don_draper

In America rent and healthcare are two big expenses that you can't escape from. You could live in rural areas and then you don't have a job or you do but you're spending most of your income on car expenses.

Real estate is one of the biggest intergenerational scams ever. Be smart and just buy a cheaper house and then work less. pretty simple

You should try meditating a few hours a day.

I question the assertion that allowing things to fail like big banks or China would be bad in the long term. And this is economics, which like religion, isn't an exact science so neither of us know for sure.

It's an engineering company that does math/science stuff along with regular software development.

I haven't done standup in 6 months and I just feel generally better. Where I work you just report to the tech lead every 2 or 3 weeks. So much nicer than daily standups. Could you imagine other professions doing what we do?

I went from being the most anxious, scattered mind person in the room to the most calm and focused. I went all in - 4 hours a day for over a year. But it's made a huge difference. It's given me many insights into life - one of which is that you ultimately choose whether you want to be happy in life.

I don't know how Amazon succeeds if those rates are true. My experience has been that any company with a turnover like that is going to have a ton of tech debt.

You said there's no way to rationalize it, but it depends on the person. For some becoming more mindful allows you to see bad mental habits that may contribute to the anxiety. Once you are mindful of these you are empowered to change them.

I'd argue it's not even how good you are but how good you negotiate. If you negotiate well transparency is not in your interest.

Don't forget to estimate and log your work

It's interesting to me that fear (even paranoia) was useful for our species for a long time. But now in modern society it actually is used against us.

Anecdotally, I use Google Fi in the DC are and love it.