larrykubin

I would live as I did in :gasp: 2019. I would simply write code myself and spend less time talking to chatbots. I was more in demand then too.

The Odd Lots podcast puts my wife to sleep

I think I signed up one of the first days after it launched, it was called Startup News. Either from a pg essay or reddit, can't remember which.

I have a history going back to 2012, which is great. I've always worried Spotify would stop working with last.fm, I wonder if this makes it more or less likely.

For me personally, looking for solutions like this and researching tinnitus makes it more noticeable and worse. The best approach for me has been to pretend it doesn't exist and is insignificant, and even though it's still there after 7 years, it doesn't bother me as much anymore.

I always traced this to Ryan Holiday marketing the philosophy and selling books on the topic and starting a YouTube channel "The Daily Stoic"

Yeah, the people I've worked with at startups never said things like "I'm worried I'll get in trouble", they just did shit

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

I was finishing up engineering school around this time. I just remember handing out my resume at various career fairs and not getting any interest. Most of my friends and I took very low paying jobs that were not directly related to our chosen fields and scraped by for a few years. By 2004 or so things picked up and I was so excited to get my first programming job.

Yeah, I bought past versions of the Surface and the Surface Book. They would often never wake up from sleep or the battery would be dead unexpectedly. Hard for me to trust them after feeling like I wasted money multiple times.

I lived in Seattle for 4 years (2014-2017) and moved to SF in 2017.

1. Over time the weather in Seattle got to me and I became depressed. I've gotten more sunshine in the Bay Area and that has made all of the difference to me. People complain about the fog in SF but after living in Seattle and Portland I find SF weather to be almost perfect year round. The things I don't like about SF are well documented in the news and social media, just look it up on YouTube or Twitter and you'll see footage from Market St. / Tenderloin areas.

However, most of my time is spent between Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, which is just beautiful and pretty chill. The neighborhoods are walkable, have natural beauty, great food, and various venues where I enjoy hanging. So while I often see SF described as a "hellscape" and a "warzone", much of my daily life feels like a pretty postcard and is fairly quiet and peaceful.

2. I owned a 3 bedroom townhouse in Seattle but rent a 2 bedroom flat in San Francisco. I saved a lot in taxes and had a low mortgage in Seattle. SF is definitely more expensive, but the added cost was worth it for me since I've personally been happier. YMMV, some people seem to hate it here.

3. My pay went up in SF and I have had a variety of opportunities that I might not have had elsewhere.

4. Yes, I have been better at making friends in San Francisco. I never had much of a social circle in Seattle and failed in my efforts there. I do feel like SF has become a bit worse socially since the pandemic. I made quite a few new friends pre-2020, but not as many since. Also some of my favorite music venues and hangouts closed down in recently years.

5. I don't know anything about schools, day care, etc.