tangible

Nebula instead of Youtube ($36/year), Kagi instead of Google search ($10/month), Soundcloud instead of Spotify (12/month), Bear instead of Apple Notes (35/year if I remember correctly). And I’ll probably move my email over to Proton at some point and start paying for that.

That’s tough, and I hope you can manage it in such a way that it is not a huge detriment to the team. I hope you can also share this burden with your manager because that is a lot.

About the dating situation, I see a lot of downside (potential for messy drama, meltdown of an already vulnerable direct report, HR issues if things go wrong) and just a little upside. I’d keep it professional, and if you like her enough, I’d wait until one of you leaves for another job, and then get her number to keep in touch.

So John doesn’t like his job. He also seems to be not performing well. He is vocal about it to the point that it affects others. Are you, as his manager, addressing this issue?

Probably not the site you’re thinking of but https://hiring.cafe/ does pretty much what you describe and it’s neat.

Also a horrific amount of mothers dying in childbirth didn’t do wonders for the average.

Deadlifted 150 kgs (330 lbs) for reps this morning. Not a huge amount, but still nice. Other than that, a pretty uneventful week so far. Spring is just around the corner.

No amount of good colleagues can make up for a bad boss. Been there.

One of the directors of that documentary got involved with the cult NXIVM.

Sounds like bad news for the local newspaper.

If you dread Sundays because the next day is Monday. If you find yourself thinking “getting sick for a few days would not be so bad…”. If you just stare at the screen and can no longer focus on the task at hand. If you struggle to fall asleep because you keep thinking about work, and not in a “working through a difficult problem” way. Struggling to wake up in the morning, and when you do, not feeling well-rested. Excessive drinking. Your mind taking you to dark places. Feeling like you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders and if you drop out, things go to shit.

Don’t feed the trolls.

I love all four seasons, it’s usually the darkness and wind that gets me. But nothing that a bit of vitamin D can’t help fix.

If you like Kate Ryan’s version I can also recommend the original by Mylène Farmer.

I can HEAR this comment.

There is dignity in contributing to society, I do something I’m reasonably good at and therefore enjoy doing, my colleagues are friendly and decent people, it puts a roof over my head, food on the table, and something in the piggy bank for a rainy day.

Vivaldi is a great browser. I don’t love that is Chromium-based, but it’s honestly the only problem I have with it.

For search I use Kagi. It’s American, but it’s so much better than anything else for me that I haven’t made the switch to Qwant yet.

My own, not so much. But I love celebrating other peoples’ birthdays.

My current sitch is that (at least at home, work is an entirely different question) I was able to delete my Google account last year. That said, I’m in the Apple ecosystem, which made things a lot easier. I do check Youtube occasionally, but without an account and with Vivaldi’s built-in adblocker working well. I’m aware that Vivaldi is Chromium-based, which is a trade-off I have accepted for myself.