bergerjac

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Jake Berger - North Dakota farmboy meditating in India.

former Software Engineer, now Human Engineer ( fully into ancient Yoga methodologies like asanas & Pranayama aka ("breathwork")

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Comment · 2 months ago
Because they haven’t entered the country yet, therefore it’s a different type of jurisdiction with different rules & regulations.
Comment · 9 months ago
“It is likely that at least major portions of the Hoover Dam will still be in place hundreds of thousands of years from now.”

From the article itself, the Pyramids are only 12,000 years old. Every other Ancient Wonder has been destroyed.

Essentially there’s a Major Cataclysm about every 10,000 years, and a ‘Minor’ one about every 5000 years (Burkle Crater impact being the most recent).

How do you assume any parts of the Hoover Dam would be intact or even visible “hundreds of thousands of years from now”?

Comment · 1 year ago
Considering it’s not 1733, a future Belgian monarch has almost zero power.
Comment · 3 years ago
I used to have have aphantasia.

Now, I can visualize and pre-plan projects and events in my mind's eye.

To get started I never did any techniques. Instead, I just listened to fantasy & fiction audiobooks (eg by GRRM and Joe Abercrombie).

Once I started seeing scenes in my imagination, I made the connection that "This is just like daydreaming or thinking of memories!"

Then I took some training on personal growth which practiced changing the size, color, dimensions, etc and now it's become a powerful tool.

Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly. All that (internal) emotion gets pent-up and he doesn't know how to release it, so he takes one final act.
Comment · 3 years ago
The effects onto men are more internal. Whereas effects onto women are normally more external.

For example, a man could allow himself to be triggered into rage. And afterwards there will be no visible signs it happened within him.

But his wife could've been around him, and now she has purple bruises.

External signs are more easily measurable, and therefore reported more, therefore readers assume the most affected.

If the man had internal bio-signals measured, such as HRV, blood pressure, etc, you'd see the effects even BEFORE that of a beaten wife. (Of course there are also long-term health issues for being a slave to rage/anger/frustration)

Comment · 3 years ago
My childhood conditioning was also something which recently unraveled for me.

The first time I had a heart-to-heart with my father, the center of my chest felt viscerally tender.

Mother stole a car and sold it to pay for a cocaine addiction. Father was such a workaholic that he simply marked her behaviors as "strange"... like her taking phone calls into a closet.

After the divorce my father had custody and remarried to continue his absence. (Normally left before I awoke, and I went to bed before he returned. He was even normally late for family dinners on holidays. When he was home, he was sleeping or watching TV)

Sometimes stepmother would return from work and vomit anger onto me and my stepsister. (Only about 2 years ago I realized it was Verbal Abuse)

Re-encoding memories was crucial for my awareness, and mental-emotional progress.

It's challenging at first, but after processing a few traumas, now when a deeper layer surfaces, I know I can immediately bring it to a therapeutic resolution.

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Comment · 3 years ago
Did you communicate to the organizer about this?

In modern society we're normally conditioned to avoid confrontation, but it's the best way to initiate a proactive solution.

Comment · 3 years ago
I've lived in Serbia, Croatia, and Hungary... The key is to go to networking events. (Or co-working spaces, or just show up at their company and say you're interested in working there as an engineer and ask if you could get a quick tour)

If networking events don't happen in your country, then become the organizer. You'll instantly be seen as a leader and attendees will eventually want to talk with you. When you organize regularly, they'll start talking about you. Then you're "in".

If you don't live in the capital city, then it's worth the time & money to travel 1x a month or every 2 weeks. Ask attendees if anyone has a spare couch for you to stay on.

Themes for events you can use the major happenings like AI. Or 'duplicate' Meetup events in other cities.

Post flyers near companies doors, make event on FB & Meet-up, find developers on LinkedIn, there are so many options to get the word out. Split Test and discover which one is most effective (ask attendees where they heard about it)

Comment · 4 years ago
In 11th-grade 'Honors' Chemistry, we ran the 'Which water freezes faster' experiment outside in ~0℉.

2 glass beakers with same amount of water: 1 hot, 1 cold, stirring both at the same rate. Teacher told us the experiment was over once ice starting forming on the surface…

Cold water developed ice first. Outside in that weather, no one waited to see how long hot takes to become ice.

Comment · 4 years ago
In 11th-grade 'Honors' Chemistry, we ran the 'Which water freezes faster' experiment outside in ~0℉.

2 glass beakers with same amount of water: 1 hot, 1 cold, stirring both at the same rate. Teacher told us the experiment was over once ice starting forming on the surface…

Cold water developed ice first.

Comment · 4 years ago
Multiple times, I've performed a multi-hour intestinal cleanse from the Yogic disciplines. And many times there is a mental-emotional release hours later.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just because people are perceiving the "present day right wing [characterizing] Sanskrit", doesn't mean that everyone interprets & connects that with Sanskrit.

I engage with the language through Yoga, mantras and chanting,… and zero politicians interrupt that process, nor do I think about them.

Sanskrit has lived even before humans invented the idea of "the right wing".

Comment · 5 years ago
This question is a Catch-22…

I know a Mexican, who knew that his way out, was by getting in somewhere better. He applied to a German University, with zero experience with the German language. But on the application he lied and marked 'Conversational fluency'… he was accepted, leveraged his new location, and since has been the 1st CTO of multiple companies.

The people who have a little bit of humble audacity & spontaneous enthusiasm, will find a way, and gravitate towards each other.

The problem with this question, is trying to avoid companies that "don't suck"… instead, the aim is to find an amazing company. (Some readers will shrug off this distinction, and the successful will have an 'A-ha!' moment) Because amazing companies filter out average people who are only trying to avoid non-suckiness.

Amazing companies hire amazing people.

Comment · 5 years ago
Could you ask your engineering school to purchase some copies for a 'software engineering' library?

Or.. When I was doing an internship, my boss said they'd basically buy me any books I'd want. (the cost of a few books is a rounding error for any company who's paying engineers)

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