In my last role as a senior you were siloed, with little visibility on larger company goals, cross team issues etc. It was nigh impossible to have a holistic view of things like mentioned in the article. I was lucky when the staff engineer handed me a problem to fix.

Have since moved to much smaller company, and I think the advice is valid there.

> where are the 100 year improvements in the status quo of software?

Most software work is just churn / doing the same thing over and over. More productivity can just mean more output, not better output.

What was the book?

my book was one by Terry Real. The excersise to find love for myself was life changing

Please expand! What’s the exercise!

He also took a course in baiting and suspense short stories

The inverse was true for me, at 40 I realised a lot of doors are now closed or closing.

per capita is a bit weird, maybe people in the UK don't drive as much.

Less than in the US, but I imagine similar to the other European countries.

One thing that is not being discussed is that cars have become a lot wafer - for both people in the car and for pedestrians they might hit.

For the pedestrians they might hit the opposite has happened in the US as cars have been replaces with giant trucks and SUVs with extremely poor visibility.

The US is a mobility and automobile obsessed society. Walking and cycling are usually associated with exercise or inability to drive due to lack of resources.

Combine that with an obsession to make cars available to anyone, even if they are known dangerous. Look up videos on YouTube of police pursuits in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Michigan. Those aren't exceptions, they are glimpses into a mass pathology. I believe Madison, Wisconsin was tracking multiple police pursuits per day in recent years. The subjects there frequently and deliberately drive on the wrong side of roads to compel the police to terminate the pursuits.

How long till it gets added to https://killedbymozilla.com/?

This guy is really churning out awesome projects right now (or at least the videos for them).

I got his satellite clock kit for the office and love it!

Maybe it's a scale thing. If you are sologeneer working on your own project, with a singular vision, making tools to make your life simpler is a no-brainer.

If you are implementing a feature for stakeholders on a large piece enterprise software, you don't necessarily have knowledge or understanding of helper tools from earlier work, so that's extra overhead to understand anything non-standard. Then when the stakeholders change direction (as they often do), any assumptions in your code may need to be upheld while implementing the next feature.

Edit: This is also why it's nice to use widely adopted libraries and frameworks for any helper code. That way a new starter has a chance of understanding what's going on.

For this to work I think the assumption is that the benefit of gerrymandering is less than the "anyone who doesn't like the in power guys" effect. e.g. % of disgruntled swing voters.

TLDR; More volume per session/week = more growth?

So really it becomes a balance of maximising volume against sustainable recovery.

One big issue I see is all these people following programs made for people using PEDs and those programs consider the "lack" or small amount of recovery required when on PEDs.

If you are natural you need to very cerfully monitor your recovery and how often you train each muscle. Especially if you get older