toxic productivity works because our education taught us to tie our self-worth to how much we contribute to society.
I produce, therefore I'm valued. I work, therefore I am.
Being productive is a quick fix to improve our self-worth. Being able to do nothing is a superpower.
“I don't trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: ‘Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.’” — Maya Angelou
Company culture is not written down, it’s acted out. A company’s culture is a 50-day moving average of *how it is*, not how it thinks it is, wants to be, or was supposed to be.
"But when we analyze the results of an experiment, our mental focus on a specific hypothesis can prevent us from exploring other aspects of the data, effectively blinding us to new ideas." - https://t.co/q0qbtNjlhh
I can use my 2013 Macbook Air 4gb i5 (cheapest) for mostly everything I do. All the deep learning stuff runs on remotely on things with GPUs. The only thing I can't do without lots of pain is... front-end development. Why the hell do the angular dev tools take up so much RAM?