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.

DevCrowd вместе с Авито провели исследование рынка Go-разработчиков, 2024

On communication on sea with flags

Вот еще одна иллюстрация на тему «психология гавно». Увидел в 2024 году в инстаграме психолога, борющегося с «когнитивными искажениями» и утверждающего, что фундаментальная ошибка атрибуции — это «Самая Тупая Ошибка Мышления».

Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 10.15 and later.

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *,
resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They
therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.

Кристина общается с другими подкастерами, раскрывая внутреннюю кухню.

Андрей Леман рассказывает о теории моральных ошибок, которая является наиболее влиятельной формой обоснованной критики морали в современной философии.

Libre audio books. Recommended by Flancian.

Федресурс — официальный портал раскрытия существенных фактов деятельности субъектов экономической деятельности.

Minimizing your keyboard layout is a slippery slope.
34-keys has been reasonably comfortable to use, for both prose and program. My palms do not move across the desk at all, as I reach for keys. I mostly write Rust and Bash, and my layout has evolved to accomodate special characters from their grammars (angled brackets and hyphens, specifically). If you are on a similar journey, I would suggest focusing on accuracy and comfort over speed. Speed comes with time.

Коллекция рабочих мест

Рич Хикки рассказывает о различиях простоты и лёгкости в контексте проектирования и написания программ.

Говорит, что многие выбирают лёгкость, забывая про простоту. Со временем комплексность превращается во что-то такое, что сложно поддерживать и в чём сложно разобраться новичкам.

Нужно стремиться искать лёгкие способы делать простые программы.