Boredom used to have a pretty bad reputation, and while it is slowly clearing
up, I think there is still some way ahead of us to fully appreciate boredom.
Boredom is what we experience when our mind searches for things to do and
to occupy itself with.
It is inherently …
It is new years eve or something like that and everyone is again thinking of
really losing weight this year.
Or really gaining muscle.
And just as it happens, I procrastinated long enough on this post to post it
on this fateful date, lol.
I always forget about this thing and the only reason I do not remember
is because I have not written it down somewhere.
And it is so embarrassing to ecosia it.
At least now I can look it up on my own blog, slightly reducing the amount of
embarrassment
The other day I asked a friend for their blog URL and they did not have a
blog.
I was shocked.
I thought every intellectual has a blog (or some other outlet) nowadays, but I
was wrong.
Because having a blog is such an obvious thing.
Percolation, i.e. the study of things similar to liquids dripped onto porous
media, is an unnecessary fascinating topic.
But you do not need to dive into the mathematics [1] to enjoy this
fascination.
Morever, we find that percolation is a very useful model, and on top of that,
it …
It's 2022.
It has become mainstream to listen to podcasts [1] while doing chores,
preparing food, ambulating, eating food, driving places and pretty much all
activities which do not require you to listen to something else or concentrate
a lot on a certain tasks.
It just seems to be free …
In my generation and upbringing in a culture, where end-stage capitalism grass
roots propaganda promised you great fortunes if you were only to apply
yourself, few things were taken as granted as the ten thousand hours rule:
To achieve excellency, you need to spend ten thousand hours with deliberate
practice …
I am somewhat fond of the concept of mantras, which are just short sentences
you say to yourself, in order to behave in a way that seems to work better
than what you normally would do.
One such mantra is "sooner is better than later" and helps to avoid
procrastinating …
A common lie managers tell, both to us lowlifes in the workforce but also to
themselves, is that their higher earnings are justified due to all the
responsibility they are carrying.
Of course this can not be true, because in pretty much no company beyond a
given size, managers actually …
One of the main reasons micromanagers and decision delayers claim for wanting
people come to offices, is the so called creative exchange.
Brainstorming and putting funny colored pieces of paper with ideas on
cardboards is not only a favorite exercise of middle school teachers trying to
have an easy day …
Maybe not best practices.
But some practices.
Some mentions of the worst practices.
This is a small collection of things that worked for me, my colleagues and
most people I talked to, as well as some things that do not work, at least not
beyond a single-dev-play-around-installation or your typical …
When it comes to increasing fitness for everyday tasks, the first things that
come to mind are usually classical endurance activities, like low intensity
steady state (LISS) cardio or sometimes even high intensity training (HIIT).
A dreaded proposition for any lifter that is looking to improve fitness for
every day …
When setting up a HA control plane with kubeadm one would expect that the
controlPlaneEndpoint is being used in all places.
However, this is not true (I suspect at one point it will be fixed, but I have
not tracked down the corresponding change in the code).
