The same is true for our AI processing on the cameras. This is entirely local and private. You can even air gap the UniFi Protect system from the Internet and it'll operate fine.
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I don’t quite get if people do it for interest, for love of the tech, or if they are technocratic and believe in levelling up their skill to get k8s on their CV like you say.
All I think is “this looks painful to manage”!
But still, no matter what, the odd customer demands they need all these complexities turned on for no discernible reason.
IMO it’s a far better approach with any platform to deploy the minimum and turn things on if you need to as you develop.
Incidentally, I’ve been exposed to “traditional” cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) through work and tried a few times to use them for personal projects in recent years and get bewildered by the number of toggles in the interface and strange (to me) paradigms. I recently tried Cloudflare Workers as a test of an idea and was surprised how simple it was.
I’m not yearning for social interaction because I need a friend. I’ve got friends and they’re not at my job.
I’m yearning for the variety of different communication methods I have in a physical domain with the added bonus that I can change the environment I’m in to accommodate different tasks.
I regularly find myself clock-watching until the next time I can talk to someone because everyone is always busy - there are no water coolers or coffee breaks to stitch in between.
Even if you create the virtual coffee break and have a chat with people, often we're pushed to abandon it - presumably because it's flipped from an opportunistic (oh, we're all of the phone, let's go grab a coffee) to a scheduled event which a) gets dropped and b) doesn't naturally recur.
Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts.
It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.
* I see more than I am expecting as I meet more people. Solo travel is lonely and you want to speak to others, when you do you get new experiences. Theres nothing stopping you talk to people when you travel with others but the yearning for interaction isn’t as strong. Ex: meeting someone in Beijing and going for a proper local breakfast eating things I’d never imagined.
* It challenges me to overcome my comforts. I’ve experienced far more by pushing my boundaries beyond what I thought possible. Ex: cycling the US Pacific Coast and needing shelter/resources and accepting the help you can get only to find kind people, new experiences and great local recommendations.
Almost every time I share stories at least a couple of stories come out of times I have travelled solo.
Beautiful art is created with constraint - here's a statue I carved purely out of one of the most difficult materials, marble.
The most significant speeches of our time are delivered once, not on repeat.
Even, on topic with the post, in my opinion Twitter's early attractiveness was the challenge of posting on a subject within the character limit constraint.
Our default state as a species is to find ways to survive. Constraint flexes our brains to develop innovative ways to reach a goal. Information about other people is a significant asset in survival because we're built to learn things from others and to use that knowledge to further out survival. Simply standing in my house and saying "oh wow" will make my kids run to me to ask what it is.
The current information age is tapping on all the systems we've evolved to survive in terms of information gathering, it's just that knowing that someone is eating a delicious meal in the city is not critical to survival - but once you know the information you can't unknow it leading to information overload. We're coaxed into feeling like we should care and we should know but it's a huge tax on the brain to deal with the complexity of the world.
"Could I interest you in everything all of the time." - Bo Burnham
It's in my mind akin to the master craftsperson perfecting their work over the years.
True vocation.
I’m not saying that only physical environments have those qualities - I’m saying through my experience I work better, feel better, and contribute better when I can communicate in a physical space and not a virtual one.
Again, as I say, whatever is right for the individual. If virtual works for you, that’s great, but I’m consciously stepping out of remote work as I really struggle with it.
However, what’s right for me isn’t right for you and enforcing a rule one way or another does not work so I agree with your point.
Megacorps need to understand that we humans have a range of preferences and, if we’re to assume some prefer remote and some prefer office, then making a big decision as Amazon has will alienate a decent amount of workers. Cue calamity.
Battery farming and animal welfare.
Public transport and social mobility.
Processed food and nutritional value.
The human mind is just the next frontier where the battle to make everything you do something that is “valuable” where value = economic output.
I’m stressed because I’ve been in that place for too long. I started the year reading James Clear’s book only to immediately follow up with 4000 Weeks as the antidote.
Atomic habits are great if you want to push the boundaries of human achievement. The big realisation for me (and perhaps many of us) is “I’m not trying to do that”.
