This never really made sense to me. God created man. The level of curiosity, the level of self control, the level of obedience in man, these were all set by God. Either he had no idea that the levels he set would eventually lead man to sin, or else he had set man up to fail.
Regarding tastysandwich's comment about having no time to read, my hack is to put the book I want to read in the bathroom, and never bring my phone with me. This give me some time to read every day, and I've polished off several books this way.
Regarding your comment about work/home separation, similar to what someone else has mentioned in another thread, I have the work laptop that my company provides to me, and my personal laptop. I have no personal files on my work laptop and no work files on my personal laptop. I don't even have any work-related app (Teams, Slack etc) on my personal phone (my thinking is that if the company wants to reach me through those on a phone, they need to provide me with the phone). I only have my work laptop turned on when I am working. When I close my work laptop, I am done for the day.
I love the lockdown, I get to WFH and not have to deal with small talk every day, mandatory company dinners, commuting through rush hour traffic smelling exhaust, getting up early and going home late, staying late because the boss is staying late, slamming coffee in the afternoon to stay awake instead of taking a nap, not getting any sunlight because I'm in the office during all the daylight hours, having to cram my errands into the same time as everyone else when the markets and stores are the busiest, eating whatever food you can get close to the office instead of eating healthy, dressing up for work, having to shop for work clothes, not feeling free to go on a non-work website because someone could see your monitor from over your shoulder, dealing with chatty coworkers who go on and on about nothing, dealing with coworkers who have loud phone conversations, not being able to listen to the music you want, breathing recycled indoor air constantly, not being able to adjust the temperature to what you like, not being able to inject comments into a conversation over someone who is dominating a room, not being able to yawn or close my eyes or pick my nose during a meeting... I should probably stop.
I have had my smartphone on vibrate-only since pretty much the beginning of having a smartphone, as I find it much less distracting than audio notifications, and much easier to ignore. I have almost all notifications turned off, except for calls and texts, and notifications from my security system. It's that last thing that prevents me from being able to leave my phone out of sight all the time.
I was already regularly wearing masks in the winter before the pandemic for the same reason, it kept my face nice and warm. Of course it was cloth masks, not N95. But I did wear N95 when the air quality was especially bad.
I started a new job after the start of COVID, and it has been really hard to build the personal relationships to become fully effective (our offices are spread out globally). My manager has said that pre-COVID days, I would have had the chance to meet many of my colleagues face-to-face and have a few beers with them, which would have greased the wheel to creating some personal connections. It's always easier to request help from someone who has a good impression of you.
Similarly with clients. It's much easier for people to go on attack-mode when they are displeased when it's only through email or a video conference where people have their cameras off. Unhappy clients can be placated and turned towards working together to a solution much more easily in person, and happy clients can be turned into long term partners more easily over dinner and friendly chats. This is especially true of customers in Asia.
Along the lines of second hand smoke, are there any levels of safe exposure to air pollution (considering recent studies saying that chronic exposure is equivalent to losing one year of education)? In that case, internal combustion engine exhaust might be a larger source of health risk than outdoor second hand smoke, depending on where you live.
To bring it to the relevant topic of the day, I don't believe I will ever see the CDC issue a statement that "no level of exposure to the COVID-19 virus is safe", and recommend China level of quarantine.
Here is a critique of My Octopus Teacher as a movie of a self-centered man who projects his issues onto an unsuspecting wild animal: "MY OCTOPUS TEACHER & Environmental Horror, An Analysis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44
At first I thought it was a weirdly inept clothing ad, until I realized it was actually the person being discussed in the article. Looking at that picture, I have to actively tell myself to not judge someone by just one photo.
Absolutely. Even with highly profitable global megacorps, technical debt is an issue, but eventually they have to pay the piper. I'm not sure if it is true in this case, but my image of governmental agencies are that they are perpetually underfunded and short-staffed, so it must be an even greater difficulty to choose between what should be done and what must be done.
I would imagine it's like technical debt. There's benefits to paying that debt down, but there are always other issues that have higher priority. Sure, the software should have been architectured to be easily extensible / system should have been set up to make it easy to release half a million pages of documents, but this update has to be released in time to beat the competition / these drug approvals needs to be completed to save lives.
Building relationships with a skip level manager doesn't have to be about direct updates. It's not about going around your manager, either. It's building another channel of communication where you can ask for help on blockers, get updates on issues specific to what you're working on, build visibility for the work you are doing, and create good working relationships. Unless your manager never goes on vacation, you're going to have to work directly and report to your skip level manager at some point in time anyway. In my company, my manager has regular sync-up meetings with his skip level manager, and encourages me to do the same.
Yes. I've love to be able to type fast enough to take notes so that I don't have to try to read my chicken scratch handwriting and figure out what the hell I was trying to write, especially when referring to notes where I don't have any recollection of what the contents were.
I suppose then we are getting into the nitty gritty of what the definition of typing is. Typing to me is entering text data. For me, if I use something like Swype on my phone, where I don't even have to hit the actual letters I am trying to type, I would still call it typing. This device looks like it's matching a chord made up of the majority of the letters of a word to the expected word. I would still call that typing. Just like driving with adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and automatic emergency breaking would still be called driving for me.
I just recently noticed the delivery optimization feature in Windows 10. It sounds similar to what you are saying, sending Windows update to other PCs on the local network.
That's very interesting, could you answer a few questions, or point me to some resource which explains in more detail?
1. How does this story end?
2. Which Fed announcement are you referring to? That rates will be raised? What do you mean the party's over, that speculation will decrease and prices will drop?
3. "This impacts tech stocks which are not making money and not likely to make money" You mean that this will impact stock of tech companies which are not profitable, since their stock values are speculative, and not that tech stocks won't make money, right?
4. So that means the Fed has chosen to crash the stock market and save the real economy, right? And by that statement, you mean that the Fed will curb speculation in order to stop price increases in food and other commodities?
5. How and why does rises in prices of risky speculative assets trickle down to rises in food and commodities prices? Is this because some part of the market gets out of the high risk assets and start bidding up lower risk assets? Is this true in general, that price increases due to too much speculation in one part of the market will eventually spread to everything else?
In the case of the musicians being more productive, I would have guessed that it's because their creativity fed off of each other, with sharing of ideas and helping each other out of slumps, rather than any urge to outcompete their nemesis.
Now that meters are moving from purely mechanical to electronic devices, the extra cost of the display and connectivity can be reduced by having a central pay station for a row of parking spaces. I believe I've seen some form of central pay station on some streets.
Yes, social intelligence absent analytical intelligence does not lead well to lasting success, just as vice versa, analytical intelligence absent social intelligence does not lead well to lasting success. In the situation where someone has some social intelligence, and a great deal of analytical intelligence, they might be able to convince someone that their ideas have merit, and might be able to lead others, but there might be difficulties. In the opposite case, where someone has some analytical intelligence, but a great deal of social intelligence, when they recognize good ideas, or recognize that someone is highly competent, then even if they couldn't have come up with those ideas or don't have the competency, they can gather large forces to get the ideas implemented.