paolomaffei

I laughed when I read the substraction of 0 legs for each legless elephant. Then I did a double take... 8 legs per elephant is standard?

Had a permanent role (mid weight) level before, applied for contracts. Nothing special!

Personally I've seen quite a few of up and downs in my market (UK contracting), this might be a bit longer than usual, but not a permanent situation.

An encouraging sign I'm seeing is that there's more permanent positions advertising higher salaries than in the past (maybe just the +20% of inflation from march 2020, but still!).

The market will change again... software is still eating the world, there will be shortage of SKILLED developers for the foreseeable future. And even if I need to make 25% less of what I used to at the peak of pandemic hiring, it's not that bad really!

About 2 years ago I found myself once more checking my phone while on the toilet. I decided that was enough, I don't want to be an addict.

Since then, all my devices (phones, laptop) now stay in a specific room of the house: the office and they never leave

If I badly need GPS to get somewhere I take the dumbphone with me, the phone with the apps simply never leaves the office. But I'll look up the road before instead unless absolutely needed. If I need to meet someone I tell them be on time where we agreed to meet, I won't have a phone with me

It's scary to notice how as soon as there's a phone in my pocket the old addiction kicks up

I'm a bit confused why nobody suggested cryptocurrency mining? not feasible?

Absolutely gold suggestion. This might just be the future for most internet-connected device use, and particularly for children/supervised use like you're describing.

Hey this is great and something I started on working myself. Just a note that if you pin the extension on the extension page itself it gives a very, very confusing message of "SuperFocus works on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

SuperFocus is not yet available for dboceidahklphhjpfbpnicodnbkoiokn."

thought it was a bug before I realised that must be the chrome extension id, but it's quite likely people will first open the extension on this tab as that's where you teach them to pin it

keep up the good work!

Great work! I think apps like this will be seen as pioneers in the age of getting back our attention. From somebody else very interested in the topic, with a pending HN application for a startup app in the same space

what day is today?

the problem is how to identify capable non-technical founders.

I suspect the ratio of capable non-technical and technical founders is nearer 0.1-0.5:1

any thoughts on how to identify the unicorns?

a Buddhist would say that just in the same way that a rock evolves into a human, a human evolves into a Buddha.

Precisely, ultimately everything is empty.