Mak Kolybabi

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Professional nuisance who is has made a career out of scanning the Internet.
The way you can identify a person who is drowning is that they do not look like a person who is drowning
I long to sleep until it’s time to sleep, then angrily refuse
Everyone talks about "hustle culture" vs "quiet quitting" but nobody mentions the third option which is what like 80% of knowledge workers actually do: appearing frantically busy while accomplishing approximately one good hour of work per day, spread across 47 browser tabs and 6 Slack channels
hey. Check out this squirrel

Software is a collection of ideas and decisions that a person has turned into a machine.

When it turns out that person has repulsive, noxious and dehumanizing ideas, it is entirely reasonable to not want the machines they've made in your life, or the decisions they've made affecting your life.

It is entirely reasonable to object to their being part of communities you care about, and to object to their ideas and decisions being normalized or valorized.

Nothing about this is complicated.

Blocked off time in my calendar to exercise, to try and build good habits and lower stress.

Turns out that a 6:30am push notification that just says "RUN" is not relaxing or helpful.

The real productivity hack is accepting that most tasks aren't worth optimizing and just doing them badly
@leah I love your blog, and wanted to point out the FreeBSD Kernel Development Recipes link has an extraneous trailing 'z', breaking it.

at some point in my life i had to explain who donald knuth was to a table of not-cs type people

"he wrote a book about programs, then a program to write books, and then wrote a book about the program, in the program to write books"

@jk Please use a CW.
Spoon Accidentally Spray in Face killed my brother.