Me: Long story about doing X earlier in my career to great effect in a similar situation So, I would recommend you do X in this situation.
Junior Coworker: Maybe someone like you could do X, but an ordinary person like me couldn't possibly do that.
Me: I assure you...that you are not "ordinary" either.
There are some real-world examples of two consciousnesses inhabiting the same physical body: conjoined twins and split-brain patients (people whose corpus callosum has been cut).
I've always found the idea disconcerting. But then, we tend to imagine consciousness as atomic, when it clearly is really distributed.
Me: Doesn't like beans, cilantro, or spicy food, so pretty much all of Chipotle's menu, but my wife loves it
COVID: Begins
Supply Chains: Falls apart
Me: Wow, when did Chipotle start tasting good?
Eventually...
Supply Chains: I'm back!
Me: Oh, this is Cilantro rice! Now chipotle tastes like soap again...
@urusan
If you have a Qdoba anywhere in your area you might want to try it out...
They have brown rice without cilantro as an option plus a lot of extra stuff (and free Guac with a meal!):
@lightspill@deshipu Yes, there's definitely external sources. More fundamentally, everyday life is full of little chaos and randomness, which we are great at amplifying massively.
Consider computers, they have zero internal creativity. In contrast to biological brains, any deviation from their program must arise from an external source.
However, you can set up a program to be on the razor's edge of chaos, so you only need the tiniest bit of actual randomness to push it over the edge.
We've designed it to be maximally primed for creativity, all that's needed is a tiny bit of randomness in the form of a seed, which we can provide (or leave it up to the computer clock).
So while the computer isn't creative, you can hook the program up to a source of randomness to get creativity.
Our brains are doing something really similar when we have intuitions, but with much more complexity and internal chaos.
I agree that Kdenlive is probably the best, and it's what I use.
It does still crash occasionally (though this is MUCH less of a problem than it used to be), but it almost always fully recovers when you restart, so I rarely lose any data.
There is also the Blender VSE (handy if other parts of your pipeline use Blender) and OpenShot (If you just want something quick to learn, but I found the UI a bit limiting).
@urusan This is going to sound weird, maybe oversharing. But... I grew up in an industrial town that didn't have the greatest air quality. Into my early 20s, I always had irregular monthly periods.
Moved away in my mid-20s, half way across the country, to a city with little hard industry and beautiful clean air. Periods immediately became as regular and predictable as the morning sunrise. And stayed that way. Kind of disconcerting.
If you are exposed to a lot of hard radiation, your risk of cancer goes up, but predicting who gets cancer and who will be just fine is next to impossible.
In comparison, not exposing people to hard radiation is an easy and effective measure to avoid cancer.
We need a different strategy. Instead of understanding how things are we should focus more on what we want them to be.
Wife: Just got home from a yoga class I need to lift weights for my upper body strength.
Me: What for?
Wife: To get up the pole more easily in pole class. It's like trying to climb a fireman's pole, have you ever tried that?
Me: Oh yeah, it's basically impossible.
Wife: No it's not, I see other ladies in my class do it all the time.
Me: So, you'd say this is #polegoals
Wife: Yes
...Later...
Me: So apparently #polegoals is not a thing on Mastodon...YET