AwesomeFaic

For the most part. Travel restrictions, no conferences, WFH preparations, etc. From a policy standpoint, we're alright. Have we considered what to do if our offshore contractors get quarantined and can't WFH? Not so much.

Used to use Chrome, now I use Brave for home & mobile browsing. At work I'm locked into "approved" browsers so I'm using Chrome. The only alternatives are IE/Edge.

Take what you want to learn and break it apart into core components. Break those up. Break those up. Get to a granularity where it doesn't make sense to reduce concepts further. Prioritize these bite-sized items. You don't have a single thing you want to learn, you have a list of things you want to learn. This refinement process shouldn't take more than a few days, and each individual item shouldn't take more than a few days. As you begin crossing things off your list, the "few days" will turn into a week. Then a couple weeks. Then a month. Soon, you'll be seamlessly transitioning from one concept to another without realizing, as it will come naturally since the list was already ordered in an intuitive manner (and you're far more motivated and seasoned at this point). When you're done with that list, start a new one. Follow the same process, but it will ramp up far more quickly. Repeat until you no longer need the process (but if you enjoy the process there's nothing wrong with it)!

The "Timeless Content" icon isn't loading for me (using Brave). Otherwise looks great and congrats on the release

I try to find micro-moments throughout the day at work, either sitting at my desk, alone in an elevator, in the bathroom, etc. Nothing serious, but a bit to regain focus & center during turbulent days.

Not sure the value or USP compared to all the other digital business card alternatives

Edit: To be fair, it looks nice. Good work regardless!

I always start with a casual phone call to gauge their style and personality, and to gauge how well they understand the challenge. If it goes well and there's a spark, I reach out with a custom statement of work based on notes I took during the initial call, and we formalize terms, budgets, etc. to fill in the blanks. That almost always ends with a digital handshake by the end of the call and I start on the work immediately.

In a meeting and a half I understand the problem, their understanding of the problem, their personality and work style, and specific terms.

One I'm very interested in that I don't have the time or expertise to really tackle is single-lens photogrammetry (or photogrammetry in general). Right now there isn't a great consumer-friendly option that doesn't require custom hardware. Many online resources recommend specific lighting and high-contrast colors to get a barely-accurate scan.

Another similar-ish one that other people have started addressing is building a system that reliably detects photo/video manipulation (ie. photoshop & deepfakes). An interesting extension of that would be detecting audio manipulation in a video.

Do you lean more towards "fun" projects or trying to solve "serious" challenges?

I'd like to know what the 'agenda' behind the second is

For my day job, I'm not sure. I do software development for insurance. It's a very multi-faceted industry, more so than the average person would expect. From a tech side the biggest issue is updating old systems without breaking integration with a million things across the board.

In my side work, I run an agency that aims to reduce the amount of BS in advertising (I know, a lost cause). We focus on being honest, creative, and making people happy, instead of falling in line with the rest of the "you're inadequate but this product will fix you" approaches.

Seconding this, Spotify at work is blocked and lots of active YouTube activity would look bad, so I fire up the beloved YouTube 24hr lo-fi beat stream and let it run all day pretty much

When I started my first consulting agency it was primarily focused on helping game devs treat their projects like a real business, which I witnessed was a common point of failure for indie studios. I reached out to my old Preproduction in Game Development professor (Brian Sullivan of Age of Empires fame), who also had a lot of consulting experience, and thanked him for everything while asking for advice moving forward. He seemed genuinely appreciative of the message and gave me some great advice.

I'm trying to do a bit of that, but it's understandably difficult. I have an easy day job time-wise, but even then I feel like I rarely do my best passion project work at home. Lately I'll wake up at 5 and work, go to the office from ~8 to ~4, and then get a couple more hours done at home afterwards.

I was at a company for 6 months that started with 9 hour days and after 4 months turned to regular 10-14 hour days. The worst was a week of 10+ hour days straight, usually there'd be one "normal" day each week but something was always going wrong (having to meet unrealistic deadlines, systems breaking, etc). Glad that experience is in the rear-view, it taught far more on self respect/care and connected me to a lot of great people (who also left soon after I did).

Edit: Forgot the initial question. It was a huge negative influence on an existing long-term relationship. If I stayed at that company it likely would have ended the relationship.