The crickets and frogs outside through an open window.
The crickets and frogs outside through an open window.
Incel
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It has been interesting. I wanted to teach at university so I went straight into a PhD program after my 4 year engineering degree. Found out that being a professor, at least at an ivy league school, was 10% teaching and 90% funding and politics, also did not mesh well with available projects and support, dropped out with “half a PhD”. Worked 12 years at steel mills, the first one sucked but I learned a lot, the second one really developed me into who I am now from an entrepreneurial and leadership POV. Went to business school at night and simultaneously got a Manager job at a shitty company, got fired, got an engineer job elsewhere and quickly promoted to manager where I rocked the house. Left for a senior engineer role elsewhere with better pay and work life balance and I am loving it so far.
Lots of luck, lots of effort, lots of learning through failure and success. Best thing I did was probably business school. The engineering degree is what gets me in the door but the tools I learned in getting my MBA have proven more valuable because most of the problems I need to solve are not exclusively engineering problems.
It was really weird to go from a high performer at one company to getting fired at the next. Thankfully I’ve had two great experiences since then, so I guess it was probably them not me. Getting fired messed with my concept of self worth for a bit but I have worked through that now.
Prairie doggin
I quote cars.
Fortis was either a typo or a very clever conjunction of “for it is”, either way I love it.
I make lots of stations on YTM and there are some songs I liked that Google keeps overplaying so I eventually 👎🏽 them. Every station I make, Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups. It was a good song a year ago, but next time I hear it I quit.
I drink about 11kg dried beans on average. Daily brew is 60g and I drink half, so 30g. 365*30 = 10950g, just under 11 kg. There are occasional days I’ll have an extra cup out and about.
Vast majority of it is locally roasted.
All words are made up
I bought several of those flippy screwdrivers and keep 1-2 on each level of the house and in the garage. I never have to leave the floor or often the room to fix something I notice is loose.
YouTube music made discovery worse compared to Google music, but it is still OK.
When I hear a good song on a show or movie, I ID it with my phone and explore others by the artist or genre. I also thumbs up it to get more recommendations from YTM
Same when friends recommended music. So yeah, talk to friends about music. And then do the above two steps with their suggestions and likes.
First I’ve heard of baguette pizza but now I must try it. I’ve had pizza on a baguette before but never baguette on pizza.
I like my bread with more bread on it.
Puppy classes, they teach you how to train your dog with treat positive reinforcement.
I enjoyed ZATAOMM but generally have a distaste for introspection and philosophical discussion. I would rather do things than talk about why we should do things.
I learned logical fallacies from Matt Dillahunty.
He sucks. He always sucked. All of his movies inexplicably pair himself with young beautiful women. Gee what happened to the art?
Strength is the ability to do hard things. Hard is relative. Gender doesn’t play into it at all.
I have lots of questions. I’ve always heard to use a VPN that doesn’t keep logs, this is the first I’ve heard of i2p. If I add i2p trackers that implies I still have non-i2p trackers so can still be identified. I feel like I need way more information on how to do this safely before I change anything.