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I find them invaluable capturing my toddler. Having the spontaneous ability to record hands-free is indispensable. I do not wear it in public, however again only when it calls for capturing my toddler. Of course, I do incidentally capture strangers but I minimize this by staying close to my subject and only looking at my subject. Yeah I find it creepy but being able to be hands free and capture at great quality fast ... Indispensable.

Don't see Pholandia or anything more west? You got me salivating but I'm in SW and east is quite a trek for just pho but dang...bc of your reviews. I'm taking me familia and doing some Particularly your #1!! Thx!

PS. "DM" me if you're interested in further talk. lakota gmail

Co-conspirator. Having someone you can bounce ideas, talk through things I found to be key. Even if it means talking to your toddler :) But in all seriousness, I found that's the only method that has in the past made me make the right decisions regardless of subject. They don't need necessarily need to hold you to your commitments but just the idea of telling them what you're trying to focus on helps tremendously. Currently, not having anyone yet having moved recently. Using my therapist ;-) One thing I found; the "co-conspirator" does not need to be a subject matter expect to any level. Just someone who's willing to listen is key.

Here are things I tried to do:

   1. Having a sounding "board" person.
   2. Taking only 5sec to help you decide.
   3. Post-it the thought/idea/notion all over the house to make focus.
   4. Talking it through to yourself.  Using yourself in a 2/3rd person.

Maybe yet another AI focused idea to solely help you stay focused and on task.

I need all of this...

My observations are from doing the grandma test. Just trying to figure out how to reduce or eliminate the pain points I've observed.

Have you tried to exchange photos from iOS to Android? Also Google drive requires you to have a Gmail address.

Not well versed in all platforms but whenever I talk to others to exchange photos of events and such. It's always a tremendous pain point to figure out how/where to.

Just my observations as I am trying to figure out the most frictionless way to exchange pics.

Also reminder that each versions of iOS and Android has their own limits based on app level that tops out at their versions.

Just a big huge mess.

PS. imho. Policies don't mean jack when there is absolutely no way for you to know if they have or haven't scraped. Gmail eng already got caught using his level of access to harass ppl. And Ring /Tesla were both caught sharing what should have been private and anon videos. I understand from dev point one must be able to decrypt to debug but nevertheless, you use their service, it's theirs to do whatever they want.

Not that I'm peddling anything illegal but my family photos I've already had random files including pictures and videos that wasn't mine in my Google drive and it also wasn't wrongly shared.

CV+ML with AI now don't need human intervention to id the materials.

Yes but I'm inclined to not allow "public" cloud of personal photos. I'm almost positive all your files are being used to train AI. Not to mention nothing works on iOS except apps from aapl.

So long term, I'm thinking of private cloud and a cross platform app where its sole purpose in life is to xfer all files in a particular folder on the device to the private cloud.

Most are not tech savvy enough to setup that backup. Not to mention I'll need access to aquire.

Long list of why's.....

Yeah great question. With family members including not living with you. It's virtually impossible to backup from iPad/Phones to android phones and tablets and multitudes of PC's Linux to iOS to Wintel.

Eagerly awaiting answers from you all but for now...

  1. rsync from where I can.
  2. manually copy whenever I get the device in hand.
  3. backup cronjobs from omv server
  4. my main desktop use Timeshift
  5. LocalSend

Also trying to use Immich once I can get a stabilized build. Had to rescrape entire pic/vid family lib of 3TB multiple times.

Also cronjobs to attached USB and NAS to have backups of backups of backups.

No one seems to realize every household is a micro enterprise!

Then make matter worse, with all the tightening of security. It's harder and harder to remote into and recv/xfer files l.

I'm in a similar mindset although can't get my side project(s) going. Since 2019, my son was born, my brother died, and my mother is getting to the point where she won't be able to care for herself. We moved out of the Bayarea to my chagrin, to be closer to my wife's ageing parents in Portland. Didn't had any before, but having moved and new, it's even harder to make social connections no tech here. I feel you, and I believe you and are in the same place mentally; lacking passion, motivation, sense of belonging, purpose. I suspect maybe midlife sort of crisis? If you wanna have a convo. Ping me Lakota gmail.

Without a doubt, for self help and discovery or just want to understand people better.

