I like the idea as an engineer - but this makes it so non-technical people are less likely to write docs. If your marketing manager needs git access and to edit a markdown file on GitHub - the chance they will document in even ideal conditions goes way down
Yeap, I would say the first 72 hours of any fast are the roughest for me. Electrolights and sparking water made the big difference for me. Green tea earlier in the day helped too as caffeine curbs some hunger.
Overall I’ve only been able to do longer fasts when OOO as my cognitive motivation is so low the first few days. Keeping just with tv shows / exercise / nerding out also makes a big difference when OOO and not noticing being hungry cause of work stress and reflexively wanting a snack as motivation to do more work.
We wrote a backend service at Lyft in Python and at some point needed to do some string interpolation for experimentation. In a rush someone implemented this in YAML (no new deps needed). This ended up being the bane of the teams existence. Almost impossible to test if something was going to break in runtime, could only verify it was valid yaml but many other things were infeasible, super hard to debug - it soured me on YAML for years.
Joined Google in 2014 - from the people on my team I heard the place was much more magical in the years before. When Sundar started I remember the first thing people were upset about was the handling of the holiday gift - Google changed it to a donation to charity instead and the communication of it upset. It wasn’t that we were not getting a holiday gift anymore (everyone acknowledged we had grown too large for that to last forever). It was that things were communicated as if it was not a cost saving measure and instead phrased that it was net generosity. IMO those kinds of things are what snowballed into Google becoming less of a magical place to work over time.
Semi-agree - though with caveats. Some of my closest friends I’ve made through work but also having a larger attachment to the people at a company I’ve worked at makes it easier to justify staying in a bad position or being honest about the place being bad.
I worked at Lyft for a while and hesitated saying anything bad about it because I had lots of good friends who still worked there. I also stayed much longer than made sense and prioritized projects over my health cause of a sense of “if I let this slip everyone else will get punished”. Ultimately this was not true - the friends would have wanted me to make the best call for myself. But I can vouch, atleast personally, being nice and liked at work but avoiding making close friends on the immediate team I work on has been better all around.