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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Who’s shit-talking? They are all rough jobs in one way or another, and have their strengths and weaknesses. Some Devs specialise because the product/company is big, others generalise because the product/company is tiny and they barely have enough money to pay you, let alone seperate frontend and backend Devs, so you have to moonlight as a food van cook to make ends meet and also you live in the food van and sleep on the floor and stay warm from the exhaust of the meat fridge, every waking moment is a living nightmare and you haven’t had a proper shower in weeks because the stalls in the gym are always packed with horny gay men who are terrible kissers and don’t understand that you just want to be held for a minute jfc



  • To interact with the social world the way others do, we need to learn the mechanisms behind social interactions to a level that others don’t. This urge to know why a social behaviour works before we can properly use it (manners, aggression, group identity, coercion, lying) carries over to physical things and systems in the real world (electricity, trains, cooking, cats, jobs, cars)

    We need not understand the entire scope of the thing or concept (though we often do), but understanding the boundaries of the thing, where the walls of the box are, helps us understand the limits of our expectations for it. We know it can’t leave the box. When we encounter something brand new, a behaviour, situation, environment or task, we feel fear, because at that moment, the box has infinite size, and only by learning about it can we make the box smaller and more manageable.