Sure, she's also just peering into a single night/moment of their life. She's watching group dynamics of people who are attending a wedding. As I read through all the bullets, I thought about how many of the weddings I have attended have gone and where she would have pegged me on those nights and I could probably fit half the list depending on which event she was present on.
People attend weddings for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it's full of your most favorite people in the world, sometimes you only know a few people in the room. Sometimes you have a lot of fun, sometimes the entire thing just feels like a massive inconvenience. Sometimes it stokes the flame of your relationship, sometimes it occurs during a time when your relationship is under some stress. Sometimes I'm dancing/partying all night, sometimes I never leave my table and leave before the cake is cut.
Anyways, I'm sure she does see a lot of these patterns and you can try to infer a lot of things about the people, with some reason, but people are fluid and this is too small of a sample of their life to really know anything other than how this group of people interacted on a single night of their lives.
Then again she is a painter whose job depends on literally observing the details and atmosphere and capturing not only the visual field but also the essence. So if not her, then who is better suited to make such observations.
I don’t think any of the things she said are deterministic or objectively descriptive. At the same time I think she does capture some essence or wisdom from her multitude of experience and her knack for noticing this and being able to put it into words.
> Then again she is a painter whose job depends on literally observing the details and atmosphere and capturing not only the visual field but also the essence. So if not her, then who is better suited to make such observations.
No, her job depends on making the married couple happy, which is not at all the same as 100% accurate representation.
Painting is not just capturing the pixels of light on canvas. This is what children consider painting. Great painters capture emotion and energy on canvas -- that's part of the essence that I am alluding to. That's what separates an artist who can realistically capture a scene from a master. Emotionally mature people who experienced life can recognize that emotion and energy in great paintings.
It's kind of like math. Some proofs and formulas are considered elegant or even beautiful. To the untrained eye they look like letters, symbols, and numbers.
Take Euler's identity: e^(i*π) - 1 = 0. My kids see gibberish, since they are in grade school. I see something surprising and neat but don't fully understand it. I've spoken to people who have a deeper understanding of math who can talk wonder about this simple-looking equation and use words of feeling to describe it.
First, recognize that if you’re in the situation at the beginning of the article. A dev, banging out tasks that don’t quite move the needle or seem important towards actually achieving any milestones. It’s possible thats by design, your the random job site broom sweeper cleaning up at the end of the day (construction metaphor). It’s also likely your management/leadership is failing you. They’re failing by not prioritizing your work. You need to know what larger goals exist and are politically important to the organization and then what tasks you can do to accelerate that goal achievement. This is what your manager should be doing. If they’re not, and you just work on a random list or todos, start pushing them for prioritization in every 1 on 1 and every checkin or whatever touchpoint you have. Make sure you understand what other higher level goals the prioritized work supports so you know where to fill in gaps and can be proactive and mention when you think something is off track (eg “hey boss, I’m working on X but it seems somewhat redundant to Y, can we merge these as a cohesive solution?”)
Once you get this part down, you start learning the decision makers in the company (or the highest ones you have some access to) and you start getting their opinions on what projects are higher priority or more crucial to the business. If you can build rapport with a few of these people and make sure you’re contributions are known and appreciated towards things they find valuable and important, your career will start to progress fast(er) in almost every aspect.
When these people eventually leave for a new gig, you want to be the ones they try to poach. If they stay and get promoted, you want to be the ones they think of for their new initiatives.
My screen-free parenting style is centered around my thought that boredom is a blessing, a luxury, and a life skill all wrapped in one. I’ve been encouraged that the world at large is somewhat beginning to rethink these things lately. Our peer group of parents has a bit of a no phone pact that I hope they keep up with for as long as possible (they’re only 6 right now so we’ll see)
If Google is forced to stop the funding of competitors, I don’t quite understand why they also have to exit the market/stop working on Chromium/Chrome?
There’s the leveling of the playing field, each competitor has to fund their own products, but then why also do they have to be kicked out of the game?
I feel like consumers should ultimately make the decision of who wins and has the better product. The fact Google has found the best way to get value out of “free” browser use, shouldn’t be held against them. If consumers choose to use a browser that’s highly connected to Googles paid services, then perhaps that’s what the consumer wants. I view it as the other competitors job to lure those customers away from Chrome with their own product enhancements.
The artist is well known for his use of light/shadow in his works and is probably going to be the first bullet on any list. Also known for expensive pigments, an unknown style/methods , and being sloppy but extremely detailed depending on your vantage / distance. Zooming in on this one will highlight that
What exactly does this mean given I definitely sit there staring at a loading / app launch screen when opening Excel if the app isn’t already opened. If it’s opened already, opening another file is much much faster.
Yes please!!! I too hate Shorts. I hate that I get sucked into them in a downward doom scroll even more. I'd love nothing more than to completely disable it. But, i think this is also why they will never let me.
I also hate that the first one or two short may be relevant to whatever I'm consuming, researching, then it quickly turns into me watching Kill Tony comedians, girls basically naked in the gym, etc. they know my brain basically just turns off and enters the void
They have time and resources though. I think what you say makes sense for release. At some point you just need to stop adding things and release what you could, even at their scale this is true. The pattern I see is they just never polish things after releasing them. Although, in theory, the whole team is still there available. Internally I think the culture is they immediately look to the next version. Instead of polishing what users have available, tackling the 20%, etc. So in a sense, they stay busy constantly building just the 80% part over and over again (eg, right now I imagine they’re busy porting the 80 to Windows 12 or whatever is next for them, which is probably a big rewrite because the like to change the entire style guide on each release)
People attend weddings for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it's full of your most favorite people in the world, sometimes you only know a few people in the room. Sometimes you have a lot of fun, sometimes the entire thing just feels like a massive inconvenience. Sometimes it stokes the flame of your relationship, sometimes it occurs during a time when your relationship is under some stress. Sometimes I'm dancing/partying all night, sometimes I never leave my table and leave before the cake is cut.
Anyways, I'm sure she does see a lot of these patterns and you can try to infer a lot of things about the people, with some reason, but people are fluid and this is too small of a sample of their life to really know anything other than how this group of people interacted on a single night of their lives.
reply