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I'm surprised at this being correlated w/ intensive parenting. Modern parents ARE tired and parenting a lot. That's why on the weekends we invite our friends with kids over and the kids run around and entertain each other so we can have some "Just talk to adults" time with the other parents, maybe watch the NFL games. Even when we take turns hosting, we easily get over the 12x a year mark through this.

Mine was super wrong. I was outside and it still guessed a wildly wrong location. It was wrong about my age and my interests.

Yeah, I guess sometimes I just want to know how long to cook the chicken. I don't want a bespoke recipe with soul and feeling. I'm going to add ingredients that my family likes. I just want to remember how long it generally takes to cook a specific something-or-other.

I don't know. I did enjoy the read even if I didn't agree with it very much.

I'm unsure if it's meant to be life advice or philosophy but it misses the mark on both for me.

If life advice: Sure maybe for you? Others might find they're a bit happier with a drink and their comfort TV shows in the evening.

If philosophy: Aren't mindless self indulgence and relentless self improvement both just raging against an inevitable death? In a Buddhist sort of "All life is suffering" sort of way? What about being present?

The fact that we can put these things over top of each other is awesome.

I'm not in the market but this seems like an amazing place to work.

I love it.

> “Can I confirm that March should be the launch date?”, > don’t say “I assume we’re all aligned that March should be the launch date”.

...only if you really aren't sure. I would actually say something like "We're planning to launch in March unless there are reasons not to."

If someone has a really great reason, they'll speak up. Getting "confirmation" from a group that may be indifferent can sometimes be even worse. How many people in the group aught to "confirm" before we move forward? What if one extremely uninformed person loudly confirms? Then a person with a real issue may feel like they don't want to stir things up by disagreeing.

Tangentially related: This is why you should say "If you can't see my screen, please let me know." when you start sharing your screen on zoom rather than "Can you see my screen?" Who on Earth aught to answer that in a large meeting?

Assuming a "yes" and allowing for the "nos" to speak up is much more successful in general I think.

Asheville NC seems to be turning into a "work remote" tech hub. I moved here during the pandemic and have met many tech workers just walking around my neighborhood. Technically it's a city (looks like ~90k population), but coming from NYC it certainly feels like nature to me. There are streams and mountains and back yards.

I've run an account for an old job I had (promoting a bar), but beyond that I haven't really interacted with twitter, ever. Everything I hear of it is negative. (Note: I only know what happens on twitter from people on podcasts talking about what happens on twitter. So it's possibly not an accurate reflection of the platform.)

I've seen people that I respect appear to lose their sanity from things being said on it. An example is Sam Harris, who is of course a brilliant author and neuroscientist.

He's gone from a person I respected a lot for his thoughts on atheism and spirituality to being a person who I've heard dedicate hours of podcasts to basically complaining about what people say on twitter. As an adult, it's almost shocking to hear someone intelligent revert to anguishing about the same things misguided teenagers might concern themselves with.

He's not the only one. It appears famous people who use twitter end up using it as a scope into what they might perceive the real world to be like. However, what seems to be the discourse on twitter has no relation to the discourse in my neighborhood (in Western North Carolina) or my previous neighborhood (East Village, NYC).

So no, OP, you're not the only one baffled. I'm extremely baffled.