I find that the yogurt is thicker when I initially heat it higher. My understanding is it changes some of the proteins, resulting in a higher curd yield.
Visually impaired guy here, always excited to see things that make my life easier. Also great that it shows blindness is a spectrum, not a binary condition.
Kudos to you! Even just being more aware of your mental state is a step in the right direction. Reminds me I need to be more proactive in this area.
Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit of a mess. Life is messy. I once took two years off of regular work (we were fortunate to have enough savings to do it) and made two music albums, the first album based exclusively on hard things that either I or people very close to me went through. The process of fleshing out the songs and lyrics was incredibly therapeutic for me.
> Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit of a mess.
Years ago, I tried to quit my job because I was feeling terrible about how I was doing. My boss gave me one of the best pieces of advice anyone's ever given me:
"You know, Rachel, the suicide rate among founders is..."
This probably sounds like one of the most unhelpful things someone could say in that situation, but it was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. I didn't need someone to say "oh, it's ok to feel bad". I needed someone to say "feeling bad doesn't mean you're not strong enough to be great". I needed to hear that ambitious people who are trying with all their might to be better are still constantly struggling with the idea that they aren't good enough.
YC's own founder school doesn't quite put it in those terms, but there's a LOT in there about the importance of human factors. Arguably more than there is business advice, actually. They explicitly say, for example, "don't pick a co-founder who has complementary skills, pick one that won't drive you insane, because breakups and not lack of skill are a more common failure mode". And there's like half a dozen videos on how to keep it together when you're stressed beyond breaking. It's pretty reassuring.
To really make the point: my company became profitable for the first time yesterday afternoon, and I spent a good chunk of the 24 hours since then ruminating on how now we might fail because I'm not sure where the next bit of revenue comes from. Never mind that the things I was worried about one, two, three, or four months ago have all gone better than I feared - anxiety doesn't care about that. It'll just glom on to whatever excuse it can get - see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40191179
Personally, I think it’s easier to be extreme than balanced. Like a see-saw (or teeter totter depending on where you are) it’s way easier to sit on one end or the other. To try to stand on the middle and balance is hard.
A friend of mine met Patrick Moore, former President of Greenpeace, and asked Moore why he started supporting nuclear power, he told him essentially “It’s easier to be against everything than to be for something.”
I think it's the other way around. It's definitely easier to walk around under some sun shopping groceries and occasional brunch, than go to extremes and hide under some cover all the time, or sunbathing the whole day.
No because most people have jobs and limited money.
It’s easier in most people’s existing lives to avoid taking extreme health measures. Most people don’t go to a gym or exercise for the suggested min/day, but most people go to their job instead of staying in bed.
Edited OP to clarify, but mainly this. Work/Life balance, workplace politics, ethical practices, managers who care vs will do anything to get ahead, executives who are in-touch with the day to day of the company, do you get treated like a real person or a cog in the machine?
* company: 65K employees, US based international conglomerate, most are remote
* work/life balance: remote. I have been remote for the last two decades. I can take time here and there for personal things to be taken care of, as long as delivery, budget, etc. are done. Standard holidays (9 to 10), and PTO matching industry.
* workplace politics: this is unavoidable as companies grow, ranging from a low murmur to straight out face stabbing.
* ethical practices: highly regulated. none seen.
* managers who care: yes, in general it is to our benefit to keep our staff through positive reinforcement, including promoting them in other areas if they want to switch teams.
* in-touch exec: mostly, but c-suite tends to deal with high level strategic activities not tactical details.
I have found that platforms are almost always compared to AWS as it is the most mature. Azure still doesn't have complete feature parity with AWS, and GCP doesn't yet have feature parity with Azure or AWS. So in terms of importance to know, its AWS>Azure>GCP. Not all apps need all that AWS can do, but AWS by far has the worst UX of any of them IMHO. For APIs, DigitalOcean would be the contender to beat. They have beautiful APIs.
For anyone interested, there is a great book based on the infocom game called The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger. I’m presently working with the rights owner to produce an audio version of the book.
