I see an MX5 and track days in your future.

Where is this magical place? Careers page please.

How do people like this not get roped into countless meetings? Do workplaces exist in the digital space that actually communicate without a meeting culture?

You guys are too slow, we need to hire more of you and let the sales teams use AI to add features the client asks without waiting for you.

AI can code now, in 2 mins I can create an app, so it shouldn’t take you long to make changes to this 10year old product.

Years of work, meetings and sleepless nights worrying about how to move forward on the many design and implementation decisions, the family sacrifices, all for shit.

Hug your kids, kiss your partner and fuck work.

I think the show Severance covers this topic well even though the premise is slightly different, I believe the result would be the same. You have a fork of your existence basically since the self and its experiences are local to the entity of the particular snapshot and you’d grow and diverge. How much you diverge depends on the environment and stimuli you experience.

Kids these days with their wireless trim routers

Gaelco’s World Rally Championship (1993)

“I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain it to you” is the best response.

Dude this reply is incredible. Thank you so much for taking the time to hyper focus on it. I really like how you say it’s not all or nothing, and learning more about how you respond lets you do the chaotic brainstorming, then medicate to laser focus. I’m un-medicated and un-diagnosed but all my coping mechanisms are no longer working and everything is just getting harder and the want and desire to do more is growing, leading to that lack of fulfilment felling that takes a sharp turn into depression. So far I haven’t fallen off any cliffs but I fear that feeling and it feels like it’s nearing. I would love to just get by without the struggle, so thank you for sharing as it’s a great take on what the other side could be.

This is really interesting… do you mind explaining what the transition to a medicated you as an adult was like? Was it a process or was it night and day? Did you really “feel” differently or did you just screw up less?

The Mensfed

There’s the concept of a “men’s shed” where old blokes hang out and work on projects and keep social so this is like a version of that but on the fediverse.

If you are willing to go to a flower market like Flemington you can buy Colombian roses for 1/3rd the price wholesale.

If you have a good Mrs though you’d agree to offset the gifts a week or month from today so you don’t pay the premium.

For what it’s worth I’ve had two types of dryer failures that were repairable. The most common one was “no power” to turn the drum which ended up always being a fried capacitor. The other was no fan, which was due to a worn belt no longer turning from the main drive shaft. Haven’t had no heat issues though but you might be lucky and have fixed one of two problems, so one down and just one more to go!

DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D

And nothing of value is lost. I think everyone should do this.

Nice work. That’s an interesting take on it. I’ve been looking for books about tools that are not guides or tutorials but more stories or histories and one that has a few tid bits you might enjoy is “Tools of the Trade” by Jeff Taylor if you haven’t read it.

True freedom is having options and not needing to make a choice.

I need to do the same… have everything just haven’t got to it. Paul Sellars makes it look so easy.

You are forgetting the biggest piece to your puzzle. Your brother has a wife and wants to enjoy his marriage. Even if he agrees with you he has to make a case with the relationship and on a point like this it’s not worth it.