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that's inspiring

Whenever I see people asking about technical tasks we see a ton of links and references, management is surprisingly poor in that sense, everyone just seems to be winging it.

There's no structure, there are no guidelines and that's because it's mostly dealing with people and people are almost always completely different from each other.

If you want to learn how to be a good/better management, focus on being a better person and helping the people around you get better.

I like it, whenever someone is criticizing me or my work I take it as an opportunity to improve.

I always second guess and ask for more details, because the person might just be misunderstanding me and I don't want to act on a false negative feedback.

I also make sure to tell them that's like pair programming for life, that the person making the critic is helping me, that I like it and I also tell a funny story to make them comfortable.

I tell the person that when I was in the army I had big angry men with guns screaming insults at me, there's nothing they can say to me that I might take offense.

Give me feedback please.

so, marketing did it again

Not drinking but smoking, I quit when covid started and I was afraid that my damaged lungs would make vulnerable to it.

Earlier this year I was reading 'The Gracie Diet' which is a book about nutrition written by the Gracie family, a the people who pretty much made brazillian jiu jitsu and the key take-away to avoid bad food is to think of it like a fight with a nemesis.

There's someone that is trying to kill you, he will try to use any means, what if he would try to poison you? How easy would that be? What if this enemy were to add poison to your ice cream? How easy would that be for you notice that? News flash, icecream is already poison and the enemy is yourself.

Replicate the same thinking to alcohol, it is poisoned because someone is trying to kill you.

Can't have tilted paintings. Ice-cream is poisonous. Alcohol is poisonous. The floor is lava.

Make it a game or leverage your existing OCD for good things.

other then iron deposits, all is looking good. going to consult with an endocrinologist this month, this is more about removing the link between pleasure and nutrition.

I'd pay for google premium, but since that's not offered I use ad blockers. Just like I used to torrent before streaming services came up.

if everything bores you, the problem is usually in you

trigonometry

I'm far from being an expert, but the CO2 is just a byproduct of your body's metabolism. And although oxygen only makes up 21% of the air, your lungs don't extract 100% of it and even if it did, it wouldn't get used, or you would pass out. Or even worse, you would get used to having 100% oxygen delivered to your lungs, your red blood cell count would drop and then you would pass out as soon as you stopped using the O2 tank.

I've read a comment about gut bacteria, and I've also read a study about it and I was able to lose weight. If you think about types of gut bacteria that are helping you digest your food like little populations, you need to stop eating bad food like pizza, fast food, etc so that you can starve the population that's constantly secreting hormones that make you hungry for that kind of food. Then the craving goes away.

Declare war on those bacteria. No, it's no easy, it's pain and suffering. The first two weeks are hell. Then it gets easier and easier.

What I did was: - Sunday I cook meals for the week, two small portions every day. - Two options of tasty but healthy food. - Like mashed potatoes and grind meat or chicken and rice. - One small cake that should last the entire week as an emergency craving snack. - A ton of fruits. - A cheat meal on Saturday.

Do your best to stick to it, if you feel hungry you can try to eat one more portion, or fruits and in the worst case, a piece of cake.

The cake should also be very 'fit' like carrot cake with no fillings or frostings.

I have no weird tips or hacks, I've tried and fooled myself too many times.

There are no cheats, there are no tricks.

this should be the most upvoted comment

Damn, I've been through this too and I have even forgotten about it. 5 users, no cost, gone. I've even used zoho for a while after that, but that's gone too. My current solution is to use custom domain with icloud and forwarding emails around.

my bad :(

I have been using Google Photos for the past 9 years with no problems. Last year I decided to try out OneDrive, if any of you are using OneDrive, please leave a backup somewhere else or, at least, don't use the selective sync feature, which only syncs some files and folders locally. I used to use the selective sync, then I toggled it by accident, OneDrive created all the folders and was downloading the files when I decided to interrupt it and turn on the selective sync again. A few months laters, I found out that this little incident made OneDrive assume that my newly created empty folders were the right thing to backup and I've lost a decade of photos. Yes, I know it's 100% my fault, I should've known better than to trust microsoft with anything. And let's be clear, when I say trust, I don't mean that I blindly trust Google either, I just trust them to be competent.

I code for 8+ hours regularly, but that means I'm on the computer for 10-12+ hours.

TLDR: coding != learning, coding for 4h = easy, learning for 4h = hard, take care of your body, delegate what you can, automate the rest, save your attention

By coding I mean: reading errors logs, stack overflow, and the actual code/test/debug loop.

I've got two jobs and a small side project, so here are my directives: - minimize meetings and do quick syncs once a day, ask for priorities and responsibilities, make your own tasks, ignore the rest (all hands, HR bullshit, random groups, etc) - get down to business, keep your main goals in mind, think of a solution, research the docs/snippets/common solutions and then jump to the code. - have more then one context, I'm a sr devops, a sr data engineer and got a side project. Sometimes one job gets boring, and I'm excited about the other. I rarely get bored at both jobs at the same time. So I'm always motivated and never afraid of getting fired. - This is the most important: stay healthy, walk, drink water, eat well. This will give you energy, repair some of your posture flaws and prevent your body from breaking down from such heavy workload. - delegate mundane tasks: 2 incomes means, I don't cook, wash, clean, nothing. - automate everything, make filters for your inbox, use a calendar to remind you of stuff, - Attention+focus = gold, don't spend it on shit. silence notifications, uninstall social media, put you phone on do not disturb, silence all channels on slack, create alerts for keywords in slack for stuff you actually need to know. e.g: jenkins, your_name, project names

My time is spent as:

Mon-Fri - exercise: 1hour - job1: 4-6hours - job2: 4-6hours - sleep: 5-7hours - food, drink, hygiene, general body maintenance: 2h Sat-Sun: - exercise: 1hour - sleep: 8-10hours - pick up some slack from the week, study something I need for work, work on one of my sideprojects: 2-3hours - relax, fun, games: whatever is left

job1-job2: I start at 9:00 and I usually work until 22:00. That means I'm always on slack/teams and I do overlap the two jobs.

I make regular 10min breaks every 50-100min, and I stop for lunch (eat, power nap, back at it).

exercise: walking is fine, go to a gym if you can, don't overdo it so you can do it tomorrow.

sleep: I don't get sleep deprived but I do get tired by Friday, which makes the weekend so much more enjoyable

You can be productive all day, just like you can be a long distance runner, start small and keep progressing. In you first days of running/programming/* you are mostly learning a bunch os stuff and figuring out the profession, yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. So it takes more energy because most of it is spent on learning about your trade and about you.

Know thyself. I like programming, I like math, I like learning, I like hard stuff. I'm not a design guy, I don't do UI, and I won't be a project manager. So I place myself in jobs/tasks/places I can maximize my output with minimal effort.

Doing a full day of devops is easy to me, but I'd cry after 2h coding a react app. Devops I know, so it's more time outputting solutions and less time inputting knowledge. React, I've got to basically learn every step of the way, so it's 10 times more exhausting.

So, True, you can't be productive all day. But you can 100% go way above 4hours coding.