"It works and I know enough to say I could finish it if I want to, so I'm done here. On to the next thing!"
andrew
joined 6 months ago
There is at least one of us in every state.*
*Continental US below the Mason Dixon line.
It's both. If you don't have term limits, that considerably reduces the risk of a newbie with morals coming in, rejecting your lobbying money, and putting your whole operation in jeopardy. If you can keep them around for a long time, they gain power as they gain seniority and so do you.
I would love to see a push for more open source and less reliance on patents and trade secrets in non-tech industry. Believe me, you can differentiate yourself plenty without an artificial stranglehold on technology because people will make terrible decisions regardless. With openness you can at least keep those decisions confined to less important areas.
I'd also accept Valtteri Buttas flaps.
Staffers? Did you mean sponsors?
You don't get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It's a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years.
Fossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.
I could build on your point or build off of it.
Ah yes but my audience responds to nothing but rage any more, so here we are. What's an author to do?
I'm assuming you're just here studying nerds for your next blockbuster where you're playing Ada Lovelace or something.
Absolutely nothing wrong with chilling on the couch on a day off! But also, doing things can be big for self care too, when the things are important. If it helps to frame it that way. I find the important questions are how urgent something actually is, and how much of a relief it might be for future me if the thing is done. If it can actually wait and I'm just being anxious or self deprecating because of bad habits, then I'll just chill unless I feel up to the task. If doing the task would be self care for my future self, sometimes that framing is just the kind of motivation I needed to get started.