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Amasuriel··on Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working?
I agree with this 100%. I really like gardening and find it very fulfilling, and it can consume a lot of time.

I have zero interested however in trying to run a commercially viable vegetable farm.

I personally would definitely not work in my field if I made 10+million, but I would have no shortage of things I wanted to do with my time.

Amasuriel··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
I think this is a pervasive problem in hospitals today.

I was in the hospital 5 weeks at the end of 2020, and I was very aware of all the extra challenges that it brought to healing. Poor sleep due to lights/noise/interruptions, sleeping with a strange roommate who had their own sleep disruptions. Low quality food with few options, and very little fresh fruits and vegetables. On top of constant pain, boredom fear and isolation (despite all the people around).

I understand the hospitals are resource constrained, and have reasons for many of the things they do, but at the same time I feel like rest, nutrition and psychological elements are largely ignored when designing today’s hospital experiences.

For what it’s worth this was in Canada, so at least I didn’t have financial stresses in addition, but perhaps there are other countries more human in their approach to care.

Amasuriel··on Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
I’ve used discord for a long time and greatly prefer it to slack, teams and Mattermost (the three competitors I’ve used most often). Ironically the only think stopping me from strongly advocating for its adoption in business is that I’m already a user!

Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely should not mix.

If I could stay logged into my social discord servers with my gamer handle and be being logged into work servers with work handles, especially on mobile, they would gain traction I think. Add active directory account management as a paid option and would be an easy sell some places.

Amasuriel··on Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test
I'm surprised to hear that sentiment about the vacuums in particular!

I found the v11 I bought to be vastly better than previous vacuums I've owned, with excellent power despite being cordless, really light and much much quieter.

I haven't used any other Dyson products; I opted to buy Rabbit air purifiers over a Dyson Air.

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