That’s the schtick. It makes the news reels and gets her name out there for 15s and it normalizes crazier behavior for others.

The closest I ever got to this story was working help desk in 1996. A user called up saying they had deleted the Internet.

Took me a while to understand he dragged “the Internet” to the recycle bin on the desktop.

You can have community tornado shelters.

Bring that to your department chair and ask if they can help sponsor the trip. It’s a big deal and something the department would be proud of.

Getting the right keyboard height was almost impossible. That keyboard tray was about 6 months of knee bumps away from death!

Motorized desks really improved things for me.

Even more so, he left the organization he evangelized with on a principled equality basis.

https://abcnews.go.com/...

This is against a backdrop of church splits on other equality issues https://theweek.com/...

This process is such a nightmare.

N letters back and forth then a bill stage where you realize something wasn’t paid for. Then an hour long phone call to start an appeal process asking for more documentation about a test ordered 5 months ago. The denials are handwaves.

Insurance in general is such a nightmare. I’m in the fortunate bucket where I’m well paid and have a decent plan. One kid with chronic conditions. Then the pain of every year being forced to figure out the different game.

https://www.npr.org/...

IReal pro for chord charts and backing practice.

Chord AI is good for “what’s the chords in this YouTube video”

https://www.sheetmusicscanner.com is useful for I have sheet music I want to put into guitar pro on the desktop.

Scan; export as musicml; import on desktop. Cleanup.

8Strummer - getting new strum pattens down can be a challenge and this gives a useful visual

There was once a house in a Nantucket, they tried to save sand by the bucket, the ocean and sea, would not let it be, so they tried sell and say muck it

Just listened to it again. Highly recommend. The short of it is more searches == more ads == more $. There’s a conflict between a great search experience (landing not on google) versus the time you spend ON Google.

Great story and just terrible outcome.

https://www.npr.org/...

If really interested, the local NPR station did a long origin story of the Alabama Prison System.

There was one prison until slavery ended.

Reading back up on Vault / Secrets Engines and seeing if anything else has entered the arena recently. Had a chance at work to plug a former colleagues work https://itnext.io/...

Personal: Made pot roast, dealing with housing repairs.

One of my favorite albums. Saw her about a year ago in concert and she puts on a fun show.

Elevator Operator is always fun time

Glad you got diagnosed. There’s a ton of bad management in startups. Especially stay away from managers that grew up in toxic shops.

I’ve always been a strong employee. People get good at pushing buttons. Spent more time in a divorce therapy talking about a manager than the personal issues.

Realized for every boundary problem I had, there were n alienated people on my team that really got hurt hard. Sr. Management fixed the issue

Be good at taking breaks. Be good at looking for new roles before you need them.

Often; the money side that seems big to employees is new house rich. If you aren’t happy, it’s not worth it.

https://www.npr.org/...

It’s definitely there because of the same politics.

ADHD and easier to type a url than open a new tab. People that can maintain a curated tab list.. I wish my brain would allow it.

Once a day I close browsers to make sure there’s not some work item I forgot to hit post on.

What caldav clients supports that?

I’d recommend the Tailscale style approach. MTLS is a pain imo without infrastructure and especially on the app layers

My #1 recommendation is reading https://staffeng.com/book. There’s so much variance between orgs at this level (or worse, implied during a reorg).

One of the things that book helped me with is understanding the lens others view this level as four separate personas. That unlocked for me that you might be getting advice from people expecting something other than you’re going after.

Another lens is the product engineering v corp/cloud security world. They can act very differently and you often find these roles straddling 2-3 unique orgs.

1. Services / customer experience of what your org delivers
2. Threat modeling mindset: look for the big picture so you can help make sure you can help put emergencies and day to day stuff in context.
3. Get real feedback from others to put that judgement in perspective. Sometimes they are missing your perspective and other times you are off base!

Just remember there’s a lot of variance in higher level processes. Read the book above, then read 20 job descriptions for these titles. See if you can understand what they really want from the role.

Read, reproduce, understand. Think of how the programmer was solving a problem and left a problem. Did they probably didn’t understand the problems. The synthetic challenges are often a skill to themselves.

Re attention span, consider different expectations. Professional product engagements are often 2 ftes/2 weeks. Getting a few good findings out in that time is the goal.

Sometimes they run out of time on a thread they are looking at. Sometimes they pull on a thread only to find out there’s no way from here. Sometimes years later there’s an insight that x could work.

Building up that last skill is what makes you more effective. Find someone to bounce ideas off of that’s in the learning curve with you.