App Defaults is creeping towards 300 posts. It you’ve written one and it’s not on here yet, let me know. And if you haven’t done it yet, now’s a great time! https://defaults.rknight.me
@robb@keenan interesting! I listen to podcasts at normal speed but audiobooks with non Kiwi narrators are 1.75 speed… Otherwise the talking sounds like its slowed down…
I think Kiwis talk super fast as it is and I’m used to it so don’t need to speed them up…
💅 Some of you already noticed but I have a new site design. I couldn't resist making a site using @simplebits's Cartridge font. There's a few little bugs and changes to make but it's mostly there now.
With 11ty is there a way of using pagination to generate pages from a collection, and only specifying the subset of items you do want (rather than filtering out those you don't want with filter)? I guess I could create a new collection from the filtered tags in eleventy config?
I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice today, I’d open with a warning: don’t let a corporate job, no matter how great, become your whole identity.
My view isn’t rooted in resentment or anti-capitalism. I am immensely grateful for my career, I’ve always taken pride in my work, and I strived to do it well. My point is different: losing an argument in the office shouldn’t feel like an attack on your entire self.
The allure of getting lost in work comes in part from the mythos of Big Tech: the idea that we’re changing the world every day, even if it the bulk of corporate life is just grind. The grind is important but it has no end; in ten years, nobody will remember or care about the all-nighters we put in to refactor some code, flesh out a policy, or nail an OKR.
It doesn’t help that many tech companies recruit fresh out of college and ask people to move hundreds or thousands of miles. This severs our social connections and forces us to rebuild them around the workplace. When doing so, it can be difficult to draw clear lines.
I’m not arguing for nihilism or mediocrity. But by the end of the day, your corporate employer is not your family. The pastel-colored interiors, the board games, the lounge chairs conceal an uncomfortable truth: the company will not hesitate to fire you if you bring the wrong “whole self” to work, if they lose interest in your project, or if they need to send a specific message in the quarterly report. You might have a caring manager or wonderful colleagues, but your work identity is just a row in someone else's spreadsheet.
My advice is simple. Be ambitious, but find ways to disconnect every now and then. Save some of that true passion for hobbies, family, and friends.
