nadezhda18

sooo second on that

plus doing sports like jogging, stretching; this helped me a lot to calm me down and get rid of mood swings

I did not know this could happen... thanks for sharing your experience

I do agree with the conclusion of the article to some point. I think it (mindfulness as the result of the meditation) must really depend on each person and each character.

Anecdotally, in my case, mindfulness as a result of meditation and similar mind-calming practices (like jogging, stretching) helped me to advance my career from a dev to a team lead and eventually helped me to get a courage to pursue my dreams of being an entrepreneur.

I can conclude that in my case, it did not decrease my motivation but helped me to:

1. overcome my anxiety and become a better employee

2. see what I truly want and get rid of the mental stuff the others (meaning the corporation) imposed on me (following the said corporation's goals)

feels to me like you do not want children bad enough... there are infertile couples out there who have to pay quite a lot of money to get to the position where you are now (I assume you both guys are fertile) [0]

Apart from the examples in the article, I am also judging from my own experience and I personally reached the point where the money simply does not matter compared to the possibility of being a parent.

0 - https://www.self.com/story/the-cost-of-infertility

Edit: Also agree with others about potential relationship problems you guys may be experiencing

1. Moving out of Russia (to Canada)

2. Picking up jogging - really helped me to fight anxiety and started thinking straight

> but it was still, somewhere in their past, a matter of choice

what about people who were just obediently following their doctors' prescriptions?

well, not sure about others, but for myself, I know what makes me happy after paying attention to my feelings I have after doing various stuff and reflecting on the circumstances in which I have had them. I do it pretty often.

Sometimes, though, I do fall into a trap of mixing up causality and correlation.

I may feel happy after talking to someone... and only after concluding a thorough analysis of my feeling and the timeline, I may realize that the fact of _finishing_ the talk with that person makes me happy and not the talk itself 8-( )

same here. I am straight, though have no children. it is indeed very satisfying for me to see my teammates grow with my help (Im a team lead)

I would suggest to eat some carbs 1 h before exersising

Also, let's not forget about TN for Canadians and Mexicans. Does not allow to immigrate but you can work w/o problems (lost too many friends to it! they moved to SF)

"The nonimmigrant NAFTA Professional (TN) visa allows citizens of Canada and Mexico, as NAFTA professionals, to work in the United States" [0]

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/employme...

It should be none of them, it should be TN

"The nonimmigrant NAFTA Professional (TN) visa allows citizens of Canada and Mexico, as NAFTA professionals, to work in the United States"[0]

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/employme...

> > Scrum, in accounting for all the engineer’s time in a tightly managed fashion, discourages innovation — which typically occurs spontaneously and outside of any schedule or system of good predictability.

> It doesn't. That is why there is a 'focus factor' baked in, to allow for their time to not be tightly managed.

Can tap into my experience and say that it does discourage innovation and has nothing to do with focus.

While doing innovation and research, your path is fuzzy and unpredictable and does not fit into a predefined scope that the team has to commit on at the beginning of the sprint.

While doing research or innovating, you never know if you can deliver business value - your research may succeed... or may fail, which is often the case. Meanwhile, in the predefined sprint scope, everybody is clear what tangible business value it will bring, everything is clear and no room for wiggling and straying away.

Edit: I am not talking about occasional research tasks, which seem to fit well into Scrum structure. I was talking about the innovation as a project that requires a big chunk research to be done.

feels like you have not yet had problems with bad management. Bad management can drive into the ground even a great team with very responsible engineers. They will try to fight the restrictions, burn out, and then simply give up by quitting.

This is the story that keeps unfolding again and again in front my own eyes at my work, alas.

they do auto-rebalancing and auto tax loss harvesting, kinda hands-free investment. Real human investors can charge 1.5%

or maybe they cashed out in 2018? I sold my Ethereum in 2018

a robo-adviser I am using "assume[s] a return of 5.1-5.45% on stocks and 0.74-1.05% on bonds after 0.5% fees". I do find these numbers a bit pessimistic but at the same time, I would expect the robo-adviser to give more optimistic numbers than pessimistic ones.

In 2017, I made a net profit of $11,000 from 3 niche websites + my blog about said websites

I also have other investments I keep for retirement but I really do not track how much I get there. It is for the distant future.

I wonder if it is a good approach to force children to finish their plates?

Seems like not. There are some studies [0][1][2] that show parental control over food intake may result in children's (mostly girls') obesity since it teaches children to ignore their satiety/hunger mechanism and thus overeat.

It may lead to the situation that once grown up, they could keep this habit of leaving the plate empty no matter how full they feel.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2045650/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11358344

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2384361/Leading-nu...

I'm on the senior level side and as the previous comment mentioned, it's around 100k CAD (typing it from a phone, cannot easily convert to USD).

glad to read your conclusion! I live in Montreal and I do think it has a surprisingly low CoL combined with a high-quality lifestyle. Glad to see it is confirmed by your data.

I personally live in a 3 bedroom apt I rent for $635 a month ($795 if taking into account the electricity used for heating) and the apt is located 25 min by public transportation (foot + metro) away from downtown.

they have other problems apart from hurricanes: water shortages, floods, water pollution to name a few

> our house prices are insane, and the cost of living is very high

are you from Toronto or Vancouver? In Montreal (and Quebec in general), this is not true.

how about this guy: http://rootofgood.com/ seems like he had a more honest starting position also, caring about 3 kids is no joke

could you provide the source for the info about Cuba?

so far, I have had a strong impression agriculture is not doing well there.

My impression is based purely on surprisingly bad food served in all-inclusive Cuban hotels. Normally, all-inclusive hotel food should attract tourists not scare them away. Even local fruits are not good/ripe not mentioning main dishes - it's not sophisticated and more on repetitive side.

You should use "web" link under the article. The traffic coming from the search is not pay-walled.

yeah, agree with you

I am from Canada and I am more scared by guns than by terrorism even given that just several days ago, we had one such attack on our soil.

A terrorist attack for me is like a lightning strike. Seems to be deadly but not very probable.

Meanwhile, living among people who casually own guns (like in US) is like living in a place where everybody has untamed wild tigers and bears at home. Unpredictable, dangerous, not very smart. It's a real day-to-day threat to our lives.

>> a few people sharing knowledge they've acquired I also failed to see much of new knowledge in this article.

it is not very clear from the article how these people managed to achieve such high profits. Because of a big demand for organic food? And due to their proximity to a large metro area?

As of the technology they are using, it is not that special... my parents used to have an extensive vegetable garden (as a consequence of living through a very hungry period of the USSR collapse). When I was still living with them, about 20 years ago, they already had these technologies: walk-behind tractors, vegetable pairings, composting, hand tools. They could feed 4-5 ppl family but that was it. I remember it required A LOT of manual work non-stop all year around. We, their grown-up kids, were highly suggesting them to stop brother and simply go to the local market and buy the food there. Pretty much the same price, much less labor.

I want to say people left farming for a reason and it looks like now the new generation either does not know or forgot how hard it is to grow food.

usually, the business that does not grow is just one step away from going into decline. Do not remember where I heard it from. The idea is that a business has to grow; if a business is stagnating, it's too easy for it to slip into a decline and then oblivion.

mobile layout is less cinematographic btw, pretty much like a normal blog layout

their sperm can be non-viable and it may be treatable I assume