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Career advice in 2025
If youâre currently in the job market I highly recommend this post by Will Larson:
If you pull all those things together, youâre essentially in a market where profit and pace are fixed, and you have to figure out how you personally want to optimize between people, prestige and learning. Whereas a few years ago, I think these variables were much more decoupled, that is not what I hear from folks today, even if their jobs were quite cozy a few years ago.
Itâs a soberingâand imo necessaryâread, even for folks who are not currently look for a new job.
Garbage
This is a lovely post by Craig Mod about the Japanese approach to garbage, and what that means for other things in our livesâŚ
This obsession with the immediate âunburdeningâ of a thing you created is common in non-Japanese contexts, but I posit: The Japanese way is the correct way. Be an adult. Own your garbage. [âŚ]
Personally, I donât love carrying my garbage around with me, but I recognize that it wouldnât exist without my intervention. Nobody ran up and asked me to hold an empty cup. I thoughtlessly bought something. Thoughtlessly consumed it, and now I have to hold onto the detritus for a little while? Great. Itâs easy. Easy to embrace that modicum of responsibility for your own waste. This is my protest song, the worldâs lamest: I will attend to my garbage without complaint.
Huh? The valuable role of interjections
I love this deep-dive on the little interjections we use in everyday speech. One example:
Other interjections serve as what some linguists call âcontinuers,â such as âmm-hmmââsignals from the listener that theyâre paying attention and the speaker should keep going. The form of the word is well suited to its function: Because âmm-hmmâ is made with a closed mouth, itâs clear that the signaler does not intend to speak.
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