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It's more focused on the compassion part. The mystical is something which is easy to find online, but hard to find someone with the experience.
But there are different schools, more focused on study, mediation etc. Some are more formal, others informal.
Therapy in itself has limited scientific backing (specific types for specific diagnosis often do). But it feels rational.
However the main point is: Buddhism, and all religions, focus on why you do what you do.
The Western Way is confusing, partially career & material, bit of humanism, etc. Now that's fine. You can figure it out in this system and some people do. But there is no clear road. There is freedom in that, but it comes with a huge amount of anxiousness & confusion.
The western reason for doing things: focusing on getting external circumstances in order (friends, career, house, family) will cause a huge amount of anxiety. Buddhism, and perhaps also Christianity, give non-personal teachings to elevate your focus to a point where it's less about what you do & who you are.
You don't have to believe me and can wait for science to figure this out. But seeing the rise of anxiety, depression & pill usage, I don't have much confidence in the current understanding of the Western world in mental health.
It kind of works. But the corpus of Buddhism is what makes it powerful. And this is hard to make palatable for the West.
The main goal of buddhism is giving you meaning & joy in life despite of stress or tragedy.
Very important aspects of Buddhism that make the whole much more powerful are:
- Living & acting out of compassion (boddhicitta): if your main focus is other not yourself, a huge relief of worries is gone, and meaning arises naturally.
- Accepting change. There are 2 ways to see change: "nothing matters" or "no need to worry, just relax". Buddhist meditation is geared to getting you to the positive kind.
- Understanding emptiness (or space) as the nature of all experiences, both rationally but in the end resting in this experience in meditation means dissolving into everything and experiencing deep bliss.
And of course the power devotion & social aspects of all religion can not be overlooked, good & bad.
My teachings are from Tibetan kind, which is more mystical & compassionate oriented then the southern countries which are more focus on self-actualization (they teach the Vispasanna retreats)
However I dove into it, Boiling wasn't always easy, so they didn't always heat it properly for sterilization: https://byo.com/article/raw-ale/.
Here in north if we drink during lunch, we keep going.
The sterilizing only really happens in modern wine level alcohol (14%).
The coffee & alcohol cycle is also an interesting one in the West
High paced work environment & coffee jacking up your nervous system, and then in the evening using alcohol to calm it down (or other calmers like weed or painkillers).
And scaling is the same that VPS I could just scale the same way. Run a resize in my hosting company panel. (I dont use autorescal atm)
Only if I would hit about 100x times the nrs I would get the advantage of k8s, but even then I could just split up customers into different VPS.
CI / CD can be done good and bad with both.
And in practice K8S's a lot less stable. Maybe because I'm less experienced with K8S. But also because I think its more complex.
To be honest k8s is one of those dev tools that has to reinvent every concept again, so it has it's own jargon. And then there are these ever changing tools on top of it. It reminds me of JS a few years ago.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115/when-do-you-use-g...
For the last decade contracting/freelancing has been paying consistently the salary in the upper ranges discussed in the above article, from my experience living in the NL.
Taking a regular job, unless for big companies like booking etc. described in this articles, for most devs here would mean taking a pay cut up to 50% if not more compared to contracting.
So yeah even if you want to get a steady job with tax cuts you get being a freelancer you can work half a year in the NL and in the end easily make more then a full year being employed.
So in the end most of us have our own little lemon stands, because it just makes more sense.
In software we often go for further complexity instead of less. I think because most of us who are the lead developers are often the most intelligent. And we often enjoy these complicated abstract models and they come easy to us. However in satisfying our own intellectual vanity we often don't see how many we leave behind. Which is good for our hourly rates, but less good for creating affordable and simple software.
Anyway one of the main practical advantages git had was decentralized repos meaning you were not dependent on an external server which meant git was often much faster if working with in daily tasks compared to centralized versioning systems
And it's also not personal in the sense that the government often takes an active role in raising and educating kids (wether you like it or not).
It's clear that at least farmers and also people living in pesticides ridden areas suffer many diseases, for instance Parkinson: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176703/#:~:tex....
The only assumption is is that in low doses pesticides are not harmful, but there is no deep knowledge of years and years of low dose pesticide exposure. And those limits might differ based upon weight, gender, age, genetics and luck.
But there are also other risks. For instance with Strawberries they might have limits of one pesticide, but they max out different ones, so you get a cocktail of chemicals that used together exceeds the allowed limits of one.
I don't know much about the US rules. But I also know here it's popular to say "well just because it's organic, doesn't mean it's without pesticides".
But in general the few times I've checked different researches on pesticide residue organic scores consistently better.
See: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/cocktails-of-pestici....
And true I don't like multiple choice for that reason.
However in my experience it's much easier to check from a distance if they are messing around or not with a computer. And computer won't easily allow them to continue with wrong answers. (Certain programs are better then others)
One on one is always better, but there is not room for a lot of one one time in most schools
One of the big benefits is of computers vs books: being able to directly give automated feedback.
Pronounce or type a word wrong, the computer instantly gives you specific feedback. If you do assignments on paper teachers checks it much further away from the point the cognitive effort has been applied. There is a much less direct feedback loop.
Especially for learning how to read a computer can give feedback whereas kids can go through texts not fully understanding, or misreading words without any correction.
Of course one on one is in some ways much more effective. But there are time constraints.
To automate certain things computer programs are most time effective. Just have to check in to make sure they are taking their work seriously.
It's also harder to pretend to be studying with a computer
At some point I realized they have zero trees in the streets. Also means no bird sounds in the background, no green leaves adding some colors to the concrete, no blossoming in the spring.
Being in a city where every street is filled with trees I realized how big of an impact it is.
It is however not "easy", the old big trees you want, destroy your streets, branches fall in storms, sometimes even whole trees fall over.
In politics, and maybe corporates, there has to be a line that at some point also personal charges can be made, or persons can be held responsible in some way or another.
These huge organizational structures have all been created to defer personal responsibility, which is good to an extent, but it got a little bit out of hand.
- first customers of iterative release is a very small sample size and not always indicative for a larger market
- by building minimal versions, or selling products before they are build, you are always behind in development, causing lots of stress and presure on the dev team and increases the risk of releasing products that are unstable
We need meaning in live. And for a long time religion gave that. But we threw that out. We now try to get "profesional therapy help". But it hardly has any scientific backing, and no one but religion has been able (even though it fails often) been offer te give any deeper answer to the question to "whats the meaning of it all".
The best solutions people like Robbins or J. Peterson offer are: just keep running so you don't think about it.