jakenberg
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Comment · 4 years ago
I've worked remote on and off for 6 years. The first two years was pure bliss. I slowly started to realize that having no hobbies, partner, etc was not good for my mental health. It took about 6 months to fix that. That has been (in my experience) the only thing that would excite me enough to go into the office.
I walked to work in Los Angeles (can you believe it?) for 2 years in-between and it was great - i loved that job. It still didn't hold a candle to WFH for me. I think many have realized this same thing in recent years: it becomes very hard to want to go back for a multitude of reasons.
Comment · 4 years ago
Apple is in a very tough spot. A $5bn headquarters sits relatively vacant with decreasing likelihood that there will be a return on investment. They ironically dug themselves into a hole by preaching how it would revolutionize the workplace while most feel this way about WFH. The paradigm shift seems obvious, especially when you account for the unrelenting rise in commercial real estate prices since Covid.
Perhaps Apple cannot acknowledge the foot in their mouth because it would contribute to a systemic collapse of the commercial real estate market... crazy times.
Comment · 4 years ago
The referral bonus must be off the charts... good luck to the author.
Comment · 6 years ago
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Remote: Yes (EST/PST timezones OK)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
* Security Engineering, Pentesting, Cryptography
* Ruby on Rails, React/JavaScript, GraphQL, Swift/iOS
* AWS, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqnplhcmx634t3w/Resume.pdf
Email: hello [AT] jakenberg.io
Website: http://jakenberg.ioComment · 6 years ago
Looks really cool! Cannot download on Mac though: https://imgur.com/a/iKMt37q
Comment · 7 years ago
You have to integrate more socializing into your life or you will not make it in the long run. If a remote worker tells you this doesn't bother them... ask them how long they've been remote. If it's less than 5 years, it's slowly eating at them and they don't realize it yet. Even the most introverted homebodies need to do this for remote jobs IME.
Comment · 7 years ago
> work when you feel like it == burnout city
yes because most of us don't know how to turn that off!
Mental health must become a priority when working remote. Separation is a key way to stay ahead of the degradation. Even if you're not a person who tends to go outside, you HAVE TO when you work remote. Lack of face to face interaction will eat you very slowly over the years.
It can't just be with your usual people either. You need to have a level of unexpected interactions with other humans to stay a happy person. I'm not a psychologist, but I've had this happen to me and any other colleague I know who worked remote. It's a very real thing – respect it.
Comment · 7 years ago
> tribal militance from supporters of each, defending their own vested interest.
This is something I really wish I understood before going down the road of graphql. I think it's a great technology, but the developers supporting it are making it nearly impossible for a legacy codebase to ever adopt.
Ex: so many JS codebases use redux. Apollo is a popular graphql framework that supported redux integration for some time, then suddenly ripped it out. They cited performance concerns, but I looked through the code myself and it would seem they just have a bias against redux. This issue thread makes that especially evident: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/2273
We were very lucky to have found that before breaking ground on the work.
Comment · 7 years ago
That goes both ways. They know they'll lose. I've been in this exact situation with an estranged CEO. They send their cease & desist and hope you take it down, but won't go further than that. Sure, you might have a psycho on your hands ready to lose all his time and money, but at that point, you shouldn't have ever taken the job, so moot point.
Comment · 7 years ago
I worked at a fiduciary that went down so feel confident speaking to this. You're still not getting it. It's not like other startups that fail where you just get some temps and hope it solves itself. You have a specific timetable from the moment you lose your license to transferring every cent out. Past that window, there are penalties and further legal problems with the SEC. It's safe to say anybody – even slimy companies – are in full overdrive as this is going down.
ACAT is not that simple. Most brokerages charge you a fee of upwards of $50 to do it. If the brokerage is going down and they must invoke an ACAT for you, they eat the fee. Again, it's misinformed to be incurring charges and even potentially taxable events because of your philosophical beliefs in the success or failure of a company.
Comment · 7 years ago
Just because RH is in legal/regulatory trouble does not mean your money is just going to disappear. It's a fiduciary, not an ICO. Financial firms must have disaster plans that involve giving or transferring all of your assets back to you if it all ends. Selling your positions because of this would be a misinformed decision.
Comment · 7 years ago
And that rarely holds up in court, especially in California. Some common sense comes into play e.g. if you're building a direct competitor or using their IP, then of course that's going to be an issue.
Comment · 8 years ago
There's an interesting 1960's era art installation by Anthony Heinsbergen on a side wall of the LA facility that seems oddly related to this...
https://i1.wp.com/upinthevalley.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/...
Comment · 9 years ago
Years of radiation exposure and the poor guy dies of alcohol poisoning. 'Murica.
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