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I totally agree; unfortunately he was a contractor hired through an agency, which meant his management resources were poorly defined and somewhat diffuse across the two companies' reporting chains.

I'd imagine if he was strictly an FTE he would have been getting that guidance and support, but I guess the politics of trying to do so across company boundaries made it too much of a career risk for the "manager" he was assigned from my company.

10000%.

The most hated guy at my old job would start every request with an elaborate hand-wrung introduction to make sure no one could possibly be offended by what he was asking for.

Because of this, everyone had to read one or two paragraphs of niceties before they had any idea what he actually needed.

It was incredibly annoying and actually quite selfish in practice since it wasted so much time.

10000%; I thought therapy was pretty ineffective until I found a therapist that is a good fit, at which point I realized that a lot of therapists are just straight up bad at their jobs.

Therapists that are well matched to their patients are capable of truly incredible stuff.

I would be very surprised if user uploads aren't shelved in YouTube music within the next 2-3 years.

It's purely a loss for them financially and is a giant thorn architecturally for YouTube's backends since it's very different rights- and lifecycle- wise than their other content.

They pretty much only brought it over from GPM because they were worried about the user outrage if they didn't, so as fewer people care about curating music files they will eventually decide pulling the plug is worth it.

FYI this doesn't happen on YT music at all; the user uploads are completely segregated from the YT catalog for licensing reasons so your files are stored exactly the way you upload them.

Taking a short exercise break like this is also a great procrastination killer for me.

When I feel the urge to distract myself I'll just get up and do some kind of light bodyweight exercises that require coordination and balance, and then I'm ready to continue the work I was starting to dread.

The tech crowd is incredibly "one note" personality-wise compared to the general population! One big reason I had to leave after ten years as a SWE.

FPV drones are incredibly loud and dissonant, especially in an enclosed space. You'd have to have a lot of very consistent and loud background noise for this to go unnoticed.