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Thanks, I have fixed it

I live in a country and I'm trying to learn the language. I also take weekly classes and occasionally use private tutoring when I have time. I still get a ton of value out of duolingo, its exercises are easy to do in spare moments and it's a great way to work on vocabulary and passive grammar understanding, I love it.

It's not nearly enough on it's own to learn a language though, it's very very good as a supplement though, ime

Do we see this trend continuing through the remainder of this year? Is there any reason to expect a shift back in favour of employers in the labour market here in the near future?

I agree that the prose and structure is not the strong point.

I appreciated it for giving a clearly articulated alternative to zero sum competitive games. It helped me think about the playfulness of cooperative creativity in a new more holistic way, as well as the idea that it’s worth doing things that you’ll never reach an end of.

I don’t doubt that if I read it again I’d share your criticisms though, it’s a thin volume with a very sweet idea at the core of it, at the end of the day.

Great little book, had it recommended to me by a fantastic music teacher of mine in graduate school.

No no you misunderstand

I would have thought it was an asshole comment for implying that having kids makes you less productive. But having kids DOES make you less productive (at least when they are young) or at the very least removes great swaths of time that you would have had available otherwise, if you involve yourself with their lives at all.

Having kids or not is intensely personal and everyone has to make that decision themselves, not having them is extremely valid

What value of “older” do you have in mind?

As the parent of a 3 year old, I know that it’s at least older than 3 XD

I would have thought this was an asshole comment before I had kids.

Young ones take SO much time. I don’t regret kids at all but I regret not doing even more with my time previously!

I want to address your direct question: no you are not being self centered; that someone meant to be assessing you has a passing familiarity with your resume is an extremely reasonable expectation.

It might not be the interviewers fault if they aren’t given adequate preparation time but that just means the place isn’t taking hiring particularly seriously, or that they interview tons of people.

I realize it’s not always possible to do so, but you and everyone else deserve to work at a place that treats them with respect, don’t feel bad for desiring this most basic thing.

I know you meant resistance training in general wrt astronauts in space but I just got the funniest image in my head of Chris Hadfield doing a zero G overhead press with a loaded bar and floating all over the place hahaha