This. I'm a hardcore Obsidian user both at work and at home, and I started both vaults from absolutely nothing - no user scripts, no organisation, literally no plan at all. Since then, they've evolved and optimized in radically different ways. Taking someone else's "system" is just a way to fool yourself into thinking you can be more productive than you are; you have to find that for yourself and what works specifically for you.

My personal vault is geared much more toward organizing creativity, with a little bit of task-oriented stuff and technical documentation, while my corporate vault is heavily schedule based and contains mostly tactical information, meeting notes and thoughts, etc. For it to be a "second brain", you need it to model your brain - and I work very modally. I have a "work mode" and a "non-work mode" that order things pretty differently, and it shows in the hierarchies and organization of both vaults.

What you seem to be getting at is "hackers with a great aesthetic sense" - and what makes a hacker, then? An engineering background? A computer science degree? Most designers have some understanding of the platforms they're working with. Could they invert a binary tree on a whiteboard? Write an LRU cache? Scale a system to a million DAU? Usually not, but you don't need to do that to build a proof-of-concept application that people fall in love with.

A designer may be a hacker, just as an engineer may be.

Sinovac may just not be that good over time, or maybe it’s just a pride thing in which we have a political leader staking heroic, superhuman claims on a Zero-COVID strategy.

Perhaps all is old is new again, but I can’t imagine this model leading to significant growth in today’s market. PCs are vastly more commoditized than they were then; my local supermarket sells low-end Windows and Chromebook machines for very little, and refurbished/recycled business machines with Skylakes can be had for $150 on eBay. If people want inexpensive computing platforms there are many more options and this doesn’t even include ultra cheap tablets or prepaid Android devices.

Here’s a paper from 2004 that explains it: https://escholarship.org/content/qt2t03k647/qt2t03k647_noSpl...

From EEOC on employment: "race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history)." [1]

From FHA: "The Fair Housing Act prohibits this discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability." [2]

Note that this act's (a) clause does not contain "sexual orientation" as above, and (b) specifically contains the new protected category of "political ideology".

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/small-business/3-who-protecte...

[2] https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/f...

It was pretty magical in summer 2011; I made real-life friends on TTFM and I learned about a ton of music I had never been previously exposed to. I was disappointed when it died because it really was a lot of fun.

Ageism may be alive in startups, but in technology as a whole, it doesn't really seem to be a big deal if you are up to date on your skills.

In the heat of the moment, on deadline with a bunch of bugs and yet multiple compliance hurdles to clear, with a short-staffed team and conflicting management priorities, it's pretty easy to lose sight of the common goal.

Microsoft has a nice cliche you can use when you catch yourself on the adversarial end of this type of conversation: "assume positive intent". It's written on most of the Redmond campus whiteboards. If we are all assuming positive intent, it can give us the right empathetic mindset with which to build this trust even when it seems difficult. I've found working with other teams through the hard conversations with compromise instead of "no" leads to better results. They're assuming positive intent as am I and it's OK. If I'm feeling something is adversarial I need to understand why.

Being mostly in Seattle for about 6 years now, this is what I enjoyed the most about being based in SF and is what will likely make me return to it.

Seattle feels to be a town now comprised of corporate campuses and the suburban neighborhoods in between. It's also great if you love outdoor hobbies, but I prefer the vibrance of cities. The creative culture here feels substantially more lacking than it is in SF, and it feels extremely challenging to make new friend that aren't in technology. Of course SF has its tech-bro startup culture; here it seems most people that live around me work for Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook. At least there were easy outs in going to galleries or clubs or art/makerspaces or various meets for non-tech things in SF and I have never been able to find enough of those in the Seattle area. The COVID-19 crisis will likely choke them out further.

If you have the time to contribute reliability patches to the Linux clients, I'm sure it would be appreciated as well.

[1] https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues/issues/1193#issu...

[1] https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article240963446.h...