Location: Denver, colorado
Remote: Open to it. I've worked remotely since long before covid. depends.
Willing to relocate: will travel for work, in some situations
technologies:
- lots of "human api stuff" around writing and technical documentation, informed around a mix of skills and dispositions harmonious with my time on support teams, enterprise sales teams, engineering teams, and more: https://josh.works/blog for samples
- ruby/rails stack. I'll do other stuff along the way, but I vastly prefer the RoR ecosystem
- here's an odd conversation-starting piece: https://josh.works/mobility-data.
- If your engineers are unhappy, I'm tempted to ask you to hire me to help them feel happy again, but I don't know if 'engineering manager' is the right fit. I'd do it in a fractional capacity, for sure.
Your description kind of reminds me of this post -- "Being Glue". https://noidea.dog/glue. It's an important "pseudo" role that doesn't get enough credit, IMO.
strongly agree. I've been loving anything/everything produced by the animation studio "Studio Ghibli".
I was introduced via the first few works created by the first director, Hayao Miyazaki, it's absolutely ruined me for nearly all other works that claim to be for children.
Their productions feel so dignifying to everyone, embracing the full human experience, not so necessarily dark and disturbing.
I've been reading the original brother's grimm to kids for _years_ and the stories are always gripping. I don't love the reinforcing motifs of the world as perpetually experienced as dangerous, however.
I've been LOVING working through the Studio Ghibli anthology with my toddler. Been curating a list (and then finding the right file) of the movies they like with the best audio tracks. (she cannot read, so watching them in the original audio, while engaging, isn't as helpful as good dubs. Some english dubs have been terrible, some quite good.
We most recently watched Ponyo ["poh-noh-fish" as its sometimes called around here], had it playing on the background a few more times. She's been vastly less drawn to things like baby shark and it's ilk, with the availability of Ghibli's works, and we discuss the characters and events and the ups and downs in the movies throughout, and after.
The pacing, the anti-imperial bent, dignifying many oft-de-dignified tropes, the art, the music, the foley, the mystery and the spiritualism and obvious deep love of the harmony of nature. mmm. I've paid Jeff Bezos more than I wish I had in my pursuit of the best/easiest files, but alas. Here's my beta, if you'd like. [0]
I discovered Studio Ghibli only as an adult, more than 30 years old, so for anyone who doesn't know about it, you might be one of today's lucky 10,000. huzzah [1]
exactly. Also, there's so much adventure to be experienced, so much beauty to appreciate. It's worth it. Also, the world _does not have to be experienced as constantly dangerous_ and it's important to allow a respite from that message.
That the world is dangerous is self-evident, but it's not interesting to me to force that message into places it ought not be. And I think adults conceptions of 'the world is dangerous' does not always match the harm as experienced by children. They know the world is dangerous. They experience it all the time.
Is it though? I mean yes, but one argument I would have against overly glorifying some of these fairy tiles is that the way the world is dangerous today is very different from the way it was two hundred years ago.
that sounds right. Tire rubber microplastic generation would go way up, though, because of the vehicle weight.
I propose small motor scooters (as is common in asia) as the solution. Cars also take up a godawful amount of space, all the time. Especially in a city. That's the real harm, the tailpipe emissions are trivial compared to the space consumption.
Trivial compared to space consumption... in what sense? That sounds very difficult to compare. I also live in New Mexico, which is a huge state full of next-to-nothing but space, so perhaps I'm missing context.
There's some offset due to the increased weight from the battery pack. Highway driving is better, city driving is worse. Also, the tires emit more, since wear is also a function of weight.
holy cow this is amaaaaazing, u/ellipsis753. My god. I want the t-shirt, I love the love for bell bollards, I obviously had a photo of one in the post but i didn't know there was so much love for them!!!!! I <3 this
I was under the influence of _deep_ rage at American traffic planners and municipal 'engineers' who commit themselves, deeply, to dehumanizing decisions, and then spend meaningful effort preventing OTHERS from tending to the spaces that they use.
It's one thing to be useless at your job. It's another thing to punch down at others trying to make their way through the world.
When I talk to professional planners, they're always so cute. "Wow, Josh, you're so interested in this domain, why don't you get into planning?"
I always say:
If you were as good at your job as you claim to be, I wouldn't need to spend my precious time trying to fix your shit. When the websites and services _I_ maintain go down, I don't expect _you_ to show up at a public meeting to 'give input' on what needs to be done. I fucking fix the thing that's broken, and until then, everyone's justifiably annoyed that the service is non-performant.
I expect minimum levels of safety and adequacy from the mobility network I use, for myself, my child, those I love, and indeed people I've never met.
I don't manage to hide my contempt for the professionals actively involved in permitting the death of tens of thousands of people _every year_.
But obviously, _obviously_, you don't have to read it.
Location: Denver, colorado Remote: Open to it. I've worked remotely since long before covid. depends. Willing to relocate: will travel for work, in some situations technologies: - lots of "human api stuff" around writing and technical documentation, informed around a mix of skills and dispositions harmonious with my time on support teams, enterprise sales teams, engineering teams, and more: https://josh.works/blog for samples - ruby/rails stack. I'll do other stuff along the way, but I vastly prefer the RoR ecosystem - here's an odd conversation-starting piece: https://josh.works/mobility-data. - If your engineers are unhappy, I'm tempted to ask you to hire me to help them feel happy again, but I don't know if 'engineering manager' is the right fit. I'd do it in a fractional capacity, for sure.