All the good books on performance, habits, marginal gains reference all the contexts where pushing boundaries is the normal state - Formula 1 pit crews working together to minimise time, Southwest Airlines and their 20min turn arounds, the British Cycling team and the pursuit of TdF/Olympic success.
My personal belief is we’re inviting in a dangerous logic to one of the few remaining bastions of our humanity. Float. Be free. Don’t force your mind to do something it cannot or does not want to do. Sure there’s a balance, but there is a threshold beyond which you’re deviating from your natural wants and wishes which equates to stress. Too much of that and you’re going to have a bad time.
The subtlety of human communication and merits of simple vulnerability exchanges really detracts from team development.
And whilst I do get to see my team - whenever we meet it’s to discuss the “big” stuff and not actually do our daily work, thus we don’t get to learn from each other.
1. I genuinely miss working alongside people (6+ years now of hybrid but mostly remote working) and by that I mean actually working things out together rather than either being expected to know, learn solo, or book people's time to learn from them
2. the pressure of delivering the best of everything in an ultra-competitive tech space
Currently applying for jobs 1/3 my salary from last year, having already taken a step back to a role 2/3 my salary and still not able to take the pressure. Hoping I find peace in being "ok" in an "ok" job so I can focus on living life again.
Edit: Inspired by the original post - I've kicked off my own: https://heathworks.medium.com/im-quitting-tech-kinda-chapter...
I found a lot of value in explaining who I am by my “why” statement which defines how I operate. It’s a way of succinctly telling someone what way I approach every situation. That statement (actually a question) is “what if we could make it better?”. Telling someone that’s my way of thinking and discussing cases helps me explain who I am.
Also reminds me of Carmine Gallo’s analysis of TED Talks - Pathos is a big component in making something memorable as we learn “who” the speaker is as they explain “why” they’re stood on stage right now talking about their subject.
I thought I would have accomplished a lot more but I also:
- fail to recognise my accomplishments to-date
- cross-compare with others around me (even if they’re not in the same situation)
- have to recognise the variability created by choosing to have others in my life (spouse, children)
I reel when I think about some of my decisions - e.g. not buying a home for my family and continuing to rent but I have to accept that some of that is not all my fault - housing is increasingly expensive and I’ve not been blessed with the same 5-figure deposit contribution from family that my friends have had. I also need to recognise the concept of home ownership is an ideal informed from the previous generation and may or may not be as relevant today.
I do resent the increasing encroachment of work into the home. The delineation between home and work today is tiny and it becomes very difficult to maintain separation between personal / family / work. This becomes especially hard when work expectations ramp up and how we’re all international now. At times I’ve felt like a vessel for family and work duties with no time left in the calendar for personal pursuit.
When it’s difficult to nurture your personal self and develop that internal satisfaction and success, I feel we try to seek that same satisfaction/success in the other domains of family and work which monopolise our calendar and as such look at the measures of success there (a nice car, a decent career, a lofty job title, great family holidays, etc…).
Needs altering to have a personal profile and not just a (infrequently updated) blog.
Point 1/2 - self-doubt = recognition of scope to improve - I like that. That resonates a lot with me.
Point 3/3b - This is a feedback loop that I can see working. My ill-thought often comes from not nipping in the bud issues of self-doubt.
Point 5 - saw this too. Enjoyed it a lot!
I think from this I see these actions: - look up “the four agreements” - that’s new to me but a quick wiki says it’s something that I’ll probably enjoy - make a flow chart, stick it above my desk starting with “are you having a wobble?” if “yes” then what do you want to add to your learning list for later - leading on to… - curb rampant knowledge building in an attempt to avoid problems, and instead just do the job, find the problems, and then learn what you don’t know
>Do you feel like an imposter when you are with your dog or your child or a very close friend or relative? If no, you don't have "imposter syndrome".
This though I think is not quite on point at least from my perspective as what I experience is only in career/work/job environments. But your point on everyone else does the same is pertinent.
My purpose was to have a SFF of individual wireless clients that I could control over SSH to do some network testing. Added benefit, the whole thing can be powered from a single PSU into the Pi 4.
What I want is a single ID source which you can provide access to from multiple service providers that need certain components. I’ve just changed address and the nightmare of updating each individual service makes me want for a common framework that all bank, utility, retailers use.