To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they’ve instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren’t unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.

It’s like how I’m told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.

Edit: If this resonates with you, check out the book “McMindfulness” by Ronald Purser.

That would be called vacation time vs sick time in my org, but there are definitely differences in when/how they’re used.

Sick time is like, “I don’t feel good today, I’m just not working today.”

Vacation time is like, “I’m feeling pretty good today, I’d like to take a feel-good day. But I better schedule schedule it a couple weeks out, check with my manager, make sure there are no deadlines coming up, make sure someone else can cover for me,” and so on.

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.

We’re already using that on the org chart.

Unhelpful idea: practice as-is until you’re good enough to beat it in one sitting

Where article? Am I stupid?

Imagine the incentives tho. It’s free real estate, but how would they sell it to advertisers? “Here’s some ad space, but we work really hard to make sure users see it as rarely as possible.”

But if they do manage to sell it, the dev team then has this wacky incentive to trigger BSODs often enough to hit revenue targets, but rarely enough that they don’t drive away their user base. As another commenter put it, cynical and absurd, but… I mean, there’s a universe where it could happen… hopefully it’s not this one.

That’s why programmers have all those monitors. They’re each hooked up to a different computer.

Do you suppose folks on the moon will shift the clocks by an hour twice a year as well? I don’t like the idea of moon kids having to walk to school in the dark during the winter.

But for real tho, maybe there are some tiny time dilation effects that require a separate time system for lunar missions. But I’m not sure, I’m not a physicist.

Nah, just poor choice of phrasing on my part. Clarified in edit above.

Sorry for the vagueness. Pannenkoek is like the authority on weird Mario 64 quirks, and makes excellent videos. As soon as you see that name, there’s no need to keep reading – just go watch the video.

Like, this article could have been one sentence: “New Pannenkoek vid just dropped: [link]”

I read until it mentioned pannenkoek and immediately clicked away after that.

edit: clicked away from the article to watch the video directly from the source. Go watch the video, pannenkoek is great.

Wow, that is a coincidence. But nah I’ve never heard that song before lol

“How can this invention help us sell more sugar water?”

Creativity is hot. That makes more sense, thanks.

I still don’t understand.

What’s the y axis?

surreal meme

I’d like to imagine this is analogous to autocomplete on a keyboard, like if I mash “A” a few times to get to the title screen and game’s like “Did you mean A A A A A Start Start Down Start A A B Right Right…”