I’d highly recommend looking up “Situational leadership” if you’re worried about coming off as micro-managing. You need to adapt how you’re mentoring based on the mentees skill and confidence.
Coupling / decoupling at high frequencies would be a challenge for sure - but seems achievable in a world of fully autonomous vehicles that can communicate.
I don’t think the second part (about length of the train) is accurate at all. Yes, a train made of pods roughly car sized would be longer, but only roughly 3x. If you look at the duty cycle of say BART rail, you could fit a lot more than 3x trains on it. The rail is empty most of the time.
I journal ~daily since having kids. I feel the same way - it gives me peace knowing I can look back in time later and relive just a little what I was feeling today.
I live on a street in Berkeley that was not red-lined, so it has single family homes and fourplexes. It’s great, we love it. You can choose to be miserable but it’s got nothing to do with whether your neighbors can afford a home.
The first time I used DuoLingo, I was just trying to get through the tree, without really learning, and that was useless. Now I have a different technique: I’ll only listen (never read), and if I can’t comprehend and respond immediately, I’ll fail that exercise deliberately, so I’ll be re-tested later. For me, I only understand the language if I can understand some one speaking to me and respond in real time.
Have you looked at Next Chapter at all? I know several folks who have come through and have amazing careers at tech firms: https://www.nextchapterproject.org/