I’ve read his writing for years, and he knows how to express things that feel real and true to me. However the skill of writing for a broad audience doesn’t mean you are more effective in your specific job or company.
It can be true that Lethain is an excellent writer and also a job hopper who doesn’t bear the consequences of his decisions.
Yeah, I find it very strange that he's a well known thought leader even though he hasn't had a long tenure anywhere. To me, software is easy in the short term and hard in long term.
"I’m somewhere down towards the episodic end of this spectrum. I have no sense of my life as a narrative with form, and very little interest in my own past. My personal memory is very poor, and rarely impinges on my present consciousness. I make plans for the future, and to that extent think of myself perfectly adequately as something with long-term continuity. But I experience this way of thinking of myself as remote and theoretical, given the most central or fundamental way in which I think of myself, which is as a mental self or someone. Using ME to express the way in which I think of myself, I can accurately express my experience by saying that I do not think of ME as being something in the future."
"I have to think that “Against Rereading,” by Oscar Schwartz, is a massive troll, because the alternative — that Schwartz believes himself to be so omnicompetent a reader, so perfect in his perception, so masterful in his judgment, that he absorbs all that even the greatest book has to offer with a single reading — is unpleasant to contemplate. Or maybe there’s one more possibility: that — like Kafka’s hunger artist, who never found a food he liked — Schwartz has never been sufficiently interested in a book to return to it.
But surely he makes one important point: the problem with our culture today is definitely all those people who don’t want ceaseless novelty. Definitely. I’m almost certain he’s just trolling, though."
I have the Twig and the triple blade. The twig is definitely my preferred. The triple blade is fine for shaving large areas, but any detail work and it's useless.
The twig does need to be cleaned very often, but it's not a big deal and it is better than any DE I have used in the past. Much less irritation and nicks than my DEs in the past.
I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin. I also see people go from not seeing the sun in months to full, 1pm exposure for hours, then they get roasted, then they're in pain, then it takes weeks to heal, then they do it again. Or they'll start slathering on an absurd amount of sunscreen, the summer months go by, and they look just as sick and pasty and unhealthy as they did last year, as if they never went outside.
You've got to build intuition around how to get sun: what's your current skin tone, how much sun you've had recently, what it feels like to get an appropriate amount of sun vs. get burnt, the time of day, elevation considerations, whether you're going to be in the sun again tomorrow or all week after a lot of exposure today, if you're getting more direct sun on key areas like your neck and nose and ears, or whether you've got full body exposure. The more time in the sun, the more you understand how to behave, how to protect yourself, how to get what you need to feel good.
Most people pay no attention to how they feel day-to-day. They never learn what it feels like to eat a nutritiously dense meal, or what being fit feels like over the long term. It's the same with sun exposure: if you don't pay attention, you'll never learn.
> I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin.
There are portable sun umbrellas that allow you to protect your skin without sunscreen. But I doubt they'll cover the entire body, though it should be enough for the head and the arms. And I am not sure if the reflected rays of the sun against various surfaces (windows, cars...) are not dangerous.
You don't "build tolerance" to UV. Developing a tan will help avoid getting sunburn in the future, but it does nothing at all to reduce your risk of skin cancer. Sunscreen doesn't just stop sunburn, it also prevents cancer.
I mean, there's is a pretty big difference between being born with dark skin and then having your body try to develop it. The difference is skin cancer.
Also, black people get sunburns too, just not nearly as fast.
>> I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin
You are clearly not allergic to the sunlight / UV, aren't you? Because i am, and definitely taking synthetic goop over red rash all over the exposed body parts
