justspamjustin

Yes, one of the first steps of this gradual rollout should be rolling out to your own company in the classic, "eat your own dogfood" style.

I bought one from Amazon, but I'm not really sure if I'd strongly recommend it. It works well, but sometimes makes weird noises. If you plan on using it a lot, I recommend considering purchasing an extended warranty.

I'm definitely no fitness expert, but this is what I do. I don't have a strict workout schedule, because I feel like that is demotivating for me.

- Under desk treadmill with standing desk - I spend a lot of time at the computer, so I have a standing desk and a treadmill that goes under it. I find that if I use it for about a half hour, 3 times a day, that gets me about 8,000-9,000 steps. Then I can get to the recommended 10,000 steps by the rest of the walking I do throughout the day.

- Adjustable Dumbbells and Bench - I own a pair of adjustable dumbbells that go up to 50 pounds in increments of 2.5 pounds. I use them to do strength training 1 to 3 times a week. This year, I had ChatGPT generate my upper body workout routine for me, and so far it's going really well. My goal is to do 100 strength training workouts this year.

- Ab routine, yoga and Maxiclimber - About once or twice a week, I try to do an ab routine, "Ab Ripper X" from the original P90X at 1.25 speed to get it over with faster. Yoga (from YogaDownload.com) to help with recovery from the strength training. Also, I picked up a Maxiclimber XL on the local classifieds for about $40.

- Other recreational fitness activities - I also try to make sure I participate in alternative fitness activities that are recreational and not just part of the workout grind. These include, biking, snowboarding, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, basketball, pickleball, hiking, frisbee, etc.

This was not my routine before I started working from home. Working from home has enabled this and I'm now probably in the best physical health I've ever been.

I recommend researching the “Dichotomy of Control”. There are some things in life that you have control over and some things that you don’t. Rationally it doesn’t make sense to worry about the things that aren’t under your control. If you have a correct understanding of what things are in your control and which aren’t, and focus only on what’s in your control, it can really help you to stop caring so much about things that aren’t important.

This is not a mental health issue. It's a result of misinformation and conspiracy theories being spread most likely on social media and people believing them. So many people just blindly trusting information being spread without properly fact checking or checking their sources. This is what's going on. It starts with bias towards a specific group, then they start searching for any evidence that can support their bias. When a privileged white male has this bias towards Jews it's not a mental health issue, it's antisemitism which is a form of racism. Call it what it is.

When I learned to drive, I was taught to slow down when you see that you’re coming up on lower visibility areas of the road. This could be a turn in the road, a part of the road that reduces slope or a darker part of the road. I still do practice this safe precaution. And while the technology is in its infancy, drivers in an autonomous car should be just as attentive as a driver in any other car.

My team moved from scrum to a kanban style process a couple years ago. The benefits were immediate. We no longer have drawn out sprint planning meetings where we discuss requirements of features that we never end up working on in that sprint. We don’t waste time debating complexity of features. Everything is now just ad hoc. When we need more requirements definitions, we pull the necessary members of the team together and discuss it. When we see that there needs to be architectual discussions and high level planning, we do it immediately when we recognize the need for it. The idea that you can try and commit to or even forecast how much can be completed for a period of time is pretty absurd. Just identify the minimum requirements of what needs to be done and do it. Retrospective is still productive. But sprint planning is a waste of time IMO.