I highly recommend: Hidden Brain

Where you located? I feel the very same. Have a toddler, unemployed by choice although hate the loneliness that comes putting family 1st then realize you have no mental energy, motivation for yourself. All of my friends are also busy and geolocated too far for f2f. Trying to find/figure out how to get out of conundrum. I'm the S. Bay area if you wanna connect.

TL'DR: friends..if you can find any.

I'm in the same place. After TED talks and much self guiding/discovery materials. I realize it really comes down to friends or at least someone you can confide in without judgement. Although therapist can help, but that just a guide. You still need to find friendships. I can't lose faith in humanity but omg...it's so *ukin hard. Worse for me as fulltime dad of a toddler where my times are mostly preoccupied so ideally for me. Need someone else who's going through the same.

Ex prgm mgr, coder from FAANGM now triaging my zillion side prj ideas for gold, but same..everyday is a struggle. Can't focus, lack motivation and direction.

Fasting. Without a single doubt. What you need to do is minimally 5 day water fast. This will help you correct your microbiome balance. It is hard but just the 1st day when you're depleting yourself of sugar. Then on 2nd day onwards you're on fat burn but most importantly you're in autophagy mode. Then for couple of days if you can't do longer fast, eat keto-ish meals then do it again. When on water only, make sure you get electrolytes. And btw you can drink things like coke zero and of course black coffee, tea etc. but obviously no meaningful food like carbs, fiber or protein of any kind. But your holy Grail is to correct your microbiome. Absolute worse case, you could spend that money on FMT from a very fit person . Needless to say, don't start fasting unless your doc says you can do something like it. Most doc have no clue. "Water" only fasting is the key to 95% of all aliments we in western culture deal with. Then afterwards like any other "diet.". Maintain healthy Mediterranean diet and do water fasting once a month. You will be weak on day one, but consecutive days, you will be at your max mental acuity and even physical. I do anaerobic while doing water fasting.

I'm the same boat as I was skimming through meetups. I'm in the S.bay and aint interested in trekking to SF with no promise of anything meaningful.

ping me if you're interested in a chat over coffee. My boss is with his 4yr peers at preschool so free-ish.

I think my info popups on my username.

I'm the S bay, ping me if you wanna meetup. I quit from AMZN in 2019 and have not worked since however, I do have a "full-time" job as a dad ;) But I'm itching to do something, particularly for myself. Corp jobs are a rat race I no longer wanna be part of.

Dr. Deming who developed SPC and virtually anyone who got lost in life but found their way back without handouts and privileges.

But in a very humble fashion thus hard to find.

Also virtually everyone who willingly took their time to post answers or results for everyone to see and benefit from. I'm in awe daily whenever I googl something and usually find my answers from good Samaritans who took that extra time and effort. Whether it's a personal opinion on a restaurant or product to actual answers like in forums and of course stackoverflow.

Never. Fulltime dad since 2019. I've been lurking here and on Reddit but never got anyone to respond :(

Little sad. However an impetus for mother of all inventions: social network for plutonic relations? ;)

Loneliness is a crisis and becoming an epidemic. There needs to be a way men in particular needs to find a way to connect without making them feel...may I say... despairing or desperate? :(

I do 300+ caffeine daily. However one thing this does "wake" me up is short walk outside in full sunlight.

Also found having a good convo on an interesting topic. Find it very satisfying however, that may be due to my loneliness :)

And what others have said: B complex, B12 in particular.

Lastly, I found one of my best workout days are the days where I did NOT want to work out. Those days I flip a coin and do whatever it says. So I find it's a lot of mind over matter.

Like when your football wins, you wanna go out and run a marathon!

Thanks for the tip. Will look into it.

Zillions of ideas. Triage is daunting. Hoping to partner up with someone who may need mutual motivation. Full stack end to end person here. Dropped out of corporate world back on 2019 due to stress. Worked at FAANG+M and miss the camaraderie and sounding board of insightful people. My toddler now goes to school so got me few hours a day but end up in analysis paralysis. Did meetups but not fruitful.

Yeah..putting together a homelab server. But also have to give outside access to families and if that wasn't bad enough, have to find adequate apps to serve then maintain then need to teach everyone how to on some exotic app. Someone should make a turkey homelab server with all the goodies ready to go. IE file server, doc manager, social media akin to FB or G+, CRM, video/photo manager/streamer etc. Currently running like 40 containers and ever growing.

