@juliejaynak So many factors go into this decision. In our house one parent is self-employed (No PTO + erratic schedule) and the other is a remote worker (PTO + set hours). Often it’s the parent with no PTO that takes these shifts.
"You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work."
I've heard this twice today. I think it's an important distinction worth emphasising.
(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://t.co/n7djw1r9hY) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
We have to learn how to use our time properly. It's important to make our lives meaningful. Bullying and cheating others may give a short-term return, but leaves a nagging sense of unease. Money doesn't yield real satisfaction, whereas compassion does.
TFW you catch your 14yo online homeschooler covertly watching the Beto/Cruz debate on her phone while “attending” one of her live online classroom sessions on her laptop. #notsureifishouldbemadorproud#gobeto#futureSJW