Notices by dschorno (dschorno@refactorcamp.org), page 2

@ykgoon isn't this just because lenses are quite hard to make? This is why camera lenses hardly improve over time and hold their value for many years -- the tech isn't improving that much

@zacharius Originally I came onto the team and designed/built the whole react component library and frontend experience. Recently they hired a few new developers and shifted all of my tasks towards doing design/mockups. I asked if they would consider hiring a more traditional designer so I could focus on implementation/coding and they were like "yeah actually we don't need you anymore, today was your last day"

Anyone know of hybrid design/development roles or front-end developer roles in Seattle? Or just gigs designing and building websites. I got let go yesterday ☠️

My 7 yo niece has apparently never heard of the concept of an album: "Why are you listening to the same guy over and over?"

I wonder if this fox/hedgehog divide is just describing people who have ADHD vs people who default to deep focus. Apparently there's basically no examples of successful people with ADHD who also take medication for it, which makes sense if it's an effective alternate strategy for thinking (like how left handed people are better in fights)

I see this every day and I hate it. What in the hell is a "grit score" and why does everyone except for "gravel" and two dogs have an insanely high score?

so in the breaking smart course @vgr mentioned, if i'm understanding this correctly, that WW1 & 2 can be thought of as a (necessary?) part of or extension of technological revolutions (and the great weirding as part of the software revolution). Does anyone know which specific technologies lead to WW1 & 2 in this context?

Are life coaches worth it? Or do I just need therapy? 😆

@BruceJia asking better questions in a conversation with other people or in a conversation with yourself? questions in conversations are prompts that open up new paths of thought, and a good question is just something that leads to fruitful paths that maximise the number of potential threads that will allow the conversation to continue. It seems like you're really asking how to change your mood to one that enables curiosity and playfulness.

I read keith johnstone's impro, which was pretty good, but in a moment of insanity i signed up for an improv class and now i'm stuck "yes and"ing stories about elephants in ice skates and striking funny poses (which is hard to do when you specifically don't have a sense of humor). I can feel them trying to break my spirit.

I live full time in Seattle now if anyone is around

Check out my demo album: https://soundcloud.com/arcove/sets/arcove

I wrote a bunch of songs about lonliness, anomie, and trying to figure out what I want from life over the last couple years. I took the ribbonfarm writing course but I apparently can't write essays, so... if you don't mind low production value lyric heavy #music check it out

~30 minutes total

Film grain is not a bad metaphor for the underlying nature of physical reality itself.

Now my life is "back to normal" but it seems extremely strange that I've been unable to incorporate anything from all of that "soul searching" into my life. Going back to being a designer at a startup is like stepping back into a zombie timeline or something

I was also caught up in specific details about the stressful situation I was in that I thought were specific to me, but I feel like I was discounting the charged atmosphere that was obviously the root cause of it.

That digital Maginot line essay, and finding out about a friend's nervous breakdown I didn't know about, has lead me to the easy and extremely obvious conclusion that the mental breakdown I had in November 2016 that derailed my life for 2 years was caused by the culture war surrounding the election. Medical professionals have strenuously tried to convince me otherwise!

@riga I've been writing a lot of songs recently and I think I'm pretty good at lyrics (I have to pay/coerce people into making instrumental backing for me because all I do is sing)

https://soundcloud.com/arcove

Picked up this patch the other day. Relatedly: does anyone know why it's so popular now to wear NASA branded stuff? I've been seeing it everywhere, it's a big trend apparently.

@vgr Based in Vancouver but I'm here every other week now, definitely would be interested in a meetup of some sort.

Just got a new job at a startup in Seattle that involves traveling to eastern washington to interview farmers about their difficulties messaging with their Spanish speaking & tech unsavvy/low literacy workers. Apparently they just keep notebooks with hundreds of phone numbers that they manually call one by one. I wonder why these guys have been ignored for so long.

Today I was eating an plum and had the dumb realization that hey, somebody had to actually grow and pick this thing. Weird.