Obviously I think the benefits are more than just the dancing itself, such as the community, but even when you ask him directly about what he thinks caused the change he points to dance classes.

- Parks: A lot of them, every few blocks there's a large, well maintained park. Trash cans everywhere. - Many community centers, huge, filled with extremely inexpensive or free activities. Community centers all have gyms in them. - Beautiful, modern feeling libraries

It's hard to describe the difference, but it is non trivial.

Can you do this yourself? Yeah, obviously. But it's a build vs buy conversation and for a lot of people the value that this tooling gives you immediately is worth the buy.

To be honest, JJ makes it way easier for me to craft clean commits. The design philosophy of JJ is commit-oriented, not branch-oriented. Since it's a frontend to git, everything it does is fundamentally git. But it allows commit-oriented workflows to flow so much easier than git does.

[1]: https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/jj-strategy/index.htm...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IffpoUQpDc&pp=ygUUdGhlIHZpY...

I see this quote on your home page. What's your experience using generative UI?

> The director [...] communicates only through [the manager]

It sounds like this is the intended culture of your management structure, or at least in this local hierarchy you exist within. Only you can really tell how negatively this impacts your happiness this is but fwiw, this isn't generally that uncommon of a setup.

It taught me a lot too; that I want to be like your grandmother, and not like my family, when my time comes.

What an interesting, nuanced take. Thanks for sharing, you've given me a lot to think about.