Dilbert principle

here's a job i would do everyone comes to me for something and i give them to me, and i'm the guy everyone in my community knows for that thing. i'm extremely motivated by attention and affection from others. there was ZERO of that in my programming jobs. i don't work for anyone unless i feel seen. money is cold and doesn't motivate me. it's just this crap i need to survive and buy things i want. i'd be fine with the Star Trek replicator. but i'd still want a job like i described above.

and if you put Linux on it, hardly anyone will like it

men vs women

don't try to start a business on your own unless you already have customers. this sounds a bit backward but let me explain: you can do business as an individual and sell goods and services to people that you encounter. if you start earning real money on that, and business is growing to the point where you need more than one person, that's the time to do the paperwork to register a business, get an accountant, etc. if you do it too early, you're just going to be doing more paperwork and waste money. it needs to have a certain scale before the authorities care to tax it anyway. for a brick and mortar business the story is a bit different, but again, this is much easier to do if you already know people who would want to be customers of such a shop. starting anything completely from scratch with no network is though. cold calling is the least efficient way of getting sales except for advertising. as you can see, none of this is about how cool your business idea is. it's usually the case that the best business idea is determined by your circumstances and abilities, and what people in your network are looking to buy. not all circumstances and abilities are conducive to starting a business. this is not a level playing field.

there are some incredibly stupid people out there who keep denying climate change, even as the ice caps are melting and the sea levels are visibly rising.

English speakers can't for the love of god pronounce Scandinavian words and names correctly. even when they have a sound reference and try really hard, their mouths simply can't form the right shapes. you can hear the straining.

i keep having this issue where the sleep paralysis sets in before i actually lose consciousness. i have fan on when i sleep and as the paralysis sets in, the sound gets louder, and my body goes all numb, weird and dizzy. it's a highly unpleasant sensation like i'm falling, so it startles me and i wake up. this happens repeatedly until i finally fall asleep in the correct way. i'm having it right now and my body is still semi numb and tingly.

insomnia and uneasy sleep i'm awake too much

i'd have more of a reference frame if i had community. difficult to just plug yourself into one of those as a full-grown adult.

people are born and they explode into a frenzy of activity and then they realise they were panicking the entire time so they calm down and end up doing nothing in particular

is everything everyone ever did just a panic attack or

tips and tricks

modern-day kabuki ninjas

i'm taking care of myself on some level hanging onto life there is a degree of optimism there, because if there wasn't, i wouldn't be here all the arrows point in the opposite direction of this optimism but i guess i'm a bit stubborn

i should learn to not devote more attention to people than they're giving me back.

pro tip for people who unfortunately have to navigate the welfare system in #Norway: when you need to get different parts of the system to work together, make sure you know the names and phone numbers of your contacts in it so you can put them in direct touch with each other when needed.

"insufficient balance" is the least fun error message ever

sat on the balcony when i spotted this little thing

damn. what a mood shift. straight down in the cellar.