The Easy Path is a meal service like Factor that delivers healthy food directly to your door step.
The Easy Path is signing up for a fitness class on a regular schedule and baking it into your morning routine.
The Easy Path is not buying extra snacks - just don't have them laying around the house for you to eat when you're bored.
The Easy Path is the path of least resistance. However, you have some agency over the environment you create for yourself, so that path of least resistance is to some degree under your control.
In my experience fitness is less about self control or will power and more about creating routines that lead to fitness.
For example, I have a routine of going to a group fitness class at my gym in the morning. I don't need to summon willpower, I just have a morning routine that involves doing x thing at y time. No thought required.
Given the abundance of options for fitness classes and meal plan services, you really can just put this on auto-pilot and have a lifestyle that is healthier than 99% of your peers.
Maybe the goal isn’t to be able to use a word processor, but rather to have an aesthetic experience. In that sense, this is more akin to art than engineering.
Can you provide some data on this assertion? I would be surprised to learn that the majority of ordinary people (assuming you mean something like 'net worth < $1MM USD') do not care about housing costs and car costs, which are both assets.
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All of this is accomplished through software on our platform. This is why we need Data Engineers on our team. So far we've done pretty well by building out our capabilities with standard backend dev solutions (Postgres, DynamoDB, S3, etc), but our data infrastructure could use an upgrade now that we're seeing some success with client signups. We are planning a move to Databricks and would like a Data Engineer that has experience with that platform.
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I'm doing the hiring for a small company. We do coding tests as part of our interview process. I know it can show false negatives but it rarely shows false positives (wrt coding ability).
However, we don't ask employees to work anything like 80 hours a week. In fact, we track overtime hours (> 40hrs/wk) and pull the red "panic" lever when it goes above a threshold as a control for burnout.
But like you said, you're applying a filter too (if no coding test -> low overtime required). It probably has false negatives (my company), but it's worth it for you because you have found that it rarely shows false positives.
(sigh) In olden times you would have been free to use the em dash as you pleased. Unfortunately, now it's considered signal that you're an AI bot.