Big time into home automation using Homeassistant. Dashboard creation is frustrating at sometimes but outcome is incredible.

Heya, so Ive worked at FAANG+M and I have the opposite problem of too many ideas. Overwhelmed of triaging and experiencing analysis paralysis. Could use a sounding board with someone technically competent. Previous life: prog mgr & full stack. Ping me if you're in the Valley. We talk?

I'm in Silicon Valley and done that been there. I found the "burnt out" feeling was mostly lack of motivation and inspiration. I realize they're in abundance but the big differentiator was someone local, being f2f sounding board. Although I met a few via meetup.com none inspired me enough to continue my meetup as it felt mostly one way. It sure be nice to find someone inspired to do more. If you're in the S.Bay, ping me. I'm be fullstack with my career being in prog mgmt. I'm on my way to writing up func spec then out src the coding work just so I can get "started."

[EDITED] Didn't want to write deep philosophical statement but having gone through group therapy for burnout. Found for me that it equates to depression. As many have said, self care _is_ your #1 priority. Since I love creating, especially apps/tools I personally need. I need to do it to get myself out of a rut and also do something in love while trying to support my family.

I'm a half a step ahead of you. I've been out of corp from FAANGM since mind 2019. Mainly due to becoming a full-time dad. However since, I've been pondering how to gen income. I'm kinda not within their "desirable" age/ethnicity/wage. So no option but to be entrepreneural like yourself.

Mainly been listing all of my abilities, resources and ideas then match up with barrier to entry by cost/competition etc..

Coming very close to a few ideas to implement. One wish I have is to be with someone motivated like myself to inspire each other. I don't seem to have the itchin to start and need a kick in the pants. Also miss the camaraderie of being in the workplace....

I get them too. Much more than years before but not only Gmail but yahoo, Microsoft...

I think to me it's obvious. Now that they are generating good reve ue from targeting ads based on email content. They want the high visitation rate by making you interact with your email more.

Just IMHO.

This epitomizes the old adage of

it's who you know, not what you know.

EQ is a stronger kung fu than IQ by far. The ability to networking has not only longer lasting effect but greater than any knowledge you can have. I.E. Elon, Zuck, Jobs, Gates etc....

Father of a toddler. I feel the same. Ever since becoming a father, I've been severely depressed and lack motivation outside of daily necessities for the family but nothing for myself. I don't mind being selfless but wanting something for myself I miss. I don't have an answer to this problem. I code for "fun" kinda necessary for home managing million pic/vid of the kid. My life isn't at all what it was before the child but then I realize I never really had a purpose in life before then either although I did it all; exercise, eat right even meditate. I don't do any of it now as I am a full-time father unemployed. I'm looking for a reboot of my brain. On particular how I view the world. Currently this very ugly world. Seriously thinking getting the reboot via magic shroom.

Do:

1.take notes. Personal CRM of contact, specifics like kids, key dates and topic

2.say minimum but say something interesting about yourself.

3. Make mtg w C level to get a feel of where they want to go. Then make mtgs w bottom level to hear where they think they are going without disclosuring your findings.

4. Track personality types.

5. Listen mostly talk minimally.

Gosh, so many things I could dump on this topic as I've burned more bridges then created bc I lacked to do the above.

Ultimately, it's the old adage of it's who you know and not what or how much you know.

Oh one last thing: practice alot of humility.

Followup: I did do takeout recently and had to redo several times bc one of the zip files keeps "corrupting?". Me thinks they may have a queuing or race condition issues. Where it's obviously unable to maintain continuity in its endeavor.

Some ugliness with googl in general as they seem to foul up all the time. Although didn't get what you got, I did today receive a notice of Find My Phone which is tied to my most prized account and used ever so discreetly. So got into a small bit of panic. But the pain in the ass is getting a out of blue loud middle of the night announcement almost daily where one of my googl display would say, "hum...I didn't get that try again later" WTF? no one on my household said anything nor any of my automations triggered a thing during those times. Scares the sh*t of us hoping it didn't say that in our baby's room!!! Ugh! It's the little things that makes using Google's services so painful.