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rnjailamba··on Ask HN: How to fight listlessness and depression due to work?
I had this situation early in my career, where the main discussion people had was about the company's daily share price in the stock market. I didn't feel alive or wanted working in this environment. I also felt my brain was rusting.

Work is a fairly complex system and getting it to work towards our preferred success function or particular concept of happiness is herculean. I used to previously think that I need to adapt but I've dropped that concept. I go towards opportunities that are primed for what I consider fruitful and satisfactory work in an environment where I can see myself for 5+ years. Only if the particular work really needs me to do it, I do it else drop it. This may sound entitled but I feel its a way of taking care of yourself.

I used to go back to Steve Job's Stanford speech earlier as a cope but it's a good one to watch in your lows.

I was reflecting recently and wrote a piece about the dependencies we sign up for in any professional scenario that potentially hold us back - https://rnjai.substack.com/p/dependency-autopilot

rnjailamba··on Pickleball Noise Controversy
How widespread is this? Which other sports/ activities are noisy enough to stir such controversy?
rnjailamba··on A digital payments revolution in India
Singapore: FAST - https://www.abs.org.sg/consumer-banking/fast

Thailand: PromptPay - https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Digital-Banking/Prom...

Australia: NPP - https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/new-payme...

Hong Kong: FPS - https://www.hkma.gov.hk/eng/smart-consumers/faster-payment-s...

Philippines: InstaPay - https://www.instapayph.com/

Mexico: CoDI - https://www.codi.org.mx/

Indonesia: BI-FAST - https://www.bi.go.id/en/publikasi/ruang-media/news-release/P...

rnjailamba··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Curious to know how you manage to concentrate during waking hours on work and how you sleep peacefully?
rnjailamba··on Sir David MacKay obituary (2016)
“You can understand a subject only by creating it for yourself,” says the introduction to his landmark textbook Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms (2003).
rnjailamba··on Quantum error correction milestone by Google
Here's the paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1.
rnjailamba··on Request for front end reading list
Found a good reddit discussion on frontend architecture - https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/op6byl/frontend_a...
rnjailamba··on Top Publications by Google Scholar
It's possible to filter down to specific categories. Ex. AI publications are ranked on https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=e...
rnjailamba··on Request for front end reading list
Discovered the concept of "developer roadmaps" on Github. Two good resources are the frontend roadmap(https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap) and this react roadmap(https://github.com/adam-golab/react-developer-roadmap).
rnjailamba··on Artsy Engineering Handbook
This is the most comprehensive and high quality writing I've seen that includes almost all engineering processes from interviewing to communication. Would love seeing other such engineering handbooks you've seen.

Also adding two other good ones: Sourcegraph - https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/ & Gitlab - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#engineering

rnjailamba··on Indie.vc Is Rebooting
Here's a link to the email - https://www.scribd.com/document/616089023/An-Update-on-Indie
rnjailamba··on Data behind high-functioning engineering organizations [pdf]
https://www.iconiqcapital.com/growth/insights/2022-engineeri...
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