Capital Gains in Ireland is 33%, income tax is high, and the quality of life isn't as high as mainland Europe. Just look at those apartments. Depressing.
If I were you I'd move to the Netherlands. The no-tax year is unbelievably good, nl is less car-dependant so you get to live a different lifestyle, and it's easier to tour around the rest of Europe. Ireland isn't even in the fucking Schengen!
Oh they're only getting rid of the Origin app. Now they're forcing you to switch to the new "EA App" https://www.ea.com/ea-app which I'm sure will be worse.
And switch soon, or you'll lose all your games.
I'm not sure who's in charge over there but it feels like they hate me personally.
Similar to this, I bought a Lansky knife sharpening kit. I thought I was good at sharpening with a whetstone, but this makes a huge difference. $75 or so.
I like both the Bond and Smiley books, but I've never understood why people are so quick to directly compare the two characters. Smiley is a man of politics and intrigue, while Bond is a boots-on-the-ground assassin.
Bond would be better compared with a character like Ricki Tarr. The 00 section seems to exist in the Smiley organization, they're called the 'scalphunters'. Here's Carre's description:
"The scalphunters' official name was Travel. They had been formed [...] in the pioneer days of the cold war, when murder and kidnapping and crash blackmail were common currency [...] They were a small outfit, about a dozen men, and they were there to handle the hit-and-run jobs that were too dirty or too risky for the residents abroad."
Sounds a lot like Bond. Tarr even shows up at the office unexpectedly, having problems with a woman, wanting money...
> Frontend software / design. The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman.
Also in FE/UX. Came here to say exactly this. I've heard of this book so many times, and have tried to read it many times, but just can never quite finish it (too many anecdotes for me, vs something like https://www.refactoringui.com/)
> It's incredible the number of people who use the words "affordance" and "signifier" incorrectly.
I wish the UX world used less jargon. It's such a cross-domain concern involving developers, designers, researchers, users, owners, managers, etc., that using plain English is IMO usually a better way to get a point across.
Don't freeze salaries. The best people leave. The salary freeze is bad enough for morale, then the best people leave one by one and there's a morale hit for each one. Prefer layoffs.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman. Now I know _why_ my kitchen appliances irritate me.
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. How to navigate the landscape. And who has right-of-way on the trail.
Any textbook on Statics and Dynamics. Physics.
How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is the book that people trying to manipulate you have read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases These serve as lenses through which you can view a situation to get new perspective. Like looking through a piece of red plastic to filter out red ink and see a hidden message in yellow ink, if you remember that as a child. Not in some authoritative sense, but different perspectives you can hold in your mind.
The DoET by Norman featured, to my memory, a very memorable praise for the at-the-time car design, where the driver could interact with buttons and knobs while not having to take his eyes off the road, simply by the proxy of being able to feel roughly the layout of the controls.
Then the automotive industry went and changed it all with touch screens. Yes the cars have become safer with so many innovations for passanger safety, but I wonder if we went too far with all the screens.
There's a housing crisis in Ireland too. A 2-bed in Dublin in an alright location is 2k+. Here's rents in Dublin: https://www.daft.ie/property-for-rent/dublin-city
Capital Gains in Ireland is 33%, income tax is high, and the quality of life isn't as high as mainland Europe. Just look at those apartments. Depressing.
If I were you I'd move to the Netherlands. The no-tax year is unbelievably good, nl is less car-dependant so you get to live a different lifestyle, and it's easier to tour around the rest of Europe. Ireland isn't even in the fucking Schengen!