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7 months agoI’ve made this cake a couple of times. It’s quite good.
Christopher Masto
He tends to dawdle away his time and accomplish nothing.
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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
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What do you do for entertainment?
Mostly silence, but when I was in high school (some decades ago now) I had a CD of Mozart music I would put on while doing homework. I still associate Symphony 40 in G minor with grinding through tasks.
Stopped eating so damn much.
I read the The Hacker’s Diet by John Walker (who recently died, sadly) and followed his advice.
At the risk of facts getting in the way:
- You can install ad blockers
- Apps are not able to do that
Browser bookmarks. My trick is I make a new folder every month, for example “2024-01 Bookmarks”, and put it in the bookmarks bar. Whenever I realize I’m leaving a tab open because I want to look at it later, I put it into the current folder. That way I know it’s not lost and I give myself permission to close it.
When a new month comes around, I stick the previous folder in an “Archive” section and make a new one. It costs nothing to keep them forever, but avoids the current list getting out of control.
Instacart and Uber Eats, mostly.
Waiting out this winter’s covid surge living in the hot zone.
I haven’t left the house in months.
I was around pre-Internet, and it wasn't any better. In fact, this "virtual world" has been a huge positive for me and has given me many opportunities to expand my social group and have a more fulfilling life. I don't see the value in fetishizing disconnection.
My subscriptions are public: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMasto/channels?view=56&shelf_id=0
Kind of a mix of well known science and tech stuff, and some out there things.
I flipped through and grabbed a few from different genres:
- Roderick on the Line
- Risky or Not?
- Penn’s Sunday School
- This Podcast Will Kill You
- Reconcilable Differences
- Accidental Tech Podcast
Zeiss wipes.
iPhone 15 Pro. Safari.
That, but I actually get a lot out of my hobbies and personal unfinished projects (they're always a learning experience).
It's more about the cost of struggling with things and thinking I'm lazy or a failure, and the real-world consequences of not having gotten any help until my late 40s.
Not being able to exit your home in an emergency without a key is a serious safety problem. In most places it is not permitted.
International Residential Code R311.4.4 “All egress doors shall be readily openable from the side from which egress is to be made without the use of a key or special knowledge or effort”. Most local codes are derived from this.
Each short episode discusses one amusingly named food or situation (e.g. “ Unopened Carton of Heavy Cream Almost 3 Weeks Past It’s Expiration Date”). Hosted by two food safety experts with good banter.
I worked at Google for over a decade. The issue isn’t that the engineers are unaware or unable. Time and time and time again there would be some new product or feature released for internal testing, it would be a complete disaster, bugs would be filed with tens of thousands of votes begging not to release it, and Memegen would go nuts. And all the feedback would be ignored and it would ship anyway.
Upper management just doesn’t care. Reputational damage isn’t something they understand. The company is run by professional management consultants whose main expertise is gaslighting. And the layers and layers of people in the middle who don’t actually contribute any value have to constantly generate something to go into the constant cycle of performance reviews and promotion attempts, so they mess with everything, re-org, cancel projects, move teams around, duplicate work, compete with each other, and generally make life hell for everyone under them. It’s surprising anything gets done at all, but what does moves at a snail’s pace compared to the outside world. Not for lack of effort, the whole system is designed so you have to work 100 times harder than necessary and it feels like an accomplishment when you’ve spent a year adding a single checkbox to a UI.
I may have gone on a slight tangent there.