mpnagle

I'd love to be in touch. I don't see your email in your profile. I'm mpnagle at gmail dot com. Thank you!

"X/Twitter will discount AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions."

Oh that's interesting. I have almost exclusively read older style. (Only exception is "The Orchard Keeper.")

Interested to try some things from the mythological early style!

Stella Maris, volume 2 of his most recent two volume novel, and The Road, have blown my mind. SM in particular focuses on a math prodigy committed to a mental asylum. I think it would speak to many people here.

I'm actually thinking of reading his entire collection, I've been so impressed by him. I just got No Country for Old Men.

Cool to hear the rec for Sunset Limited!

Think the exhibit was in Miami.

I had a fantastic job while taking care of my Dad towards the end of his life. Emergencies would come up that required me to fly to him (he was in Boston in assisted living and nursing homes, I was in the Bay) and the company and my manager were so understanding about it.

I think a job where it's understood that you may have to take a day off with very little notice, or more, will go a long way to everyone's peace of mind, and I found it was possible to find that.

I’m midway through a batch at Recurse Center — (www.recurse.com) and I both personally am getting a lot of energy connecting back to the part of programming I just think are intrinsically satisfying, and I’m meeting other programmers who are also finding it helpful for recovering from burnout.

There's a lot in here!

Having read some of the comments, it seems really important to me to center the information that you're queer, supporting a disabled partner. I worked in tech from 2013-2020, and from 2015-2020 my Dad's health was very fragile, and he had made no financial plans. I became his guardian, paying for homes, doing the paperwork, managing the care, and I think this is a huge piece of any situation like this.

There's a lot of curiosity in the comments about what the right environment and role is. I share those questions, but I also think it's important to just feel into the situation more before moving to action.

Queerness I also know for me, in tech, reminded me of the idea - everyone has to learn the dominant paradigm, and then there's ours. Meaning, I do think I experience the world differently through queerness, and it was a navigation to own that and lean into its gifts, rather than just feel a sense of otherness. I don't know if that's part of your experience or not, but it felt worth sharing.

I have started offering coaching - if you'd like to just connect for an hour (no charge or anything, just connection) my email is in my profile. My instinct is it would just be good to drop into what you're saying and really feel through the layers of life situation, the creeping in fear, the aloneness, the stuckness, and see where forward might be in all of it...

Oh, interesting!

I’ve also sat a comparable amount of ceremony — and so of course there’s strictness about SSRIs...but I have never thought about the mechanisms like this. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me to explore in this way.

If you do find the succinct, detailed write up I’d love to see. Thank you for finding the YouTube link, I want to check it out!