Stop avoiding burnout.
Push for it. Then stop. Analyze why you burned out. Fix it or optimize to go past it.
Start again. Burn it to the ground. Reset. Repeat.
Your "burnout" threshold will be 5x what you thought you could handle in a year.
If you feel like you’re behind where you should be by now…
If you feel like you’re losing…
If you’re not sure it’s gonna work…
There’s nothing wrong with you.
Welcome to entrepreneurship.
It doesn’t matter if your API uses restful verbs or not.
It doesn’t matter if you return an empty array or null if you’re consistent.
It doesn’t matter if you never use PUT or PATCH.
But god have mercy on your soul if you return 200 with a not found message.
I will find you.
Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.
It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.
Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean.
People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this.
If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups:
• A. treatment
• B. placebo
• C. no treatment, no placebo
If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect.
When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.)
The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.
Did you know that if you hold CTRL it will pause Task Manager updating, which means the process names don't move around and are easier to select when you're sorted by resource usage? 👀
Works in both Windows 10 & 11