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> Me as "dad" at home with the kids, me as "husband" with my wife after the kids go to bed, and me as "employee" at work are very different roles. I use different language, have different goals, different tone, different energy level.

FYI this type of code-switching is not universally present for everyone though it may be for you. Some people are their "authentic" selves the majority of the time. It is often suboptimal to be that way though.

It depends if you're trying to get promoted or not. One of the reasons I never aim for a promotion internally--remote or in person--is the requirement of theater over everything else. It perverts the day to day.

I wanted to express thanks for your post on ramping up on large projects. It's concise, links to further reading, and echoes a lot of the advice I have had to give to junior engineers. You've saved me time from having to write these tips out myself. :)

(As an aside I kind of disagree with the common quote of:

> "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious"

I find that most software I've worked on is muddy, confusing, and contradictory. Perhaps I will get better with time.)

It depends what the OC was envisioning as their game. Not every game requires a "large number of other people".

> Mind you, never did I expect or even care if I made money. That was never the goal. But now I realize just to get some people to play my game would be a huge undertaking requiring tons of luck - just to rise above the noise. That was the deal breaker - I don't care about making money - but I do care about eventual players, at least if something will take months or years* to create.

I broadly agree but I think you're being too pessimistic about not having players. If your game is not novel (or maybe even if it is), I'm sure you can find a community that would enjoy it. Maybe participating in that community counts as marketing to you but I feel like sharing what you have created and marketing what you have created are separate.

Reddit is a good place for this type of discovery. Discords of other niche games in similar/adjacent genres would be another one. I feel like it's not as hopeless as you make it seem!

Is this crowd an online crowd or a real one? I can't think of a single leftist who is against identity politics but pro-slurs.

Your snarky comment fails given that height is non-transferable whereas money is? Hair transplant would be a funnier comment. Alas.

Discord does have threading and a pseudo-forum view as well.

None of that changes its main societal flaw which is being a walled garden. So much loss of information.

The thing you are missing is that Reddit is not (sufficiently) profitable. :)

Are you as comfortable in an office as at home? When I'm in office I can't wait to get home. When I'm WFH I don't think about time I think about tasks.

It sounds like there is a mix and the most vocal ones are those whose preferred method of working is being threatened. :)

I slack off in office for a similar duration that I do at home. They might be different but the "productivity" is identical if not favoured at home because I'm more comfortable. I'll spend time configuring my nvim or reading some interesting but unrelated technical article/book or getting snacks or HN or reddit in the office. At home I might just take a nap or shower or go to the gym (or do one of the aforementioned things).

People operate differently but for me I'm only going to produce as much value as I believe I'm getting paid for. Not more and not less. I see the request to go back to office as managers believing they can act as a coercive force which might work on some (perhaps many) people.

Perception is all that matters in a lot of these cases.

I agree. I'm not a mobile dev but I am a software dev and I'm continually impressed by how good an app Apollo is. It's one of the apps I use that seem like they should be the standard for quality.

Unless there is another job offering with similar compensation/benefits/etc. I'm not sure most employees will be able to do anything. "Leaders" and bold-faced lies are a duo as old as time. Macroeconomic conditions have many chained to their shitty bosses.

marriage when women were property and marriage now that women are being treated as humans (though rights are being taken away) are two different things.

Why would monogamous relationships be better for society from your perspective? Shouldn't you be arguing that marriage is holding our "new family unit" generation back?

It's interesting that you put the people with those "behaviors" or "passions" as the agents who have switched to "identity". In reality, it's the oppressors who "identified" them.

seems that text-based social media are not profitable (enough).

can you explain what we "know" now that changes the question?

If it's any consolation at any sufficiently large company you'll be graded again based on arbitrary metrics b/c your manager (and their managers) have no idea what your actual impact is.

The modern incarnation of school is, after all, supposed to make you into a good employee.

I find the TikTok algorithm (perhaps not the platform) to be superior at giving me content I like/need and from creators that are (seemingly) authentic. I've seen far more diversity on TikTok than YouTube and due to there being no thumbnails or titles there is less clickbait.

That being said, TikTok's search capability is kind of useless.

Which part is not real? The vaccinations? Their effect on spread? Their effect on symptoms?

I read really fast. For tools I already know Phind has been really good.

I specify "already know', because sometimes it gets irrelevant/useless information from low quality blogs or stackoverflow. That said, so does Google.

We have always had:

- travel restrictions - mandatory vaccinations - suppression of dissent - stigmatizing individuals

To assert otherwise is ahistorical IMO.

It's unclear to me what device-level and biological surveillance mean. A decade ago Steven Harper was Prime Minister and tried to infringe upon our freedoms much more frequently.

> and the pandemic favourite — "it's only temporary", despite ample evidence in history that temporary stripping of freedoms is almost never temporary.

Which pandemic freedoms have not been restored? I'd argue we've moved on to pretending COVID does not exist any way.

It's not true everywhere but it's pretty much rewarded everywhere. Software engineering is pretty difficult to evaluate and managers will default to evaluating "soft skills" because they haven't looked at a PR in a decade. Also, the problems most organizations solve don't require much ability.

That said, I also do not think the author means admin/business related tasks, but non-"coding" things like software design, technical vision, etc.? You might want to look at earlier stage start ups that don't need the management/pseudo-management positions (if it fits your life). Warning that you'll have to jump ship as the startup becomes successful and you get pushed into non-technical roles. :)

HN doesn't have that much traffic so it's easier than you might think!

The ageism is silly (though not uncommon on HN). Plenty of young people are in the same boat and in the west! It's nothing new. Discerning propaganda has always been extremely difficult.

Companies mandate going to the office and remote work only became acceptable en masse after the pandemic?

> Is there any evidence that this is true or should be an expectation? Is that really why billions of dollars are spent on this space?

Yes. If people only used social media to connect/follow people they know the industry would be making nothing.