It's probably not helpful but I have been doing this fame thing for a while and you learn slowly and painfully that you don't get a free pass once you turn yourself into a bird of paradise. I watched @ChappellRoan filming the paps in Paris and I laughed because I have kicked off at them many times. The trick is to own your fame. yes, it's annoying at times but so is being ignored and told your a 'has-been. Life is always now and I think Chappell looks great but cheer up girl. The world is at your feet stop kicking it! It takes so much more time to say no to a picture or a signature. Boundaries are boring. Break them with the magic of kindness!
@fernandezpablo@ID_AA_Carmack Parece que hubo un malentendido. Mi intención no era ofender, si así fue recibido, sino ofrecer buenos deseos en su viaje (Godspeed), cualquiera que sea.
It is exciting that Argentina has elected a hard core libertarian, but I am almost completely ignorant about the situation there — any good pointers for English reading to get up to speed?
When I was a kid, the guy across the street would get home from his commute and sit in his car to knock back the last 2 beers of a 6 pack before going in the house to face his wife and kids
He worked "in computers"
Wonder WTF he really did to hate his life so much?
@nbrempel If u have any plans to use anything from the greater TW community, u might be sol. That was my concern anyway. If you don't have plans to branch out, then maybe it would be fine, depending on your use case. Open to being enlightened, however, if there is something I'm missing.
Omg my favorite room temp IQ tech/startup/lifestyle influencer just posted a thread about how new year’s resolutions are stupid! I better read it immediately! I’m sure it won’t be hackneyed and full of redundant, hyperbolic metaphors like the rest of them!
If you want to get hired in 2024 you're going to need to stand out
Just being a "software developer" and having the same crap on your resume that everyone else does isn't going to cut it
What are you bringing to the table that no one else is?
I think @t3dotgg saved my life...
For the past year, I've had severe brain fog. Unable to concentrate, unable to retrieve certain words, and constant complaints to my psychiatrist that I felt like I was only cognitively half there. Just a complete and total reduction in what I know I was capable of getting done.
Lot's of tests, blood work, doctor visits, nothing...
We assumed that it was just my Bipolar meds finally catching up and leading to cognitive decline. I've been stable on these meds for a few years and was faced with switching meds & the possibility of life shattering mania or trying to fight on with a cognitively empty tank. I fought on...
I typically spend 10+ hours a day teaching/streaming/working in my home office. Also, we have a guest bed in there, so it is not uncommon for me to nap/sleep over night in there too. One of my doctors recommended I check the air quality of the room in which I spend so much time, so I bought an air quality monitor and everything seemed fine.
Fast forward to me seeing @t3dotgg post with their CO2 monitor and I had a lightbulb moment of panic wondering if my office has a build up of CO2 which would explain my cognitive issues... I checked my monitor and realized it only monitored CO AND NOT CO2. This whole time I thought I was in the clear and bought it specifically for CO2, but I had been looking at the completely wrong thing... I blame the cognitive impairment 😢
I bought TWO CO2 monitors and yeah... under my normal conditions I'm sitting at ~1800ppm and I've seen it spike to 2500+ regularly
"In fact, at 1400 ppm, CO2 concentrations may cut our basic decision-making ability by 25 percent, and complex strategic thinking by around 50 percent, the authors found." - colorado.edu/mechanical/202…
The science is a little all over, but safe to say I have been messing up my brain for a few years...
Since I am teaching / streaming, my windows are closed and even my door has a dampening sheet to cut down on noise and echo. I'm looking into ways of bringing fresh air in without introducing noise and working with my doctors to help reverse the effects of what I've been going through...
So PLEASE check your air quality esp CO2
If you are a content creator please get some fresh air and take some breaks while streaming/recording esp if in a "sound proof" room with all the windows closed for hours every day... 😭