Day: June 4, 2019, 2:44 PM

Own Exp

Chill Regular-ass Post

From my own experience, most of what people attribute to “natural aging” is combined damage of poor fitness and obesity/too much body fat.

A woman at work the other day commented, “You seem to be aging in reverse.” She’s not wrong; I look younger than I did a year ago because my face is tauter and more delineated (when you work out, even muscles in your face get a bit larger), and my increased red meat protein consumption has probably helped, too.

Sure, I know I will eventually age and die. It’s inevitable. But there’s no reason to welcome the reaper in and hand him a scythe, as most people seem willing enough to do.

Managed

Chill Uncategorized

Something I learned managing people over the years is that only about one out of fifty people don’t need pretty explicit directions to complete nearly any given task. The other forty-nine will need it step by step or they simply can’t do it. This isn’t ideal for a lot of the business world (particularly IT) because of how often you are doing things that have not been done exactly that way before.

If you’re the 1/50 who can just get things done without detailed and constant instruction, you’re immensely valuable. Working with people like that is so much easier and the organization is so much better off. The intern I worked with a while ago was like that, which was probably one of the reasons we got along so well.

Perhaps this is trainable. I haven’t seen any evidence of that at all, though. Quite the opposite. I’d love to be proved wrong, however.

Push

Chill Regular-ass Post

Yes, they work, but people push back against them because red light cameras shovel money into the pockets of unaccountable corporations that are incentivized to penalize people with no recourse. Poor people suffer the most and cities make very little revenue from them.

Ignoring these facts is extreme ignorance in service of ideology. I prefer not to solve problems by giving corporations more power over me and everyone.

People on the left are clueless. Just that the right is even more clueless, which is astounding given how clueless the left is.