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I'm not sure if you'd categorize it as a self help book, but i'd call my reading of man's search for meaning as genuinely lifechanging. I haven't read any other 'self help' book, so i suppose it worked!

refund/chargeback?

Cool font. Fun to see someone customize their website in a way that speaks of them!

During Covid when my entire routine process was disrupted by work from home where I couldn’t do my daily thing I basically became the least productive person on my team. On days where my morning is severely disrupted basically the whole day is shot.

I generally can adapt to long term new situations by inventing new routines but I fall apart without structure.

I’ll be the first to acknowledge it’s a bad thing but it is what it is. I’m sure the commenter above is similar

I’ve had the same experience. I actually took a 40% pay cut to work somewhere where I had to actually do something, because of exhausting and depressing doing nothing was

The poster is creating a purposefully difficult situation to indicate the lack of interest they have with returning to office. In other words, they’d only return to office in a fantasy world

Free as in “free beer”. You don’t own the rights to the beer, you don’t have the ingredient list, but it costs no money

I'm not sure. Since I've never seen a situation where millions of people earnestly try for something they want, I would only be theorizing on the outcome. I think certainly there'd end up with more than 2 or 3 success stories, which is mainly my point though

And then there's millions more that didn't even try

Huntsville is a 2 and a half hour commute to my in person job, limiting me to only remote work(there’s not exactly a booming tech economy in Huntsville). I would have to commute 5 hours a day to live in Huntsville.

I had family members who bought in “mixed income” neighborhoods in Toronto where you’d have broken piping, excessive mold in the attic, and meth heads ringing your doorbell at 2am to see if anyone’s home so they could break in. That 2 bedroom bungalow is selling for around 850k.

On top of all this houses even in Huntsville regularly close for between 50-200k over asking depending on location and the insanity of the buyer

No offense but based on this conversation I get the impression that you don’t really have enough context to comment on at the very least cost of housing in Canada.

I'm Canadian for what it's worth. My mother who had a GED was able to purchase a house by my age. I can't purchase a house anywhere in southern Ontario at the moment. This fact is echoed across the majority of the country. My brother had to move to northern Alberta to be able to afford a house that had enough capacity for his family. And that naturally also changed the availability of social and job options

I have empathy for anyone who is trying to make ends meet, whatever that means. Why wouldn't I have empathy for those people?

I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle. Very few people I know get paid enough to buy a starter home within 2 or 3 hours of where they work. I get paid more than my non tech peers yet still functionally have less spending power than a 25 year old from 30 years ago, despite being a fair bit older than 25

He’s an artist popular in 2005. Hrs most famous for being arguably the first big artist to use that super autotuney voice

What a thoughtful comment. Thank you for providing a valuable perspective that made me question how I view some things.

You can unquantize actually! at the very least you can with midi input.

I use my po 33 a lot. It's something between a toy and a full fledged device. I've used it 'live' when hosting a pen and paper event i wanted custom music for. Usually though it's something I enjoy using when I want to do something musically without being too 'committed'.

I think there's a lot of value from an item being easy to use and evoking the concept of play. It makes it easy to keep up 'good habits' like music making on days where I dont want to or cant do more.

i use my po-33 constantly. it's one of my favourite things I've ever owned. it's crazy how good they are at making little devices feel easy to use

I think the story is moreso the moral implications of being withheld from love or community. Hence the second act focussing on the doctor, starting with him being accused of murder, and shunned by society. It's also effectively the entire plan of the monster. The technological development aspect of the story as far as I'm concerned is set dressing for everything else.

This to me doesn't sound mediocre, this is actually a nightmare.

As someone who did activism work involving working my provincial government in Canada, sorta ya. For a lot of people, you’re basically navigating the nearly kafka-esc political process, but from the perspective of a ‘normal’ person, as opposed to a politician who gets paid to do so 8 hours a day or whatever.

Also surrounding oneselves with like-minded people who all believe they’re, to some extent, ‘saving the world’, does in fact make you a bit pompous(if only temporarily haha)

Haha fair enough!

Wow those are incredible lyrics. Thank you for the recommendation. I'll be checking him out

I will say if 'pop' music has failed you, and you're largely into instrumental music, I can't recommend Dead can Dance enough. Specifically Serpent's egg if you never listened to them. They're largely 'instrumental'(the singer made up her own language). The only song with defining lyrics on the album I also think are super beautiful:

https://genius.com/Dead-can-dance-ullyses-lyrics

I hate to give indie rock recos, but you may really like the album "Perfect from now on" by the band Built to Spill.

Here's lyrically one of my favourites from the album: https://genius.com/Built-to-spill-randy-described-eternity-l...

Their self titled similarly has some great 'spooky' tracks. I think I dream I dream fits well along tracks like 'brave men run'

I remember this interview so well. It was a common reference for a friend and I in highschool. "Xanadu, I'm sure all the listeners will be able to relate to that"

I've mostly fell out of listening to Sonic Youth, but it was the first band to ever open my eyes to the idea of 'weird' music. I think a lot of who I am today began with that first experience, when I first listened to Evol.

While I don't listen to them much anymore, I still put on Washing Machine from time to time. I'd argue that is their best work.

Do you happen to know what book/story?

Fair point!

I've found more and more recently that a lot of things I've thought to be a universally incorrect option often can work with the right person behind it. I don't think it's entirely hard to believe someone can executed a top-down management style well

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