heisnotanalien

Programming is NOT meditative even the old way. Yes you can get into a flow state but that's not really meditation. In fact you're really just disassociating in a way and is easy to end stuck in your head too much. In fact, without balance, long periods of coding can leave some people feeling mentally over-identified with abstract thinking and less connected to their body or immediate experience.

It is also worth saying that you don't need to sit still to meditate. You can do yoga or go for a walk. Walking meditation is very underrated IMHO.

Yesss. I will never buy anything Meta so happy to see this.

I'm sorry but I just find this slightly ridiculous. Create a 'frictionless' environment as much as you want but it is never going to make you write. If you want to write then just write and overcome the internal resistance. It's NOT a tools problem.

This is how LiveJournal was back in the day. I have some really fond memories of people just honestly writing about their life. It seemed more pure and less performative. Then of course the whole Six Apart thing happened but I know many Russians for whom LJ still serves the same purpose.

No. A properly trained therapist essentially holds space so you can find yourself. That's not something you want to burden a friend with. It's a common misconception that it is just about 'talking'. Good therapy is more about feeling.

You don't go to a therapist to learn cognitive knowledge. You go to heal your way of relating with others. It's not easy and can only be done in the messy complicated emotional world of relationship with another human being. You need to feel their eyes on you. You need to feel vulnerable and on the point. You need to be guided to feel into your body.

Struggling to reconcile this is cool with what about the insane energy/water costs. Are we supposed to stick our heads in the sand? Hope it will magically go away?

I've experienced this and I think it's due to skills matrix bingo. You're a junior engineer and to become a senior engineer all you need to do is make a line in the skills matrix. Write a test! Be nice to someone in a code review! Boom! BINGO! Senior engineer.

Of course it's good to know what you need to do to become a Senior. It used to be more wooly but at the same time even the best thought-out skills matrices don't capture what a Senior engineer really is.

We need more third spaces beyond the gym or things based around alcohol. I like the idea of members clubs where people have similar values/interests and you can go there and chat to people. Laptops/phones banned.

Makes sense. Thanks for sharing your setup. Sounds great.

You work for Canonical but use NixOS? Isn't that er a bit weird?

I don't know much about the project but as an outsider it all just seems totally insane! People writing letters with screenshots of actions really? Liking a post becomes the equivalent to going on a political march or something? I can't help wonder if a lot of these problems would be avoided by more collaborative in person/talking and frankly more emotional awareness. It's all cognitive left-brain stuff - where is the emotional centre?

Very interesting.

What's the advantage of this? Can't you use a modern paint program? What am I missing? Is it just coolness factor?

A lot of it simply comes down to management being butt hurt because they signed up for a 20 year lease on office space in Expensive City.

That said, I think more focus should be on making remote nicer and productive as possible rather than fighting it. More actually listening to employees and making it work. Making having get togethers in person every so often.