Category: Me Myself&I

The irony of soft skills being indispensable is that we never get to show them when looking for work.

They don’t show up on a resume, a cover letter, nor a sound design or programming test.

They may show up in a chat or quick phone call  but because time is limited and anxiety happens, this might not be the best display of said skills.

Personally it looks like I have great soft skills, able to glue with any team, in a very wide range of situations. But with the way companies hire I can’t never “sell” that, yet it’s a very important, sought after aspect of a candidate applying to a position.

Hiring and working seem so disconnected.

It looks like my Barilla Spaghetti n.5 are stuck on one of the 44 cargo ships stuck in Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

So 10 pounds of spaghetti on Amazon is now $50 instead of $20. I hate it here.

California is burning pretty badly, I know.

I try not to forget how right before summer last year a lot of conversations were going around UBI and the absolute necessity to set one up, the call for a new kind of society less based on profit and more “mature”, caring, etc. We can afford it (2016 article, the urgency is even greater now).

Then sports came back and that was a complete wrap.

I blame us, dudes. A few balls thrown in the air with different rules and we don’t know how to act.

I wheezed for five minutes because I can very accurately reproduce Zach de la Rocha’s voice cadence and tone in my head and this meme is simply glorious. I cannot.

Having said that, the situation is tense. Everything about the pandemic is probably under reported. Most actual numbers are probably either delayed or hidden. I’m sick to think about a coworker who had to do contact tracing all year long last year. For absolutely nothing. Of course people are tired, there’s a lot of meaningless work out there.

It’s also basically Halloween/Thanksgiving and the end of the year already.

Shout out to the people who died of COVID-19 when we didn’t know what it was, before tests, before vaccines. 18 months ago.

I swear we’re the only ones making sense on this floating rock.

Imagine an open version of Twitter or Facebook News Feed, with no psy-op ads, owned by no oligopoly, manipulated by no algorithm, and all under your full control.

Imagine a version of the newsletter where you don’t have to worry about them selling your email to scammers, labyrinth-like unsubscribe pages, or stuffing your inbox with ever more crap.

Now imagine this existed and was extremely popular 15 years ago. Then we got suckered by the shiny walled gardens.

Well, it’s time to make like a tree and go back to the future, baby!

This is the best RSS tutorial I’ve ever seen.

I urge you to get on this and quit social media. Get good reading on your terms, slowly curate your own content, and keep going.

My tip is don’t subscribe to news, ever. There’s just too much of it and you will feel overwhelmed, rightfully so.

Subscribe to topics and interesting websites and folks. Focus on subscribing to things making you feel good, think, relate, dream, etc. This will make you want to use your RSS app instead of dreading it. Don’t set your app everywhere, be chill about it. Open it every now and then, on one device only. It’s not a race. Take your time.

Control the narratives and energy flowing around you. Use RSS.

What I’m learning from sleep deprivation, or I hope, what I’ve learned, is that you can perform admirably on strong lack of sleep, for quite some time.

The problem being that you will crash super hard and you won’t know when or how.

And then, when you can’t recover fast enough, you’re a zombie for days. Absolutely brain dead.

I can’t afford that so I had to fight back. Last night was the first normal night in weeks and whew, still tired but already feeling a whole lot better.

The beach was nice last weekend.

Just a lack of sleep due to external circumstances and boy, do I don’t like it.

But I’m learning things I guess.