Experiment 5

Goal: Go 21 straight days without complaining or uttering non-constructive criticism. (If I catch myself doing it, I must start again at day zero.)

This was inspired by Will Bowen’s book A Complaint Free World, in which he claims that if you stop pronouncing your negative thoughts, you stop having those kinds of thoughts, and that if everyone did this the world would change completely.

What happened: It took 55 days to get 21 complaint-free days in a row, but I did it. This experiment really does teach you not to complain, and I think everyone should do it once in their lives. But it didn’t create much of an inner change. My negative thoughts were unaffected, I just got more polite about whether to pass them on to others. Complaining can even be a worthwhile form of bonding, as I learned while I was working a painful manual labor job with new friends, and could never join in on the lighthearted griping. Still, it’s better to never complain than to complain freely.

Where I am with it today: Even though the exercise didn’t eliminate internal negativity like the book promised, the experiment left me much more conscious about expressing needless negativity, and I am pretty good at keeping it to myself most of the time. I’m also more patient with others when they’re complaining. This is one experiment I would recommend to almost anybody.

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ПИ«придумала» Кляйн, которая занималась«детским» психоанализом, и вот эти все«магические» штуки — это способы, с помощью которых дети, которые еще не умеют говорить, общаются с матерью. А потом это становятся способами, с помощью которых взрослые люди, которые не могут говорить,«общаются» с другими людьми.

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О том, в каком значении употребляется «мир» в романе «Война и мир»

Это напоминает мне историю одной клиентки, которая как и многие другие пыталась контролировать терапевта. Она попросила ее не фрустрировать до тех пор, пока она не будет готова. Я и не фрустрировал (и не собирался). Спустя, скажем, год она сказала«ну всё, я теперь готова, давайте пожестче». А я продолжал не фрустрировать. Спустя какое-то время она возмутилась: как же так, я же просила меня фрустрировать, а вы этого не делаете.

И я такой:«фрустрирует, правда?».

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Они активно лоббируют переписывание правил о том, как рассчитываются выбросы, чтобы показать чистый ноль на бумаге, но не на практике.

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Если для придания уверенности в себе вам нужен карманный ствол — я рекомендую обратиться к психологу. Это дурной симптом.

1. Go developers said they are more interested in AI/ML tooling that improves the quality, reliability, and performance of code they write, rather than writing code for them. An always-awake, never-busy expert “reviewer” might be one of the more helpful forms of AI developer assistance.

2. The top requests for improving toolchain warnings and errors were to make the messages more comprehensible and actionable; this sentiment was shared by developers of all experience levels, but was particularly strong among newer Go developers.

3. Our experiment with project templates (gonew) appears to solve critical problems for Go developers (especially developers new to Go) and does so in a way that matches their existing workflows for starting a new project. Based on these findings, we believe gonew can substantially reduce onboarding barriers for new Go developers and ease adoption of Go in organizations.

4. Three out of every four respondents work on Go software that also uses cloud services; this is evidence that developers see Go as a language for modern, cloud-based development.

5. Developer sentiment towards Go remains extremely positive, with 90% of survey respondents saying they felt satisfied while working with Go during the prior year.

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