Thinking of my former @Google colleagues today and wishing everyone the best.
If it helps, let me share a preview of the conversations you will probably have over the next few weeks, based on what my fellow ex-Tweeps and I just went through...
@jachristian Physical group activity: join an indoor climbing gym, CrossFit, boxing, yoga, spin, whatever interests you and has a good community feel to it.
@curious_corn @steveklabnik I work on Google Maps, on the Geometry team. Most of what I write is open sourced, and useful to many other individuals and companies. (look up S2). I suppose you could say I'm selling ads, but my job is more interesting than any of the four startups I worked at before.
@TeawithTolkien @jakeallr Me too. I grew up generic Canadian evangelical protestant / baptist but Tolkien had so much influence on my world view. Much of it indirect. I read Chesterton and other great Catholic writers because of him.
@Karunamon @DiracWinsAgain @Meaningness Plenty of people could be convinced that God is speaking through it and go to war on its command. Imagine a combination of the most convincing con artist, most inspiring preacher, most firebrand politician, with one-on-one discussion with millions simultaneously
@FreyaHolmer I hope you find something that works for you. For me, being in a community gym and working out every day with people I know is very helpful.
@protopop@runevision Really looking forward to this. I bought and tried the Android version but just can't get into it on such a small screen. I don't like having to put my fingers on the screen to control movement either, it blocks the view...
@delaneykingrox I've learned a lot from following you and wish I'd discovered you earlier. Polygons aside, I enjoy all of what you post. I hope you feel better soon!
@poiThePoi What if the robot had an AI with an apparent personality, living in the cloud, and it described its current hardware as โmy current interfaceโ and when blown up immediately was chatting with the squad like โwow good thing my brain wasnโt in there!โ Separate the HW from the mind.