt Notes
Leg Pain
Inner Wellness
IFS
Food
List of foods to remind me of variety
Adaptive Devices
Biomechanics and Movement
Bunions
Home Environment
Active Sitting / Ergonomics
Sunlight Computer
Misc
Airway
Leaky Gut
Better Blood
Legal Justice
Better Blood
FinOps
Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry. This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do.
Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades.
I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk.
Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back.
John Grubb
Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself.
https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success
I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it.
I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage -
You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed.
Finance
Finance
Sparkle House
Sparkle House
Friends
Friends
Other
Places In St Pete
Old Front Page