A quick reference

This is really fascinating. Something to note is that the sample size is narrow focused on experienced developers with particular famous open source projects (average 5 years and 1,500 commits on the project in question).

In my own job I also have a novel, long-term situation so I can really sympathize with the prime slowdowns they identify. AI just doesn’t cut it.

This summarizes the frustratingly ambiguous state of the evidence for pretty much any “Does X cause Y?” question you might have.

The website and design portfolio of Gavin Nelson.

Study tracking mental health after bariatric surgery:

The prevalence difference in filled psychiatric drug prescription was highest 10 years after the matched index date (20·4%; 15·9–24·9), when 171 (36·5%) of 469 surgery patients and 739 (16·0%) of 4607 matched adolescents filled a psychiatric drug prescription.

TL;DR: psychiatric diagnoses & prescriptions were more common in the cohort before bariatric surgery and a lot more common after. People were feeling super bad.

The chickens & eggs get tangled up when trying to view larger trends around this issue—perhaps there are feedback loops?

Bass Buzz’s exercises on playing arpeggios in various difficulties and techniques.

I think that the real problem is that it is difficult to tear down the master’s house while you live in it. And that, for many of us, represents the challenge. Our presence in the big house leads many of us to feel the need to defend it, r ather than pray for the strong wind when it begins to catch fire. But in order to hope for the master’s house to burn, as a field Negro would, one would have to have a view – a vision of an alternative, some place to go so that we don’t simply perish in th e flames. We would have to have an image of freedom that is clear enough in our minds to guide our thinking and dreaming.