One issue that can develop over time is cervicogenic headache. This issue strains your muscles that span over your head. This origins from bad posture, typically from a screen-based job. Some exercises that help in these area, according to my physical therapist, are bending over your head as much as possible. Hold this position for 10 seconds. Then move your head back, such that you make a double chin. Also hold this for 10 seconds. The more you do these exercises, the better. They should strenghten your neck musculature. This way, you will develop a flexible neck.
There are useful Qi Gong moves for facial muscle rejuvenation (especially around the forehead and around the sinus area) and also to release muscle tension in the neck and shoulders. I like to do Qi Gong while waiting for things to happen in the kitchen. You can find decent videos on YouTube that show you how to do this.
I am doing something that is similar. But in my case, I maintain the position for 10 seconds. When bending backwards, I try to maintain my head in the same 'vertical position' (if that makes sense to visualize). My physical therapist described it as making a 'double chin'.
I got another perspective.
I was/am someone who is labelled as an underperformer by my boss.
I work at a electronics production firm, where I did some programming work. During feedback season, I was moved departments. Now I just do soldering, all days long.
What do I do in my situation? I feel like being in despair.
I feel like I don't have any other options.
Clearly, this situation feels like suicide for my career.
I was recently diagnosed with ASD, bipolar disorder type 2 and depression, for what it's worth.
Switch jobs. You can't escape this hole by doing more work. In fact, doing more work will solidify your managers opinion that the new role is better for you. Do exactly what's told in the gervais principle book: slack off to the barely sustainable perf to release energy you need to prepare an exit.
I've been labelled an underperformer in past. I switched jobs, doubled my pay and got a stellar perf review at the new place. I've learned that perf doesn't assess your ability, but rather your relationships with peers and managers, and your adherence to the ingroup activities, i.e. some orgs value above else the amount of code you write, some value how loud you're in meetings, some value shipping features or writing feature designs. Poor perf review is a sign that your mental model of the organization is wrong. Once you get it right, it's entirely possible to have stellar perf on paper while doing laughably mediocre work.
I like courses or philosophical works, which focus on a common themes, common threads. That allows one to see more connections across different thinkers.
One instance of this is John Vervaeke's Awaking from the meaning crisis (which isn't only philosophy, but also cognitive science).
Other courses like that are those from John Searle (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind).
Hubert Dreyfus has a course on existentialism in literature and film.
Thinking of it, there is also a channel called Like Stories Of Old. The maker publishes video-essays, which are often philosophical in tone and reference existential thinkers like Kierkegaard.
My own journey into philosophy started with Wittgenstein (apart from an introduction in Greek Philosophy in high school).
I was a month ago diagnosed with bipolar type 2, together with ASS. I experience sleep problems.
Some feelings in this article are familiar. To me, it was the feeling of being excluded for life from people.
Also I am going through work problems. I find myself at a difficult place in life now...
My wife has bipolar and I've got ASS. Remember that you're your own person in the first place, period. You're not your label, you merely /have/ a label. TFA makes this mistake from the outset in the title. It should've read "having" not "being".
There's no cure for these labels, but one can recover. To quote Patricia Deegan:
Recovery does not refer to an end product or result.It does not mean that one is “cured”.In fact, recovery is marked by an ever-deepening acceptance of our limitations.But now, rather than being an occasion for despair, we find that our personal limitations are the ground from which spring our own unique possibilities.This is the paradox of recovery i.e., that in accepting what we cannot do or be, we begin to discover who we can be and what we can do.Thus, recovery is a process.It is a way of life.It is an attitude and a way of approaching the day’s challenges.It is not a perfectly linear process.Like the sea rose, recovery has its seasons, its time of downward growth into the darkness to secure new roots and then the times of breaking out into the sunlight.But most of all recovery is a slow, deliberate process that occurs by poking through one little grain of sand at a time.
Only you are the expert of you. That said, there exist recovery colleges that can provide peer support. You're not alone.
So we're both Dutch then? In Dutch, recovery is "herstel" and a recovery college is either just that, or a "huis van herstel".
I can definitely recommend the HWG, which stands for "Herstel Werk Groep". Consult your SPV for this, as various GGZ services offer this free of charge.
Some don't seem to care, which makes sense to me. It's not like people go into research math for the money. Andrew Wiles gave up their prize for the Fermat's last theorem.
Also, what does a tenured professor of mathematics do with such a sum other than spend it on himself? It's not like he's going to build out a lab and hire a bunch of research staff.
Some days ago I saw a video that suggested that subjective time seems to be slower when we are younger because our neurons are firing more actively. As we grow older, they tend to fire less. Anyway, it is just one aspect.
It also found it helpful to learn some (algebraic) number theory, to get a sense of where some of the motivation comes from (e.g. elliptic curves, modular forms). Grothendieck's work is abstract, but he was always motivated by concrete problems (e.g. Weil conjectures).
I'm not an expert and I don't do value judgments, but I think he's talking about something called 'smart contracts'.
Haskell would make it easier to verify smart contracts.
I thought he was talking about use cases like those as Cardano and with "some of the very founding contributors" he meant Philip Wadler (amongst others).
EDIT: didn't want to imply that Cardano is a shady company.
No, he's not talking about the technical features of blockchain. He's talking about the general shadiness of a nontrivial number of actors in the cryptocurrency sector itself, which have had a propensity for deceptive marketing, and even outright fraud.
His concern is that if Haskell gets the reputation of being beholden to these interests it will make the Haskell ecosystem undesirable to legitimate actors.
But... who actually thinks this way when they select technologies? If Go was used for a lot of crypto scam, I wouldn’t spend a second thinking about it when I’m deciding to use it for my non-scam, non-crypto’s project.
I have difficulty to understand how it is an issue that a programming language is used for a niche that has bad reputation.
From my view, its less about using the technology for side projects, and more about job prospects using that language. If Haskell jobs are overwhelmingly associated with crypto, and that’s a negative association for most people, they might be less likely to invest time into learning Haskell, as they’re not interested in joining the crypto industry.
The Mont-Pelerin society was established in 1947 by Hayek to promote more liberty with the world elites. There are pictures of him on the first conference with Mises. I'm genuinely curious what relative stability and prosperity you refer to. This was after the second world war.
